Year: 2022

As federal regulators look to impose limits on fishing lines that can entangle an endangered whale species, a bipartisan group of Maine lawmakers is rallying to block rules they say could tank the state’s lucrative lobster industry.And as part of the effort, they’re threatening to take federal funding away from one of the country’s most prestigious marine…

by Britta Denise Hardesty, Chris Wilcox, Joanna Vince and Kelsey Richardson, The Conversation Credit: Bo Eide/CSIRO, Author provided Two percent of all fishing gear used worldwide ends up polluting the oceans, our new research published in Science Advances finds. To put that into perspective, the amount of longline fishing gear littering the ocean each year…

4:03 PM ETAssociated Press CLEVELAND -- Two anglers accused of stuffing fish with lead weights and fillets in an attempt to win thousands of dollars in an Ohio fishing tournament were indicted Wednesday on charges of attempted grand theft and other counts.Jacob Runyan, 42, of Broadview Heights, Ohio, and Chase Cominsky, 35, of Hermitage, Pennsylvania,…

Two fishermen captured in a viral video appearing to scam an Ohio fishing tournament are on the hook for multiple crimes, including cheating, authorities said in announcing their indictments Wednesday.Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley described the allegedly fishy conduct of Jacob Runyan, 42, and Chase Cominsky, 35, at last month’s Lake Erie Walleye Trail…

The total size of fishing nets lost or discarded in the ocean every single year is equal to the size of South Carolina, scientists have estimated.Designed to be durable and long-lasting, lost or discarded fishing gear is a major contributor to ocean pollution and its harmful effects can be seen in the estimated 300,000 whales…

Over the past 20 years or so, millions of words have been written about how Dubai has transformed from a small fishing village to a skyscraper-filled metropolis. The construction boom in the emirate has seen the rise of many impressive structures, including the world’s tallest building and largest Ferris wheel, plus many huge shopping centres,…

A petition has been launched demanding that the Canadian government get its house in order and take decisive action to stop overfishing in national waters. According to the petition, the Canadian government is badly failing its fish stocks, industry and ocean. Per Oceana Canada’s annual Fishery Audit, less than a measly third of Canadian fish…

Animal Rebellion (AR) activists vandalised hunting shops with paint as “hundreds” of fellow campaigners protested in central London on Saturday to demand a “plant-based future”.Campaigners poured red paint inside Farlows, a hunting and fishing shop on Pall Mall, and daubed paint on the windows of William Evans, a shooting supply shop in nearby St James’s…

In this photo taken on August 20, 2022, crew on outriggers sail past fishing "mother" boats in the village of Cato, Infanta town, Pangasinan province, as they prepare to leave for a fishing expedition to the South China Sea. The Scarborough Shoal fishing ground, tapped by generations of Filipino fishermen, is one of many potential…

A Virginia sea captain is sharing how God saved his life after being lost at sea.Captain Johnny Savage, who details his story in his new book Lost in the Stream: The Miraculous Story of Two Fishermen Lost at Sea, told CBN News' Prayerlink about his harrowing experience of being lost at sea during a fishing trip…