French Fishermen Convicted - 06/08/2007

The Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) announced that it has secured convictions against the masters of two French-registered fishing vessels for breaches of fisheries legislation in Ballyshannon district court.

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Wipeout! - 06/08/2007

Extinction is looming for 18 marine creatures that are at home in British coastal waters, and a further three species that occasionally visit Britain, say conservationists. The analysis suggests that six...

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Goodbye Conger - 20/07/2007

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay certainly knows how to swear, but he was upstaged the day he took his film crew deep-sea fishing with Dave Kerley for conger eels. For Dave, 40,...

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Time To Press For The Golden Mile - 20/07/2007

With a number of angling initiatives seeming stalled in the too-slowly-turning wheels of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) Fisheries Divisions’ beauracracy, and with the Fisheries Minister even...

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The Great White – Fact Or Fiction? - 20/07/2007

Sightings of great white sharks are reported each year off our coast. Most of these turn out to be basking sharks, mako sharks, dolphins or some other kind of shark. But,...

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Proposal Under Way To Phase Out Lead By 2015 - 20/07/2007

Proposal Under Way To Phase Out Lead By 2015
The European Parliament is seeking to ban the use of lead in recreational fishing equipment by 2015, writes the European Fishing Tackle...

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