Lobster Pot
27-year-old Jesse Vivian Rowland of Geraldton pleaded guilty to breaching the West Coast Rock Lobster Management Plan between 15 November 2004 and 15 March 2005, when he was master of a vessel named Infinity. The Geraldton Court was told the accused had fished for western rock lobster during those four months, using 92 pots […]
Antique Lobster Licence
A Nova Scotia lobster fisherman has been fined $17,000 for offenses including printing up his own lobster fishing license. The Department of Fishing says Joey Oickle of Shelburne County pleaded guilty to charges including fraud and fishing lobster without a personal fisherman’s registration. He was fined $8,150 for the offenses and was ordered […]
Typical Lobster Fishing Gear
Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation will conduct several voluntary groundline rope exchanges in 2008 as part of Phase II of the Bottom Line Project, helping lobster men comply with new federal whale regulations that require them to use sinking ground lines in some areas of the coast. The foundation, a small, Maine-based […]
This is one of many Shrimp farmers in Bangladesh hurt by recent cyclones
Nearly 400,000 shrimp farmers face an uncertain future two months after Cyclone Sidr struck Bangladesh’s southwestern coastal belt. Some 6,000 shrimp farms and hatcheries in the four southern districts of Satkhira, Khulna, Bagerhat and Patuakhali were washed away. Bangladesh’s shrimp exports are the […]
Lois Walker
Lois Walker of Sidney will have her name carved in stone after finding a fossil of a lobster believed to be 167 million years old. Walker, 68, an amateur paleontologist, made the find near Smithers in July 2005. The fossil, the oldest lobster found in Canada and a previously unknown species, will be named […]
Jelly Fish
King Crab Catch
Russia on Wednesday slashed its 2008 king crab quota by 16 percent in a move to restore crab populations exhausted by poaching. Alexander Savelyev, a spokesman for Russia’s Fishing Committee, told the Vladivostok News that the total allowable catch is set at 51,761 metric tons, down from 61,539 metric tons in 2007. In […]
Commuters on Interstate 12 south of Covington ran into trouble coming and going Monday because of an overturned truck filled with frozen shrimp. traffic was snarled in both directions during morning and evening rush hours as workers tried to clear the overturned 18-wheeler, which came to rest alongside the eastbound lanes just east of the […]
Seafood Thief Caught
A man suspected of swiping lobster tails, salmon steaks and shrimp from a Vista grocery store and then threatening employees with a gun was nabbed Thursday by sheriff’s detectives. The 36-year-old man from Northern California was arrested outside his mother’s apartment a few blocks from the Albertson’s grocery store, which is on Vista […]
Weird Half natural, half red lobster
A Nova Scotia fisherman made a rare catch this week when he hauled up a two-toned lobster in St. Mary’s Bay. The lobster is divided into two colors straight down the middle of its back — dull green on one side and bright orange on the other. The fisherman who […]