Archive for the ‘fishing’ Category

Subway cars find new life on ocean floor

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

Jeff Tinsman, Delaware's reef program coordinator, said a 600-car reef in that state's waters had increased the local fish population by 400 times, and boosted the number of angling trips to 13,000 a year from 300 before the reef was created.Read the full story

Europe Takes Africa’s Fish, and Boatloads of Migrants Follow

Monday, January 14th, 2008

A vast flotilla of industrial trawlers from the European Union, China, Russia and elsewhere, together with an abundance of local boats, have so thoroughly scoured northwest Africa’s ocean floor that major fish populations are collapsing.Read the full story