Crews from a Canadian warship involved in an anti-terrorism patrol of the Arabian Sea have found more than four tons of hashish from a Pakistani fishing boat they intercepted on Feb. 18. The Canadian crews of the frigate HMCS Charlottetown found the cargo of illegal drug hidden under the deck planks and fuel tanks of the dhow named Al Moula Madad after a 17-hour search. The crews boarded the vessel 37 miles (60 kilometers) off Pakistan's coast to verify reports that it is being used by terrorists.

The little western Japanese city of Obama is throwing its support to the Democratic presidential candidate who shares their city's name, Barack Obama. Residents in the city of Obama in Japan are hoping Obama will become the next U. S. president and eventually, choose the city for an international summit someday.

A woman who had long given up finding her nose stud after losing it in the waters while kneeboarding, got the surprise of her life after it turned up inside a fish caught by her fiance. Kristy Brittain, 25, of Magra, Tasmania said she never expected to see her stud again. However, to her surprise, it turned up three days later in one of the fishes caught by her fiance, Darren Triffett. Brittain said Triffett and his friend Tim Hall went fishing in almost the same area where the stud was lost. When they were cutting off one flathead, they found the tiny nail-like object inside.

A 12-year-old boy reeled in a 551-pound bull shark Tuesday, north of the Palm Beach inlet in Florida. The catch managed to break the state record for the heaviest bull shark caught. After spending half a day out in the water, Aidan Murray Medley, a seventh-grader at Eagle Hill School who was vacationing with his family, found himself wrestling with the fish for 20 minutes, reportedly losing feeling from his body.

Fishermen in the Philippines on Sunday threatened to launch a "fish strike" if the government of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo failed to stop the oil companies from raising and overpricing the prices of petroleum products in the country. "If fish strikes across the country are necessary to compel the Macapagal-Arroyo government and the oil mafia composed Petron, Shell and Caltex to stop, rollback and put an end to corporate practices of price manipulation and overpricing, then we will call our colleagues to go on a nationwide fish holiday," the fisherfolk alliance Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas said in a press statement.