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Back of the Landing Net – Carp Match at The Islands Fishery March 2015 (BOTLN) Fishing Blog. – Video

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Back of the Landing Net - Carp Match at The Islands Fishery March 2015 (BOTLN) Fishing Blog.
Jay, spatch and Charlie visit The Islands Carp Fishery in Mere, Wiltshire for a charity pairs match in aid of Cancer Research UK. The Islands Carp Fishery website: http://www.cmfisheries.co.uk/...

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Catalone islands owners urged to contact Nova Scotia government

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SYDNEY Do you own any islands in Catalone Lake, Cape Breton County? If so, youve got until next summer to let the provincial government know before it claims six of them for the Crown.

Property records show the islands have no known owner.

If Property Online shows it as owner unknown which means they have no record, no deeds, no wills, no documents to back up who owns it then lands revert back to the Crown, said Jody Nelson, with the Natural Resources Department.

Sometimes lands were granted 200, 250 years ago, and there were certain conditions that had to be met for the grant to be realized, he said.

If you were granted lands and never did anything with them, and never occupied them or never did any farming with them, never raised cattle on them, things like that, then after a certain amount of time, they would revert back to the Crown.

More often than not, these lands were never granted and theyre just sitting there and we never had our name attached to them is what happens, particularly with islands.

The provincial Land Services Branch has advertised its interest in the six islands for two weeks, and will run one more newspaper ad next week.

Eighteen months after the date lands with unknown owners are vested in the Crowns name in this case, July 26, 2016 unclaimed lands become provincial property.

At that point, the province is required to pay any back taxes to the municipality. Nelson said the taxes owing would be minimal, because the six parcels in Catalone Lake have an assessed value of $1,000 each and are classed as resource lands.

The province has no plans for the islands, he said, and under an agreement with Ducks Unlimited, because of their location and condition, the islands will be conserved in accordance with objectives of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan.

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Welcome to Australia's newest islands, thrust from the sea by a raging cyclone Nathan

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It is not often that human beings get to stand on dry land anywhere on planet Earth and know they are the first to leave a footprint.

Stepping off her inflatable tender on to a sand and coral rubble outcrop at Holmes Reef, 200km offshore from Cairns, photographer Julia Sumerling said: Welcome to the newest islands in the Coral Sea.

The island on which we had stood a little over a week ago at dusk had been forged out of the fury of tropical cyclone Nathan. We were on the first boat to travel to the area after the slow-moving storm passed on, leaving at least six new Australian islands in its wake.

Holmes Reef is a tiny dot in an immense rump of ocean that is widely regarded as one of the worlds most pristine marine wilderness areas.

The dive vessel we were on, Spoil Sport, had arrived there earlier in the day, three days after cyclone Nathan passed, and anchored about a kilometre from the new coral cays.

Since mooring at the reef, Sumerling and the boats skipper, Trevor Jackson, had trained their binoculars on the new outcrops of dry ground and scratched their heads, trying to remember if the islands had been there when they last visited in January. Back then they recalled there was only one very small cay that was so low above sea level that it was almost submerged by the high tide.

The new islands there now, however, had stayed high and dry all day.

Jackson said: Theres definitely more islands there. The cyclone would have driven a massive north-west swell that lifted the sand and coral rubble up above the surface. There must have been massive weather to throw those islands up and there will be massive weather needed to take them away.

He also observed that another coral cay usually nearby seemed to have disappeared after Nathan.

The Coral Sea is exactly the kind of place that can throw up new Australian territory (and take it away) without humans knowing.

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Welcome to Australia's newest islands, thrust from the sea by a raging cyclone Nathan


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