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Sharks and rays in Bermuda’s waters are to get more protection – but some shark fishing will be allowed. Walter Roban, the home affairs minister, told the House of Assembly on Friday that all sharks except Galapagos sharks, six-gill sharks, gummy sh...

Hi-tech mini-submarines will be used to track the movement of fish to assess population numbers, the Ministry of Home Affairs said. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources said it would use Remus 100 autonomous underwater vehicles after i...

The amount of fuel imported to Bermuda fell by almost 50 per cent in 2020 as the island dealt with the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the 2021 Environmental Statistics Compendium, released on Friday, 96.5 million kilograms of fuel ...

Efforts to kick-start the economy through new industries have been questioned by the Opposition. Senator Marcus Jones, the One Bermuda Alliance spokesman on economic development, said farmers and fishermen should be drafted in to help set up a vertic...

A series of meetings has been held with fishermen over the creation of a fisheries development centre at the West End specialising in large oceanic fish. Originally planned for Marginal Wharf in St David’s, the proposed $1.5 million facility is expec...

The Government must conduct a robust public consultation before the development of a sustainable offshore fishing industry, a conservation action group has said. Plans to create a marine protected area that prohibits fishing – as well as a fishery – ...

The season winds down; temperatures drop, the gales take over and anglers put their boats to bed for the winter. That pretty much summarises the angling picture at the moment. The commercial operators are still at work at this time of the year, and m...

Not a weekend to be planning on going fishing, that’s for sure. It is not all over yet, but that time is getting close. The weather is switching into winter mode and this means that it is rapidly turning into the time of year when fishing becomes iff...

Wahoo! What a tournament. After a couple of postponements, last weekend’s The Wahoo Tournament, based out of Robinson’s Marina, was a rousing success. Near perfect weather conditions combined with some of the season’s best angling action to make for ...

Fair winds and calm seas have been the dominant feature of the past week or so, but this can be misleading and while many have taken advantage of it, there are others who are more perceptive and who see the signs of a change of seasons and the patter...

Hard to believe, but it is suddenly that time of the year again: that pregnant pause when the weather is hot and calmer than imaginable. It is the hiatus between the next change of seasons; an almost illusory pause. Those old enough to have received ...

Here it is: August, that month that brings those lazy, sometimes hazy and often crazy days of summer. Actually, this is a pretty apt description of the recent offshore situation. Angling effort is down, in part owing to the heat but also because for ...