Chinese Mitten CrabBiologists have been waiting for it, and now the other shoe–or rather claw–has dropped. for the first time female Chinese mitten crabs have turned up in the Chesapeake Bay and they are reproducing. Inside the invasion lab at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Anne Arundel County, the latest alien to invade […]
Tony Rahn
For a moment yesterday morning, lobster man Tony Rahn thought he was finished. Rahn, 63, was laying traps off Odiorne Point State Park in Rye about 7:30 when the line he was working got wrapped around his hand and yanked him overboard — backwards — with all his gear on. “I almost saw the […]
Restaurant employees and customers were evacuated from Jack Baker’s Lobster Shanty mid-afternoon last week after a bomb threat was telephoned in by an anonymous caller, according to the Ocean County Observer. The threat was called in at about 2 p.m., and by 3 p.m. the fire companies and K-9s were finished inspecting the building and […]
Chinook Salmon
More than 30,000 fish have escaped from Scottish farms in the first four months of this year - sparking fears they could harm wild stocks.The Scottish Salmon Producers’ Organisation (SSPO), which represents 95 per cent of the country’s farmed salmon production, has now started publishing details online of known “breaches of containment”. It has […]
RFID Chip
Two shrimp exporters based in Thailand are using radio frequency identification (RFID) to improve their business operation. Chanthaburi Frozen Food and Charoen Pokphand Foods say the technology will enhance their ability to monitor their stocks of shrimp. In particular, they expect RFID to improve the way they track the origin, processing and expiry dates […]
Picture of 18 lb Lobster that had been stolen
A loss has turned into a 3-pound gain for restaurant owner Edmond Cela. Cela’s 18-pound lobster was stolen from his display tank at Madfish Bar and Grill in Scituate earlier this month. He kept the giant crustacean for show, not the plate. After reading about the theft […]
Lobster that was beaten by Chris Hovard
A diver told today how he wrestled with a three-foot lobster after it attacked him. The lobster; Dorset diver wrestles three-foot lobster. The lobster is believed to be 50 years old Chris Hovard, 51, was diving when the 10lbs 4oz lobster approached him near Weymouth jetty, in Dorset, yards […]
Man sets salmon free from poacher’s net
A bust of a major poaching ring on the Northern Peninsula can serve as a warning to the rest of the province, according to officials. Ron Burton, area chief of conservation and protection with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, said they had been aware of the illegal activity […]
A Chinese Engineering University has succeeded in creating a crab-like robot suitable for search and rescue missions. Designed and modeled based on real crabs, this 60 cm long, 35cm wide and 25cm thick robotic crab had passed numerous tests. Its body weights 12kg and it is capable of moving at a speed of 540m/hr. It […]
Shrimp Boat
A popular veteran Carrabelle commercial fisherman drowned Monday morning when his 35-foot trawler capsized and trapped him in the cabin. Glen Buffkin, 65, died aboard his shrimp fishing boat “Thanks,” shortly after 9 a.m. Buffkin drowned when his boat inexplicably capsized in 25 feet of water in Carrabelle Bay. Known as “Papa Glen,” Buffkin […]