A teenager has become an instant millionaire after reeling in a barramundi that was part of the Northern Territory’s Million Dollar Fish competition. Keegan Payne, a “mad-keen” fisherman, caught the prize 67cm barra on the Katherine River with friends and family on Sunday. The 19-year-old called the competition hotline at 1am, ecstatic that his whole … Read more
Two travellers have been fined $54,000 in a Federal Court ruling for attempting to smuggle 240 fish through Melbourne International Airport. One man was initially fined $420 for attempting to smuggle 120 live ornamental fish into the country in December 2019. The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry launched an investigation when the same man … Read more
The United States’ coastguard has rejected comments by a Chinese diplomat that its recent boardings of Chinese fishing boats in the Pacific alongside local police are illegal, saying the joint patrols are at the behest of Pacific nations to protect coastal fisheries. Six Chinese fishing boats were reportedly found to be violating Vanuatu’s fisheries law … Read more
Two people suspected to have drowned while net fishing south of Perth have been identified by friends who joined a frantic search for the pair as Jon and Leslie Ballo. The bodies of the married couple, who moved from the Philippines nine years ago with their now-orphaned 13-year-old daughter, were pulled from the Peel-Harvey Estuary, … Read more
A bill creating a liability shield encouraging private landowners to provide public recreation access on their property is headed to Gov. Jared Polis after passing unanimously in the Colorado House of Representatives on Friday. The bill had already passed in the Senate. Two similar attempts to strengthen Colorado’s Recreational Use Statute (CRUS) had failed in … Read more
LEGO Fortnite continues to receive new gameplay features, as Epic Games releases another big new update. LEGO Fortnite update 28.30 has a February 22 release date on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch and Android. The patch will launch alongside a period of server downtime, which runs from 9am until around … Read more
Fisheries officers were out in force during Saturday morning’s abalone hour admonishing greedy shellfish lovers — issuing almost double the official bag limit warnings than the last session. Hundreds of eager fishers took to the waters from Busselton Jetty to Guilderton to get their hands on the elusive abalone, which is only allowed to be … Read more
China said it would not behave irresponsibly towards developing nations when countries try to strike a new World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement on combating overfishing later this month. “We will not compete with other developing members,” Li Chenggang, Beijing’s ambassador to the WTO, told a press conference on Thursday. After more than two decades of … Read more
By ADAM BEAM | Associated Press EUREKA — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is pledging to fast-track more than half a dozen projects by the end of his term to remove or bypass dams that have blocked salmon from returning to the state’s chilly mountain streams and acting as the keystone of a complex ecosystem that … Read more
More than 120 fishermen were rescued after they became stranded on an ice floe that broke loose from a Minnesota lake on Friday evening, officials said. The anglers became stuck shortly before 5 p.m. after the large chunk detached from the main ice on Upper Red Lake — a popular ice fishing destination about 60 … Read more
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