Pelican rescue workshop set for Oct. 23 - Naples Daily News
The number of pelicans injured by fishing lines and hooks has been increasing in the past few years. In addition to educating the public about safer fishing practices, the Conservancy of Southwest Florida, along with Florida Sea Grant and Fish

The One Place on Earth - Wall Street Journal
For generations, my family has owned property here on Galveston Bay. So it was personal for me when Hurricane Ike took dead aim at this peninsula last month and hammered it to a pulp. The storm destroyed our family pier and some of my relatives

Abandoned nets continue to trap animals - United Press International
SEATTLE, Oct. 16 (UPI) — Thousands of abandoned nets and crab pots remain in Puget Sound in Washington state after five years of efforts to remove them, officials said. The derelict fishing gear is believed to have killed 30,000 marine animals

Man’s catch of the day makes woman’s day - Corpus Christi Caller
It was no fish — but it was a catch by a local man that made one Louisiana woman’s day. While fishing Sept. 28, attorney Scott Nelson found a black daily planner washed up from the sea. It turned out to be a fragment of the woman’s life, taken along