Burglars who broke into the cold storage room of the Northern Fisherman’s Co-operative at Caye Caulker have stolen $3,390 worth of lobster tails. The break-in occurred between Thursday night and Friday morning last week. Concluding that the lobster tails would be sold in Belize City, where they can fetch up to $7.00 a pound, Police […]
Scientist holds new species of mollusk
Scientist holds new species of Lobster
Alaskan King Crab legs spill out on to highway
Denver Colorado – A truck hauling boxes of King Crab Legs crashed and rolled over, spilling its load onto the highway. Officials say the truck was hauling a full 55-foot trailer load of King Crab Legs, when the driver lost control, hit the wall and the truck […]
HemCon Shrimp Bandages
After a long search for a better way to stop extreme bleeding, the U.S. Army has purchased more than 400,000 bandages made from chitosan, a polysaccharide extracted from the exoskeletons of Icelandic shrimp. Before deciding on the $10 million HemCon purchase last year, the Army tested fibrin bandages, collagen sponges and nanoporous ceramic […]
A Texas fugitive learned Thursday that a Savannah shrimp boat was no place to “lay low.” Federal marshals captured Dennis Wayne Harvey, 28, aboard the Michael Lynn as the boat reached the mouth of the Savannah River on Thursday morning.
“He was considered armed and dangerous, and he indicated he would not be taken back to […]
Orca eating Salmon
A large group of endangered killer whales has been spotted off the coast of San Francisco, a long way from their usual feeding grounds along the Washington coast. The magnificent black and white predators were first seen off Half Moon Bay, where they were apparently searching for salmon which are declining in numbers […]
Native of Tristan Da Cunha displays an average Tristan Lobster
Tristan da Cunha is a group of remote islands in the south Atlantic Ocean, 2816 km (1750 miles) from South Africa and 2088 miles from South America. It is a dependency of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, 1350 miles to the north. The territory […]
Bloody Red Mysid Shrimp
New York - Another invasive species, a half-inch long ravenous shrimp from Eurasia, has been found in Lake Ontario, raising concerns among scientists that the tiny crustacean could mean dire consequences for the lake’s food chain. The discovery of bloody red mysid - whose scientific name is Hemimysis anomala - was made […]
Two Toronto men – caught twice within two hours for illegal salmon fishing – are among nine people convicted of offences committed during the fall spawning run on the Pine River near Alliston.
Nike Gecaj, 43, has been fined $3,000 and his angling licence is suspended for two years for netting and snagging salmon. Zef Gjoklaj, […]