Sad old man of the sea lives off memories of his famous friend
Hemingway and his fishing mate were as brothers, David Sharrock writes from Cojimar, Cuba. Gregorio Fuentes is 104 years old and laments that he can no longer stroll down the hill from his little bungalow to the restaurant where he and Ernest Hemingway used to eat a little fish and drink a lot of whisky.

The Herald, London

Study: Great white sharks are world travelers
The great white shark, immortalized as one of the world's most awesome predators in the movie "Jaws," has long been considered a relative homebody -- hunting in a narrow band of coastal waters and rarely venturing far from shore.

CNN.Com/Sci-Tech (Reuters)

Blomvåg sea fishing festivals results
Fishbooking.com has the great pleasure to be invited to cover the Blomvåg Havfiskefestival 2002. Skot had been given a tough task but managed to list the results for the two-day festival.
Keep you eye on Skot’s Outpost for the full details of the entire event.

Mixed reactions to the new cod smelt figures
Research as just been completed on the number of new cod and herring smelt that are entering the North Sea. The good news is the number of new cod in the system has increased over the previous two years.

Summit strikes deal on fisheries
Delegates at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg have reached agreement on ways to tackle the world's fisheries crisis.

Southerner landed a 80 kilo Halibut.
It was the most exciting day of this fisherman life. For many years he had dreamed about catching a dream fish. More importantly his dream was catching a big halibut.

400 kilo shark caught in southern Norway
Four buddies were out on the sea for a days fishing but what awaited them was a shock to say the least. Tore Jan Skeie was the most shocked of all. What he thought to be a halibut turn out be a 300 to 400 kilo shark.

Norways sea fishing champ.
Henrik Dahlstrøm (18) from Rolvsøy has been crowned the nations best junior sea fisherman. His results speak for them selves, over 50 kilos of fish in one day was enough to clinch the title.

Norwegian trawlers are destroying salmon population’s
One third of all salmon that leave the British islands are killed by the Norwegian and Russian mackerel trawlers. This has been claimed by Scottish and Norwegian researchers. They have discovered that most of the young fish that travel North towards West Greenland end up in the trawler nets.

Europe's fleets 'waste Africa's fish'
Campaigners say European Union (EU) boats are wasting West Africa's rich fishing resources by discarding most of their catch.
They say what is happening proves that developing countries should keep their fish to themselves.
They base their claims on a study of the problems of coastal fishermen in Senegal.
The study, by the Television Trust for the Environment (TVE), is the basis of the first film in the Trust's new Earth Report series, shown on BBC World.
Foreign boats have been fishing in Senegalese waters for more than 20 years, catching huge quantities of shrimp, tuna and now sardines.

Fish 'massacre' in North Atlantic
current over-fishing continues in the North Atlantic, trawlers could soon be left chasing jellyfish and even plankton to make "fake" fish products.
The claim comes from scientists who have just completed the first comprehensive assessment of fish stocks in the North Atlantic Ocean.

Shark victim dies in mate's arms
A SCALLOP diver who was savaged by a shark died in his mate's arms after being pulled aboard his boat yesterday. Suffering horrific injuries, diver Paul Buckland, 23, had cried for help and attempted a desperate struggle for safety.

GIANT OF THE OCEAN IS CAUGHT OFF WESTCOUNTRY
Shark fishing history has been made in the Westcountry with a record-breaking catch off the Cornish coastline.
A giant 484lb, 7ft 9in long, porbeagle shark, cousin to the fearsome great white shark, was caught just off the coast near Boscastle, north Cornwall, on Monday.

UK cod fishing 'could be halted'
Conservationists believe the UK's cod stocks are now so low that catches may be banned.

World ski champ takes silver in fishing world championship
Olympic gold medallist Kari Traa crushed snowboard star Daniel Franck and walked away with the silver medal in the resent world championship for cod fishing. She competed along with 340 other fishermen.

Travel Feature: The Lofoten Experience
Every year, the codfish or "skrei" as it is called locally, enters Norwegian waters in large numbers from the Barents Sea in the North, - with Lofoten as final destination. It's sole purpose is to breed in the warm waters of the Golf stream. The scene is set for what is said to be the Worlds's largest fisheries, - and for The World Championship in Cod Fishing!

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