Fishing for octopus on Indian Ocean isle
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RODRIGUES, Mauritius  - Wading through water up to her thighs, Marie-Claire Louis pauses and, one hand clutching a spear, studies the seaweed-covered rocks below her.
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This week's fishing reports from around the region: Area A: The bluefish are coming out for the fall season. With the dogfish receding in the northern oceans, blues and tuna are a good catch right now. Out near Plum Island, the stripers are as big as 40 pounds. The smaller bluefin tuna are out off Cape Ann, in the 30- ...
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Japan offers to help build one for the Indian Ocean.
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A shoal of sunfish -- the world's largest bony fish -- has been spotted in the waters off Cornwall, south west Britain, despite normally being found thousands of miles away, scientists said.
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It is trying to protect its world-famous bounty of fish with marine protected areas.
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A large Humboldt squid caught offshore from Sitka is among numerous sightings of a species seen for the first time in waters of the Far North, and the first of the species recovered from British Columbia waters.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. - Two new invasive species have recently been found along the South Carolina coast - a massive barnacle that dwarfs those found in the state as well as the Asian green mussel, which reproduces quickly and can pose a threat to floating docks.
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BBC Northern Ireland rural affairs correspondent Martin Cassidy looks at the renewed strength of mussel fishing in Belfast Lough.
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A fishing crew has caught a colossal squid that could weigh a half-ton and prove to be the biggest specimen ever landed, a fisheries official said Thursday.
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Description: The most wanted man in India has met his end. For decades, Koose Muniswamy Veerappan eluded capture in the forests of southern India as he smuggled ivory and sandalwood worth millions and terrorized villagers.
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Bizet's Pearl Fishers is to be  performed for the first time in Sri Lanka - the country where the love story is set.
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By Steve Connor  A census of ocean life has revealed a treasure chest of living jewels ranging from a mighty microbe as big as a fingernail to a furry crab and a giant lobster.
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Travel: Patrick Steel travels south past Tasmania to Bruny Island, a laidback haven where tourism works by local word of mouth and the fish are plentiful
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Tanga village picked for protecting rare fish in Tanzania    DAR ES SALAAM, June 14 (Xinhua) -- A small village in the Tanga Region in northeastern Tanzania has been picked as a proposed nature reserve area for the rare fish of coelacanth.
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An international expedition has found more than 1,200 varieties of crustaceans and at least 4,000 types of mollusks near a small Philippine island.
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PALLAI, Sri Lanka  - Housewife Viyarseeli  Nadarajahlingam's whole life revolved around her six children  and helping her husband mend his fishing nets on an idyllic  white sand beach at Sri Lanka's northern tip.
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A new species of tree that is not thought to grow anywhere else is found on an island off the west coast of Scotland.