JERUSALEM, April 3 (UPI) -- The biblical tradition of fishing in the Sea of Galilee has been suspended by Israeli officials who say the waters have been overfished. The Ministry of Agriculture ...

Israel on Sunday imposed a two-year ban on fishing in the Sea of Galilee, halting a practice that dates back to biblical times when tradition holds Jesus and his disciples fished those waters.

The Sea of Galilee, Israel's largest freshwater body, is currently host to a world class carp fishing competition. The event, hosted by the Israeli Carp Fishing Association, features 14 teams that ...

Scientist Ilia Ostrovsky, who studies the lake and serves on the committee overseeing aquatic populations, said the fishermen of the Galilee ... his fishing neighbors on the shores of the sea ...

POLITICO is reporting that GOP freshmen legislators and top staff members took a late-night swim in the Sea of Galilee last summer ... source of commercial fishing and the surrounding area ...

In the best known book (and film) about Montana, Norman Maclean begins his semi-autobiographical "A River Runs Through It," by noting that in his family there was no clear distinction between ...

The Sea of Galilee, also called Lake Tiberias or Kinneret ... In the second, the apostles were fishing unsuccessfully until Jesus told them to cast their nets one last time, after which they ...

Conservation, it says, is critical, especially in light of pressures from water pumping, fishing and recreation. The state regards the Sea of Galilee as the country’s emergency water store.

De Agostini via Getty Images Scientists aren’t fishing on this one ... a timeline for one of them — that occurred in the Sea of Galilee, known today as Israel’s Lake Kinneret.

the first-century boat … all imply an involvement with fishing." [Photos: 4,000-Year-Old Structure Hidden Under Sea of Galilee] The architectural remains and pottery suggest that Jews and those ...

The Sea of Galilee has for centuries provided a healthy living for hundreds of fishermen - the disciple Peter among them, according to the Bible. But now an unprecedented fishing ban is being enforced ...

Eyal Regev, professor of history and archaeology at Israel's Bar Ilan University, said: "New Testament traditions about the Sea of Galilee flourished because in this area fishing was what kept the ...