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Two Fishermen Saved After Month Drifting in Shark Waters

Australian authorities announced that they recovered on Saturday two survivors from a shipwreck that occurred on December 23rd, off the country's north coast. The two fishermen, both from Myanmar, had been seen floating in a large ice box, by a scout-patrol plane, and a helicopter was immediately dispatched to r...

21 January 2009
07:04 GMT

Individual Quotas for West Coast Fisheries Under Vote

The problem of unsustainable fishing was prompted on the West Coast of the United States decades ago, as fishermen and authorities alike noticed severe decreases in fish populations throughout the region, and started working on legislations to prevent this. But, thus far, bills aimed at tackling this issue have not b...

6 November 2008
03:59 GMT

Harvest Fishing Hints (DS)

The Nintendo DS has always been regarded as a very innovative handheld console, partly due to the fact that it has two screens and that you can use a stylus on the touchscreen interface. This interesting control scheme has allowed game developers to create titles only for Nintendo's handheld console.Such is the ...

3 November 2008
12:41 GMT

Redneck Fishin' Launched for Mobiles

IQ212 Games, a company based in San Francisco, announced the availability of Redneck Fishin', a new mobile game that invites you to go fishing the redneck way. This means that you will have to use dynamite in order to catch minnows, trout, bluegill, catfish, bass and various other fish. During the game, you wil...

25 August 2008
09:57 GMT

Fishy Fishee Mobile Game out Soon

Ozura Mobile, the well-known Singaporean mobile content developer, has announced the upcoming availability of a new fishing simulation mobile game called Fishy Fishee. This comes shortly after Ozura launched two other sports-related games, namely Beijing Dreams and Counter Smash. Of course, fishing is not "just a spo...

22 August 2008
08:57 GMT

Monkeys Also Fish

Although this is not the first time when a species of monkeys are spotted fishing in rivers, the discovery of a silver-haired primate in Indonesia which exhibits similar behavior is definitely a first. In the last eight years alone on at least four occasions researchers have observed long-tailed macaques capturing fi...

11 June 2008
03:45 GMT

Sharks Risk Extinction

According to a new report released by the International Union for Conservation of Nature 11 species of sharks around the world are at high-risks of extinction, while another five show a significant decline. The reason is, as usual, over-fishing, which is affecting shark species especially due to their low rates of re...

23 May 2008
06:14 GMT

Prepare for Harvest Fishing on Your DS

One of the best features of Nintendo DS, except for the fact that it's a portable console, is its innovative control method or, if you want to put it this way, its touchscreen. There are many games that get more interesting just because they fully use this feature, turning a title you've already seen a few ...

7 April 2008
03:20 GMT

Ready for the Deadliest Catch?

Fishing is an activity well suited for relaxation on a weekend afternoon. Or so everybody thought before watching Deadliest Catch, a Discovery Channel show about the guys that go fishing for King Crab in the waters of the Bering strait. There's a real chance of death and injury there and the sea is pretty unforg...

28 February 2008
04:18 GMT

New Price Point for Fishing Master Wii - $29.99!

Hudson Entertainment has just confirmed the availability of Fishing Master at a new price point of $29.99. The price itself is a quite a catch for this an exclusive Wii title, which makes good use of the Wii Remote and Nunchuck. Other recent news however speak of a Fishing Rod Controller for Wii Complete with Plastic...

21 November 2007
06:44 GMT

The Chinese River Dolphin, Now Extinct

Dolphins are swimming not only in the sea, but also in the rivers. Or at least they used to. One of the three known species of freshwater dolphins, the Chinese one, is now "likely to be extinct"(the other two species inhabit Ganges and Indus and Amazon, respectively). An American-British-Japanese-Chinese research tea...

13 August 2007
08:30 GMT

Poisonous Thorny Starfish Is Destroying the Coral Reefs

As if pollution, global warming and overharvesting were not been enough, a new menace comes to complete the coral bleaching.A bloom of predator poisonous and spiny starfish, named crown-of-thorns is destroying large areas of coral reef throughout the Philippines. These voracious predators can wipe out large areas of ...

16 April 2007
04:09 GMT


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