News tagged with fishing boats

Fishing boat lands World's oldest underwater human bone

A fishing boat trawling for mussels off the Dutch coast has instead landed a 40,000 year-old human bone, German scientists said on Sunday after examining the find.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jul 26, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 2

From ecological Soviet-era ruin, a sea is reborn

(AP) -- Standing on the shore under the relentless Central Asian sun, Badarkhan Prikeyev drew on a cigarette and squinted into the distance as one fishing boat after another returned with the day's catch.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 25, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 3

Third of open ocean sharks face extinction: study

A third of the world's open water sharks -- including the great white and hammerhead -- face extinction, according to a major conservation survey released Thursday.

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 2

Abalone are treasured -- nearly to extinction

The authorities popped him near the docks in Port Angeles. On a March afternoon in 1994, a sleek fishing boat -- not-so-subtly named the Abalone Made -- came ashore after puttering around Freshwater Bay. The waiting cops ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 2

Thieving whale caught on video gives rare clues about hunting strategy, sound production

For decades scientists have been intrigued by the variety of sounds emitted by sperm whales, partly due to a popular theory that suggests that the sounds might contain information about the animals' size. ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 21, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Cliffhanging corals avoid trawler damage

Bottom trawling fishing boats have devastated many cold water coral reefs along the margin of the North East Atlantic Ocean. Now, researchers have found large cold water coral colonies clinging to the vertical ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Drought shrinks China's largest freshwater lake

China's largest freshwater lake has shrunk to its smallest size in years due to drought, state media and officials said Thursday, endangering the ecology in the area and fishermen's livelihoods.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Tsunami debris floating across Pacific toward US

(AP) -- Refrigerators, TVs and other debris dragged into sea when a massive earthquake hit Japan last March, causing tsunamis as high as 130 feet to crash ashore, could show up in remote atolls north of Hawaii ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Shark fin soup to blame for blue shark decline

Scientists say the market for shark fin soup is the likeliest reason for the sharp drop in blue shark numbers over the last 30 years.

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Tsunami debris found 3,000 km from Japan coast

A Russian ship has found debris from the Japanese tsunami, including a fishing boat, floating adrift in the Pacific thousands of kilometres from the disaster zone, a Hawaiian research group said.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 16, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0