fisherman

Inky the octopus waited until it was dark and the staff had gone home from the National Aquarium of New Zealand before making his move.

New legislation aims to phase out mile-long fishing nets off the California coast that have entangled and killed sea life, including endangered species, by the thousands over the past few decades. The gear, known as drift gill nets, are mainly used to catch swordfish but often net far more than what fisherman are actually targeting, according to an analysis by...

A rare, two-toned lobster has been saved from the boiling pot and is now on display at a marine education center in Stonington, Maine. Stonington fisherman Capt. Daryl Dunham caught the red and black crustacean last week and brought it to the Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries’ Discovery Wharf.

The death of a man struck by a freight train as he was fishing from a Pennsylvania bridge has been ruled accidental.

In a dimly lit basement room on Fisherman’s Wharf, well-fed rats are scurrying around, their hairless tails trailing behind them as they pick up and eat individual pieces of breakfast cereal and glance around with their beady eyes. In almost all cases, this would be cause for a San Francisco business to get an untimely visit from the city’s health...

Apple CEO Tim Cook challenged Gen Z to clean up the messes Baby Boomers have left behind. “In some important ways, my generation has failed you,” Cook said Saturday in his commencement speech at Tulane University in New Orleans, La., at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. “We have spent too much time debating, we have been too focused on the fight, and...

A beluga whale found in Arctic Norway wearing a harness that suggests links to a military facility in Russia is so tame that residents can pet the mammal on its nose. The white whale found frolicking in the frigid harbor of Tufjord, a hamlet near Norway’s northernmost point, has become “a huge attraction” for locals, one resident said Tuesday. The...

A beluga whale found with a tight harness that appeared to be Russian made has raised the alarm of Norwegian officials and prompted speculation that the animal may have escaped from a Russian military facility. Joergen Ree Wiig of the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries says “Equipment St. Petersburg” is written on the harness strap, which features a mount for an...

As a small boat packed with Venezuelans capsized in Caribbean coastal waters this week, Yubreilys Merchán found herself with seconds to react. In a desperate bid to survive, the 23-year-old hairdresser stripped off her clothes to lighten her weight before plunging into the water amid cries of panic. Then, she began swimming toward a nearby island, a skill she learned...

A Maryland man wanted in Florida for an apparent attack on a pelican was arrested in Ocean City Friday morning.

The Coast Guard and other agencies on Saturday rescued 46 ice fishermen who were on an ice floe that broke off on the Ohio shore of Lake Erie, the Coast Guard said....
There were more people on the ice floe, but around 100 were able to swim or walk across ice bridges that had been connected to the floe, according to...

We’ve rounded up some fun and affordable activities for you to do this weekend in Philly and surrounding areas.

More than two dozen South Philadelphia restaurants are taking part in East Passyunk Avenue Restaurant Week, offering a wide variety of dishes for an affordable price.

Elian González Brotóns, the man who was once at the center of a major custody battle which involved the U.S. and Cuban governments, has joined Twitter.

Decades ago, News4’s own Jim Vance got the chance to spend six hours fishing with then-President George H.W. Bush. “President Bush is one heck of a fisherman,” Vance said. “I will never forget that day.”

Environmentalists scored a major victory in Sacramento Thursday after California lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to phase out the use of a controversial type of fishing gear, known as drift gillnets: mile-long nets blamed for unintentionally killing thousands of sea creatures, including endangered animals.

Canadians are known as friendly folks, but these crabby brutes migrating from Canadian waters are better suited for the hockey rink. Green crabs from Nova Scotia are the same species as their cousins that already inhabit Maine waters, but are ornerier and angrier, threatening to accelerate harm to the coastal ecosystem by gobbling up soft-shell clams and destroying native eel...

PETA is trying to get Marylanders to give up a beloved pastime and go vegan.

A normal fishing trip on the Schuylkill River resulted in a viral photo for a Montgomery County man after he reeled in a river monster close to four feet long!