Trout of order! Angler narrowly avoids being slapped in the face by 90-pound fish which jumps over his boat Ben Olen was fishing with his friend Eric Bakke off the Marco Island, Florida Using fish sonar Olsen knew that a large school of tarpon were approaching Several of the six-stone fish jumped out of the … Read more
Tiny ‘zombie fish’ declared EXTINCT 20 years ago is found hiding in a country lake – leaving wildlife experts baffled Southern purple spotted gudgeon was declared extinct in Victoria in 1998 Dubbed ‘Victoria’s zombie fish’ by regional land and water authority The small fish – which grows to 15cm – is endangered in the rest of Australia … Read more
The real-life baby shark! Mutant fish is born with ‘a human face’ The mutant shark has a distinctly ‘human’ appearance, with two large round eyes underneath its snout Fisherman Abdullah Nuren was left baffled when he came across the baby shark He had been fishing off the coast of Indonesia near East Nusa Tenggara province … Read more
Fish poop, breath and other excretions produce over a billion tons of carbon every year, according to a new study. That’s more than 15 percent of all the carbon in the ocean, the planet’s largest active carbon ‘sink,’ or absorber of carbon dioxide. That makes fish an important component of the carbon cycle, researchers say, … Read more
Rising sea temperatures are shrinking our favourite commercial fish — including cod and haddock — in the North Sea and West of Scotland, researchers have found. Experts from Aberdeen analysed 30 years of trawl survey data on cod, haddock, whiting and saith from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. They found that while … Read more
Catching the moment: Astonished angler films kingfisher diving into lake to scoop up a fish before perching on his rod to eat it Steve Williams, 49, went on a chilly pike-fishing expedition on Sunday morning Spotted a Kingfisher along the bank and hid in the hope of recording its flight Caught moment the bird dives into … Read more
Britons’ top takeaway choices during lockdown 3.0 revealed – and it’s fish and chips that’s No1, followed by egg-fried rice and pizza Chippies are the most popular takeaway outlet, supplying 33% of all orders Orders for fish and chips have increased by 330% this year compared to 2020 Britons’ favourite main dish from an Indian … Read more
Giant stork-like dinosaur Spinosaurus that lived in North Africa 100 million years ago fed by snatching fish from the shoreline, study shows Spinosaurus was one of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs reaching up to 49ft Previous theories suggested they actively hunted prey by swimming in the sea British and American researchers now believe it was more … Read more
Giant stork-like dinosaur Spinosaurus that lived in North Africa 100 million years ago fed by snatching fish from the shoreline, study shows Spinosaurus was one of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs reaching up to 49ft Previous theories suggested they actively hunted prey by swimming in the sea British and American researchers now believe it was more … Read more
For four tempestuous days and nights the trawler Sam of Ladram had been scooping up cuttlefish, 20 miles off our South-West coast. By Thursday morning the storm had abated, and I watched its five crew offload the inky catch — known as ‘black gold’ in these parts — in their home port of Brixham, Devon. … Read more