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Motley crew aids blockaded Gazans

If anyone on these boats tries to do something that is not kosher, they will be stopped," he said. Since their fishing-boat outing, Arrigoni has been deported along with Scotsman Andrew Muncie, 34. The third detainee, Darlene Wallach, 57, was to be ...

Family-friendly Miami

... non-indigenous plants in winter). “While working, the rangers interweave history about the island—Tequesta Indians fishing villages, Ponce de Leon's arrival, Spanish galleons sweeping through the waters, the lighthouse watches for German U-boats ...

Israeli tanks rumble into Gaza

On Tuesday, a local anti-blockade activist, Amjad Shawwa, said Israel arrested three foreigners who had boarded Palestinian fishing boats to express solidarity with Gaza fishermen, whose livelihoods have been hurt by Israeli restrictions. Shawwa ...

Why Somali pirates are hard to beat

The problem is that even the mother ships are hijacked fishing boats and crews, impossible to pick out among the thousands of such boats that ply the waters. Military authorities say their radar does spot pirates on the prowl and they alert crews of ...

Vietnam spared from tropical storm

As the storm was approaching, officials called home thousands of fishing boats and began evacuating thousands of people from high-risk areas. But Tropical Storm Noul quickly lost strength when it made landfall between the south-central provinces of ...

Economy has boat owners abandoning ship

Nearly 30 decaying tugboats, fishing boats, cranes and barges make up the aquatic junkyard in Powell’s county. High fuel prices and several disastrous years in the nation’s fishing industry have led fishermen to desert salmon boats in Washington ...

Better way to fish along West Coast?

... have teamed up with conservation groups and coastal communities, pressing the council to drop a draft provision adopted earlier this year that would give a 20 percent share of quotas to 30 processors, whether they already own their own fishing boats ...