Should cod fishing be prohibited?
The International Council for Marine Affairs is saying that cod fishing should be prohibited. The cod population in the North Sea has never before been so low then recorded recently. The breeding population is so small that it may collapse at any time, according to researchers working for the council. They also feel that whiting [...]
Fishing of endangered species
All available evidence suggests that current levels of catch and by-catch by local and industrial vessels is degrading and depleting fisheries stocks. In addition, there is a scandalous history of poaching by industrial vessels even in offshore territorial waters. What is, therefore, needed is a complete ban on the operation of industrial fishing vessels, regardless [...]
Fishing in Thailand
Can anybody tell me where I can find information on fishing in Thailand. I know very little about fishing, I only ever go fishing when on holiday and pick-up what I can from my wife’s brother. I do reasonably well when reef fishing from a boat but I gather you need to go a long [...]
Children going for fishing
When my parents finally divorced, my mother and brother moved from San Francisco to a mute and miniscule town in south-eastern Vermont. Within months, my twenty-nine year old mother began dating an enormous carpenter with an unbelievable appetite, a care-free disregard for responsibility and money, biceps the size of tree stumps, and an extremely slow, [...]
Move to ban deep sea fishing
Prohibit drag-net fishing now. Draggers destroyed the ecology of the Grand Banks, not over-fishing. It is a bad technology that was introduced because it was more convenient for the banks to make loans to big companies. How many crops do you figure a Sask. wheat farmer would get using a buldozer to harvest wheat? How [...]
Fishing for recreation
I use my MTB to fish also, have for five years now. The only time I do is up in northern Michigan, flyfishing for trout; I’ve never tried it around home. I wear my fishing tackle (flyfishing vest), put the rod in its case w/sling across my back, and carry my fish in a creel [...]
A Fishing Song
There’s an old song about the eternal struggle between the sexes that goes: My baby’s going fishing all the time, I’m going fishing too Bet you sweet life your loving wife will catch more fish than you Any fish bite if you got good bait Here’s a little something that I’d like to relate Any [...]
Fishing Licenses in NJ
Anyone age 14 and older must have a valid license to fish the fresh waters of New Jersey with handline, rod and line, or longbow and arrow. This includes privately owned lakes and other waters. Licenses may be obtained from most county or municipal clerks or other designated agents (certain sporting goods stores) A fishing [...]
Fishing: Impact on ecology and livelihood
The revised deep sea fishing policy is a carryover from the Sharif government. In that policy, small-scale fishing will lose its reserved area, so that industrial fishing can be given access to the entire 12- 200 miles of the EEZ. The number of maximum licenses is nearly doubled from 70 to 120 industrial vessels. Major [...]
Upgrading fishing equipments
Our fisherfolk are very adversely affected by industrial fishing. Even when such vessels remain beyond the restricted zone, industrial vessels harvest enormous levels of fish that swim back and forth between nearby and distant waters. Fisherfolk then harvest decreased catch of high value export fish. The manifold discard of by-catch by the industrial vessels deprives [...]
Pirate fishing boats
A Mauritius inspection team has found about 170 tonnes of toothfish onboard the pirate fishing vessel that Greenpeace caught fishing in the Southern Ocean. It appears that the team’s findings will show irregularities regarding the Salvora’s log book and the fishing areas it claimed to be fishing. Mauritius is yet to release the report from [...]
Alaska Sen. Yields on Fishing Rights
A compromise was reached Friday on the last environmental fight between the White House and the 106th Congress – this one over fishing and the protection of the endangered Steller sea lion. Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, had insisted that a final budget package block new fishing restrictions aimed at protecting the huge mammal, whose numbers [...]
