Fish

A sheriff’s department helicopter crew warned paddleboarders in Southern California Wednesday that they had company: there were more than a dozen sharks near them in the water.

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Shark sightings in Greek waters in the Aegean Sea are a rarity. But when the Brousogiannis brothers pulled up their nets they were surprised to find a 7-metre shark. According to skopelos-news-blogspot.gr, the fish weighed over 300 kilos. In March fishermen in Nea Kio of Argolis had reeled in a 4-metre shark.

Until the 1980s, dolphins were mercilessly fished in the Marmara Sea and the Black Sea. The state distributed arms, ammunition and loans to dolphin fishermen for them to fish more. For years, in Black Sea houses, rags immersed in dolphin oil were used in lamps.

With so many photoshop wizards around nowadays, it is often difficult to trust whether a photo is actually true or false. In fact, we have become so suspicious that even when real photos are posted online, we still find it heard to believe they are actually real. Here is a list of photos that you might think are photoshopped, but are really true.

Each one of us is eating an average of 20 kilograms of fish annually. This is almost twice as much of the figure recorded 50 years ago. It does not seem that this figure will ever decrease, because the demand for fish in the world is continuously increasing. However, the problem is that fishing exceeds the production of the world's seas. 

A fisherman living in the Aegean province of Muğla caught a rare sharksucker fish, also known as a remora, on Oct. 19, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Locals in the Bodrum were shocked at seeing the animal which normally only lives in the tropics.
The rare fish was caught by 54-year-old amateur fisherman Mustafa Yıldızhan off the Yalı neighborhood of Bodrum.

Gold fish are some of the easiest pets to keep. They need relatively little attention and can live for decades, as long you sprinkle them with food and clean their tanks regularly. Some people, however, decide to release their goldfish into the natural water environment of lakes or ponds. The result is their former pets turn into ‘monster’ fish.

Sea lovers have now a new way to explore the marine life without having to come up for air.

Triton, a state-of-the-art oxygen respirator, that allows you to breathe underwater up to 45 minutes and at a maximum depth of 15ft by utilizing ‘artificial gills’ technology.

Actors, dancers and comedians stripped naked and posed with dead fish as part of Fishlove campaign.

The Fishlove campaign aims to take pressure away from eating popular fish, such as cod, by encouraging the consumption of lesser-known species like sprats, herring, mackerel and gurnard.

Fish sticks, meat dishes, spreads and canned tuna top the list of the products suspected of having higher quality in the "old" part of the EU than in the East.

This is according to daily Jutarnji List, published in Croatia, EU's newest member.