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• A clash between two lobstermen in North Yarmouth leaves one dead of gunshot wounds to the torso.

  Merrill “Mike” Kimball, 70, of Yarmouth, shot and killed Leon Kelley, 63, outside Brown’s Bee Farm off Greely Road on Sunday afternoon, say Maine State Police. Read More »

• Narwhal tusk smuggler Gregory Logan fined $385K

  A New Brunswick man has been fined a record $385,000 for smuggling narwhal tusks into the United States. “We set up an operation called Operation Longtooth,” said Glen Ehler, Read More »

• Tribes, cable groups protest plan for tidal-power project

  The tribes are concerned the turbines will interfere with fishing; cable interests say lines in the area could be damaged. The first draft of the study Read More »

• U.S. Representative Jeff Denham (R-Turlock) this week introduced H.R. 2705, establishing a pilot program on the Stanislaus River to protect native salmon and steelhead fish populations.

  “This pilot program will help us take action to save the threatened native fish and advance our collective knowledge of controlling non-native predator fish in California. Read More »

• Something different: The Vampire Squid Strikes Again: The Mega Banks’ Most Devious Scam Yet

  Call it the loophole that destroyed the world. It’s 1999, the tail end of the Clinton years. While the rest of America obsesses over Monica Lewinsky, Read More »

• Fishermen at Ocean City commercial harbor implore: ‘Buy real. Buy wild, local fish’

  While fishing might not be the booming business it was years ago, it remains an important part of the local economy. Ocean City’s commercial harbor is Read More »

• LePage wants Maine to process own lobster, blames Legislature for stumbling blocks

  Gov. Paul LePage said he would like to see enough factories built in Maine so that all Maine lobsters that are to be processed can be handled Read More »

• Provincetown fishermen sustain time-honored existence – with photo gallery

  There’s a chill in the air, the boat rocks and the rain comes and goes, but the  men would rather be wet than working on land. Read More »

• Compass: Finger-pointing won’t put any more kings in the rivers

  This summer there have been several ADN Compass  pieces,  articles from other print and electronic media and countless blogs stoking the fires of the Cook inlet Read More »

• Penobscot County district attorney dismisses cases against Passamaquoddy elver fishermen

  The charges stem from an ongoing dispute between the tribe and DMR over how many fishing licenses for elvers, which are juvenile American eels, the tribe Read More »

• Forgotten crewman in the Sea of Privatization – Shawn C. Dochtermann, Kodiak, Alaska

  The Bering Sea Crab Rationalization plan has resulted in the Godzilla of all privatization programs that leaves the labor portion of the industry with the short Read More »

• Setnetters – Alaska Department of Fish and Game head-to-head in an Anchorage courtroom on Tuesday. Kenai King Salmon Alliance granted intervention status

  Setnetters and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game went head-to-head at a preliminary injunction hearing in an Anchorage courtroom on Tuesday. The Kenai King Salmon Read More »

• Cobscook scallop fishermen bemoan emergency shutdown of season leaving, job loss, scallops to die of old age – DMR declines comment

  There are “plenty of scallops around,” said Danny Jodway of Lubec, one of seven fisherman who gathered for breakfast at Helen’s Restaurant and invited reporters to Read More »

• Study shows depleted fish stocks can come back from the brink What a difference in articles!

  (Phys.org) It turns out, in fact, that the resilience – the ability to recover from overfishing – of a fish stock is enhanced, not hurt, even Read More »

• North Carolina Seafood Festival Starts Today: Seafood festival celebrates the fishing industry in Morehead City

  For generations, the seafood business has been a part of cultural landscape of the eastern portion of the Old North State, and for the 27th year, Read More »

• Newfoundland and Labrador crab fishermen discuss protests, prices with union – video

  About two dozen crab fishermen from all over Newfoundland and Labrador had an emotional meeting with their union leader Tuesday morning in St. John’s. The harvesters Read More »

• Statoil touts large oil discovery off Newfoundland, set for more drilling

  Norwegian energy company Statoil says drilling works off the Canadian coast have uncovered a major oil field that could contain as much as 600 million barrels of Read More »

• Pacific fishing nations warn more price rises ahead

  Pacific nations have warned foreign fishing countries, including the United States, to expect more price hikes to the cost of fishing in their territorial waters. The Read More »

• Acoustic monitoring of Atlantic cod reveals clues to spawning behavior – Phys.Org

  For decades researchers have recorded sounds from whales and other marine mammals, using a variety of methods including passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) to better understand how Read More »

• University of Alaska Fairbanks new polar ocean research vessel “Sikuliaq” won’t get to Alaska until 2015

  A new polar ocean research vessel to be operated by the University of Alaska Fairbanks will remain on the Great Lakes this winter because of construction Read More »

• Rumor about ending commercial fishing addressed; hundreds show up – More than 100 fisherman showed up

  WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) – More than 100 fisherman showed up Wednesday at the Division of Marine Fisheries over a misleading message….. They all thought the board Read More »

• Bullard seeks support for fishery initiatives (the conference call)

  NOAA Fisheries regional administrator John Bullard conducted a conference call Monday to drum up interest in a collection of initiatives he hopes will help pull the Read More »

• UPDATED: CF/V Cape Dorset crew rescued, vessel sank off Burin Peninsula – No injuries reported for all 19 crew members

  The fishing crew aboard the Cape Dorset is safe after the vessel sank off the Burin Peninsula Saturday morning. A distress call was sent out from the Read More »

• Commericial restrictions lifted to match new federal rules – Swordfish now can be caught in North Florida waters

  Conforming to less-restrictive federal rules that went into effect in August, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission decided Thursday that commercial fishermen can catch and Read More »

• Rec guys throw a party for the warden’s! Sport boat captain and crew busted in MPA

  Anglers aboard a passenger sportfishing boat and some others in private vessels probably were celebrating one of the best fishing days they ever had on the Read More »