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Potential world record trout reeled in

A 41.45-pound brown trout was landed Wednesday on the Manistee River in Michigan by by Thomas Healy of Rockford, Mich. If certified, the fish would establish a world record, eclipsing the 40-4 brown caught on Arkansas' Little Red River in 1992.
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Great white sharks tagged for first time off Mass.
BOSTON — Massachusetts officials are using high-tech tags to track the movements of two great white sharks near Cape Cod - the first time the fearsome fish have ever been tagged in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Drought-stricken streams threaten Calif. salmon
SAN GERONIMO, Calif. — California's third year of drought has worsened the already dire outlook for endangered coho salmon, as coastal creeks used for spawning dwindle into disconnected pools where fish get trapped and die.
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Federal agency approves plan for Gulf fish farming
NEW ORLEANS — President Barack Obama's administration on Thursday allowed fish farming in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico, a move criticized by environmentalists fearful of pollution and threats to wild stocks.
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West Coast fishermen embark on new wave of fishing
HARBOR, Ore. — The West Coast groundfish fleet has struggled to stay afloat during major cutbacks to reverse long-standing problems with overfishing and to protect the seafloor from damage caused by bottom trawling gear.
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Ark. campus aims for school of fisheries doctors
PINE BLUFF, Ark. — Studying fish once seemed so simple: find out where they were biting and keep it under your hat. Now the study of fish has evolved into Ph.D.-level programs that can make fish bigger, tastier and a larger part of the nation's economy.
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Charter boats in Gulf accused of breaking laws
NEW ORLEANS — Federal agents have cited 15 charter boat companies that take anglers out into the Gulf of Mexico for a variety of violations, such as working without permits, fishing out of season and catching undersized fish.
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Lobster wars rock remote Maine island
MATINICUS ISLAND, Maine — Life here is defined by the ocean. It's the ocean that feeds the livelihoods of the lobstermen. It's the ocean that dictates the weather. And it's 20 miles of ocean that separates Matinicus from the mainland and makes it a world apart.
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Cougar caught in Seattle being released in wild
SEATTLE — A cougar that apparently had lived in Seattle for more than two weeks and forced the city's largest park to close was captured early Sunday and returned to the wild, state wildlife officials said.
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Post-wildfire worries: floods, damaged ecosystem
LOS ANGELES — Southern California's huge wildfire has turned nearly a quarter of the 1,000-square-mile Angeles National Forest into a moonscape of barren mountains looming above thousands of homes that now face the threat of flash floods and mudslides.
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Turtle thought to be extinct spotted in Myanmar
BANGKOK — The rare Arakan forest turtle, once though to be extinct, has been rediscovered in a remote forest in Myanmar, boosting chances of saving the reptile after hunting almost destroyed its population, researchers said Monday.
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Mass. center to build ocean monitoring stations
FALMOUTH, Mass. — A Massachusetts ocean studies institute is building underwater data collection stations to help researchers understand the ocean's role in climate change.
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NY researchers give ladybugs a birds-and-bees talk
ITHACA, N.Y. — A year after they launched a nationwide search for dwindling native ladybugs, New York researchers are breeding colonies of them from insects found by citizen scientists in Oregon and Colorado.
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Two Idaho hunters kill wolves on opening day
Two Idaho hunters shot wolves in opposite sides of the state opening the state's first wolf season.
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Wolf hunt is on in Idaho — for now
BOISE, Idaho — Gray wolves were back in the cross hairs of hunters on Tuesday, just months after they were removed from the federal endangered species list and eight decades since being hunted to extinction across the Northern Rockies.
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Wolves kill 120 sheep near Dillon, Mont.
GRANTS PASS — A kill order was issued Tuesday for the first wolves caught killing livestock in Oregon since they began moving to the state.
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Wolves kill 120 sheep near Dillon, Mont.
DILLON, Mont. — Wolves killed 122 buck sheep in a pasture south of Dillon earlier this month, surpassing the number of sheep killed by wolves in the entire state in 2008, state wolf managers said.
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Wolves kill 120 sheep near Dillon, Mont.
DILLON, Mont. — Wolves killed 122 buck sheep in a pasture south of Dillon earlier this month, surpassing the number of sheep killed by wolves in the entire state in 2008, state wolf managers said.
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91 countries agree to illegal fishing treaty
ROME — A group of 91 countries reached an agreement Tuesday on a U.N.-backed treaty that aims to leave those engaged in illegal fishing without a safe haven.
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Eagle bodies, parts for Indian rites are collected, sent from Colo. morgue
For some Americans, practicing their religion requires a federal permit and a long wait for a controlled substance — eagle parts.
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Sharks at the rodeo?
DESTIN. FL — Nothing draws a crowd like a shark on the docks. And that's what the 61st annual Destin Fishing Rodeo is hoping for this year with Shark Saturdays.
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NY plans to ban shad fishing to help save species
ALBANY, N.Y. — State regulators plan to ban commercial and recreational fishing for American shad, saying the population remains at its lowest record level despite efforts to restore it by restricting fishing.
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Fisherman lands Amazon fish in Ohio
SANDUSKY TOWNSHIP — Avid fisherman Adam Eibling said he'll never look at the Sandusky River the same. Eibling, 36, of Huron, caught a fish that wasn't supposed to be in there — a pacu weighing in at 5 pounds, 11 ounces.
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Two new Ohio sunfish size records set this week
A new state record Warmouth and Pumpkinseed sunfish has been certified by the Outdoor Writers of Ohio State Record Fish Committee.
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