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A shrimp fisherman who swam 12 hours to shore to raise the alarm after his trawler sank was hailed a hero Friday. Michael Williams, 39, arrived at a beach near Byron Bay, late Wednesday afternoon after a 13-kilometer (8-mile) swim, sparking an air search for two crew mates. Fellow crewman John Jarrett, 41, was found […]

Lobster Man
Zane H. Fennelly, a former captain of a Jacksonville, Fla.-based commercial fishing vessel, has been sentenced to four months in prison and one year supervised release. Fennelly was indicted by a federal grand jury in Jacksonville on Aug. 2, 2007, for knowingly disposing of and attempting to destroy three plastic bags containing spiny lobster […]

Lobster Fight

Gorton’s is voluntarily recalling 1,000 cases of frozen fish in ten states after a Pennsylvania woman reported finding pills in her food. The Gloucester seafood company originally thought the hard object found in a frozen fish fillet last weekend was compressed batter or bread crumbs. But testing completed today confirmed that the foreign objects were […]

Watch this Lobster eat.

Great for cooking, not so great for beer
English brewers have invented a shellfish flavored beer. The tipple -called Scallop Stout - is set to be the main attraction at a local scallop festival in Kent. Stewart Martin of brewer Shepherd Neame said: “There’s a hint of smokiness and a slight taste of the sea but […]

Crabs take over this small island every year.

About $2,000 worth of live lobsters and other seafood was stolen Saturday from the Real Fish and Lobster Restaurant in Orlando. According to a police report, the burglar used a crowbar to pry open the back door of the business. The bandit grabbed 70 live lobsters from several crates and broke into an ice cooler […]

When Lobsters Attack