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...free fantasy version at fantasyfishing.com The setup is simple. Before each of the six regular-season FLW tournaments (the first one starts Feb. 12 on Lake Guntersville in Huntsville, Ala.), players pick 10 anglers from the 155 pros who enter each tourney, in the order they believe the fishermen will finish. The better your picks do, the more points you rack up. And there's a hefty bonus for an exacta--if your pick for first or second or third, etc., matches the tournament rankings. The player with the most points at the end of each competition gets...
There are other potential solutions - like putting a cap on fish catches, allocating shares in the quota and allowing fishermen to trade or sell those shares - which research suggests can lead to more sustainable fishing. But ultimately, Pitcher argues, we'll need a new enforceable legal agreement to govern the oceans. "We are approaching a point of no return for many of the world's fisheries," he says. "I know it's hard to get new international agreements, but we can't give up." Not unless we want to live - perish the thought - in a world without sashimi...
...January, navy troops and fishermen in India and Indonesia discovered dozens of Rohingya boat people drifting in their countries' territorial waters. Some survivors alleged that their efforts to seek sanctuary in Thailand were thwarted by the Thai Navy, which forcibly herded them onto leaking boats without enough food or water and set them to sea. The survivors also claimed they were beaten by Thai forces - and that several of their fellow passengers were shot to death by the Thais. Although plenty of Rohingya have found illegal and low-paid work on Thai fishing fleets, the Thai government outwardly maintains...
Other reports from around the region suggest that Muzaffar's experience was not an isolated incident. A Jan. 14 story in the Jakarta Post said 193 Rohingya were rescued by Acehnese fishermen on Jan. 7 and are now being housed at an Indonesian naval base. The refugees there claim Thai marines also cut them adrift after destroying the engines on their boats, and they managed to stay afloat by erecting sails made of plastic tarpaulin. Survivors from a second wave of refugees "pushed back" from Thailand - a contingent of some 580 - have also made their way to India's Andaman...
...some fishermen and others complain that Australia's efforts to protect sharks - catching rare white pointer sharks is illegal, for example - is resulting in an increase in attacks. In particular, they object to a policy of letting suspected man-eaters go. "Sharks do hang around after the attack, and the government has a duty of care to deal with it," says Queensland fisherman Vic Hislop. Sharks "learn to kill humans. They learn to go in hard and fast...