Image of man caught hiding in red lobster
Red Lobster patrons evacuated the restaurant for about an hour Tuesday while Redding police searched for a man suspected of shoplifting who climbed up between restroom ceiling tiles to hide. Police eventually found and arrested the man, who they say was armed with a razor-type knife and had […]
When flames quickly engulfed their boat Wednesday, six Newfoundland crab fishermen jumped into the North Atlantic and struggled to stay alive as two-meter waves crashed over them. Two hours later, they were plucked from the icy swells by search and rescue technicians, who marveled at their will to survive in potentially lethal water temperatures that […]
Lawrence Violette and his winning catch
Angler Lawrence Violette of Manchester proved that no lead is safe on Saturday. Violette snagged a 4.74 pound, 24.750 inch monster salmon to overtake Gilford’s Joshua Borgeson’s 4.12-pound, 24.625-inch fish atop the leaderboard of the 26th annual Winni Derby on a windy, cold, rainy day in the Lakes Region.It may […]
Rock Crab among strawberry anemonies
Rock crabs may be plentiful in waters off southwest Nova Scotia, but that doesn’t give fishermen the right to use female crabs as free lobster bait, three fishermen found out Thursday. The lobstermen pleaded guilty in Barrington provincial court to using the wrong bait and ended up paying $4,500 collectively in […]
Dolphin swims away from boat that rescued it from crab rope
Crews from the U.S. Coast Guard, the New Jersey State Police Marine Services Unit’s Bivalve Substation and the Marine Mammal Stranding Center on May 26 freed a bottlenose dolphin from entanglement in the line of a crab pot this afternoon in the Delaware Bay. After […]
Kid sets salmon free in river
Sidney Lavoie, a fifth-grade student at Bicentennial Elementary School in Nashua, releases a salmon fry Tuesday into the waters of the Souhegan River in Milford, part of the Adopt-a-Salmon Family program run by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Students hatched the fry from eggs they received in January. It […]
Big lobsters in most American waters of the Atlantic Ocean can now rest easy. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission has decided to protect them from being fished. Large lobsters have been protected in Maine for years, primarily because they are recognized for their biological importance to the fishery. One 5-pound female lobster can produce […]
Sea Lion feasts on salmon
There is alarming news out of Bonneville Dam. This season there are more sea lions than ever before and new estimates show they are eating record number of endangered salmon. “We’ve got a lot of sea lions this year,” said Robert Stansell with the US Army Corps of Engineers. “We’ve […]
Adult male Loggerhead turtle
V-Notched, berried female lobster
Arthur Pierce of Harbor Breton was fined $1,000 after being convicted in provincial court in Grand Falls-Windsor Feb. 26 for violating a lobster conservation measure and interfering with an investigation by fishery officers. Pierce was fined $1,000 for illegally having V-notched female lobsters in his possession, $250 for attempting to destroy evidence […]