With the Arctic ice melting, the region's abundant supplies of oil, gas and minerals have become newly accessible, as have shortened shipping routes and open water for commercial fishing, setting off a global competition for influence and economic opportunities far beyond the nations that border the Arctic.
The discovery of these fertile fishing grounds set off a centuries-long struggle among Basque, Portuguese, French and English fishermen, and established a pattern of far-flung coastal settlements, called outports by Newfoundlanders, that ring the island.
Spanish fishing boats set off at about 09 00 BST to protest near the spot where 70 concrete blocks were dropped into the sea to create the artificial reef.
But later, when the coolness had driven the hordes off, the miraculous trailing flares of swimming fish as they set off bioluminescent organisms were like underwater fireworks.
A starter of mackerel with little gem lettuce had subtle Japanese inflections in the super-fresh fish that were set off by an amazing dressing of sesame oil and white Banyuls vinegar.
JUST before the Fourth of July weekend, Paul A. Volcker packed his fishing gear and set off for his annual outing to the Canadian wilds to cast for Atlantic salmon.
The most distinctive may be the Queen Annes, whose fish-scale shingles set off wraparound porches, highlighted in emerald or blue.
Nearly a month before, on 12 June, the group of 41 had boarded a small fishing boat and set off from the Sri Lankan coast for New Zealand, as the Guardian revealed on 23 June.
As Reuters is reporting, the diplomatic anglers spent the day walking along the banks of the Volga River before some fishing, and then set off on a boat trip to take underwater photographs.
The fishing vessel, the Wave, set off from Tripoli, Libya, around noon last Friday, Colonel Baili said, and was carrying migrants from the African nations of Mali, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Morocco as well as from Pakistan and Bangladesh.
For 2,000 years, the wooden fishing boats known as falkusa set off for the deep Adriatic to bring back the glistening fish that the Venetians said were the best in the world.
