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• BP’s 3 Miles of Bull Bleep: “bringing to a close the extensive four-year active cleanup of the Gulf Coast following the Deepwater Horizon accident.”

  BP oil spill cleanup will continue, Coast Guard tells state coastal authority – The Coast Guard has scaled back its clean-up response to the BP Deepwater Read More »

• Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Marine deputy gets down and dirty to find resource violators

  Willy Guerra keeps a dry uniform ready at home because his clothes are often wet from jumping into Florida Keys waters to catch criminals. Guerra, the Read More »

• Ludger Dochtermann of Kodiak – Reinstituting Reasonable Crab Pot Limits

  Dear Board of Fisheries members: My name is Ludger Dochtermann of Kodiak, and I own two crab vessels, the F/V Northpoint and F/V Stormbird. Like all Read More »

• RI Coastal Resources Management Council Hearing – September 24 – 6:00 PM – State Administration Building, Conference Room A, One Capitol Hill, Providence, RI

  Many of you have this already but this meeting on September 24, regarding the Deepwater Wind’s opportunity in getting the language changed in this proposal needs Read More »
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  Shrimpin ain’t easy, but shrimpers finding ways to navigate 30 yr low prices

  Shrimpers across the state have been complaining about foreign imports that are driving prices to a thirty year low. Shrimpers with larger boats say they’re aiming Read More »
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  Fight Over Papahanaumokuakea Expansion Isn’t Over

  Hawaii’s commercial fishing industry leaders are not finished fighting the fourfold expansion of a U.S. marine monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Now the Western Pacific Read More »

• YEAR IN REVIEW: Federal agenda dominated by halibut bycatch concerns

  Halibut dominated the federal fisheries process in 2015, with each sector fighting over reduced allocations. Directed halibut fishermen in the North Pacific have watched their quotas Read More »

• Alewives counted one-by-one on some Maine rivers

  The alewife, which returns from the Atlantic each spring to spawn in lakes and ponds, has had a drastic drop in population from its southernmost habitat Read More »
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  Sen. Marco Rubio Reintroduces Bipartisan Bill to Promote U.S. Shark Conservation

  U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) reintroduced the Sustainable Shark Fisheries and Trade Act Read More »

• Waste Water Pollution released by shrimp farms kills millions of Quang Tri shrimp

  QUANG TRI  (VNS) — Pollution from waste water has killed millions of farmed shrimps in central Quang Tri Province, causing huge losses for farmers. The province’s Read More »

• Commerce secretary declares Alaska salmon disaster

  Read more   http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-09-14/commerce-secretary-declares-alaska-salmon-disaster#.UFM4lBjC1Ac Read More »
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  “This is the stupidest thing I ever did,” ‘Codfather’ is sentenced to 46 months for skirting tax and fishing regulations

  Carlos Rafael, the New Bedford, Mass. fishing magnate whose brash business style earned him the nickname “The Codfather,” was sentenced to nearly four years in prison Read More »

• Plans for a local Asian Carp processing center are on the way

  EAST PEORIA, Ill. — Local leaders, international entrepreneurs, and local businesses are cooking up a plan to control the invasion of Asian Carp in the Illinois Read More »

• New England Fishery Management Council seeks voice in marine monument review

  New England fishery regulators might seek to reclaim some of the authority they lost when President Barack Obama virtually walled off thousands of square miles of Read More »

• New Jersey Seismic-testing debate continues amid NOAA/NMFS approvals

  A research project green-lighted to begin off the New Jersey coast this summer is the source of concern for legislators and environmentalists who see the project’s Read More »

• Gloucester Daily Times Editorial: NOAA ‘openings’ hardly the help fishermen deserve

  The announcement by NOAA Northeast Administrator John Bullard that the agency is looking to open up portions of long-closed groundfishing areas primarily off Cape Cod and Read More »

• SITTING IN: How wrong is the Pew mantra? Dr. Carmine Gorga

  Gloucester —I have heard it so many times, that I call it the Pew Mantra. What is the  evidence that NGO’s environmentalists offer to prove that Read More »

• University of Washington Releases the 2014 Bristol Bay Sockeye Forecast

  This year’s sockeye salmon run to Bristol Bay came in at 23-million fish. Next year’s run could potentially be significantly larger according to a forecast that Read More »

• Medical student hopes to start mobile medical clinic for fishermen

  Miranda Rogers has seen firsthand the ailments affecting people who work in Maine’s fishing industries: infections from handling bait, skin cancer from heavy sun exposure and Read More »

• Fishing’s Low Ecological Footprint

  Confirmation of fishing’s relatively low ecological footprint was provided recently in the publication of the European Environment Agency statistics on energy use by sector. Fisheries are Read More »

• Southern New England Lobstermen Dispute Finding That Lobsters Are At Record Lows

  It’s been months since the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission released its latest report on how lobsters are faring in the Atlantic Coast. But it’s still Read More »

• Eel hearings to be held in Augusta

  AUGUSTA, Maine — Three Maine hearings on interstate management measures for the American eel have been consolidated into one. continued Read More »

• Motive behind the set net ban is reallocation – Jerry McCune

  This is about the anti-set net ballot initiative that is before the Alaska Supreme Court and the devastating effect it will have on commercial fishing and Read More »
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  Folkestone Trawler Race 2017 details as fishermen prepare for events

  Trawler Race weekend is almost upon us again as Folkestone’s fishing quarter prepares for its two biggest days in the year. A new addition is coming Read More »

• Science flap eyes fishing area closures

  In the midst of one of the epic efforts at ocean management — a more than decade-long effort to drill into the scientific intricacies of North Read More »