EARNIE GRAFTON / Union-Tribune At The Oceanaire Seafood Room in the Gaslamp Quarter, Sous Chef Sean Langlais prepares a sushi plate featuring maguro (lean) and otoro (fatty) versions of Spanish and Mexican bluefin tuna, served with wasabi and tamari soy sauce. In Japan, buyers have paid as much as $200,000 for a single large bluefin tuna, one of the choicest varieties, that was hooked off the coast of that country. EARNIE GRAFTON / Union-Tribune At The Oceanaire Seafood Room in the Gaslamp...

I started having some spare time then, and I really began to learn about fishing; to explore, experiment and try different things. He found there's money to be made in tying flies and in teaching others to cast them and fish them. My first fishing memories came a little later, when I fished panfish off the dock at my grandma's cabin. A lot of kids, when they're little, want to be a fireman. Fly fishing expertise pays off by paying bills. Then I quit for a long time, before starting up...

Prime Minister Nahas Angula says commercial landowners who employ dirty tricks to frustrate the government's land expropriation policies may face drastic steps in future. Some cheeky farmers have developed the habit of selling their farms under false pretences, claiming that they are bankrupt. According to the Prime Minister, such farmers normally declare themselves bankrupt while at the same time they arrange auctions where foreign buyers with fat cheques come to buy the land. If the...

The delegation visited processing plants, fish and shrimp farms, fishery inspection and quality control laboratories and fish landing facilities on May 2-4. Myanmar is keen to set up a special economic zone for fishery products in its Rakhine state bordering Bangladesh to cater to the needs of Bangladeshi importers and consumers, reports bdnews24.com. The issue was raised when a seven-member Bangladeshi delegation visited the neighbouring nation to see its fisheries infrastructure. Both...

The United States provides relatively few capacity-building subsidies to its domestic fishing industry, and continued subsidization by other governments to their commercial fleets put domestic fishermen at competitive disadvantage in their ability to fish and to sell their products on the international market. Worldwide fisheries subsidies are estimated at $30 to $34 billion annually -- levels equal to approximately 25 percent of world fishing revenue. proposal that would broadly prohibit...