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• Can Regulations Help a Man Learn to Fish? Kissing boss Bloomberg’s ass?

  (James Greiff’s boss just granted $56 million to increase fish stocks in Brazil, Chile and the Philippines.) There probably isn’t a lament repeated more often by small Read More »

• Skipper fined $25k for fishing in Wade Doaks Poor Knights Islands private playground

  An ocean conservationist instrumental in setting up the Poor Knights Islands marine reserve has welcomed the more than $25,000 fines and costs imposed on a commercial Read More »

• Gulf Seafood Marketing Coalition aims to increase Gulf seafood market

  The Gulf Seafood Marketing Coalition, which brings fishing industry and marketing officials from the five Gulf states together to promote the Gulf fishery, is working with Read More »

• Seafood exporters hope EU tariff deal will provide much needed boost

  OTTAWA — As a major free trade deal with Europe looms, seafood exports to the continent are reported to have plummeted in recent years. Annual Canadian Read More »

• PNA urged to respect Forum decision on fisheries

  New Zealand’s Ambassador for Pacific Economic Development says the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) should respect the wishes of Pacific leaders on how to manage Read More »

• Sustainable Shark Alliance register’s to lobby with the sole goal of defeating the Shark Fin Trade Elimination Act

  The bill, sponsored by Sen. -Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Del. Gregorio Sablan (D-Northern Mariana Islands), seeks to expand on Congress’s ban on shark finning, in which Read More »

• High-tech Northern Leader leaves Tacoma shipyard for Alaskan waters

  The Northern Leader, the largest commercial fishing boat built in the Northwest in the last two decades, left its moorings at J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Co. on Sunday Read More »

• Longtime leader Robin Samuelsen to be honored at Pacific Marine Expo in Seattle

  Those supporting and attending the Pacific Marine Expo in Seattle this week will gather to honor one of Bristol Bay’s most dynamic and productive leaders — Read More »

• Right whale entanglements: Scientists, engineers, fishing industry are collaborating with little success

  After three recent fishing gear entanglements involving the rare North American right whale, a Boston researcher says collaboration between fishers, biologists, and engineers isn’t fixing the problem. Read More »

• CCA is telling fish tales about Omega Protein

  On April 2, the Sun Herald published an op-ed from the spokesman of the Coastal Conservation Association — Mississippi, F.J. Eicke (“A most important fish raises Read More »

• Is John Risely out to gut Ocean Choice International like a fish? By Ryan Cleary

  Nova Scotian John Risley who led a hostile takeover of Fishery Products International in 2001 that led to the company’s demise and the loss of hundreds Read More »

• NOAA reduces monitoring/some catch limits for upcoming New England groundfish season

  NOAA, according to the final rule filed Friday in the Federal Register, will cut monitoring to 14 percent of all vessel trips in 2016, down from about Read More »

• Shark trackers plot migration of great whites up and down East Coast

  The three East Coast sharks tracked by Ocearch are the first white sharks in history with Facebook followers. As of Saturday, both Lydia and Mary Lee, Read More »

• Baltimore Canyon “Urban” Marine Sanctuary Proposal Withdrawn

  A prized fishing area off Maryland’s coast has been pulled from consideration as the nation’s first “urban” marine sanctuary. The National Aquarium in Baltimore petitioned the National Oceanic Read More »

• Certified salmon: Park Service director endorses Alaska fish without the MSC label. He does NOT go far enough.

  Sen. Lisa Murkowski put Jon Jarvis, director of the National Park Service on the hot seat, and he tried to wiggle his way off the hook by Read More »

• 3-Minute Market Insight – Fraser River Sockeye, Definitely Buyers Market, Russia Salmon 2 Weeks Late

  17:08 Related Read More »

• Voters need to take action to save fishing industry – By Christian Putnam

  The federal government could take a page from Gov. Baker’s playbook when it comes to breaking through bureaucratic roadblocks and promoting efficiency. Instead the Obama administration Read More »
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  Feds threaten shutdown of N.J. Fluke fishery as showdown escalates

  Call it the Great Flounder War of 2017. A simmering battle between New Jersey recreational fisherman and the federal agency governing fishing along the Atlantic Coast has now Read More »

• Northwest Alaska villagers concerned about dead salmon washing up along Kobuk River

  For the last week, from Shugnak all the way down to Kotzebue, people are reporting dead fish washed up on the banks of Northwest Alaska’s Kobuk River Read More »

• Coast Guard searching for a missing fisherman south of Montauk, NY

  The Coast Guard is searching for a man that went missing from a fishing vessel 30 miles south of Montauk, New York, Monday afternoon. Missing is a 55-year Read More »

• For Rockfish, A Tale Of Recovery, Hidden On Menus

   For West Coast commercial fishermen and seafood lovers, there is reason to cheer. “On the East Coast, they call striped bass ‘rockfish.’ You offer them a Read More »

• Maine Can Kiss Cape Cod’s Ass With This “Rare” Blue Lobster!

  Oh hey isn’t that cute, a blue lobster and they named it and everything. How amazing that only one in two million lobsters are blue like Read More »
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  New Jersey Scalloper Nick Rossi makes the scene at the 10th Annual Clam Jam!

  For 10 years now, local apparel company Jetty, has held its Clam Jam (click for standings and great photos) each fall. At its root, it’s a surf contest. But Read More »

• Fishing Catch Share restructure a ‘shambles’ in New South Wales!

  Attempts to prepare fishers for the share trading program of the NSW fishing industry restructure are a shambles says a local industry representative. Clarence River Fishermen’s Read More »

• Fukushima radiation devastates fishing industry – Radiation contamination makes catch inedible

  The plant suffered triple meltdowns after the massive earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. TEPCO, the Tokyo Electric Power Co., is putting tonnes of water into Read More »