[04 Aug 2010]
A transparent sea cucumber, found at 2,750 meters in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. The Census of Marine Life estimates 230,000 species of animals in the world's oceans. Photograph: Larry Madin/Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution/Census of Marine Life
[04 Aug 2010]
Yorkshire Water has paid over £20,000 in compensation to two Yorkshire fishing clubs following a series of sewage pollutions in 2006
[04 Aug 2010]
Britain's fishing industry cannot cope with demand, a report has said.
The UK's fish supplies only last for seven months of the year, the research by independent think-tank nef (the new economics foundation) and OCEAN2012 found.
[02 Aug 2010]
Features | Published in TES Magazine on 30 July, 2010
Fishing may seem an unlikely sport for teenagers, but it’s hooking those who aren’t engaged with conventional PE, have low self-esteem and struggle to concentrate, as Diana Hinds reports
[02 Aug 2010]
Five weeks ago local angler Bradley Parkes, Chairman of the youth angling group based at Carney Pools, Stafford entered a national competition promoted by the Go Fishing Show to find a UK Angling Ambassador.
[02 Aug 2010]
WHALES are suffering ¬agonising deaths in Scottish waters because they are being lassoed by vast fishing ropes.
A new report has found that half of all stranding deaths of the country’s most common whale are caused by the 4,500 miles of creel lines laid around the coastline.
[27 Jul 2010]
The Angling Trust has learnt that DEFRA and the Environment Agency (EA) last year accidentally abolished the law which created an offence of fishing in the close season. This will lead to poachers and illegal anglers caught in this spring’s coarse fishing close season getting away with lesser offences when their cases go to court
[27 Jul 2010]
For those of you who were around at 7am on Saturday 17th July 2010, you would have heard Dr Bruno Broughton, Angling Trades Association CEO, announce the start of National Fishing Month in an interview on BBC Radio Five Live, where he talked about the initiative, how much fun fishing can be and why people love the sport.
[26 Jul 2010]
In 2008 measures were introduced to protect tope, a vulnerable European continental-shelf and coastal shark species. Tope do not mature until they are around 12 years old and then produce a relatively low number of pups compared with other marine species (20 every 2-3 years), making them very vulnerable to fishing pressure.
[21 Jul 2010]
Five US states have sued the federal government and Chicago's water authority seeking action to stop Asian carp invading the Great Lakes.