Showing posts with label fishing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fishing. Show all posts

Feb 29, 2012

Couple Lands 40 Kilo Chinese Carp

Brazil News

| PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil – Last week, a couple of fish farmers in southern Brazil pulled a Chinese carp weighing 40 kilos out of one of their ponds. Jair Balest, 56, and his wife, Yvonne, who farm fish in Dona Francisca, in the central region of Rio Grande do Sul state, became famous in the region after the record catch.

Fish farmer Jair Balest and his wife, Yvonne, pose with a record shattering 40 kg Chinese carp that they pulled out of a pond on their farm in Dona Francisca, in central Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil on Thursday 23 February 2012

Forty-kilo Chinese Carp (Photo: Wylner César Fernandes Ribeiro/G1)

Nov 13, 2011

Fishermen Arrested Using Dolphin Bait

Brazil News

| MANAUS, Amazonas – Wardens of the Environmental Police Battalion seized meat from two dolphins and an alligator on Saturday near the community of Supia, located on the banks of the Solimoes River, near the city of Manacapuru, 42 miles from the capital. The animals were in the possession of two fishermen, one 67 years old and another 66, who were using the meat to fish for piracatinga.

Environmental police in the Amazon seize the meat of two dolphin and an alligator during the apprehension of two men during special operation.

Amazon Environmental Police (photo: G1 Amazonas)