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News Articles: fishing

Seth Silverstein and Robert Turybury pose next to a goliath grouper that Turybury caught along the beach of St. Simons Island on June 7.

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Stories that stopped your scroll: The top videos of 2025 from GPB News

As 2025 nears its end, GPB News is looking back at the video stories that captured attention and kept our audience engaged amongst the online news cycle.

December 26, 2025
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  • GPB News Staff
Hands holding a small Altamaha bass.

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Researchers discover two new species of bass in Georgia

Researchers in Georgia and South Carolina have identified two new species of bass, previously mistaken for the more common redeye bass living in the South.

September 02, 2025
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  • Chase McGee
Alice Akinyi (left, hand on hip) and Justine Adhiambo Obura, members of the No Sex For Fish group, stand next to Alice's fishing boat at Nduru Beach. It's one of the few boats that have weathered the storms and floods that have beset the area since 2020.

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  • Global Health

Whatever happened to the women in the 'No Sex for Fish' group?

NPR first wrote about the group "No Sex for Fish" in 2019 — Kenyan women out to end the practice of trading sex to a fisherman in exchange for his catch to sell. Since then they're faced tribulations.

August 28, 2025
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  • Viola Kosome
The suspect was throwing an antique crank telephone into a Georgia creek to electrocute fish, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources reports. A specific location for the incident was not revealed. Street View image from Feb. 2024. © 2025 Google

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Angler used antique phone to catch fish, and that’s illegal, Georgia cops say

Illegal fishing reached a new level in rural Georgia when a man used an antique crank phone to electrocute fish, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

August 20, 2025
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  • Mark Rice and
  • The Ledger Enquirer
Seth Silverstein and Robert Turybury pose next to a goliath grouper that Turybury caught along the beach of St. Simons Island on June 7.

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  • Animals

Georgia angler catches 400-pound goliath grouper off St. Simons Island

The federally protected goliath grouper is the largest grouper species in the Atlantic Ocean.

July 07, 2025
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  • Benjamin Payne
Wire mesh cages containing oyster shells and pine straw are designed to help rebuild oyster reefs along Teakettle Creek in McIntosh County.

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  • Environment

Georgia DNR tests new oyster restoration technique near Sapelo Island

Oyster shells are sourced from Atlanta restaurants, among other partners, and require a monthslong curing period in the sun to eliminate bacteria.

June 05, 2025
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  • Benjamin Payne
Vezo 'ocean monitors' dive on a coral reef in Madagascar's Barren Isles. The data they collect is used to evaluate ocean health and improve conservation decisions.

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  • Global Health

Photos: Fishermen, known as 'Sea Nomads,' dive to protect ocean life in Madagascar

They make their living off the sea, but their catch is dwindling. So these traditional fisherfolk are taking steps to preserve both sea life — and their livelihood.

December 26, 2024
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  • Julie Bourdin and
  • Sira Thierij
Bull trout and Westslope Cutthroat Trout are among the native fish species in Western Montana that are prized by anglers  and threatened by warming waters.

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Too hot for trout: Why some anglers are rethinking their approach to fly fishing

As Western Montana's blue-ribbon trout waters warm due to climate change, anglers are increasingly wrestling with the ethics of their sport.

September 01, 2024
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  • Nathan Rott
Shoal bass fish.

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  • Politics

Anglers and paddlers closely watch bill intended to make some streambeds off limits in Georgia

Conservationists and environmental groups are sounding the alarm over a measure that they say will unravel the protections for fishing and hunting in Georgia that were fast-tracked last session.

March 26, 2024
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  • Jill Nolin
 Paddling groups have raised concerns that a new proposal could greatly curtail Georgians’ ability to paddle and explore some of the state’s premiere paddling destinations like South Chickamauga Creek in North Georgia. Photo courtesy of Georgia River Network

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  • News

Georgia House approves bill to allow property owners to restrict access to state’s smaller waterways

The House has signed off on a controversial measure that opponents say will limit the public’s ability to float and paddle on Georgia’s smaller waterways.

February 27, 2024
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  • Jill Nolin
fish

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  • Animals

Unusual haul of fish illegally caught in Georgia given to family in need, officials say

An unusual wildlife seizure didn’t go to waste when Georgia wildlife officials gave the catch to a local family in need.

December 12, 2023
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  • Makiya Seminera
Boat

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Georgia lawmakers to tackle fishing rights issue

Georgia lawmakers passed legislation on the last day of this year’s General Assembly session guaranteeing Georgians the right to fish in navigable portions of the state’s rivers and streams.

September 25, 2023
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  • Dave Williams
Students from the Yupiit School District learn how to prepare freshly caught salmon.

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  • Education

An Alaska district aligns its school year with traditional subsistence harvests

Three Alaska Native Villages have changed their school calendar so that students now can take part in things like the fall moose hunt and the spring migratory bird harvest.

August 30, 2023
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  • Evan Erickson
Researchers found that plastic debris sits atop almost 92% of the reefs they studied, including some of the most remote and uninhabited ones. Here in Oman, plastic floats past an otherwise healthy reef.

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  • Environment

Plastic is suffocating coral reefs — and it's not just bottles and bags

A new study takes a comprehensive look at the plastic debris smothering reefs, where in the ocean it's more prevalent — and how to deal with the problem.

July 13, 2023
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
Public right to fish saved in final seconds of General Assembly session

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  • News

Public right to fish saved in final seconds of General Assembly session

Georgians’ right to fish in navigable portions of the state’s rivers and streams was safeguarded in the final seconds of this year’s legislative session.

April 14, 2023
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  • Dave Williams
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