Fish kills spear-fishing diver off Florida
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A Florida diver shot a large grouper with   a spear gun then apparently drowned when the fish sped into a   hole, entangling the man in the line attached to the spear,   investigators said on Monday.
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Birds on the remote island of St Kilda are dying after eating or getting caught up in discarded fishing gear.
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Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the "Crocodile Hunter," was killed Monday by a stingray while filming off the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44.
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Steve Irwin, the quirky Australian  naturalist who won worldwide acclaim as TV's khaki-clad  "Crocodile Hunter," was killed by a stingray barb through the  chest on Monday while diving off the country's northeast coast.
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By Bob Hood, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb. 22--Golden alga fish kills have returned on three Brazos River lakes, claiming primarily threadfin and gizzard shad, but some game fish have died, said Joan Glass, a Texas Parks and Wildlife Department biologist from Waco.
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CAPE TOWN -- A great white shark estimated to be at least 18 feet long attacked and presumably killed an elderly South African woman yesterday off a beach near Cape Town, officials said. Tyna Webb, 77, who lived in the area, was swimming off Sunny Cove in Fish Hoek when the massive shark circled her and then attacked, witnesses and ...
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Australian environmentalist and television personality Steve Irwin is killed by a stringray while diving.
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Steve Irwin, the quirky Australian   naturalist who won worldwide acclaim as TV's khaki-clad   "Crocodile Hunter," was killed by a stingray barb through the   heart while filming a new documentary on Monday.
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UPDATE SUN 5 PM: At least three deaths are blamed on the latest hurricane to thrash Florida. Two people apparently drowned when the SUV they were driving, plunged into a lake northwest of Fort Lauderdale.
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A Territorian yesterday told how he watched in horror as two sharks savaged a man to death at a popular beach. Chris Niemoeller had been swimming near the same spot minutes earlier.
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A 20-year-old woman died after an alligator bit off her arm as she apparently went out for a late-night swim in a lake near her grandparents' house, authorities said.
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SYDNEY, Australia  - Fatally injured by a   stingray, Australian "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin pulled its   serrated barb out of his chest before losing consciousness and   dying, the world-famous naturalist's manager said on Tuesday.
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Floridaâs season of âsturgeon strikesâ â collisions between the leaping fish and hapless boaters â is under way.
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MIAMI _ From time to time, I have lamented in this space about what I call the bite of the wrong fish. In other words, you go out fishing with a noted guide in order to write a story about a particular species and that turns out to be the one species you can't catch.
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"Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin was videotaped pulling a poisonous stingray barb from his chest just before he died, according to news reports. Irwin's manager John Stainton described the footage of his friend dying as "terrible," according to The Associated Press.
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Vents that would have allowed water to drain from the deck of a doomed scallop boat were closed and its engine door was open when it took on water and sank, killing five fishermen, according to a preliminary U.S. Coast Guard report released Saturday.
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By Kirsten Valle, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 10--Thousands of fish have died in Mecklenburg County ponds this  month after a spell of hot and dry weather, county officials said.