TOKYO, July 15 (UPI) -- About 200,000 Japanese squid and mackerel fishing boats stayed ashore Tuesday as fishermen sought to draw attention to the high cost of fuel.
SOLDOTNA, Alaska, June 27 (UPI) -- An Alaska fishing guide competing in the Seward Halibut Tournament has landed a monster, a halibut 7-feet, 4-inches long weighing 319.6 pounds.
ISTANBUL, Turkey, May 30 (UPI) -- Lifting an anchovy fishing ban in Georgian waters caused fisherman to flock to the area, glutting the market, the Turkish government said.
WARSAW, Poland, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Brussels officials said they might reduce Poland's 2008 catch quota to zero as 18 Polish vessels defy a ban on cod fishing in the eastern Baltic Sea.
HOMER, Alaska, June 29 (UPI) -- Just three days after a man caught a 340.6-pound halibut to take the lead in Alaska's Homer Jackpot Halibut Derby, another monster fish has displaced him.
BRUSSELS, May 9 (UPI) -- Britain's fisheries minister Ben Bradshaw is calling on the European Union to ban fishing for bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean Sea.
JUNEAU, Alaska, May 8 (UPI) -- A recent test of a halibut excluder device on trawl nets fishing for Pacific cod in the Gulf of Alaska showed significant reductions of halibut bycatch.
OTTAWA, April 6 (UPI) -- The Canadian Fisheries Department has declared an ice delay for the start of the controversial spring seal hunt.
ANCHORAGE, March 10 (UPI) -- The halibut season opened in Alaska Saturday and fishermen racing to get the first fish to market said prices were likely to be high.
VICTORIA, British Columbia, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- A recent decision by an international panel to limit the amount of fish caught per day by the Alaskan halibut charter fleet may stunt the business' growth.
ANDALSNES, Norway, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- A German doctor enjoying a fishing vacation in Norway snagged a monster from the depths, a halibut weighing more than 300 pounds. The fish was so big that Dr. Andy Borsch spent four hours maneuvering it into his boat, Norwegian Broadcasting Corp. reported
SAN FRANCISO, Calif., April 25 (UPI) -- Fishermen staged a rally at San Francisco's Fishermen's Wharf to protest a likely cut or closure of the salmon season because of poor stock.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- A Senate spat over relaxed fishing quotas could hold up renewal of the 1976 Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Congress has approved a program intended to reduce the number of commercial fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico, the St. Petersburg Times reported Wednesday.
TROMSO, Panama, July 30 (UPI) -- A fisherman in northern Norway has set a new record for halibut, catching a fish so large it had to be moved with a forklift.
