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...In addition to the amphorae, archaeologists found ropes, shoes, a wooden drill and organic "dunnage" or matting, made from vine shoots and grass, that was used to protect the ship's hull from the cargo, Cau said...Many of the amphorae contained the remnants of fish sauce, while others held oil from plants — likely olives, wine, and perhaps olives preserved in vinegar. The distinctive amphorae for different products were labeled with painted inscriptions known as "tituli picti" in Latin, he said...Previous studies found that many of the oil amphorae had seals stamped with a "Chrismon," or Christian monogram — similar to...

What was once considered one of the most unappetizing snacks has now become one of the most popular foods in the United States. Canned sardines are now many Americans’ go-to quick snack when they want a healthy option that will keep them satisfied from hunger throughout the day. However, sardines provide so much more than just nutritional benefits for your body internally. Many women claim that eating the slimy fish slivers will clear acne and blemishes, and credit the food for providing them with glowing, smooth skin. Tinned sardines have become so popular that anyone can now partake by visiting...

Hundreds of tons of dead fish have been washing ashore in Japan as officials struggle to explain the issue. The Japanese government has admitted that it doesn’t have any answers as to why the fish have started dying in unprecedented numbers. An estimated 1,200 tons of sardines and mackerel were found floating on the surface of the sea off the fishing port of Hakodate in Hokkaido. The dead fish formed a silver blanket stretching for almost a mile. This issue isn’t just limited to one location, however. On Wednesday, officials in Nakiri, a town on the Pacific coast hundreds of...

Venture capitalist and entrepreneur Craig Cooper has some interesting life hacks up his sleeve. He says his body automatically goes to sleep every night at 10:24 p.m., he’s an exercise rat who never works out in an actual gym, and he takes 22-minute naps in the afternoon to boost his productivity. If that weren’t enough, the millionaire co-founder of telecommunications company Boost Mobile (USA) also hacks his diet: He eats five cans of sardines every day to maintain his health and energy. “Sardines are the No. 1 superfood for guys,” said Cooper, who co-hosts CNBC’s reality pitch series “Adventure Capitalists.”...

Anyone in the mood for salmon? A new study finds higher omega-3 levels in the bloodstream may reduce one’s risk of dying from a COVID-19 infection. Conducted by the Fatty Acid Research Institute in collaboration with Cedars-Sinai Medical Centers in Los Angeles and Orange County, these findings are the first to uncover direct evidence linking omega-3 fatty acids with improved coronavirus health outcomes. Numerous scientists had theorized that omega-3 fatty acids may be beneficial for COVID-19 patients, but all of that was ultimately conjecture at best. The new study involved blood samples taken from 100 COVID-19 patients taken to a...

DAVOS, Switzerland - Youth climate delegates from around the world are taking part in a "collaborative protest" against the rich and powerful by camping in subzero temperatures at the World Economic Forum. The annual January get-together - which is often criticized for being out of touch with the real world - is set to welcome more than 3,000 participants this week, with those in attendance poised to focus on the intensifying climate crisis. **SNIP** "We are just trying to show them that we are doing the right thing despite the fact that we are not sleeping or staying in the...

The health benefits of sardines include the prevention of heart diseases, certain types of cancers, and age-related macular degeneration. They also help strengthen bones, boost the immune system, improve insulin resistance, and rejuvenate the skin.

The last sardine cannery in the United States closed its doors for good last month, due to "global competition, corporate consolidations and a general lack of appetite, at least in the United States." But not only is the small, oily, silvery fish inexpensive, easy to prepare, and loaded with things that are good for you, like Omega-3 fatty acids and calcium, it’s also one of the most sustainable fish around: The Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch program lists sardines as a "Best Choice" due to their abundance and high production rate. Usually canned sardines are thought of as a last...

Researchers say the millions of sardines that were found floating dead in a Southern California marina this week tested positive for a powerful neurotoxin.v Domoic acid is often found in the stomach of fish that have been feeding on plankton during toxic algae blooms. Caron’s lab is working to determine if the poisoning was caused by a toxic algae bloom spotted off Redondo Beach on Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The millions of sardines that were found floating dead in a Southern California marina this week tested positive for a powerful neurotoxin, researchers said Friday. High levels of domoic acid were found in the sardines, which may have distressed them off the Los Angeles coastline and caused them to swim into the Redondo Beach marina, University of Southern California biologist David Caron wrote in a summary of his laboratory's findings.

At a boutique hotel near the exclusive shops and hangouts of New York's meatpacking district, a bellman, polite and formal in the classic uniform of burgundy trimmed in gold, pushed open a rich wood door for a guest the other day. Beyond it was a carefully designed space with luxury touches: high-thread-count cotton sheets, large flat-screen television, bathrobe and spa sandals. "Your presidential suite," the bellman announced. Except that this was the Jane, a restored residential hotel rising over the West Side Highway, and the "presidential suite" was one of its standard single rooms. Reminiscent of a high-class train cabin,...

PROSPECT HARBOR, Maine – The intensely fishy smell of sardines has been the smell of money for generations of workers in Maine who have snipped, sliced and packed small, silvery fish into billions of cans on their way to Americans' lunch buckets and kitchen cabinets. For the past 135 years, sardine canneries have been as much a part of Maine's small coastal villages as the thick Down East fog. It's been estimated that more than 400 canneries have come and gone along the state's long, jagged coast. The lone survivor, the Stinson Seafood plant here in this eastern Maine shoreside...

PROSPECT HARBOR, Me. — The women in their smudged aprons here at the sardine cannery work together in mesmerizing synchronization. Their hands flying, they fill the empty tins that clatter along the conveyer belt, packing in pieces of cut herring like, well, so many sardines. On April 18, the clanking will cease. The bells and buzzers that regulate the pace of packing will fall silent. The old plant, the last sardine cannery in the United States, is shutting down. Once a thriving national industry — and the backdrop of John Steinbeck’s gritty “Cannery Row” — sardine canneries have been dwindling...

The airlines have come up with a new answer to an old question: How many passengers can be squeezed into economy class? A lot more, it turns out, especially if an idea still in the early stage should catch on: standing-room-only "seats." Airbus has been quietly pitching the standing-room-only option to Asian carriers, though none have agreed to it yet. Passengers in the standing section would be propped against a padded backboard, held in place with a harness, according to experts who have seen a proposal. ...................................... "People hear about these new planes, and they have bowling alleys and...

A SHOP in Portugal plans to start selling ice cream in flavours like shrimp, cod, tuna and grilled sardines when it opens next month. The "Coromoto" store in the southern fishing port and canning centre of Portimao, located 300 kilometres south of Lisbon, will offer a total of 60 exotic flavours alongside traditional options like chocolate and vanilla, its owner told Lusa news agency today. "Anything that you can eat or drink can be transformed into an ice cream," said Manuel Oliveira, who said he and his daughter would make all the flavoured ice creams without using any chemicals. Among...

A BRITISH surfer who fought off a shark attack yesterday on South Africa’s coast is recovering with more than one hundred stitches to wounds on his hips, buttocks and arms. Jay Catherall, 32, a wildlife photographer from Worcester, was knocked from his board at Wackey Point, an outstanding but remote surfing spot near the mouth of the Kei River, north of East London, a city on the Indian Ocean coast. “Jay had just completed a ride on a huge barrel wave and was beginning to paddle in when I saw him give the shark warning symbol, an upturned hand to...

Scientists working off the west coast of Africa have identified sardines as an unexpected factor in global warming. The fish are not acting like cattle or termites, whose gassy emissions (to put it politely) add heat-trapping methane to the atmosphere. Sardines improve the situation, the researchers say. Or they might, if they were not being fished out. The scientists say that when sardines are plentiful they gobble up ocean phytoplankton, tiny plants that appear in vast numbers when ocean currents produce upwellings of deep water. But when sardines are scarce, the phytoplankton survive uneaten, only to sink to the bottom,...

Just heard up to 300 illegal aliens found in a 3 bedroom home. LOL! They are going for a record folks! Someone call Guinness book of world records! Heard on the scanner they were found crammed in the kitchen cupboards and sitting in the fireplace hearth. This gives new meaning to standing room only.

PLYMOUTH, N.H. -- A car accident Monday night on Route 3 in Plymouth left one Plymouth State University student dead and nine others injured. Kelly Nester, 20, of Coventry, R.I., was pronounced dead at the scene. Nester was not driving. A Jeep Cherokee carrying the 10 students crashed on Route 3, less than two miles from downtown Plymouth. Police said no other vehicles were involved. The other students were treated and released from Speare Memorial Hospital. Six are from New Hampshire.