Fishermen
U.S. regulators decided Wednesday to allow American fishermen to harvest thousands of pounds of valuable baby eels in the coming years, even as authorities have shuttered the industry in Canada while they grapple with poaching. Baby eels, also called elvers, are harvested from rivers and streams by fishermen every spring. The tiny fish are sometimes […]
CORPUS CHRIST, Texas – The United States Coast Guard stopped three lanchas and seized 2,160 pounds of illegally caught fish off the southern Texas coast. Authorities found 13 fishermen from Mexico illegally fishing north of the Maritime Boundary Line, a press release said. The U.S. Coast Guard arrested the fishermen and seized 2,160 pounds of […]
Fishing regulators and the seafood industry are grappling with the possibility that some once-profitable species that have declined with climate change might not come back. Several marketable species harvested by U.S. fishermen are the subject of quota cuts, seasonal closures and other restrictions as populations have fallen and waters have warmed. In some instances, such […]
Nature never fails to surprise as US fishermen Justin Jordan and Terrell Maguire recently caught a rarely seen jet-black river beast in southeast Texas. Mr Jordan, a fishing guide in Texas, revealed that the creature they caught was a “very rare” melanistic alligator gar. He said that the fish was about 5-feet long, and is […]
The giant fish are rare and endangered. US fishermen Justin Jordan and Terrell Maguire recently caught a rarely seen jet-black river beast in southeast Texas. Speaking to Newsweek, Mr Jordan, a fishing guide in Texas, informed that the creature they caught was a “very rare” melanistic alligator gar. He said that the fish was about […]
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