New Jersey rescue team on the roof of the collapsed crab house
“Panic everywhere, that’s all I saw, and I got out to the parking lot as quickly as I could. I thought the whole building was going to come down….I could see where the floor had fallen out, about six feet down,” said a diner. […]
Russian Crab Boat
Moscow - Russia’s agriculture ministry on Wednesday announced it was banning exportation of live crabs to stop smuggling and to preserve crab stocks, Ria Novosti news agency reported. “According to the information we have, not only male but also female live crabs are exported to countries including Japan without passing by Russian ports […]
Can you imagine a salmon weighing two tons?
Aquarium of the Bay today announced that Fin, a giant 25-foot long, hand-crafted model of a King Salmon, will make a special two-day stop in its outdoor public space as part of the Save Our Wild Salmon organization’s “Extinction Stops Here!” road show. The two-ton behemoth’s interior features […]
European Green Crab
Two children caught a surprise this afternoon while crabbing in the Indian River Bay. Tyler Ormord, 6, and Myles Boerlin, 10, thought they had caught a mitten crab, an invasive species native to China that has been found recently in the Delaware and Chesapeake Bays. Instead, it turns out the boys reeled in […]
Three divers, two of them firefighters in central Massachusetts, were arrested Sunday by the state Environmental Police on charges of bringing in 11 undersized lobsters. William Carrier, 42, of 15 Crownridge Road, Westborough; Matthew Bailey, 26, of 15 Brookline St., Worcester; and Kenneth Ward, 39, of 85 Walker St., Whitinsville, are scheduled to be arraigned […]
Almost $100,000 worth of frozen steaks and seafood were stolen Tuesday night from the Aldi Warehouse in Valparaiso. Porter County police said someone used one of Aldi’s forklifts to remove the food from the warehouse between 8:30 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. Tuesday. Whoever stole the food also made off with the $3,000 forklift. “Detectives are […]
Russian man holds up Russian King Crab
Russian coast guards have detained a trawler flying a Cambodian flag in the Sea of Okhotsk on suspicion of poaching, a local coast guard spokesman said. The vessel did not respond to requests to identify itself and tried to escape. An on-board inspection revealed a 38-ton catch of live […]
Sitting in his snug log cabin next to the swirling Bystraya river, Alexander explained when he went fishing. “Sometimes we do in the day. Sometimes we do it at night. There’s no set time,” he admitted, passing round a tub of mouth-wateringly delicious wild salmon and a chunk of brown bread. “In the winter we […]
Three Craven County commercial fishermen were sentenced to probation and given a fine associated stolen crab pots, according to a release from the Marine Fisheries. Albert Lynn Campen, 51, of Havelock, Christopher Tracy Barnes, 24, of New Bern, and Thomas James Baker, 22, of Havelock were each found guilty May 29 in Washington County of […]
Lobster with Advanced Shell Disease
A U-Mass Amherst professor gets a 200-thousand dollar grant to study shell disease in lobsters. The sickness was first identified in the 1980s and has since grown, especially in the waters of southeastern Massachusetts and Long Island Sound. Shell disease in lobsters begins when bacteria invade microscopic pores in the hard […]