The armed agents stroll into the frigid market, where the pungent stink of seafood assaults them. The smell pervades their clothes and the scaly, gooey water clings to their boots. They pass burly men slinging slabs of fish with gleaming hooks and table saws ripping through frozen chunks of swordfish and tuna. Tempers flare as […]
Rescue of a Fishing boat
Members of the coast guard auxiliary rescued a crab boat in the Northumberland Strait Wednesday night, about 15 kilometres off Point Prim. Charlie McGeoghegan was on the boat that found the troubled vessel, on a coast guard auxiliary assignment with his father and brother. “The battery was dead, the running lights […]
Children watch lobsters race
It was antenna-to-antenna in some heats. In others, the cranky crustaceans needed a little prodding on their tails and flippers to walk their way to the finish line. Regardless of the race outcome, the 23rd Annual Lobster Races was a success.
The lobsters crowded a large tub pre-race — fresh off a truck […]
Shark Caught in Crab Poachers Net
Owners of three crab poaching vessels and the border guards who assisted them in maneuvering off the patrol boats were recently arrested and are currently facing charges of poaching and abetting contraband of marine resources, prosecutors said. The criminal organization included the owners of the three vessels, the captains, border […]
Image of the oldest lobster fossil
Mexican scientists said they have identified the world’s oldest lobster fossil, a creature that was alive when Africa was only just breaking apart from the Americas some 120 million years ago. The fossil is 4.7 inches (12 cm) long and it’s shell and legs are immaculately preserved by the mud […]
It was a perfect sunny morning. Cornish fishermen Chris Earl and Tony Allsopp were chugging out to sea on their boat, Spilgarn, to check on their lobster pots. And then the deer, all antlers and big worried eyes, swam past. “It’s not the sort of creature you expect to see half a mile out,” said […]
DFO officers arrested three individuals on a Maine lobster wharf earlier this month, alleging the trio was fishing untagged lobster traps. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans says it seized about 175 pounds of lobster. The individuals were allegedly all fishing from the same boat. The three men have been issued court appearance notices for […]
Memorial built for all who have been lost at sea
A man missing from a shrimp trawler and presumed dead was on his first shrimp fishing trip aboard the MV Osprey, a North Sydney vessel. Mitchell Brian Adams, 25, of Pleasant Bay, a remote coastal community in northern Cape Breton, disappeared off the MV Osprey, a […]
Common food allergy chart
Scientists say they are uncovering why some people’s asthma is triggered by shellfish, insects and parasites. The clue lies in a compound called chitin that gives beetles and crabs their protective outer shell and invertebrates their internal structure. Humans and other mammals lack chitin, and have developed defenses against it. The latest […]
Sea Lion Snacking on Salmon
In the swirling spillway of this massive hydroelectric complex on the Columbia River, a wildlife worker in a small boat trains his rifle on a California sea lion. Whether his rubber bullet hits the 500-pound animal and scares it away from a juicy buffet of salmon can’t be readily determined. Biologists […]