Fishing Reports News

£1m Fishing Package Paid For Final Time
By Philip Bradfield
Saturday 26th February 2005
Almost £1 million of subsidies has been announced for Ulster fishermen confined to harbours for conservation reasons this year - but it will be the last year they will be compensated for nearly three months of annual restrictions.
DUP MEP Jim Allister and Alan McCullaof [...]

Britannia ruins the waves: how pollution and over-fishing are …
Independent - UK
Britannia ruins the waves: how pollution and over-fishing are destroying sea life
Fish are changing sex. Species are disappearing as breeding patterns collapse. The food chain is in chaos as temperatures rise, says the first ever major audit of the state of our seas. Severin [...]

OSLO, Norway (AP) - Unlike many fishermen, Harald Skoge didn’t have to exaggerate the size of his latest catch. The 146-kilogram halibut was too big for his nearly nine-metre-long boat.
Skoge, who fishes as a hobby, was trying his luck off western Norway with a simple hook and line Wednesday when he thought something had [...]

Seventh corpse found inside “Siempre Casina” fishing boat
EITB - Euskadi,Spain
Seventh corpse found inside “Siempre Casina” fishing boat
The funeral for the victims will take place tomorrow at 12.00 p.m. in the church of Burela, a town of Galicia. There will be three mourning days.
Divers have found inside “Siempre Casina” boat the seventh corpse of the sailors [...]

Technological Revolutions In Sensors, Robotics, And Telecommunications Allow New Views Of Ocean
Washington DC – Scientists can now visualize the ocean floor in remote areas of the Arctic, observe rockfish hideouts, and see live images of coral cities thousands of meters under the sea’s surface. Soon their robots will be able to “live” on the bottom [...]