No-go fishing areas only hope, say scientists
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Vast fishing no-go zones are needed to save the world&#39;s marine ecosystems from irreparable harm, say British scientists. After climate change, scientists consider the wrecking
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Fishing is steady although the number of anglers going out has been down somewhat. Walleye can still be taken most anywhere, but you have to work for it.  Dropping water levels have led to unusable ramps.
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Scientists in 17 countries will scout waterways to locate and study the world's largest freshwater fish species, many of which are declining in numbers, hoping to learn how to better protect them, researchers announced Thursday.
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By DAVID GREENWOOD  CONSERVATIONISTS are celebrating the end of a major operation to save rare fish found only in a North Wales lake from the jaws of its arch enemy.
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By GRAEME SMITH  ROSS Finnie, the Fisheries Minister, has pledged he will resist any European Commission proposals on the restrictions on next year's catches which are not based on sound science and do not ref lect the realities of the Scottish fishing industry.
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British seabirds have had their worst breeding season ever with industrial fishing a key problem, scientists say.
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By Lew Freedman, Chicago Tribune  Jun. 17--EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. -- It's a terrible thing when you have a one-track mind, as so many fishermen do. Here I was in northwest Arkansas and all I could think about was hybrid stripers on Beaver Lake.
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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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A Royal Commission warns species are at risk unless steps are taken to close up to a third of UK fishing grounds.
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A plan to create fish refuges off the South Carolina coast sparked a clash between fishermen and conservationists.
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Fuel subsidies that allow trawlers to "plunder" vulnerable fish stocks should be scrapped, claim leading scientists.
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Regional fisheries managers put off for the future consideration of more localized rules as a way to increase fish populations. More than just being included in consideration of alternatives to current fishing rules, area management - as the more localized approach is called - needs to be tried.
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Cod stocks in Europe's northern waters are on the verge of extinction, scientists said on Monday, calling for a blanket ban on fishing in 2005.
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British fishing grounds are to be remain open under a European deal agreed in Brussels . The areas in the North Sea , West of Scotland, and Irish Sea cod fishing grounds were threatened with closure to conserve stocks.
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A total ban on North Sea cod fishing is called for by a group of marine scientists ahead of EU fisheries talks.
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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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Marine researchers are hoping to prevent tides of destructive algae from killing fish and fouling beaches through early detection of the microscopic organisms.