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  • Weather hinders progress on first day of fishing rodeo (7/5) Saturday, July 5, 2008 @ 12:40AMWeather woes plagued inshore and offshore anglers in the first day of the Southwest Louisiana Fishing Club 71st Annual 4th of July Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo on Friday.
  • Remember When: Florida governor dove for gold off Indian River Saturday, July 5, 2008 @ 12:18AMIn the late 1960s, I was drifting offshore with a guy from New Jersey named Tennitt.
  • The Baja trip -- Part III Friday, July 4, 2008 @ 9:11AMBruce Ajari and Mike Lombardi of Thaoe city hold up a pair of yellowfin tuna during a recent Baja, Calif. fishing trip to the Sea of Cortez. They say that the fishing in the Sea of Cortez is just a fraction of what it once was not too long ago.
  • Suncoast Offshore Grand Prix races help special need kids Wednesday, July 2, 2008 @ 5:50PM Since the races came to Sarasota in 1984, the event has raised $14 million to help expand the Florida Center for Child and Family Development from one campus to three, including Sarasota, Venice and North Port.
  • Saltwater fly-fishing an old, but growing, tradition on North Shore Wednesday, July 2, 2008 @ 4:12PM “It’s like freshwater fishing on steroids — everything’s bigger.” That’s just one way that Jared Stansfield, a Manchester resident, attorney and member of the Ipswich Fish and Game Club, describes one of his favorite activities: saltwater fly -fishing.
  • The water rangers fighting to prevent tragedies in Loch Lomond Wednesday, July 2, 2008 @ 4:09AMON a warm summer's day, Loch Lomond looks like a tranquil haven for anyone keen on the great outdoors. Three million day trips are made every year to the loch, from people with boats moored there to families enjoying a picnic.
  • Boatbuilder trumps economic slump Wednesday, July 2, 2008 @ 1:20AMBoat sales doldrums aren't holding back Marine Concepts.
  • Heat, Storms Make Fishing A Tough Proposition Mid-Day Wednesday, July 2, 2008 @ 12:18AMThe bite has been fair on South Shore so far this summer.
  • ChiSox make it two in a row over Cubs in 6-5 win Tuesday, July 1, 2008 @ 6:30AMSaltwater fishing success is improving each week and should be nearing its prime just in time for the big fishing rodeo that gets under way Friday, according to one of the many Teche Area fishermen ready for 55th annual Iberia Rod & Gun Club Saltwater Fishing Rodeo.
  • Salty Dogs and East Chop Beach Boys Still Like to Go Out in the Midday Sun Tuesday, July 1, 2008 @ 6:02AMThey were two young sailing misfits at the East Chop Beach Club more than 30 years ago. And through the years they’ve cultivated a friendship that has crossed the sea, built a business and continues to reinvent itself. Todd Alexander, 45, is the Oak Bluffs harbor master.
  • Fishing is what he knows Tuesday, July 1, 2008 @ 3:58AMBy DAVE JORDAN The Brunswick NewsAsk Captain Larry Crews what makes running a charter fishing business a great way to make a living and he'll tell you. It's not the money. It's not the thrill of the hunt. It's not the bounty he brings in after a day on the water.
  • NYC subway cars sunk off Virginia coast Monday, June 30, 2008 @ 11:49AMIn a new spin on recycling, the cars are used for artificial reefs meant to boost marine life. They carried commuters across New York City for 40 years, but in less than two hours Thursday, 44 subway cars from the Big Apple were sunk off the Virginia coast, becoming part of a large artificial fishing reef.
  • Boaters suffer as gas prices climb : News Monday, June 30, 2008 @ 3:28AMPANAMA CITY BEACH -- A small crowd gathered at Capt.
  • Treasure Coast Fishing Report: June 30 Monday, June 30, 2008 @ 12:09AMCheck in daily with Ed Killer for the latest in fishing news on the Treasure Coast.
  • Taste for fins lands diners in the soup Sunday, June 29, 2008 @ 5:04AMSharks are being mercilessly hunted, but as these predators of the deep are ingesting more and more mercury in the world's increasingly polluted oceans...
  • Moonrise over Trinidad Sunday, June 29, 2008 @ 4:28AMLast weekend, Mike Taylor and I hauled his 18' Westcoaster to Trinidad for some bottom fishing. As we drove along Clam Beach we were happy to see the ocean as flat as it ever gets.
  • Third bonefish species found Sunday, June 29, 2008 @ 4:06AMFisheries scientists have known for years that two species of bonefish reside in the waters of South Florida and the Caribbean -- albula vulpes and albula garcia, or species B.
  • Kids go fishing Sunday, June 29, 2008 @ 2:12AMTake A Kid Fishing participants, from left, Beth Settle, Donna Strasburg, Savannah Long, Kelly Lyon and Brianne Willis hold out their bounty caught from the Continental Shelf head boat upon their return on Thursday evening to the Morehead City waterfront.
  • Diversification boosts business Sunday, June 29, 2008 @ 1:19AMBoat sales doldrums aren't holding back Marine Concepts.
  • Kuwait News Saturday, June 28, 2008 @ 3:21AMKUWAIT CITY : The sea turtles are facing endangerment as ‘civilization’ marches on and threatens their habitat along the coast and nearby islands not in the northwestern Arabian Gulf but throughout the world, says Dr Salim Al-Mohanna, a Marine Biologist at the Kuwait University and foremost authority on the turtles of the Kuwaiti waters since 1995. Speaking to a small gathering at AWARE ...
  • From the Big Apple to the big Atlantic Friday, June 27, 2008 @ 1:27PMCHINCOTEAGUE, Va. - They carried commuters across New York City for 40 years, but in less than two hours Thursday, 44 subway cars from the Big Apple were sunk off the Virginia coast, becoming part of a large artificial fishing reef.
  • SPORTS HEADLINES Friday, June 27, 2008 @ 12:13PM(AP) — Perch are being caught in the Great Lakes while inland anglers are catching bass, pike, walleye and catfish, the Michigan Department of Resources said in its weekly fishing report. Plenty of rock bass also are being caught.
  • $2bil worth of seafood material imports proposed Friday, June 27, 2008 @ 6:26AMVietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Association of Seafood Producers and Exporters (VASEP) has sent a dispatch to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, suggesting that Vietnam import $2bil worth of seafood materials.
  • Offshore Eden Friday, June 27, 2008 @ 3:11AMChannel Islands offer isolation CHANNEL ISLANDS NATIONAL PARK -- Only my footprints marked the wet sand along Water Canyon Beach.
  • Exchange Club's 15th Blue Water Open on docket Wednesday, June 25, 2008 @ 11:54PMPopular fishing tournament continues but another is canceled
  • WA News Wednesday, June 25, 2008 @ 7:06PMRecreational fishing businesses will fight to be compensated for losses of at least 30 per cent they claim will result from fishing bans introduced this week.
  • Kenya: Minister Spells Out Plans to Boost Aquaculture Wednesday, June 25, 2008 @ 3:46AMThe Government has announced a raft of measures to boost aquaculture - the growing of fish outside their natural habitats.
  • Sealink to expand and diversify fleet Tuesday, June 24, 2008 @ 7:28PMKUALA LUMPUR: Sealink International Bhd, an integrated service provider for the oil and gas (O&G) industry, plans to invest RM300mil to expand and diversify its fleet of offshore support vessels over the next three years.
  • Charities win at Hi-Mar striper tournament Tuesday, June 24, 2008 @ 4:35AMTheHi-Mar Striper Club's spring striper tournament annually attracts some of the top bass fishermen in the Shore area, and they revealed where the fish were Saturday.
  • Meteorologists warn fishing boats of strengthening storm Monday, June 23, 2008 @ 11:29PMVietNamNet Bridge - Meteorologists are calling authorities in coastal provinces from Da Nang to Ca Mau to be on the lookout for fishing boats and ships as they expect the Fengshen Storm, with its high force level, to move on to the northern part of the East Sea.
  • Andy Worthington: Italy's Forgotten Residents in Guantanamo Monday, June 23, 2008 @ 6:38PMExcept Albania, no other country has stepped forward to help the US clean up it own mess by offering asylum to foreign nationals captured by mistake and held for years at Guantánamo.
  • Grand Lagoon Fishing Tournament Monday, June 23, 2008 @ 1:17PMRising fuel prices are like tentacles reaching into crevices of both the common work week and leisure time. The inaugural Grand Lagoon National fishing extravaganza and entertainment experience Aug. 20-24 is looking ahead to try and ease some of the strain on expected participants.
  • Getting away to Bodega Bay Monday, June 23, 2008 @ 7:41AMIf you want the unvarnished truth about a place, ask a local.
  • Albacore reports spotty, worrisome Sunday, June 22, 2008 @ 9:02AMThese albacore stops that some of the luckier sport boats have had are right out of Albacore 101, in that the longfins are acting like early-season fish.
  • 'Grandmaster' takes top honors Sunday, June 22, 2008 @ 7:11AMThe 33 boats that participated in the first-ever Melbourne Firefighters 3 Alarm offshore tournament Saturday were indeed fishing for a good cause.
  • New rules give local fishermen hope Sunday, June 22, 2008 @ 2:11AM For more than a decade, this historic fishing port has borne the brunt of regulations intended to bring back cod, haddock, flounder and other bottom feeding fish, known collectively as groundfish.
  • The big grouper debate Sunday, June 22, 2008 @ 12:50AM T he grouper debate continues. The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council recently made preliminary approval to a ruling that would drop the Gulf bag limit on grouper to four per angler, two of which can be gags.
  • SMITH: Anglers embrace charity event Sunday, June 22, 2008 @ 12:17AMRacine - It's shortly after sunrise Thursday and a rare sense of equilibrium is evident on the Lake Michigan shore in Racine.
  • Fuel Prices Hurt Fishing Captains Saturday, June 21, 2008 @ 11:44AMCharter fishermen chasing the big one are taking a big hit with rising gas prices.
  • Fuel prices hurt local fishing captains Saturday, June 21, 2008 @ 11:15AMIt's 50 miles from the docks of this Eastern Shore fishing village to the deep-ocean canyons where the big fish swim, and Capt. Frank Large's charter boat guzzles gas all the way.
  • Fuel prices hurt fishing captains Saturday, June 21, 2008 @ 10:55AMWACHAPREAGUE, Va. (AP) - Charter fishermen chasing the big one are taking a big hit with rising gas prices. The government doesn't keep up-to-date records of charter-fishing trips in the region.
  • Fuel prices hurt fishing captains Saturday, June 21, 2008 @ 10:52AM Associated Press - June 21, 2008 10:45 AM ET WACHAPREAGUE, Va. (AP) - Charter fishermen chasing the big one are taking a big hit with rising gas prices.
  • Fishing? There's a catch Saturday, June 21, 2008 @ 5:25AMOn the fuel dock at Clark's Landing Marina, the pump numbers whirled as the crew of the Lady Jane took on 250 gallons of diesel at $4.57 a gallon, preparing to chase sharks offshore in the annual Mako Mania tournament.
  • Will there be drilling on Georges Bank? Saturday, June 21, 2008 @ 2:13AM President Bush's call for renewed offshore oil exploration once again puts the spotlight on the famed fishing grounds off the New England coast.
  • Fishermen angling to build wind farm Friday, June 20, 2008 @ 10:04PMPerhaps the most unlikely company hoping to build Rhode Island’s wind farm is Fishermen’s Energy of Rhode Island.
  • For the better good of the country Friday, June 20, 2008 @ 6:14AMNewport, N.C. The nation as a whole is very upset with the high cost of energy. This is depressing our economy and making it difficult, particularly for those with low incomes. We do not need to be buying oil from unfriendly nations.
  • Survey Shows Growing Public Opposition To NW Norway Oil Plans Friday, June 20, 2008 @ 6:01AMOSLO -(Dow Jones)- A survey conducted on behalf of the World Wildlife Fund Norway shows a growing number of Norwegians are against petroleum development offshore Lofoten and Vesteraalen, archipelagos on the northwest coast of Norway.
  • Fishing Report: 06.20.08 Friday, June 20, 2008 @ 5:14AMRedfish Bay and northward -- The backside of San Jose Island produced trout for waders this week. Topwaters worked early and soft plastics later. Croaker are working best on trout along deeper drop-offs of St. Charles, Aransas and Redfish bays.
  • Lots to choose from off our shores Friday, June 20, 2008 @ 2:02AMFish Finder Frank Dwyer Excellent opportunities abound for fishermen on the North Shore. Striped Bass, bluefish, flounder, tuna and many species of groundfish are now readily available. Mackerel are in thick, and anglers have done quite well loading up the live well, then live lining the mackerel to entice large striped bass.
  • Monster stripers topping 50 pounds Friday, June 20, 2008 @ 1:36AMIt was another great week of big striped bass from Sandy Hook to Island Beach State Park as plenty of fish from 25 to 45 pounds were caught. There also were striped bass over 50 pounds.