Staff Reporter BAD weather has forced many fishermen to stay onshore for the past three days at a time when catch would have been considerably large, it is learnt. Some members of the fishing community said even if the wind speed died down, the sweltering conditions at sea might prevent them from venturing out too often in the coming days. Only technically perfect larger boats venture out in such conditions but even their operators prefer to stay off duties if the climatic conditions don t...

Fish farming in the summertime is probably the most stressful job you can have," Smelley said. Until recently, farmers were getting 80 cents a pound for fish. The biggest risk is the fish in the pond can come up into the shallow areas because of the low oxygen and the mechanical aeration doesnt do any good," Smelley said. I went out the other morning after a 2-inch rain and you could still stick your hand down in cracks in the ground up to your wrist," said Greensboro catfish farmer Bill...

I do not believe the rumours about non-halal fish, and we cannot know what fish eat anywhere in the world, they are the same," he said. Said Ammar, a 22-year-old who runs a fish stand, said he only sold carp from fish farms, but had nevertheless lost a lot of customers. Iraqi television and some newspapers claimed at the weekend that Islamic clerics had issued a "fatwa" or religious ruling declaring that fish from the Tigris were forbidden as they could have eaten victims of Iraq s civil...

They claim that stocks are being decimated after visiting boats were allowed to fish from three miles from island shores. This now leaves us at a great disadvantage and unable to compete and travel to new grounds as these larger vessels can search for fish. Surely its about time that our ministers followed the same course of action and supported our islands important industries as they were elected and promised to do. Crab grounds to the north of the island and waters for scallops to the...

Fishermen who illegally snag dolphins usually sell the meat to other boats that use it to haul up sharks, Globo TV said. As the dolphins were hauled from the sea and piled on the boat's deck, fishermen on board laughed after someone said, "Everyone's going to jail after this filming!" The video obtained by an Ibama researcher and broadcast by Globo TV showed the fishermen netting the dolphins, which suffocated because they could not surface to breathe. The researcher was contracted by the...

This time it is a battle of small-scale subsistence fishermen battling governments and industrial fishing companies to whom their traditional fishing rights have been given away. Late last year a fish war broke out in Italy when Italian boats surrounded and shot out portholes of a Croatian fishing vessel landing their catch at an Italian port. The armed assault was retribution for the Croatian government setting up a "no go" area for foreign vessels which tend to dwarf local subsistence...