• By the grim standards of Europe's farrowing sheds, millions of seals enjoy a blissful life fishing and breeding on the Canadian ice.

    ECONOMIST: Seal hunting

  • In 1976, when they arrived in Palacios, a sleepy shrimping town of 4, 000 people half-way between Houston and Corpus Christi, the Vietnamese had nothing except the desire to get back, one day, to a life of fishing.

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  • The engine of the Sparviero, a purposeful tub of a fishing boat, shudders into life.

    BBC: Sardinia, land and sea

  • The move comes after a committee was formed last August to find ways of protecting marine life without damaging the Manx fishing industry.

    BBC: Scallop fishing ban for southern Isle of Man bay

  • The ban came into affect in November after a committee was formed to find ways of protecting marine life without damaging the Manx fishing industry.

    BBC: Lobster

  • During interludes, the women playfully mime vignettes reflecting life in a farm or fishing village, including treading on roof tiles, unrolling a mat, catching a mouse or tying herrings.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • In later life, he concentrated on fishing and shooting in his beloved Scotland, although there was more controversy in 2004 when he accused female TV executives of dumbing down the corporation with too many lifestyle programmes.

    BBC: Obituary: Alasdair Milne

  • Life was so bad in her fishing village that even rice porridge was a luxury.

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  • The coastal marshes are home to abundant and various animal life, as well as sizeable fishing and tourism industries.

    ECONOMIST: Watching and waiting after the Deepwater Horizon spill

  • "I'm having fun, " Bronfman says, still finding time to live an active outdoor life, skiing at Mont Tremblant and fishing at Cap Nord.

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  • The stone seawall, with its little red lighthouse at the end, is a popular place for a stroll, and Dubliners from all walks of life can be seen watching the sunset or fishing off the edge.

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  • By describing Hemingway's life on board, Mr Hendrickson can concentrate on fishing, friendship and fatherhood.

    ECONOMIST: He loved to rock the boat

  • She added that fish fingers and salmon nibbles were compliant with Fish For Life and Marine Stewardship Council-certified from sustainable fishing practices.

    BBC: DNA test

  • The reef has been decimated in parts by dynamite fishing, but you will still find a huge amount of underwater life, with a smorgasbord of cuttlefish, octopus, pygmy seahorse, scorpion fish, clownfish and giant green turtles.

    BBC: Derawan Island and the Sangalaki Archipelago

  • The fishing nets themselves are considered toxic after the years of catching so much sea life.

    CNN: Stimulus money pays fishermen to snare lost nets

  • Downing first retired in 1996 and has said he had enjoyed his more relaxed life when work consisted in large part of fine-tuning his trout-fishing technique in Colorado.

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  • Though her chapter on the Galapagos islands deserves praise for bringing Darwin to life in deceptively simple language, it contains no mention of the row among fishing interests, travel promoters and conservationists that is now engulfing the islands.

    ECONOMIST: Island life

  • The tools of industrial fishing (drift nets, bottom trawls, and longlines) compensate for the diminishment of marine life that they cause by taking what little is left all the more intensively.

    NEWYORKER: Neptune��s Navy

  • Central to the case against bottom-fishing is the protection of underwater mountains, known as seamounts, which are especially rich in marine life of all kinds.

    ECONOMIST: Marine conservation

  • It begins with his near-fatal car crash in 1999 on a fishing trip in the outback of Australia, an event that crippled his walking for the rest of his life, and then flashes back to his upbringing in a prominent Sydney family, which educated him at Jesuit schools and sharpened his antiauthoritarian edge.

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