Fish

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

According to experts, the world's oldest vertebrate could be up to 512 years old, which means it was born before Shakespeare and right around the time of Columbus.

Forget about the minuscule odds of spotting Ahab’s white whale: Sightings of the frilled shark, a so-called “living fossil” that has elusively swum around Earth’s deep waters since the age of the dinosaurs, may been an even rarer find.

Scientists working on a project to minimize unwanted catches found Algarve prehistoric frilled shark still living in the ocean depths, International Business Times reported.