The other Woz closing in on worldwide quest of landing 1,000 species of fish

Steve Wozniak, not the Apple co-founder, is about a dozen shy of 1,000 and has roughly 300 more species than the second-most prolific angler compiling a similar list.

LINK (Via: ESPN)

The Thrill of Victory

The agony of defeat.......

After landing an 833 pound marlin and "winning" the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament, team Citation loses the million dollar grand prize because one of their crew did not have a current $30 Coastal Recreational Fishing License.

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Carp in the news

A British angler has caught what is believed to be a world record carp.

The giant fish tipped the scales at 99lbs – just 1lb short to the 'holy grail' 100lb weight that every carp angler across the world dreams of catching.

LINK (Via: The Daily Mail)

Meanwhile Britain mourns the loss of yet another famous, albeit not to bright, carp.

British fishing enthusiasts are mourning the death of a 52-pound leather carp that was caught and set free an estimated 1,000 times during its lifetime.

She was the Dame Judi Dench of the fish world," said Ben Weir of Angler's Mail magazine.

LINK (Via: Field and Stream)

Scientists one step closer to fully sequencing the salmon genome

I wonder what kind of new frankenfish the aquaculture industry will be able to develop once they have the keys to the entire salmonid genetic code.  

Genome BC partnered with the Chilean Economic Development Agency, InnovaChile, Norwegian Research Council, Norwegian Fishery and Aquaculture Industry Research Fund to form the International Cooperation to Sequence the Atlantic Salmon Genome (the Cooperation).

LINK (Via: SIFY News)

Sea Shepard Operation Blue Rage

The veterans of Whale Wars, the Sea Shepard Conservation Society, have turned their attention to Atlantic bluefin tuna and have dispatched the Steve Irwin to the Mediterranean.

The Irwin recently engaged Libyan and Italian trawlers towing what were likely illegally netted tuna. The Irwin was able to get divers into the water to cut open one of the two nets releasing 800 tuna.

The Libyans and the Italians are not pleased.

Neither is this guy.

Bonefish census yields positive results

The results of the South Florida spring bonefish census are cautiously positive.

University of Miami researcher Jerry Ault said the count was up from the 11 previous censuses. But that doesn't mean the population of the gray ghosts necessarily has grown.

Ault said this year's count yielded an estimate of 450,000 bonefish in 1,575 square miles of the census region. The average since 1998 has been 330,000. But April's count was influenced by unusually good weather and the distribution of fishermen in the census area.

Read more: LINK (Via: THe Miami Herald)