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    <bigarticle id="17995">
      <title><![CDATA[Tsunami devastates abalone fishing industry]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Fishing Community Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1328491464" delta="12 hours ago"><![CDATA[2/5/2012]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[The March 11 tsunami dealt a crippling blow to abalone fishing along the Japan's Sanriku Coast, sweeping tons of debris into the sea and destroying fishing vessels.It is expected to be years before abalone fishing in the area can resume, leading some retailers in China-a major consumer of abalone-to rush to secure supplies.Iwate Prefecture is known as a major producer of dried abalone, which is called Kippin abalone in China ...]]></text>
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    <bigarticle id="17776">
      <title><![CDATA[AMERICA'S FISHING LAW ON THE LINE]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Fishing Community Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1327989907" delta="6 days ago"><![CDATA[1/31/2012]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Enjoyed some tasty New England scallops lately? Reeled in a Gulf of Mexico red snapper? Feasted on some mid-Atlantic summer flounder?Aside from your fishing talents or culinary prowess, you have federal fishery law to thank. Like many other fish, these species, which were once at dangerously low levels, are in better shape today because of protections designed to prevent and stop overfishing%u2014taking fish faster than they can reproduce.Wednesday, April 13, ...]]></text>
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    <article id="17593">
      <title><![CDATA[Fishing experts offer tips for start of season]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Fishing Community Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1327476514" delta="1 week ago"><![CDATA[1/25/2012]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Fishing season opens in Connecticut on Saturday, April 16.Just in time for the opening day of fishing season (Saturday, April 16, 6 a.m.), three local fly fishing experts will share their secrets of successful trout fishing on Tuesday, April 12, at the monthly meeting of the Mianus Chapter of Trout Unlimited. The meeting will take place at Orvis, 432 Post Road in Darien starting at 7:30 p.m. Helping local fly ...]]></text>
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    <article id="17362">
      <title><![CDATA[Recreational Fishing for Ocean Salmon Starts Today]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Fishing Community Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1327214229" delta="2 weeks ago"><![CDATA[1/22/2012]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[This year, recreational or sport fishers angling to reel in some salmon will be able to hit the ocean starting today.The approval to start the season -- an emergency measure issued by the Pacific Fishery Management Council -- from April 2 - 30 was announced yesterday by the California Fish and Game Commission. The agency approved fishing in ocean waters from Horse Mountain in Humboldt County south to the U.S. ...]]></text>
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    <article id="16792">
      <title><![CDATA[Ice looks good for Park Rapids Fishing Derby]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Fishing Community Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1321529698" delta="11 weeks ago"><![CDATA[11/17/2011]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[It's not too late to plan on attending the 13th annual Park Rapids American Legion Community Fishing Contest.The event is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 5 on Fish Hook Lake. More than $110,000 in prizes will be given away.“We have a good 19 inches of ice,” said event organizer Jerry Benham. “We should be in good shape.”Bob Safratowich is also organizing the event this year.The fishing derby is always the first ...]]></text>
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    <article id="16628">
      <title><![CDATA[Weekend cold front expected to help fishing]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Fishing Community Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1321017423" delta="12 weeks ago"><![CDATA[11/11/2011]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[With another cold front set to move through the area this weekend, local anglers are expecting cold, rainy and windy weather while fishing at area hot spots.And Buggie Vegas of Bridge Side Marina in Grand Isle said the conditions have helped anglers catch fish in recent weeks."The more wind is a plus for catching fish," Vegas said. "They do well when there's more wind. It flushes the water out and ...]]></text>
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    <article id="16469">
      <title><![CDATA[Ice fishing derby draws kids to state park]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Fishing Community Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1320680109" delta="12 weeks ago"><![CDATA[11/7/2011]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[ As far as fishing trips go, the 3-plus hours the Emerson family had spent on frozen, snow-covered Lake St. George on Sunday morning hadn't been terribly productive.Avery, 4, and her 8-year-old brother, Caiden, had yet to haul up that big “brookie,” salmon or bass that would earn them the top prize at the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands' 3rd annual Youth Ice Fishing Derby.Uncooperative fish aside, however, the ...]]></text>
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    <article id="16307">
      <title><![CDATA[Top Chef All Stars goes fishing]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Fishing Community Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1320421737" delta="13 weeks ago"><![CDATA[11/4/2011]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[I think if I knew more about life at sea, perhaps there'd be a strong thematic narrative to this week's episode of Top Chef. It'd be about how captains depend on their skippers and how you need every man on the boat to raise the sails, but you still can't control the direction of the wind. But I've never been aboard a boat without getting seasick, so all I can ...]]></text>
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    <article id="16145">
      <title><![CDATA[Hundreds expected at fishing derby]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Fishing Community Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1320073993" delta="13 weeks ago"><![CDATA[10/31/2011]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Several fishermen at the annual Laramie Plains Lions Club ice-fishing derby Saturday said the day was mild — the wind was blowing at about 25 mph and the temperature hovered just below 30 degrees.“It's usually really windy,” Cheyenne fisherman Nick Erpelding, who had been on the ice since around 8 a.m., said. “Sometimes the huts hardly stand.”The fish, he said, had it even better.“It's nice and warm in the water ...]]></text>
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    <article id="15982">
      <title><![CDATA[Fishing abounds atop Jersey lake]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Fishing Community Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1319709963" delta="14 weeks ago"><![CDATA[10/27/2011]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[LAKE HOPATCONG, N.J. - Light rain showers and moderate winter temperatures did not deter more than a dozen small groups of fishermen from getting out on a frozen Lake Hopatcong for ice fishing last weekend. Tip-up fishing lines on Sunday were scattered over the iciest areas closest to Hopatcong State Park, where sunfish, carp, and yellow and white perch were biting. Intermittent rain and a high of 50 degrees by ...]]></text>
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    <article id="15658">
      <title><![CDATA[Arctic anglers enjoy early fishing season]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Fishing Community Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1319012440" delta="15 weeks ago"><![CDATA[10/19/2011]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[BUCKEYE LAKE -- The unseasonably cold weather has created an early opportunity for ice fishermen to take advantage of a sport that is gaining in popularity.Buckeye Lake is a popular ice-fishing destination in Central Ohio, said Ethan Simmons, a fisheries biologist for District 1 of the Ohio Division of Wildlife. The other hot spot is Indian Lake in Logan County.Ice fishing usually starts in January, but fishermen already are taking ...]]></text>
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    <article id="15495">
      <title><![CDATA[Entire Dolphin Families Dying in Fishing Nets]]></title>
      <author><![CDATA[Fishing Community Staff]]></author>
      <createdate unixtime="1318518007" delta="16 weeks ago"><![CDATA[10/13/2011]]></createdate>
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      <text><![CDATA[Dolphins that die after accidentally becoming entangled in fishing nets are often related, with mothers and their offspring being among the most likely to perish together, according to a new study in the latest issue of PLoS ONE. It has long been suspected that related dolphins die together as bycatch, but the new study is among the first to prove it using genetic analysis. The research focused on Franciscana dolphins ...]]></text>
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