MSPs hear island fishing ban plan
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Campaigners hoping to create a "no take zone" for fishermen put their proposals to MSPs on the Isle of Arran.
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Police reinforcements have been assigned to the Palace of Westminster as the House of Lords prepared to deal with a bill to ban fox-hunting and hare-coursing in England.
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By Kevin Howe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Mar. 7--A possible ban on lead bullets for hunting will be on the state Fish and Game Commission agenda when it meets next month in Bodega Bay.   The commission voted unanimously at its Feb.
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By MIKE SWAIN  CELEBRITY chefs yesterday hit out at destructive fishing policies which threaten to take seafood off the menu.   Chefs Antony Worrall Thompson and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall slammed fisheries chiefs who are set to ignore calls for a ban on some stocks.
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It is trying to protect its world-famous bounty of fish with marine protected areas.
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Hundreds of fish are believed to have been killed in a pollution incident in County Antrim.
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By Frank Urquhart  THE new Scottish National Party administration is planning to introduce a dedicated Marine Bill for Scotland, placing sustainability at the centre of the future management of its coastline and seas, it was revealed yesterday.
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A Solid Energy report on fish in rivers downstream of its mine near Westport will be the benchmark for its environmental clean-up.   The priority is to get whitebait running in the Ngakawau River again.
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08 December, 2004 - FISHERMENâS leaders and UK Government ministers alike today vowed to fight European Commission catching plans, which they said were out of date and too extreme.
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A Royal Commission warns species are at risk unless steps are taken to close up to a third of UK fishing grounds.
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Fishermen say they are seeing more herring returning to the Gulf of Maine, where a ban on trawlers that drag nets through the water has been in effect through the summer.
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A marine reserve is to be created off the island of Arran to protect bio-diversity, according to the Scottish government.
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By Tom Pelton, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 8--Watermen objected strongly to a proposal to ban the trapping of diamondback terrapins during a public meeting in Annapolis last night.
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There appears to be the germ of a good idea in Gov. Ernie Fletcher's proposal to offer tax credits to those who agree to protect their land from development and make it available to the public for hunting, fishing, hiking or other purposes.
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Congress was poised to pass a bill Saturday to revamp management of the nation's marine fisheries and strengthen protections against overfishing of dwindling stocks.
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A total ban on North Sea cod fishing is called for by a group of marine scientists ahead of EU fisheries talks.
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President Bush is trying to encourage more recreational fishing in state waters and adding more federal rules limiting commercial fishing of two overfished species Â striped bass and red drum.