A fishing village of 5,000 is no more
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BAN NAMKHEM, Thailand -- This fishing village north of Thailand's Khao Lak beach no longer exists. Maitri Sayput, 47, thinks she is one of its few survivors.
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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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Rollie Vonlinger looked sadly across Lake Cumberland at some of the fishing spots he has hit over the past 30 years. It is going to be hard to get to some of those spots from now on, because the boat ramp he normally uses no longer reaches the water.
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By Jaswinder Kaur  KINABATANGAN: An eco-tourism project launched five years ago in Kampung Sukau is helping villagers in more ways than one.  It has put food on the table for some 600 villagers who realised that farming and fishing were not enough to make ends meet.
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Chicago Tribune - Even if the fury of the tsunami hadn't shredded their nets and crushed their boats, many of the men in this village of fishermen vow they will never return to the sea.
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A protest by French fishermen which blocked the port of Calais leaving ferry passengers stranded comes to an end.
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MIAMI - By the time spear fisherman Ignacio Siberio realized his boat had drifted away in the chilly waters off the Florida Keys, it was too late to signal for help.
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Centuries-old traditions in Gambell, a village of 700, have been slipping away, as one of the most remote villages on earth finally contends with the modern world.
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A fishing town has banned the sport of conger cuddling after an animal activist complained.
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Sarah and Tom Huston worry their days of leisurely casting fishing lines off a shaded dock in Roosevelt Lake are numbered. The Arizona lake, about 110 miles northeast of Phoenix, is now just 30 percent full, local rangers say.
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BAN NAMKHEM, Thailand  - As a clean up operation  finally gets into gear in this devastated Thai fishing village,  some of the survivors complain that the authorities gave  priority to foreign tourists rather than them.
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A once-nomadic tribe of hunters and fishermen living in the frigid channels near the bottom of the world is nearing extinction.
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Five thousand of the world's rarest animals were found by fishermen in a known smuggling area adrift in an abandoned boat near China's coast.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Among the legions of traumatized Sri Lankan fishermen whose lives were ravaged by the tsunami are many who are not sure they can go back to the simple lives they and their families once led by the sea.
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Around a fifth of the North Sea would be closed to fishing next year under European Commission plans for an unprecedented ban to help rescue cod stocks from collapse.
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By Dylan T. Lovan  JAMESTOWN, Ky. - Rollie Vonlinger looked sadly across Lake Cumberland at some of the fishing spots he has hit over the past 30 years. It is going to be hard to get to some of those spots from now on, because the boat ramp he normally uses no longer reaches the water.
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By TODD RICHMOND LAKE DELTON, Wis. - In a wooded ravine tucked away from the water parks, restaurants and mega-resorts that dominate this tourist town, a piece of history is quietly dying.