Article: Team Frees Whale Tangled in Fishing Lines; Creature Rescued off Florida Coast Is Member of Critically Endangered Species

Article: Fishing Lines: Precarious life of a living fossil
The Independent - London;  February 27, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... captured, nearly all on handlines. All but one have come from the Comoros, a group of islands between Madagascar and the east coast of Africa. It's not a terribly stable place: coups are a regular occurrence, the soil is poor and literacy is a mere ...

Article: Fishing Lines: Hooked on the close season
The Independent - London;  July 3, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... fishing even more. How can I possibly fit another three months into my schedule? Just look at this. January: Best time for East Coast cod. Time to start pike-fishing expeditions to the Norfolk Broads. Village club trips to Oxford Canal or somewhere with ...

Article: FISHING LINES: How to make lobsters out of concrete
The Independent on Sunday;  November 13, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... planted on the reefs and then grow to eating size. So, apart from the fact that it's lob- sters rather than fish, and concrete rather than steel, and in Oban rather than on the east coast, I got it dead right. Nineteen years later.

Article: Fishing Lines: Best time to cast me a line
The Independent - London;  January 17, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... costs more than you will earn in the next 20 years, dangling a maggot after gudgeon in the village pond or shivering on an east coast beach in January. The main thing, the whole thing really, is being there." I'm not sure this is what he wanted. In ...

Article: fishing lines: Endless bout with heavyweight ...
The Independent - London;  July 20, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... Three swordfish have been caught by trawlers working out from Solway and Mull. Further catches have been made off the Irish east coast. But nobody has ever fished that wet bit between the two countries: at least, not with big-game tackle. Other exotics ...

Article: FISHING LINES : Cast adrift in the Caribbean
The Independent - London;  January 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... afternoon helping children catch beautifully coloured tiddlers. Still, I'm off tomorrow to Culebra, a small island off the east coast which is said to have the best beaches in the Caribbean, and where you can see turtles and manta rays. It's also home ...

Article: Sports active: Fishing lines; Hail a new bible for ...
The Independent on Sunday;  December 12, 2004 ;     673 words ... ... trawler had scooped up every whelk and winkle off the bottom 24 hours earlier. You may think I'm exaggerating. But the east-coast charter skipper John Rawle was so successful that trawlers used to follow him to see where he was fishing. At times, he ...