Now THAT’S a big fish! Couple’s 12-foot sturgeon is ‘biggest’ ever catch in North America

A couple from England may have nabbed the biggest fish ever caught in North America when they reeled in a 12-foot white sturgeon weighing 1,100 pounds.

Michael Snell, 65, and his wife, Margaret, both of Salisbury, England, caught the giant fish during a trip to Chilliwack, British Columbia in Canada earlier this week.

Mrs Snell had to hold on to her husband during the hour-and-a-half hour long battle to bring the mammoth [...]

Thousands of Japanese marched to celebrate the switching off of the last of their nation’s 50 nuclear reactors Saturday

TOKYO (AP) — Thousands of Japanese marched to celebrate the switching off of the last of their nation’s 50 nuclear reactors Saturday, waving banners shaped as giant fish that have become a potent anti-nuclear symbol.

Japan was without electricity from nuclear power for the first time in four decades when the reactor at Tomari nuclear plant on the northern island of Hokkaido went offline for mandatory routine maintenance.

After last year’s March [...]