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• Penny a pound lobster levy gets initial approval – Levy could raise $250,000 for marketing Island lobster

  In the test vote, fishermen in Lobster Fishing Area (LFA) 24, from Tignish to North Lake, gave overwhelming support. “This was just a test zone to Read More »

• Fresh and Local: Community seafood program lure customers with fresh catch

  The return of warm weather is sending commercial fishing boats back out into the ocean and re-awakening the growing local seafood movement, which seeks to help Read More »

• Bumper harvest as herring return to Strait of Georgia in great numbers

  The commercial roe-herring fishery opened with a flourish over the weekend as the gillnet fleet took its share of what the federal government predicts to be Read More »

• J. Goodison Co. expanding marine services business at Quonset

  J. Goodison Co. will expand its marine services business onto a newly improved, waterfront site at the Quonset Business Park, and with a new mobile ship Read More »

• Regulators in New England cap river herring catch

  The caps proposed Thursday by the New England Fishery Management Council during their meeting on Cape Cod target so-called mid-water trawlers, which catch herring by pulling Read More »

• ‘Difficult time’ for families of lost crewmen of sunken Plymouth scallop trawler JMT

  The families of two fishermen lost at sea are said to be “devastated” after the crew’s sunken scallop trawler is thought to have been found on Read More »

• Kodiak memorial held for lost fisherman

  KODIAK, Alaska – As mourners prepared to release balloons into the air above  Kodiak on Wednesday, the clouds parted and the rain stopped. Then, incredibly, a  Read More »
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  Coast Guard, good Samaritan vessel search for 2 missing Fishermen in Marmot Bay, Alaska

  Coast Guard crews and a good Samaritan vessel crew are searching Thursday for one male and one female reported missing from the fishing vessel Miss Destinee that capsized in Marmot Read More »

• Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signs territorial waters bill

  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Gov. Phil Bryant has signed a bill that extends Mississippi’s territorial waters by about seven miles. Mississippi and Louisiana waters now extend Read More »

• Last In First Out – Shrimp quota change may be ‘disastrous’ for Nova Scotia fishery

  A massive decline in northern shrimp stocks off the northeastern coast of Newfoundland could cost Nova Scotia fish companies millions. That has one Nova Scotia fishermen Read More »

• Gillis resignation was over board appointment, say’s Walker undermined her credibility as Boards and Commissions director

  Gillis said in an interview on Wednesday that she quit her position on May 13 after learning that Walker had decided to appoint Roberta “Bobbi” Quintavell Read More »
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  On the hook-At-sea monitoring fees are the latest threat to NH’s dwindling fishing industry

  Working as both a biologist and a fisherman, David Goethel brings a unique perspective to the state and federal fishery management boards he’s an adviser on. “I’ve Read More »

• Shrimp Season Set Next Week in Portion Of Louisiana Offshore Territorial Waters

  The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced shrimp season will open in a portion of territorial waters between Caillou Boca and the Atchafalaya River Ship Read More »

• Exclusive: Ocean acidification not a current problem, top NOAA scientist insists in FOIA-ed e-mails

  JunkScience.com got NOAA scientist e-mails via FOIA? Why can’t Congress? Last October, the New York Times published this dire op-ed on ocean acidification, supposedly authored by Read More »
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  Post-Tropical Cyclone HERMINE Public Advisory

  At 800 AM EDT (1200 UTC), the center of Post-Tropical Cyclone Hermine was located near latitude 37.0 North, longitude 70.0 West. The post-tropical cyclone is moving Read More »
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  Another push for catch shares – Nils E. Stolpe, FishNet-USA

  Don’t get the idea from this that I oppose any fisheries management regime. What I do oppose is having the future of particular fisheries determined by Read More »

• Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council’s spiny lobster review panel, Monday, Feb 9, 0:900

  Open to the public in Key West, Florida, and accessible via webinar. Click here for information, and here to access webinar. 19:50 Related Read More »

• Scituate’s tribute to fishermen should be wake-up call of industry’s troubles

  It is often said, “All politics is local;” a phrase that is often associated with former Speaker of the House from Massachusetts Tip O’Neil. The phrase Read More »

• Breakwater Fisheries won’t commit to rebuilding Cottlesville plant – fire was ‘100 per cent arson’;

  The owner of the seafood processing plant in Cottlesville, New World Island that was burned by an arsonist in March says he’s not ready to say whether Read More »

• Pallone against seismic surveys in the Atlantic used to open up the Atlantic Ocean to oil and gas exploration

  He requested that the agency grant a 60-day extension of public comment and hold a public hearing to sufficiently review the application submitted to the National Read More »

• Salmon can adapt to warmer environment, study says

  With climate change heating up British Columbia’s rivers, there are growing concerns about the vulnerability of cold-water species such as salmon. But a shows salmon may Read More »

• Pew Charitable Trusts promoting illegal fishing crackdown

  In New England, one of the U.S.’s most active fishing areas, between 12 and 24 percent of the total catch of species such as cod, flounder Read More »

• I dunno about this one! Atlantic, Pacific Fish Face Mixing as Arctic Warms

  “There will be an interchange of the fish communities between those two seas,” beginning as soon as 2050, said Mary Wisz, lead author on the report Read More »

• Northeast Seafood Coalition issues statement on Accumulation Caps, Fleet Diversity, and “Amendment 18” – savingseafood.org

  NSC believes any and all groundfish management measures must be highly sensitive to the potential for unintended consequences to all segments of this fragile fishery. WASHINGTON Read More »

• Maine – Industry confronts access issues as scallop season opens

  The Maine scallop fishery opened Tuesday morning, with predictions that the boat price will be high, the season short and the pressure to let more people Read More »