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...less than 1% of natural resource crimes result in punishment or sanctions. Even when lawbreakers are caught, the study pointed out, existing laws provide very little deterrence when compared to the potential profits. In the Philippines, for example, illegal fishing using dynamite and cyanide in the Calamian Islands earns fishermen an average of $70.57 per trip. The potential fine if they are caught...
...worms and a lazy creek may be enough to get some people hooked on fishing, but serious anglers need more of a challenge. Fishermen are taking off to the globe's remotest rivers for rod-and-reel battles that send the adrenaline rushing as fast as the water they're wading in. But wilderness trips are not for amateurs: "You need to go with an experienced outfit?some of these fish bite back hard," says Charles Jardine, a coach for England's national fly-fishing teams. Here are three of the most pristine?and challenging?locales...
...worms and a lazy creek may be enough to get some people hooked on fishing, but serious anglers need more of a challenge. Fishermen are taking off to the globe's remotest rivers for rod-and-reel battles that send the adrenaline rushing as fast as the water they're wading in. But wilderness trips are not for amateurs: "You need to go with an experienced outfit?some of these fish bite back hard," says Charles Jardine, a coach for England's national fly-fishing teams. Here are three of the most pristine?and challenging?locales...
...move by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority last year to expand no-fishing "green" zones from 4% to 33% of the reef won plaudits from scientists and conservationists, but few friends in the fishing industry. Despite a consultation process that attracted 30,000 submissions, fishermen say they were ignored by the authority - which is why they're keenly awaiting a review of its powers, promised by the federal Coalition government in return for Fishing Party preferences in last October's election. Last week Environment Minister Ian Campbell's office would only repeat that the review would be announced...
...Weight of the largest catfish on record, caught by fishermen in northern Thailand's Mekong River and eaten...