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  • Fancy a fish with 6-pack abs?
    Mar 17 - Scientists have created a transgenic trout with muscles your average body builder would die for. But this guy is more than just pretty - his creator says the buff fish could be big news for the commerical fish-farm industry. Julie Gordon reports.


  • Eat dirt, Indonesian-style
    Mar. 17 - Dirt is turned into tasty snacks of the soil in Indonesia's East Java province.


  • Dog worth her weight in diamonds
    Mar 16 - A golden retriever swallows a $20,000 diamond - with the unlucky owner having to wait three days for the dog to "produce" the 3 carat stone.


  • New travel agency for teddy bears
    Mar 15 - A Czech entrepreneur has opened a travel agency offering city breaks for cuddly toys.


  • Chess boxing a big hit in London
    Mar 15 - A Dutch artist has created a new sport combining the intellectual finesse of chess with a good old-fashioned punch up.


  • White Day: Valentines reply in Japan
    Mar 14. - One month after receiving gifts from women on Valentine's Day, Japanese men return the favour on White Day.


  • A spellbinding Egyptian discovery
    Mar. 13 - Archaeologists in Egypt have found what they believe are hieroglyphic funeral spells guiding a mysterious 4,000-year-old queen in the afterlife.


  • Chef makes mommy's milk cheese
    Mar 10 - New York chef makes cheese from his wife's breast milk. Sharon Reich reports.


  • Bottled ghosts sold in New Zealand
    Mar 10 - A New Zealand woman sells two "spirits in a bottle" amid a bidding frenzy in an online auction.


  • Fireworks honour Mexican saint
    Mar 09 - Tultepec, a town near Mexico City, stages a spectacular fireworks display to honour the patron saint of pyrotechnicians, San Juan de Dios. tara Cleary reports.

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H.R. 1584: Flexibility in Rebuilding American Fisheries Act of 2009 has been introduced and has been sent to the House Committee on Natural Resources . A similar version of this bill has died in committee the past two years. Please do not let this happen this year. This bill proposes nothing more than a common sense approach to fishery regulation that should have been in the re-authorized Magnuson-Stevens Act from the beginning and will help provide some desperately needed relief for beleaguered commercial fisheries and fishermen.

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