They claim that stocks are being decimated after visiting boats were allowed to fish from three miles from island shores. This now leaves us at a great disadvantage and unable to compete and travel to new grounds as these larger vessels can search for fish. Surely its about time that our ministers followed the same course of action and supported our islands important industries as they were elected and promised to do. Crab grounds to the north of the island and waters for scallops to the...

Fishermen who illegally snag dolphins usually sell the meat to other boats that use it to haul up sharks, Globo TV said. As the dolphins were hauled from the sea and piled on the boat's deck, fishermen on board laughed after someone said, "Everyone's going to jail after this filming!" The video obtained by an Ibama researcher and broadcast by Globo TV showed the fishermen netting the dolphins, which suffocated because they could not surface to breathe. The researcher was contracted by the...

This time it is a battle of small-scale subsistence fishermen battling governments and industrial fishing companies to whom their traditional fishing rights have been given away. Late last year a fish war broke out in Italy when Italian boats surrounded and shot out portholes of a Croatian fishing vessel landing their catch at an Italian port. The armed assault was retribution for the Croatian government setting up a "no go" area for foreign vessels which tend to dwarf local subsistence...

Powered by CDNN - CYBER DIVER News Network DONSOL, Philippines (2 July 2007) -- The enormous grey whale shark glides effortlessly in the murky waters off Donsol in the eastern Philippines, its distinctive pale yellow spotted back and fins clearly visible as excited tourists prepare to enter the water from nearby outrigger canoes. Powered by CDNN - CYBER DIVER News Network DONSOL, Philippines (2 July 2007) -- The enormous grey whale shark glides effortlessly in the murky waters off Donsol...

Fishermen who illegally snag dolphins usually sell the meat to other boats that use it to haul up sharks, Globo TV said. As the dolphins were hauled from the sea and piled on the boat's deck, fishermen on board laughed after someone said, "Everyone's going to jail after this filming!" The video obtained by an Ibama researcher and broadcast by Globo TV showed the fishermen netting the dolphins, which suffocated because they could not surface to breathe. The researcher was contracted by the...

Shark terrorises fishing boats. PAT McCarthy and his friends got more fish than they bargained for when a great white shark decided to pay their boat a visit off Ocean Reef yesterday morning. Mr McCarthy said the shark bumpedthe other boat and splashed water onto its deck, but only swam around and beneath his vessel. To all those do gooders saying "save the shark, were invaders of there enviroment" Big deal! - if anything puts a human life at risk "KILL IT" we should be able to go to the...

MARSHFIELD Public safety officials are keeping a close watch of the shoreline at Rexhame Beach after the sighting of a 15-foot shark forced swimmers from the water for about an hour. Vacha said seeing sharks is nothing out of the ordinary and that they are often spotted by fisherman farther out in the ocean. The shark was likely a basking shark, said harbormaster Michael DiMeo, a generally harmless species that feeds on vegetation in shallow water. We are just doing the same thing we...

He argues that it doesn't make any difference whether the fish are in federal waters - a million-pound commercial quota of fish is a million pounds of fish. Since commercial striped bass fishing is rigorously controlled by an annual quota, and the stock is deemed to be healthy, it shouldn't matter where the fish are caught, he said. Agents onshore in New Bedford also nabbed a fisherman trying to sell hundreds of pounds of striped bass he had caught Wednesday, the day before the season...

Several other changes to the proclamation were suggested to clarify the regulations for commercial fishers and wholesale fish dealers. In response to recent disease concerns, the TWRA proposed a restriction that would prohibit commercial fishers from exporting large catfish out of state alive. The TWRA also recommended shovelnose sturgeon be removed from the list of species that can legally be harvested by commercial fishers because the species is difficult to distinguish from the...