Fish

An attempt to cheat customs through the illegal export of a critically endangered European eel Anguilla Anguilla was prevented at Sofia Airport on February 15, the Customs Agency reported today.

They battled with snow drifts and waded through knee-deep slush to get to their competition ground on a frozen lake in Bulgaria's southern Rhodope mountains, reports AFP. 

The world's ice angling pros converged this weekend on the Shiroka Polyana lake, 1,500 metres above sea level, to face off at the 16th annual Ice Fishing World Championship.

An Eskimo-style fisherman in northeastern Turkey has caught the biggest fish of the winter season - a freshwater carp of 5.2 kilograms as the fishing season kicked off in Lake Çıldır.

Health authorities seized a total 104 kilograms of fish Thursday after checks at a restaurant in Piraeus and a street vendor.

According to reports, the fish, including anchovies, sardines, cod and seabream, did not meet proper health standards and certifications.
 

The migration of pearl mullets, a fish species living in the Lake Van region, has started. The fish migrate through the lake's tributaries in May and June for the spawning season every year, but they always have to contend with predatory seagulls that try to hunt them.

450 kg of tuna, the largest in fishing history in Japan, was auctioned at the Katsoura harbor in Honshu Island, TASS reported.
 
The length of the fish is 2.74 m. It is the heaviest trapped in Japan since 1949 when the systematic report on fish of this type began.
 

The island nation of Samoa has declared its waters a  shark sanctuary, joining a string of other Pacific countries in protecting the marine  predators.

Anchovies in Turkey’s Black Sea photographed for ‘first time’ under sea

In the final New Year's auction at Tokyo's famed Tsukiji fish market on Friday, the owner of an international sushi restaurant shelled out more than $300,000 for a prime bluefin tuna and said he was "very happy" with the result, according to Reuters.

Numbers of stingrays, flounders wash up on Istanbul shore