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• Big oil lobbyist serves on federal marine protected areas panel – Dan Bacher

  Catherine Reheis-Boyd’s role as a “marine guardian” for both the state and federal governments is just one example of the many conflicts of interests that infest Read More »

• Editorial: Time to pull plug on NOAA’s joke of observer program

  Speaking last week at a meeting of the New England Fishery Management Council, current NOAA regional administrator John Bullard announced that, because NOAA somehow didn’t include Read More »

• Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology Researchers identify new factor in global warming

  Researchers at the Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology in Germany have studied a factor in climate change which has not been included in previous climate change projections. Read More »

• Kenai dipnetters should take steps to avoid bacteria

  As anyone who has fished the river mouth from the north or south beaches in Kenai knows, the scene is hardly the pristine, postcard setting of Read More »

• DFO leaving nearly $1B unspent is ‘appalling’

  Cardigan MP Lawrence MacAulay says the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans leaving $950 million unspent is ‘appalling’ and the money should have been used to Read More »

• The fate of the $150 million in federal disaster aid still in limbo at year’s end

  The Christmas season will come and go before fishermen and fishing communities discover the fate of the $150 million in federal disaster aid they seek in Read More »

• “If it comes in the bay, we’ve had it,” Port O’Connor Tx. Fishing community worries about oil spill (w/video)

  It was late in the day, and nearly everyone had left Clark’s Shrimp House except Craig Lambright and the rest of the three-man shrimper crew. The Read More »

• Pulling one out the archives for Stephen Taufen. “Ted Steven’s may be dead, but his virus is affecting every American!”

  Mon Nov 1, 2010 1:19 PM EDT By bore-head007 “Hesitating in the face of evil is equivalent to siding with the enemy” – Marion Pritchard Senator Read More »

• Fishing for an Answer: State Waits to Hear Outcome of Net Ban Case

  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – A spokesperson for the Florida Wildlife Commission says the state is waiting for an appeals court decision on whether it should continue to Read More »

• Man arrested for poaching 153 black sea bass

  A Rhode Island man fishing out of season was out of luck after being busted with 153 black sea bass at Mattapoisett Town Wharf on Wednesday. Read More »

• Spiny dogfish shark boom bane for N.S. fishermen

  According to the report, in 2013 there were nearly six times more tonnes of spiny dogfish caught in the 2013 survey off Nova Scotia, compared to the 2012 Read More »
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  Price offered for Maine’s baby eels hits record high

  Strong demand for baby eels from Maine, spurred by poor winter harvests elsewhere around the globe, has driven prices in the opening days of the state’s Read More »

• Lobster firm seeks processing space on Portland pier

  PORTLAND — Richmond-based Shucks Maine Lobster could soon be processing seafood on the city’s working waterfront. The company wants to lease nearly 19,000 square feet of Read More »

• Scallop conservation measures announced for Cobscook Bay region

  Maine Department of Marine Resources Commissioner Patrick Keliher announced short-term scallop management measures Thursday for the Cobscook Bay area that will allow fishermen to continue harvesting Read More »

• Jones Inlet Seafood Co., Executives plead guilty to committing fraud, falsifying records and violating the Lacey Act.

  Jones Inlet Seafood Co., the company’s president, Michael G. Mihale and company vice president Bruce Larson Jr. admitted they underreported the amount of summer flounder they Read More »

• Chesapeake Bay Foundation Continually Misrepresents Status of Menhaden – using biased phrasing in their articles

  In reference to menhaden, both articles uses the phrase “the most important fish in the sea,” which is frequently used without proper explanation. Originating from Rutgers Read More »

• Judge dismisses Humane Society lawsuit that opposed killing sea lions at Bonneville Dam

  A U.S. District Court judge in Oregon today dismissed the Humane Society of the United States’ challenge to the government’s plan to kill salmon-munching California sea Read More »

• UCIDA again sues over fed management of Cook Inlet salmon fishery

  UCIDA and Cook Inlet Fishermen’s Fund are suing the National Marine Fisheries Service over the decision to transfer control of the fishery from federal to state Read More »
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  Nantucket History: Collapse of the Quahog Industry by Amy Jenness

  In 1913 an Edgartown fisherman named Sam Jackson was dragging for flounder around Tuckernuck Shoal when he discovered a massive bed of quahogs and forever changed Read More »

• Regulations finalized for collection of P.E.I. marketing levy

  The regulations governing how the lobster marketing levy will be implemented are now finalized. An amendment to the Fisheries Act allowing for the imposition of the Read More »
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  Newfoundland Hammered with Hurricane-Force Winds – 13,500 still in dark in N.L. as crews work to restore power

  More than 24 hours after hurricane-force winds buffeted Newfoundland, crews are continuing efforts to restore power, with about 13,500 customers still without electricity. Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro issued Read More »

• Fisherman-invented trap controlling Green Crab “cockroaches of the sea,” says Parks Canada scientist

  A researcher who spent years removing millions of green crab from a Nova Scotia estuary says evicting some of the cantankerous crustaceans has proven effective in Read More »

• Letter: Lingering questions over NOAA’s perpetrators – Marty Stillufsen , Point Pleasant Beach, N.J.

  I was on a first name basis with the late Times staff writer Richard Gaines, and I am writing to see if there are any answers Read More »

• On a roll! Coast Guard terminates F/V Snark voyage near Sitka, Alaska

  ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Naushon terminated the voyage of the fishing vessel Snark near Sitka after discovering several safety issues aboard Read More »

• Closing Ports to Stolen Fish

  The oceans are vast and humans are small — as the monthlong hunt for a vanished Malaysian jetliner demonstrates. Think of the challenge, then, for law Read More »