Caught on camera - Icelandic monster or fishing net?
NEWS.com.au
While there have been several sightings of the Lagarfljótsormurinn or “Icelandic worm monster” in modern times, sceptics have suggested this latest iteration is probably just a fishing net caught in the tide. Legend has it that the Lagarfljótsormurinn ...
Video purports to show Icelandic lake serpentNinemsn

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"The Big Fish"
Sydney Morning Herald (blog)
On a recent trip to New Zealand I was forced to meditate on the term “A Big Fish in a Small Sea”. For one I caught the biggest snapper I had ever had the pleasure of catching, but perhaps more importantly (though I might argue the point) I was ...

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Bermagui and Narooma fishing reports: Feb. 8
Narooma News
Even though Bega council regulations ban shark fishing, whole fish baits with large hooks and traces are being kayaked out from the wharf with small hammerhead among the sharks caught in recent weeks. Meanwhile back at Bermagui, strong south-westerly ...

Spread the net, tip the scales
Sydney Morning Herald
Photo: Simon Schluter We could be eating more local fish species but old habits die hard, writes Jane Holroyd. IN PETER Megas' early days as a Melbourne fishmonger in the 1970s, certain species of local fish were a sure thing; snapper, ...

Reel in fishing funds
Narromine News
Organisations and anglers with ideas for projects to help improve recreational fishing are now invited to apply for funding from the NSW Recreational Fishing Trust, Minister for Primary Industries, Katrina Hodgkinson, announced this week.
Grants for fishing projects in Port StephensPort Stephens Examiner
NSW Recreational Fishing Trust funds availableCumberland Courier Newspapers

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Missing fisherman's body found
The Canberra Times
BY JACQUELINE WILLIAMS AND CHRISTOPHER KNAUS The body of a missing Canberra man who was swept off rocks near Eden while fishing on Monday was found last night. The two-day search for the 57-year-old Ngunawal man ended after someone spotted his body at ...
Body of missing fisherman found at Merimbula BayThe Daily Telegraph
Search in vainMerimbula News Weekly
Body of missing fisherman found - EdenNSW Police Online (press release)
Eden Magnet -Illawarra Mercury -Herald Sun
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Sea lion death triggers shark fishery closure
ABC Online
A sea lion's death due to fishing in the zone led to the closure. The rules force closures once a trigger point is reached - in this case, only one death was needed to close Zone A, west of Fowlers Bay. The shark fishery will be closed until May next ...

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Small fish in rough seas
Sydney Morning Herald
Budi, not his real name, is an accidental people smuggler, if you accept that cooking noodles and keeping the engine going on an unseaworthy fishing boat for a group of desperate asylum seekers constitutes people smuggling.

Fishing for freeholds
Flinders News
Fisherman Bay Management, which owns the land, has made an application for division to the Development Assessment Commission. They want the licence-holders to buy their properties, known as a freehold arrangement, so a sewerage system and flood levy ...

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Search for fishermen, teen feared drowned
Herald Sun
AUTHORITIES are searching for a rock fishermen and a teenager who are feared to have drowned in separate incidents on the NSW coast. A 15-year-old Watanobbi boy was swimming with friends when they became stuck in a rip off The Entrance Beach, ...
'Heartbroken': family in shock as teenager feared drownedSydney Morning Herald
Two drowning victims found off NSW coastBigPond News

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