A wondrous fish has made a miraculous return to UK seas 
By George Monbiot UK Source: theguardian 9/27/2024
George Monbiot
Credit: Whitepointer/Getty Images/iStockphoto
Over the past three weeks, I’ve been watching one of the greatest natural spectacles on Earth, here in south Devon. At a certain station of the tide, within a few metres of the coast, the sea erupts with monsters. They can travel at 45mph. They grow to 2.5 metres (8ft 2in) in length and 600kg in weight. They herd smaller fish – saury and garfish in this case – against the surface, then accelerate into the shoal so fast that they overshoot sometimes 2 or 3 metres into the air. Bluefin tuna. They are here, on our southern coasts, right now.
 

When I’ve mentioned this on social media, some people refuse to believe me: you must be seeing dolphins, they say. Yes, I often see dolphins too, and it’s not hard to spot the difference. They don’t believe it because we have forgotten that our coastal waters were once among the richest on Earth. Bluefin and longfin tuna were common here. So were several species of whale, including sperm, fin, humpback and Atlantic grey, and a wide range of large sharks. Halibut the size of barn doors hunted the coastal shallows. Cod reached almost 2 metres in length, haddock nearly a metre, turbot were the size of tabletops, oysters as big as dinner plates, shoals of herring and mackerel were miles long.

 
Atlantic bluefin tuna Continue...

News Id SourceStampcountry
4176Taiwan responds to NGO reports on forced labor within its fishing fleetseafoodsource2021-04-02TW
4177Salmon with sea lice pulled from storesUPI2012-10-22CA
4178Chesapeake Striped Bass Reproduction At Record Lowbaltimore2012-10-17US
4179Michigan Angler Catches Record-Breaking Great Lakes Muskiedetroit.cbslocal2012-10-20US
4180Mystery Florida eyeball is probably from '10ft swordfish', experts saytheguardian2012-10-12US
4181Rare Gold Saury Worth Weight in Actual Gold, Apparentlysoranews242012-10-05JP
4182Cub Scout catches 'monster' in Texas lakebeaumontenterprise2012-10-05US
4183Южнокорейские компании вложат 11,8 млрд руб. в создание рыбного порта в Приморьеinterfax2021-04-14RU
4184'Scolded us for being female': Woman says fishing trip prize taken away because she is a womanchron2021-03-30US
4185Incredible moment fishermen casually cast their lines out as dozens of frenzied sharks thrash in the shallows next to themdailymail2021-04-01UK
4186State scientists look to purge invasive goldfish from Maine watersbangordailynews2012-10-03IN
4187Wis. voters favor blocking of Asian carpUPI2012-10-02US
4188North Sea cod: Is it true there are only 100 left?BBC News2012-09-30CA
4189'Record-breaking' turbot caught off ShetlandBBC News2012-09-28UK
4190Judge lets fish farm activist off the hookctvnews2012-09-29CA
4191Preserving Old Female Cods Key To Population Conservation; 'Don't Seem To Have Aged Physiologically'Underwatertimes2012-09-26SW
4192Another giant sturgeon caught in Fraser RiverCBC News2012-09-26CA
4193Fisherman forced to throw back big tuna fishCBC News2012-09-20CA
4194Killing one fish species to preserve anothertheglobeandmail2012-09-20CA
4195Wallington man reels in 180lb albino fishyourlocalguardian2012-09-20UK
4196Alaska and the mysterious disappearing king salmonBBC News2012-09-19US
4197Montana announces fifth record-breaking fish in less than a yearfoxnews2021-04-01US
4198Overuse of antibiotics threatens China’s fish farms, scientists warnscmp2021-04-02CN
4199“Just incredible”: Bay of Green Bay evolves into world-class walleye fisherywbay2021-04-02US
4200Floating hotel where the bedroom is 10 feet beneath the surface of a Swedish lakeDaily Mail2012-09-17UK

217 218 219 167 of [220 - pages.]