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Environmentalists Criticize New Fishing Rules
Radio Free Europe - Prague,Czech Republic
EU: Environmentalists Criticize New Fishing Rules
By Jan Jun
Environmentalists are up in arms following a European Union ruling last week that rejected a proposed ban on commercial deep-sea fishing in the North Sea. Fishermen welcomed the ruling, saying it would help them after years of economic hard [...]

China Detains 80 Vietnamese For Illegal Fishing
Planet Ark - New York,NY,USA
BEIJING - China is holding nine Vietnamese fishing boats and their crew of 80 in the southern island province of Hainan on suspicion of illegally entering Chinese waters, the China Daily said on Tuesday.
Fishing rights have long been caught up in territorial disputes between [...]

Bering Sea fishing banned
Ireland Online - Dublin,Ireland
Alaska regulators have banned commercial fishing in the Bering Sea near the wreckage of a grounded freighter where fuel oil has been seeping since early this month.
The waters closed by the Division of Commercial Fisheries stretch from Spray Cape to Cape Kovrizhka along the western side of Unalaska Island, [...]

Missouri Approves Fishing With Bare Hands
Kansas City Star (subscription) - Kansas City,MO,USA
COLUMBIA, Mo. - Next summer, it will be legal to plunge into some Missouri rivers and grab catfish by hand - a type of fishing that is not for the faint of heart.
Known variously as noodling or hogging, handfishing has long been a misdemeanor [...]

Pacific fishing industry proposes limits
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
Anchorage, AK, Dec. 28 (UPI) — Pollock fishermen off Alaska have proposed reducing their catch to address the growing problem of catching salmon in addition to their targeted species.
Fishermen in the region catch nearly 4 billion pounds of pollock, cod and other fish each year, but also [...]