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October 10, 2009

Capture of Mako shark off Florida sharply criticized online

Filed under: Coral, Fishing, Sharks & Rays, Whales & Dolphins - By. William

Florida anglers are being sharply criticized after a video of them free-gaffing a Mako shark off South Florida this week was made public on the Internet.




September 25, 2009

Tuna stocks expected to recover by 2013

Filed under: Fish, Fishing - By. William

According to Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Association chief executive Brian Jeffriess, industry experts expect the tuna stocks to have recovered by 2013.




August 10, 2009

Federal stimulus money will clean up U.S. waters

Filed under: Environmental, Fishing - By. William

Federal stimulus money will be used to pay about 40 diving fishermen to recover lost fishing nets from the Puget Sound.




July 17, 2009

Dutch government bans eel fishing three months a year

Filed under: Fishing - By. William

The Netherlands now join Norway in the effort to save the European eel Anguila anguila from extinction.




July 15, 2009

Federal law prohibits krill fishing off U.S. west coast

Filed under: Fishing, Law & Law Enforcement - By. William

As of August 12, 2009 the harvesting of krill in the in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) off the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington will be prohibited by federal law.




July 13, 2009

Fishermen hired to clean up their pots

Filed under: Environmental, Fishing - By. William

Tens of thousands of crab pots litter the ocean floor, forming lethal obstacle courses of plastic lines and weighed-down metal cylinders. Lost crab pots are responsible for killing a long row of air breathing ocean dwellers, such as whales, sea lions and turtles.




July 4, 2009

Japanese angler nose to nose with 77 year old American bass record

Filed under: Fishing - By. William

A 22-pound, 5-ounce largemouth bass (picture) has been caught by Manabu Kurita, a pro staffer representing Deps Tackle Co. in Japan. This breaks George Perry’s old record from June 2, 1932.




July 3, 2009

Will the future bring us Japanese super tuna?

Filed under: Endangered, Fish, Fishing - By. William

A Japanese team of scientists are now announcing that they are close to completing genome sequencing of the Bluefin tuna. Once they have reached this goal, their next project will be to use their knowledge to create a tuna breeding program for a new type of tuna specially designed for aquacultures.




July 1, 2009

Norway bans eel-fishing

Filed under: Fishing - By. William

Norwegian fisheries regulators have banned all fishing of the critically endangered European eel starting in 2010 and cut 2009 catch quotas by 80 percent. The Norwegian Ministry of Fisheries also has announced that all recreational fishing of European eels shall stop on July 1st.




June 19, 2009

Proposed spearfishing ban in the Great Barrier Reef area criticised by fellow Australian scientists

Filed under: Coral, Fish, Fishing - By. William

A study proposing a ban on spear guns and gill nets in the Great Barrier Reef is now being criticised by Australian scientists saying its results – which were obtained from Kenya and Papua New Guinea – aren’t relevant to the Great Barrier Reef.




June 15, 2009

Saving the sea cucumber

Filed under: Endangered, Environmental, Fishing - By. William

The work towards replenishing depleted stocks of wild sea cucumber with captive hatched ones is moving forward at a steady pace; two Philippine hatcheries has now successfully managed to hatch sea cucumbers outside their natural habitat and one batch, comprised of roughly 2,000 juveniles, has been released inside sea pens in the Philippines.




June 13, 2009

Indonesia getting ready to sink illegal fishing boats

Filed under: Fishing, Law & Law Enforcement, Uncategorized - By. William

Indonesia is getting ready to sink foreign boats carrying out illegal fishing in Indonesian waters.

“We are glad the House`s Commission IV supports us in this,” Marine Resources and Fisheries Minister Freddy Numbery said at a meeting with the House commission this week.




June 3, 2009

Fisheries-induced evolution

Filed under: Fish, Fishing - By. William

As reported earlier, fish populations may adapt and change in response to significant fishing pressure. Researchers are now suggesting that the genetic make-up of cod in the Atlantic Ocean might be changing, since cods genetically predisposition to seek out shallower waters are more likely to end up in nets or on fishing lines, while deep-dwellers are more likely to survive and reproduce.




May 30, 2009

11 suspected abalone poachers arrested in California may be facing $40,000 fine

Filed under: Coral, Fishing - By. William

Eleven suspected abalone poachers have been arrested in northern California, officials said Friday.

Since the tide was unusually low in Mendocino County, California Department of Fish & Game wardens were aware of the increased risk of poaching activity and kept their eyes on the coast line, including the coral reefs that had become exposed as the water disappeared.




May 27, 2009

To explore strange new worlds; to boldly go into the plastic vortex

Filed under: Environmental, Fishing, New species, Uncategorized - By. William

A group of conservationists and scientists are planning a research trip to the world’s largest rubbish pile; the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Also known as the Eastern Garbage Patch, the Pacific Trash Vortex, or simply the Great Plastic Vortex; this gyre of marine litter has been gradually building over the last 60 years but we still know very little of this man-made monstrosity.




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