Articles for tag: Biodiversity, Bluefin Tuna

Report from 2050: The Holocene Extinction

[Reports from 2050 is a series of imagined reports from the year 2050, supported by current news, discoveries and scientific predictions. To see what’s real and what’s not, click on the links within the text.] JANUARY 25, 2050 (Dublin) — Over 45 years ago, in 2004, a study led by University of Leeds conservation biologist ...

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Where to Fish at Boston Harbor and the North and South Shores

Fall in Massachusetts and the Boston area is the time of year when even the most congested stretch of urban shoreline becomes prime fishing area, likewise Boston Harbor’s inner and outer islands: Spectacle, Long, Thompson, Green, Calf, Georges and the Brewsters. The harbor, both the inner and outer, and all of the islands’ shores, especially ...

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Fishing for Bluefin Tuna Off Jeffries Ledge, Massachusetts

It is a suffocatingly hot late-August dusk, and when I hop over the rail for a swim, the captain yells at me to swim not with the current but against it, towards the bow, where the anchor rode slants down from the bow. The sea is flat and calm, Gloucester’s lights’ loomings in the dark ...

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FlyFishing in the Outer Banks

Anglers describe North Carolina’s Outer Banks as a world where the days are dictated more by the tide than the time. According to the locals, whenever stripers hit the water, everyone stops whatever they’re doing and goes fishing. The International Game Fish Association (IGFA) lists 92 world records for fish caught in Outer Banks waters, ...