Seafood and Fishing Industry

LA PAZ, Mexico (AP) _ Fishermen pulled in their boats and hotels warned tourists away from beaches Friday as Hurricane Norbert strengthened to a Category 2 storm and bore down on Mexico's southern Baja California Peninsula. Norbert, with winds of 100 mph...

Many airlines are cutting back service to the Caribbean this fall and winter, but New Yorkers bound for the islands will still enjoy plenty of options. They can fly nonstop to 26 Caribbean destinations from the New York area's three major airports,...

Fishermen pulled in their boats and hotels warned tourists away from beaches today as Hurricane Norbert strengthened to a Category 2 storm and bore down on Mexico's southern Baja California Peninsula. Norbert, with winds of 100 mph, was expected to hit...

It's pleasant to imagine that all that ails Maryland's once-thriving oyster industry could be swept away if a few healthy, disease-resistant Asian oysters could be tossed into the Chesapeake Bay and given a little privacy. Instead of harvesting 80,000...

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Today's game WHO: Hampton (6-0, 5-0) vs. Phoebus (6-0, 5-0). WHEN: 7 p.m. (gates open at 5:30). WHERE: Darling Stadium. TV: Live on LSC 48 cable in Hampton. FOUR DOWNS 1. Phoebus QB Tajh Boyd, who has missed the past two weeks with a sprained knee,...

Phoebus' defense has been borderline unfair this season, having allowed only 20 points in six games. But the Phantoms haven't faced a running back like Hampton's Tron Martinez. Martinez has been borderline unstoppable this season, rushing for 1,189 yards...

JOHANNESBURG — Somalia's pirates want the world to know they are regrettably misunderstood. They are merely "gentlemen who work in the ocean." Indeed, many are salty patriots risking their lives at sea while "protecting Somalia's shores." And the...

NEW YORK — Mackerel is in but octopus is out. And bluefin tuna, known as the king of sushi for its fatty belly meat, is a definite no-no. These tips and others on ocean-friendly sushi will be available in pocket guides published this month by three...

Diamond Valley Lake, the giant regional reservoir in Riverside County, has been called the "jewel" of Southern California when it comes to pleasure boating and bass fishing. But the jewel has been tarnished by the water woes gripping Southern California....

Seeding the Chesapeake Bay with disease-resistant Asian oysters could significantly boost the bay's depleted population of the water-cleaning shellfish, according to a federal study to be released next week. But the study, a copy of which was obtained by...

West Virginia's first inland salmon fishery has welcomed 28,000 rainbow trout to its production facility in Man. West Virginia Salmon and Trout President William R. Martin says thousands more trout and salmon fingerlings from a nearby hatchery in...