Halibut freed in fish farm raid
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Police investigate a break-in at a Scottish fish farm which results in a large number of halibut being freed.
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A French national jailed in Iran for more than a year for straying into territorial waters during a fishing expedition was released on Sunday, French diplomats said.
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The head of the World Food Programme in Somalia, detained on Wednesday for investigation, is set free.
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Federal authorities along the West Coast have seized in recent weeks more than 600,000 pounds of suspected illegal Chilean sea bass, a &#36;10 million haul that environmentalists say reflects a thriving black market trade in the delicate, tasty fish.
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The Egyptian fishermen arraigned in Court accused of illegal fishing in Maltese territorial waters were yesterday discharged of the accusations brought against them.
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Seven oil workers who were kidnapped from an offshore oil field in the Niger Delta were released Monday after two days in captivity, police said.
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POACHING gangs will be targeted by police and water bailiffs in a new crackdown.  Operation Salmo, launched yesterday, is aimed at protecting Scotland's pounds 75million salmon fishing industry by netting poachers who pocket up to pounds 150 a fish.
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Â·  Animals on second Suffolk farm infected Â·  Restrictions on livestock movement eased
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Scientists apparently freed a young whale from more than 150 feet of lobster-fishing gear Friday after riding alongside the animal on a Coast Guard cutter for nearly 24 hours.
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Scientists apparently freed a young whale from more than 150 feet of lobster fishing gear Friday after riding alongside the animal on a Coast Guard cutter for nearly 24 hours.
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KUALA LUMPUR: The three people warded at the Kota Baru Hospital on Thursday are confirmed to be free from bird flu. Health Minister Datuk Dr Chua Soi Lek said tests conducted by Institute of Medical Research
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A Filipino oil worker kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Nigeria last month has been freed unharmed, the foreign ministry in Manila said Friday.
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Farmers and other locals were chasing  thousands of minks let out of their cages at a fur farm in  western Finland early on Friday by suspected animal rights  activists.
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By JOHN ROSS  THE number of salmon escaping from Scottish fish farms has halved in the past four years, an industry body will be told today.   The number of escapes has fallen from 310,000 in 2002, when statutory reporting began, to 157,000 in 2006.
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Cooked turkey products were exported from a factory on a Suffolk farm after bird flu was discovered.
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A crackdown on the poaching of rare abalone and sturgeon nabbed 17 suspects Thursday in what state officials called one of the largest such busts in California history.
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Israeli forces concluded a four-day operation in the West Bank city of Nablus yesterday, capturing a senior Hamas commander who Israeli military officials said was the leader of a cell that was preparing a suicide bombing in Israel during the religious holiday.