All the warning signs are there: catch-limiting quotas, fishing ground closures, rising fuel costs, dropping fish prices and a public that to them seems all too willing to blame fishermen for the ocean's environmental woes. There's a market for their fish and there are camera-toting tourists coming around every day, so commercial fishermen know people are hungry both for the seafood and for the picturesque sights they provide. If the financial hurdles can be cleared or if you're going to...

Total fishing subsidies, including money for things like research and stock management, are estimated at $34 billion a year, a third of the value of the sector's overall sales. Any agreement on fisheries would be included in the WTO's long-stalled Doha free trade round, which is bogged down in differences over agricultural and industrial tariffs. Capacity-increasing subsidies, including government supports for ships, fuel, or fishing equipment, are believed to add up to about $20 billion a...

Career farmers from El Maton, the Hickls grow hay, beef cattle, and row crops aside from their 80-acre catfish pond production. Hickls honored by Chamber. Matagorda County's leading news source since 1845. More than 100 elected officials, guests and members of the Bay City Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture were present to honor the 2007 Aquaculture Producers of the Year Pat and Cheryl Hickl at the Aquaculture Seafood Social, Thursday night. Log in here to get the whole story:

It s more of a mining activity than a fish harvest paradigm. The latter jumped to the forefront last week when DNR conservation officers working as undercover fishermen broke up an illegal paddlefish caviar ring along the Ohio River. James is the chief fisheries biologist for the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, and in recent weeks a lot of his work and the work of his field staff has involved walleye eggs, muskie eggs and paddlefish eggs. There have been at least five federal...

The region is still highly populated by the Sami community, an indigenous people whose main income derives from reindeer farming: it's thought they own 100,000 reindeer in the area. Pistes are ungroomed throughout the year - wind is the piste-shaper here - and the slopes are constantly metamorphosing according to wind direction and speed. The Ice Hotel, 94 miles away, has now melted and won't reopen until late autumn, but the residents of Riksgr nsen are still pushing their boots into...

Department of Agriculture's budget is half of 1 percent of the national budget, and 43 percent of the farm bill is agriculture - the remainder is school food and other food programs. Tinsley suggested producers may want to be careful about improving habitats in case the act may cost them farming ground in the future. One example is a farmer who through National Resource Conservation Service installed a guzzler, or a device to gather humidity and rain to create a drinking hole for the...