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A fisherman in Robertsport checks his nets. Depending on the size, they usually cost between $150 (£113) and $1,500. The fishermen paddle, or raise sails in small wooden canoes, travelling alone for hours, or they go out in groups of up to 25 men,...
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I have cast my rod into the tidal current flowing around Montauk Point in New York and my lure is chugging across the surface when a bluefish swirls and fails to grab it. There is a heavier swirl. On a third appearance, the fish grabs. The hook pier...
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8 years ago
A fisherman was airlifted to hospital after being bitten on the leg by a shark landed on a boat off the Cornish coast.
Crewmates of Max Berryman, 21, tended to his wounds before a coastguard helicopter winched him off the vessel and back to the main...
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“Before, there were many fish,” says fisherman Mohd-Ishak Bin Abdul Rahman as he pulls a dried up crab from his net. A few years ago he could just walk out into the surf and pick up crustaceans with his bare hands, he tells me. “Now, nothing.”
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Volunteers have helped rescue five of the 150 short-finned pilot whales that became stranded on a beach in Western Australia.
The whales were freed by authorities at Hamelin Bay, south of Perth, with the help of vets and more than 100 volunteers.
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