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fishing stories: 45 news summaries

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 Giant Jellyfish Sink Trawler 

Net filled with 400-pound creatures capsizes boat

Nov 3, 09 4:22 AM CST
(Newser) - A 10-ton fishing trawler sank off the coast of Japan after its crew tried to haul in a net filled with gigantic jellyfish. The three crew members were pitched into the water as the ship capsized and were rescued by another boat, the Telegraph reports. Nomura's jellyfish can weigh up... More »

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Japan • fishing • marine life • jellyfish • fishing boat • fishermen

(Newser) - "A world of slime without human form": that was how Victor Hugo once described the Seine, the murky, polluted river that divides Paris in two. Yet recent efforts to clean up the river, from skimming the surface to pumping it with oxygen, have led to a resurgent fish population... More »

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pollution • France • salmon • fish • fishing • Paris

(Newser) - Fish don’t get much uglier than the alligator gar, but lately the dinosaur-like monstrosity has attracted a following… of crossbow-wielding sportsmen trying to kill it, the Wall Street Journal reports. Part fishing, part monster hunting, bagging an alligator gar is a thrilling exercise, and at up to 8... More »

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Texas • Louisiana • fishing • hunting • outdoors • alligator gar

PETA Protests Seattle Fish-Flinging

Fishmongers nonplussed by PETA effort to defend the dignity of dead fish

Jun 13, 09 5:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - PETA has called foul on the antics of Seattle's famous fishmongers, the Los Angeles Times reports. Workers at the city's Pike Place market routinely chuck fish more than a dozen feet from display case to counter over the heads of shoppers with deadly accuracy. PETA says the practice is "... More »

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fish • fishing • animal rights • PETA • Seattle

(Newser) - Maine lobster prices are uncharacteristically low, leaving the industry unsettled on the eve of the all-important summer tourist season, the Portland Press Herald reports. Wholesale prices are as low as $3.25, and retail prices start at $5.50. But some aren’t worried by the mercurial interplay of supply,... More »

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Canada • Atlantic Ocean • fishing • Maine • Portland, Maine • lobster • commercial fishing

Aargh! Buccaneer High on the Pirate Life

Fisherman turned bandit after foreigners plundered ocean

Apr 22, 09 9:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - The pirating life isn’t easy, but the rewards are many and some Somalis see the bandits as heroes, one buccaneer tells the BBC. The man, 25, says he used to be a fisherman, but he signed up with the hijackers after "illegal fishing and dumping of toxic wastes... More »

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Somalia • piracy • fishing • shipping • pirates

 Fishing Hooks Cash-Strapped 

Growing number of Americans going fishing as times get tougher

Mar 19, 09 3:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - The floundering economy means boom times for America's angling industry, Reuters reports. Bait-shop owners say they've had one of the best winters in memory as layoffs and cutbacks give workers a lot more free time to fish. Families are finding a day fishing makes a good alternative to costlier outings—... More »

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fish • recession • fishing • leisure • ice fishing

 Private Search 
 for NFL Players 
 Wanes 

Family asks volunteer boaters to keep looking

Mar 5, 09 10:59 AM CST
(Newser) - The private search for two missing NFL players and their friend off Florida's coast is winding down, 2 days after the official rescue ended. The family of Oakland Raiders linebacker Marquis Cooper asked volunteer boat captains to keep looking, but—compared to the dozens of boats combing the area yesterday—... More »

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Florida • NFL • fishing • missing boater • search and rescue • Marquis Cooper

glossies

 'Viking Bankers' 
 Pillaged Iceland 

How Iceland went from fishing to finance to ruin

Mar 5, 09 2:48 AM CST
(Newser) - The bankers who ruined Iceland’s economy possessed the mentality of its fishermen—daring, aggressive, and devoted to the “lucky catch," Michael Lewis writes in Vanity Fair. It's no surprise—after all, they were the sons of fishermen whose massive profits helped modernize Iceland in the 1970s.... More »

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insurance • financial markets • fishing • Iceland • foreign currency • speculation • financial meltdown

 No Distress Signal From 
 Missing NFLers: Coast Guard 

Lion, Raider were fishing off Gulf Coast

Mar 2, 09 6:56 AM CST
(Newser) - The Coast Guard got no distress signal from a missing fishing boat carrying NFL players Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith and two friends off Florida's Gulf Coast, the AP reports. “That's not to say they didn't send one out," said an official. "We didn't receive anything”—... More »

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NFL • NCAA football • fishing • Coast Guard • missing boater • missing person • fishing boat • Corey Smith • Marquis Cooper

Coast Guard Seeks Missing NFL Players

They went fishing with friends in Fla. and
never returned

Mar 1, 09 5:05 PM CST
(Newser) - The Coast Guard is scanning choppy waters off Florida's Gulf Coast for two NFL players and their friends, the St. Petersburg Times reports. Corey Smith of the Detroit Lions and Victor Cooper of the Oakland Raiders went fishing with two friends yesterday and never returned. Their 21-foot boat is "... More »

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NFL • fishing • Coast Guard • missing boater • boating

Climate Change May Tank World's Fish Stocks

Scientists predict huge upheaval to marine populations

Feb 13, 09 8:03 AM CST
(Newser) - The world's supplies of fish face major upheaval, scientists warn, as climate change forces species from shrimp to herring away from warming waters toward the poles. The BBC reports that in 40 years, American fishermen may see a 50% reduction in the population of Atlantic cod. "The impact of... More »

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climate change • environment • fish • fishing • marine biology • fishermen • cod

 Fishing Banned 
 in Melting Arctic 

Federal panel moves to block trawlers from newly accessible waters

Feb 6, 09 5:07 AM CST
(Newser) - A federal panel has voted to block fishing trawlers from moving into a vast area of the Arctic Sea made newly accessible by melting ice, the New York Times reports. The move will protect 150,000 square nautical miles of US waters north of the Bering Strait while scientists assess... More »

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climate change • global warming • fishing • ice melt • Bering Strait • Arctic Sea • fishing ban • marine biology

EU Trims
Tuna Catch,
Experts Warn:
'Not Enough'

New quotas well above sustainable limit

Nov 29, 08 2:05 AM CST
(Newser) - The European Commission completed a deal this week cutting back on the fishing of bluefin tuna, the Economist reports, but not sharply enough to save the species, scientists argue. The deal gradually reduces the legal catch from 28,500 tons this year to 19,950 tons in 2010—but conservationists... More »

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tuna • fish • fishing • European Commission • overfishing • fishery • bluefin tuna

OPINION

 Widen Palate to 
 Reverse Overfishing 

But all's not lost, if we can limit overfishing

Nov 16, 08 1:04 PM CST
(Newser) - Call him a snob, but Mark Bittman prefers wild fish to their bland, farmed brethren—yet at the rate things are going, “by midcentury, it might be easier to catch our favorite wild fish ourselves rather than buy it in the market,” he writes in the New York ... More »

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food • fish • fishing • Mark Bittman • overfishing

 Bluefin Swim Toward Extinction 

Politicking produces bad management of big tuna

Nov 1, 08 8:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bluefin tuna are disappearing from the Atlantic and Mediterranean because of overfishing and an ineffectual world agency that's failed in its sole mission of protecting the fish, the Economist reports. Up to 60,000 tons are hauled in each year, legally or otherwise, when the limit should long have been... More »

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Atlantic Ocean • tuna • fishing • overfishing • fishery • bluefin tuna

 Oysters May 
 Clean East 
 Coast Waters 

Electrified reefs could help restore the population

Oct 12, 08 8:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Oysters can be shocked into repopulating and cleaning up America's waterways, the Christian Science Monitor reports. A project in New York's East River is using metal reefs, powered by solar panels, to build up limestone and help oysters grow. The upside is that they filter water—up to 50 gallons... More »

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environment • New York City • pollution • electricity • fishing • oysters • Chesapeake Bay

Banking Meltdown Driving Icelanders Back to Fishing

Financial system collapse leaves nation adrift

Oct 10, 08 5:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - The collapse of its financial system has left Iceland with little left to rely on but the sea that surrounds it, writes the Wall Street Journal. With few natural resources on land, fishing was the mainstay of Icelandic life for centuries until the nation's global banking industry rapidly expanded a... More »

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fishing • Iceland • banking • Reykjavik • fishery • financial crisis

ANALYSIS

 'Everyday' Palins 
 Worth About $1.2M 

2007 income tops $250K; salaries, fishing rights, handful of properties add up

Oct 2, 08 2:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Financial reports show that, while they’re no John and Cindy McCain, the Palin family is much more well-off than the average American, the AP reports, worth about $1.2 million. The Alaska governor and her husband together appear to have made more than $250,000 last year, from her... More »

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Alaska • personal finance • fishing • Election 2008 • property values • Sarah Palin • Wasilla • Todd Palin

Candidates Go Hunting (Not Each Other) in Field & Stream

McCain, Obama declare their love for the outdoors in nature mag

Sep 17, 08 5:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama and John McCain will talk fishing and hunting in the October issue of Field & Stream magazine. (Coincidentally or not, the cover feature implores readers to “Find Your Bull,” the Swamp notes.) In the interview, both candidates profess to be big fans of the outdoors,... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Arizona • Montana • fishing • nature • hunting • outdoors • Field & Stream

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