Article: House favors bill limiting drag net use in lobstering Trappers pitched against trawlers

Article: U.S. CITES PROGRESS IN TUNA FISHING MORATORIUM TALKS
SourceMex Economic News & Analysis on Mexico;  May 6, 1992 ;     74 words ......made in negotiations with Mexico and other countries aimed at implementing a five-year moratorium on fishing for tuna with drag nets in subtropical Pacific Ocean waters. The ambassador added that once such an agreement is concluded, Washington will lift the...

Article: COMMODITIES: U.S. BANS BRAZILIAN AND HONDURAN LOBSTERS
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  May 4, 1996 ;     588 words ......rules on lobster suppliers. The new guidelines demand that the drag nets used to fish the product should have turtle excluders. These...encourage the lobster fishers to use turtle excluders in their drag nets," said Eduardo Salvador, Ecuadoran embassy employee in Washington...

Article: Va.'s Nonresident Surcharge Has Md. Crabbers Stewing
The Washington Post;  January 28, 1992 ;     700+ words ......morale when the crabs are fewer. This day, Wilson's first drag nets eight crabs, a fraction of a bushel. "Need a whole bushel a lick to do anything, really," Swift said. At 1 p.m., a drag nets a bushel, but most bring in fewer. They work, sunup to...

Article: Biggest catch of the week: illegal netters; Fisheries officers out to nab those who persist.
The Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Australia);  January 9, 2009 ;     313 words ......grunter were taken this week, so it might be worth a go in the next week There have been reports of fools using cast nets and drag nets upstream from the markers at Kelly's Landing. It is illegal to use any net except landing nets above the signs, there are severe...

Article: MAN OF THE PEOPLE: CATS HAVE WILD TIME.(Features)
The People (London, England);  September 28, 2003 ;     176 words ......out the terms lion, tiger, panther, puma - the answer's in there somewhere. So that's not only big - it's scary. Now police drag nets are closing in on two rural areas - and people are in fear of their lives. The reason this can happen in my part of the world...

Article: NSW: Nearly 1000 lobsters caught illegally freed
AAP General News (Australia);  May 7, 2008 ;     107 words ...AAP General News (Australia) 05-07-2008 NSW: Nearly 1000 lobsters caught illegally freed Almost one-thousand lobsters caught and caged illegally by a commercial fisherman from the New South Wales mid-north coast have been freed. State Primary...

Article: IT'S WET, IT'S WINDY, AND IT'S TYPICAL DECEMBER WEATHER BUT LIFE LOOKS BRIGHTER FOR SKIERS.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  December 17, 1997 ;     412 words ......16 is 45 degrees, it was a balmy 53 degrees yesterday at Sea-Tac Airport. At Fisherman's Terminal, the men working on their drag nets thought the weather was just fine, thank you. To them, the 36-mph gusts felt like a blustery, warm breeze. ``It's pretty nice...

Article: Greenpeace Dumps Dead Dolphins in Protest
AP Online;  March 18, 2005 ;     146 words ......in London on Thursday to protest French fishing practises. The group says the practice of pair-trawling _ in which two boats drag nets between them _ kills up to 2,000 dolphins every year. Spokesman Oliver Knowles said the dead dolphins were recovered in the...

Article: DRAG NETS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  March 2, 2002 ;     668 words ...00-00-0000 DRAG NETS -- IVERSON TAKES N.J. FOR A RIDE IN PHILLY By STEVE ADAMEK, Staff Writer Date: 03-02-2002, Saturday Section: SPORTS Edition: All...

Article: Decapod duels; Branding lobsters.
The Economist (US);  December 2, 2006 ;     519 words ......executive director, Kristen Millar. The first are American lobsters caught outside the state, but marketed as Maine lobsters. In response...irritates out-of-state dealers who point out (rightly), that lobsters caught in New Hampshire or Nova Scotia are indistinguishable from...

Article: Marketing Lobster
AP Images;  December 1, 2007 ;     61 words ......with lobsters on a wharf in Portland, Maine, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2007. The brothers' business sells the rights to all the lobsters caught in a designated trap to customers paying $2,995 a year. The cost entitles customers to at least 40 crustaceans a season...

Article: Maine lobster fishermen net deal with buy-a-trap program
Capital (Annapolis);  December 9, 2007 ;     700+ words ......For $2,995 a year, customers buy the rights to all the lobsters caught in a designated trap off the rocky Maine coast - at least...getting free traps and a premium of 40 cents per pound for the lobsters caught in them. Markets for the "Catch a Piece of Maine" program...

Article: Invitation to 'Catch a piece of Maine'\
Post-Tribune (IN);  December 9, 2007 ;     700+ words ......For $2,995 a year, customers buy the rights to all the lobsters caught in a designated trap off the rocky Maine coast -- at least...getting free traps and a premium of 40 cents per pound for the lobsters caught in them. Markets for the "Catch a Piece of Maine" program...

Article: Eire calls for talks over seafood fears.(News)
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  June 7, 1997 ;     208 words ......minister Emmet Stagg has requested early talks with British officials over reports of increasing radioactivity levels in lobsters caught near the Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria. Mr Stagg also said Eire would be highlighting deep concern over radioactive...