Giant Lobster
The co-owner of Captain Cooke’s Seafood Inc. made good on a promise he made last February to liberate a 20-lb. lobster he had billeted in a salt-water holding tank since early February. Kevin MacDonald, in an interview last winter, said he would release the mammoth crustacean once the ice thawed on the strait. Three […]
Scallops in the Shell
Alvin H. Short of Upper Island Cove, N.L. has been sentenced to $15,000 in fines and has forfeited over $42,000 in catch for fishing scallop during a closed time on four separate occasions. On May 3, 2006, fishery officers from the Marystown detachment of Fisheries and Oceans Canada boarded the vessel Setting […]
20 Lb Lobster
The co-owner of Captain Cooke’s Seafood Inc. made good on a promise he made last February to liberate a 20-lb. lobster he had billeted in a salt-water holding tank since early February. Kevin MacDonald, in an interview last winter, said he would release the mammoth crustacean once the ice thawed on the strait. […]
Lobster Truck
A truck operator escaped injury when the tractor trailer he was driving overturned on a sharp turn near the base of Kelly’s Mountain, Saturday morning. RCMP Cpl. Ron MacDonald, with Cape Breton Traffic Services, said the truck was transporting a load of lobster from Newfoundland to Prince Edward Island when the accident occurred around […]
Their only crime is trying to survive.
Six sea lions have been found dead in Columbia River traps. State and federal law officers say they appear to have been shot. Bodies of four California sea lions and two Steller sea lions were found at the traps early Sunday afternoon There were two California sea lions and […]
Giant Squid
They aren’t your normal calamari. But the jumbo squid now lurking off the Pacific Northwest coast could threaten salmon runs and signal yet another change in the oceans brought on by global warming. The squid, which can reach seven feet long and weigh up to 110 pounds, are aggressive, thought to hunt in packs […]
Crab Trap
There are some things you just don’t do. Like robbing crab traps. Or getting caught robbing a crab trap. Three Florida men have been arrested and charged with molesting blue crab traps in two separate incidents during the past week. That’s a third-degree felony. And then there’s the matter of dealing with the commercial […]
Salmon
Federal authorities have declared the West Coast ocean salmon fishery a failure, opening the way for Congress to appropriate economic disaster assistance for coastal communities in California, Oregon and Washington. The declaration Thursday stems from the sudden collapse of the Chinook salmon run in California’s Sacramento River, where the salmon return to spawn. Scientists are […]
Someone Killing a King Crab
The captain of a Russian fishing boat has been fined after being convicted of illegally catching a vast quantity of rare king crabs. The official Russian news agency, Itar-Tass reported that the captain of the Kapitan Barinov ship was found guilty in a Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky court of illegally catching over a tonne […]
Poacher Holding Elephant Tusk
Police and the Bahrain Coastguard were yesterday hunting four poachers whose car sank in the sea after they fled the shoreline in a powerboat. The men were spotted offloading shrimp from their boat into iceboxes on the back of a bright orange Chevrolet pickup yesterday morning, a Coastguard spokesman told the GDN. […]