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News Articles: fishing

A cannonball jellyfish is shown washed up along a sandy shore.

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Jellyfish for dinner? It's all about the proteins

A University of Georgia researcher is looking at ways to use jellyfish proteins as a food ingredient.

February 02, 2023
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By:
  • Orlando Montoya
A riverside fisherman pulls a captured pirarucu into his canoe in Lake Amanã on Nov. 15.

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  • Latin America

Rare good news from the Amazon: Gigantic fish are thriving again

Conservationists say a sustainable fishing program has helped the recovery of the local pirarucu — which can be up to 10-feet long and weigh 450 pounds.

December 07, 2022
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By:
  • John Otis
Jacob Runyan (left) and Chase Cominsky pleaded not guilty to cheating and other felonies Wednesday, related to a lucrative fishing tournament on Lake Erie where they were accused of stuffing five walleye fish with lead weights and fish filets.

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  • National

Walleye fishermen plead not guilty in cheating scandal

Fishermen Jacob Runyan and Chase Cominsky are accused of packing weights into fish at an Ohio tournament where nearly $30,000 was on the line.

October 26, 2022
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
Authorities seized Chase Cominsky's fishing boat and trailer as a tool of crime, after he and his fishing partner were indicted on charges of cheating in a fishing tournament.

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  • Sports

Fishermen face felony charges over a cheating scandal at an Ohio tournament

A grand jury indicted the fishing team on charges of cheating, attempted grand theft and possessing criminal tools. They had stood to win nearly $30,000.

October 14, 2022
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
Justine Adhiambo Obura with one of the "No Sex for Fish" boats at Nduru beach. She is the chairperson of the cooperative that came up with a radical idea in a community where fishermen often demanded transactional sex before giving a supply of fish to a woman to sell: What if women had their own boats and hired men to fish for them?

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  • Global Health

Whatever happened to the 'No Sex for Fish' women after the flood? Hint: It's 'amazing'

That's what a charity worker said of their latest plan. The Kenyan fishmongers got their own boats to escape pressure to trade sex for fish to sell. Then floods wiped them out. Now there's new hope.

September 11, 2022
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By:
  • Viola Kosome,
  • Rebecca Davis,
  • and 1 more
Researchers estimate there are only about 10 vaquita porpoises still living in Mexico's Gulf of California.

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  • Animals

Scientists say endangered porpoise isn't doomed — so long as humans stop killing them

Fishing in the Gulf of California has nearly wiped out the vaquita marina. But a new genetic analysis offers hope for the engandered porpoise: the species can make a comeback, if humans protect it.

May 05, 2022
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By:
  • Kendal Blust
This undated photo shows the Spanish 'Villa de Pitanxo' fishing boat, which sank off Newfoundland on Tuesday. Search operations were ongoing to locate other members of the 24-person crew.

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  • World

7 are dead and 14 missing after a Spanish fishing boat sinks off Newfoundland

Three crew members including the vessel's captain were rescued. The Canadian air force and coast guard and other Spanish fishing vessels are searching the area.

February 15, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A meeting of the table banking group at the home of a member. The photo is from 2019, when No Sex for Fish (and the village) were thriving.

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  • Global Health

Whatever Happened To ... The Women Who Boldly Declared: 'No Sex For Fish'?

Women in a Kenyan village had a radical idea to stop the practice of trading sex for fish to sell: What if they owned their own boats? They had great success. Then came a series of terrible setbacks.

September 19, 2021
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By:
  • Viola Kosome and
  • Marc Silver
fisherman on a boat

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  • Sports

Georgia To Offer A Pair Of Free Fishing Days This Month

Georgians can fish without a license on June 5 and 12 in honor of National Fishing and Boating Week.

June 01, 2021
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By:
  • Emily Jones
A pro-EU demonstrator sets up banners outside a London conference center, where trade talks were being held on Dec. 4.

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  • Europe

'Time To Leave Brexit Behind': EU And U.K. Agree To Last-Minute Trade Deal

The agreement comes a week before the Brexit transition period ends. The pact averts a worst-case divorce that would have hurt the EU economy but damaged the British economy even more.

December 24, 2020
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By:
  • Frank Langfitt
Alice Amonde sits on a boat on the village of Nduru Beach, Kenya. She is part of the group of women who have fought against the practice of transactional sex that was part of the fishing business. This photograph was taken in November 2019. This spring, flooding from Lake Victoria devastated the village.

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  • Global Health

Life Was Improving For 'No Sex For Fish.' Then Came The Flood

In a Kenyan fishing village along Lake Victoria, women fought the practice of fishermen demanding sex in exchange for a catch of fish to sell. They were making progress. Then came the floods of 2020.

November 01, 2020
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By:
  • Viola Kosome ,
  • Rebecca Davis,
  • and 1 more
A badly injured and emaciated right whale swims off the coast of Jekyll Island in 2018. Injuries from ship strikes and fishing lines cause most right whale deaths.

6 Deaths Bring Right Whales Closer To Extinction

Six endangered North Atlantic right whales have died in June, four of them this week. This brings Georgia's state marine mammal even closer to extinction.

June 28, 2019
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By:
  • Emily Jones
Fishing isn't just a way to make a living for many along the Georgia coast; it's also a way of life.

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  • Animals

Oral History Project Documents Traditions, Future Of Commercial Fishing in Georgia

For generations, the Georgia coast has been home to folks who have made their living on the water. A new oral history project aims to trace the...

February 12, 2019
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By:
  • Elena Rivera and
  • Virginia Prescott

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