For Bell, a good day of fishing totals seven to eight hours, starting before daylight and fishing to dark. Bell's inventory also includes a pond prowler with a trolling motor that's only for private ponds and two 14-footers -a flatbottom and an aluminum V-bottom. Bell said he sold his bass boat and now fishes leisurely in a 17-foot aluminum boat - one of four he owns - with a 90-horsepower Mercury motor. And fishing is a very peaceful sport. Bell likes the fact there are different levels...

Batches of seafood traded at the Shanghai fish market this week, for example, carried the tell-tale greenish tinge of malachite green, a disinfectant powder that has been banned in China for five years because it is a suspected carcinogen but is still commonly used. The fish are being raised, however, in a country whose waterways are an ongoing environmental problem, tainted by sewage, pesticides, heavy metals and other pollutants. But the extent to which they use traditional Chinese...

However, Franklin thinks it should, because, well, he thinks the menhaden is the most important fish in the sea. Just about every fish in the ocean feeds on menhaden, which makes them important to recreational anglers as well as commercial fishermen. The bait fish were menhaden, an oily creature that only other fish could love. Bait fish about 8 inches long were leaping from the water and jack crevalle 20 pounds and heavier were flying out of the water in hot pursuit. The problem, Franklin...

Even the Chinese government's own reports are damning, describing how industrial and urban sewage forces farmers to use chemicals to keep the fish alive. Farmers try to keep fish alive by using everything from traditional Chinese herbs to antibiotics, disinfectants and other chemicals -- some legal and many not. Americans turn to fish for a healthier diet -- only to find that imported fish and seafood are the subject of serious health concerns. Over the past several months the FDA...

Despite his best efforts -- he has dozens of employees clearing trash from the water each day, and the fish are fed sacks of fish meal more expensive than rice -- Zhu's fish sometimes get sick. The fish are being raised, however, in a country whose waterways are an ongoing problem, tainted by sewage, pesticides, heavy metals, and other pollutants. But the extent to which they use traditional Chinese medicine, which cannot be tested for as easily in the Western countries that import fish,...

Outdoors Netting rules tightened Bill gives state tools to keep tabs on commercial fishing Sunday, July 8, 2007 3:52 AM By Dave Golowenski For The Columbus Dispatch A buyout of the Lake Erie commercial fishing industry it was not, but a bill passed by the Ohio General Assembly in late June appears to have made lawbreaking by netters more difficult and potentially more costly. Outdoors Netting rules tightened Bill gives state tools to keep tabs on commercial fishing Sunday, July 8, 2007...