Fishermen survive months at sea eating birds
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Three Mexican fishermen have been rescued after drifting for about nine months across thousands of miles of the Pacific Ocean in a small boat, an ordeal they survived by eating raw birds and fish and drinking rain water.
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Overfishing by subsidized European fleets off the coast of West Africa is hurting local fisheries and forcing people to slaughter wildlife to get enough to eat, researchers said on Thursday.
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Fishermen are told they cannot use bird scarers to stop ducks eating their mussels in The Wash.
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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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Cod, once a staple of the British diet, could be fished close to extinction, environmentalists warned yesterday. They said a deal keeping North Sea fishing grounds open to trawlers was &quot;scandalous&quot;.
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Hundreds of dead seabirds that washed up along the Southeast coast in recent weeks apparently starved to death, but experts don't know why.
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Tomohisa Nagaoka owes a lot to whales, having killed thousands during a long career as a whaler, but he has traded his harpoon for binoculars, convinced many Japanese would rather watch than eat them.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 21--It's easy to sympathize with fishermen on Hatteras Island and elsewhere along the North Carolina coast who lament a pending rule that would limit catches of snowy grouper, a lucrative fish, and a few other species.
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Fishermen say they are seeing more herring returning to the Gulf of Maine, where a ban on trawlers that drag nets through the water has been in effect through the summer.
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By Steve Connor  Marine biologists have called on the fishing nations of the world to end government subsidies of fishing fleets that are plundering the deep seas and permanently stripping the ocean floor of its unique lifeforms.
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All those recreational anglers who dangle bait off US coasts are catching a much bigger share of fish -- especially some threatened species -- than commonly thought, researchers report in a new study.
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By Ray Sasser, The Dallas Morning News  Feb. 11--COSALA, Mexico -- Like all fishermen, the osprey perched atop a lofty saguaro cactus did not appreciate being crowded. Ron Speed's fishing boat interrupted the fish eagle's breakfast.
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RODRIGUES, Mauritius  - Louis Emanuel has been fishing off his tiny Indian Ocean island home for 23 years.
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ST. LOUIS, Senegal -- A fishing boat crowded with more than 100 African migrants capsized at least twice while sailing to Spain's Canary Islands, spilling passengers and leaving scores dead as survivors drifted for about 10 days without food or water, officials said yesterday .
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Albatross looking for a free meal on the high seas often pay the price of being killed or injured going after baited hooks.
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With declining catches close to shore, commercial fishing is turning to deeper waters, threatening species that live in the cold and gloom of the deep oceans, according to researchers.
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To marine biologists, âplasticsâ is a dirty word. Fish and birds can eat or become tangled in fishing gear or other plastic flotsam.