Fishing grounds escape closure threat
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Key cod fishing grounds off the west coast of Scotland and in the Irish Sea are to stay open after Britain today persuaded the European Commission that closing them would &quot;devastate&quot; British fishermen.
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Fletcher's Cove -- one of the best fishing holes in the country -- has been in the Fletcher family since the Civil War, but will soon be handed over to the National Park Service.
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By The Idaho Statesman, Boise  May 31--If you're heading to Horsethief, leave your big boat behind.   The Idaho Department of Fish and Game drained the reservoir last fall to remove illegally stocked yellow perch, and it hasn't refilled enough to make the boat ramps useable.
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BRUSSELS, BELGIUM -- European officials decided yesterday to disregard proposals to declare huge stretches of ocean off-limits for trawlers if viable alternatives can be worked out to safeguard such threatened fish as the once-common cod.
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By The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C.  Dec. 18--Hunters and fishermen can become highly motivated environmentalists when habitat for game is threatened.
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This week's rundown of fishing reports from around the region: Area A: Mackerel are biting in the inner harbors and islands, and are expected to pick up as the weather heats up. Bait fishing is open from Small Point to Boothbay, though the weather has led to mixed results because of cooler water temperatures. The same problem is keeping striper ...
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Amid warnings that global seafood stocks could dry up by 2048, the state acts to guard its waters.
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It's not a long season, there are plenty of restrictions and fishermen can't keep their catch.  But starting this morning, anglers will once more be angling for sea-run Atlantic salmon in Maine.
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The EU decided Wednesday to cut national fish catches for 2005, rejecting proposals to shut fishing grounds in favor of more limits on the time trawlers can hunt for depleted species like cod, officials said.
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By Kevin Howe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Jun. 9--Drift gill net fishing won't be allowed in a conservation area off the Pacific Coast this summer, the National Marine Fisheries Service has announced.
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By Bob Lamb, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Dec. 14--Ice fishing has been put on hold due to warm temperatures and treacherous ice conditions. Ice fishermen were out in full force through last weekend, but the recent warming trend has eroded ice.
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By Kerry Duke  RUSSELL SPRINGS  --  Les Frizzel, a local fishing guide who works out of the Alligator Dock No. 1 on Lake Cumberland, is optimistic about fishing in a lake that has been lowered by more than 40 feet. "It's going to help fishing," Frizzel said.
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SCOTLANDâS beleaguered white-fish fleet was last night facing another end-of-year battle for economic survival in the face of a European Commission demand for trawling to be outlawed in more than 10,000 square miles of the North Sea and west-coast waters
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Science & environment: Over-fishing and run-off from agricultural land has caused damage to reefs, says new study
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By Melissa Mcever, The Brownsville Herald, Texas  Feb. 9--Local anglers might have to cut their daily catches of spotted seatrout in half if new state regulations pass this year.
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By Martin Shipton  An end to offshore sand dredging could lead to quarrying in some of Wales's most beautiful landscapes, environmentalists have been warned.
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A legal battle brews over whether fishermen are trespassing when they fish in the flooded bottomlands.