Sturgeon fishers did not fear to experience Sunday chilly weather and cold to catch 297 sturgeons. The number of harvested fish was not enough for the State Department for Natural Resources to end the 2008 season.

The quality of giant bluefin tuna caught in the Gulf of Maine has declined significantly since the early 1990s, researchers at the University of New Hampshire have found by analyzing detailed logbooks from a commercial tuna grader at the Yankee Fisherman’s Co-op.

Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate was decorated with"¦ corpses of 17 small whales and dolphins on Monday in a dramatic action by Greenpeace activists to urge countries to resist increasing pressure for a resumption of commercial whaling.