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The scheme is run by local businessmen, who pay fishermen to enter the Javari Valley, catch fish, and deliver it to them. One of the most valuable targets is the world’s largest freshwater fish with scales, the arapaima. It weighs up to 200 kilograms (440 pounds) and can reach 3 meters (10 feet). The fish is sold in nearby cities, including Leticia, Colombia, Tabatinga, Brazil, and Iquitos, Peru.

The Lenten season requires you to suspend your disbelief. Not sure about a skinny 33-something dude turning down a loaf of bread after fasting in the wilderness for 40 days? It’s Lent, baby! Get over it! Planning to give up sugar for six weeks? Sure, okay—Lent! A little shaky on hand-washing practices at your parish’s weekly fish fry? Shove it, man—it’s Lent, and anything’s possible! But to a lapsed Protestant like myself, nothing feels quite so Lenten as the annual parade of the fast fish sandwiches. I’m referring to the two-month-ish period during which nearly every major fast food chain...

On Thursday, Don Imus, whom MSNBC fired in 2007 after he referred to the Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy headed hos" on the network, said he could not believe MSNBC President Phil Griffin is going to keep Martin Bashir on the air after he suggested someone should urinate or defecate in former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's mouth.

Mermaid fever sweeps Israel beach town of Krivat Yam as many report sightings of fabled creature BY Issie Lapowsky DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Wednesday, August 12th 2009 Are mermaids real? Dozens of people in Israel have reported sightings of the mythical half-woman, half-fish. Take our Poll Mermaid sightings? What do you think people are really seeing in the ocean in Israel? A dolphin or some kind of fish A woman dressed up as a mermaid Nothing, their eyes are playing tricks on them. A mermaid. If all those people say they've seen one, it must be true! Related News Articles...

A WOMAN has been arrested for trying to smuggle dozens of live tropical fish into Australia by hiding them under her skirt as she passed through customs. The woman, who has not been identified, was carrying the fish in a specially constructed apron with pouches to hold water-filled bags. Customs officials at Melbourne airport stopped the woman as she arrived on a flight from Singapore. They were alerted after hearing a "flipping" sound coming from her skirt. When she was searched the woman was found to be carrying 51 live tropical fish. "During the search customs officers became suspicious after...

Nine workers who serviced U.S. Navy planes at Winston-Salem airport were arrested Tuesday on alleged immigration violations.Reports say agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement office made the arrests at Aerospace Manufacturing, Incorporated. They believe all those arrested were working illegally in the United States.The "Operation Shield America" raid at Smith-Reynolds Airport is aimed at finding illegal aliens doing work for the Pentagon.Reports also said that those arrested were working on P-3 Orions - survelliance planes known as "submarine killers."The suspects are in the Forsyth County Jail, and may be deported to their home countries in the United Kingdom later this...

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