Fish Catch Drops Sharply in China's Largest Freshwater Lake
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Nanchang, 15 September: Old fisherman Xu Wanggen never expected such a lean year.
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By Guan Xiaofeng  Huge algae outbreaks again pose a threat to drinking water supply from Taihu and Chaohu, two of China's major freshwater lakes.
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By Jayne Matthews, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Feb. 16--MARYVILLE -- The days of fishing with wild abandon in Maryville's Drost Park Lake are over. Now there are rules.
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BINHU, China, July 14 -- It was early morning when an odd noise awoke Tao Qunxian, a farmer in this village on the banks of Dongting Lake in Hunan province. He looked out his front door to see his entire rice paddy had disappeared overnight. The culprit was a seasonal pest: the eastern field mouse,...
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In a dramatic illustration of a broader regional crisis, a Turkish lake three times the size of Washington, D.C., has dried up in the past 15 years.
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China is the biggest producer and exporter of seafood in the world, but contaminated water has created serious food safety and environmental problems.
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Premier Wen Jiabao on Monday ordered a formal probe into the massive algae growth that smothered one of China's biggest lakes, drawing high-level attention to growing threats facing the country's water bodies.
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A leading environmental group called Friday for protection for the great white shark and humphead wrasse coral fish, whose numbers have plunged because of overfishing and China's growing appetite for exotic foods.
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KAILI, China  - Railways and highways were returning to normal across China on Tuesday, but millions are likely to spend the biggest holiday of the year without power and water in what for some is the coldest winter in a century.
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China's second largest freshwater lake tests clear of arsenide pollution    YUEYANG, Hunan Province, Sept.
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By John Weiss, Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.  May 31--GARRISON, Minn. -- Big Pine Lake looked unfriendly, unknown, unforgiving last weekend as I left the dock to fish for bass.   Strange.
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By Keith Rogers  By KEITH ROGERS  REVIEW-JOURNAL  Nevada wildlife officials have resumed stocking trout in Lake Mead and urban ponds following the invasive quagga mussel outbreak that has affected lakes Mead, Mohave and Havasu and the state's fish hatchery at Lake Mead.
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GUANGZHOU, China  - Millions of Chinese shivered through power cuts and water shortages on Wednesday and millions more were stranded by snow and ice ahead of what is for many their only family reunion of the year.
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Fishing ban to start on China's Yangtze River    WUHAN, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- A three-month fishing ban on the Yangtze River imposed by the Ministry of Agriculture will take effect this Thursday.
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By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN  SHANGHAI, China - Premier Wen Jiabao on Monday ordered a formal probe into the massive algae growth that smothered one of China's biggest lakes, drawing high-level attention to growing threats facing the country's water bodies.
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Fast-spreading, foul-smelling blue-green algae smothered a lake in eastern China, contaminating the drinking water for millions of people and sparking panic-buying of bottled water, state media said Thursday.
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The number of chinook salmon returning to California's Central Valley has reached a near-record low, pointing to an "unprecedented collapse" that could lead to severe restrictions on West Coast salmon fishing this year, according to federal fishery regulators.