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• RCMP are seeking the public’s help in solving a canned clam caper in Le Goulet, N.B. (at least they left the canned seal meat behind) whew!

  Police say 360 cans of Sea Watch brand clams were stolen from a warehouse on Basile-Roussel Road. more@cbcnews! 16:14 Read More »

• DFO POACHER PATROL Working Double Time on the Lower Fraser River

   have doubled their patrols on the lower Fraser River to battle poachers who are illegally catching threatened sockeye salmon to sell into the black market. All Read More »

• Maine fishing bill seeks access for big boats – aims to expand Maine’s groundfishing quota while easing limits on larger vessels.

  AUGUSTA – A state-run permitting program that helps Maine’s long-ailing groundfishing industry should be open to boats of all sizes, supporters of a bill to expand Read More »

• Mississippi Shrimp producers hopeful for 2013 crop

  “The brown shrimp don’t grow as fast under the conditions we had this spring, but once it gets hot, they can go up a whole count Read More »

• Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update NOVEMBER 17, 2013

  “The Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance is dedicated to its mission of continuing to help create sustainable fisheries without putting licensed fishermen out of business.” Read the Read More »

• What’s Behind Spike in Gulf Coast Dolphin Attacks? psst,,, they say it’s you fishermen. The psychologist’s weigh in.

  NatGeo – According to a December report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), in 2012 three dolphins with gunshot wounds were found “stranded” (or Read More »

• U.S. Coast Guard announces notice of proposed rulemaking for personal flotation device type codes

  PFD type codes are unique to Coast Guard approval and are not well understood by the general public. The current PFD type code classification system is planned Read More »

• Maine lobster picks up advantage over Maritimes

  Maine’s lobster industry is expected to have some advantage over the Maritime’s this coming season with its new environmentally-sustainable certification. continue Read More »

• Seafood certificat​ion – who’s really on first? Nils Stolpe

  “Sustainability certification” has become a watchword of people in the so-called marine conservation community in recent years. However, their interest seems to transcend the determination of the actual Read More »

• SW Florida blue crab trap closure starts July 10

  The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is requiring recreational and commercial blue crab traps in state waters, from the Palm Beach-Broward county line to the Read More »

• NOAA sets minimum size limit for parrotfish caught in St. Croix waters

  The regulation has been through the public hearing process and had input from fishermen before that. Carlos Farchette, the St. Croix member of the Caribbean Fishery Read More »

• Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak medevacs fisherman from F/V Ruth M near Cordova, Alaska

  The helicopter crew, forward-deployed to Cordova for the summer season, was conducting a routine patrol when Coast Guard Sector Anchorage command center watchstanders received the medevac Read More »

• Dog in sea lion attack has clean record in Texas, necropsy results sent to fisheries service

  The daughter of former astronaut Mark Kelly was walking her dog Shiner on Goff Island Beach when the dog bolted, ripping the leash from her hand Read More »

• James Odlin – There are fishing boats ready to come home to Maine and revitalize the state’s nonprofit Fish Exchange.

  Groundfishing vessels, many of which call Maine home, are forced to travel to Gloucester, Mass., to sell their fish and the lobster by-catch, putting at jeopardy Portland’s Read More »

• Shishmaref making bid to join CDQ club

  Alaska Dispatch – Shishmaref, an impoverished Northwest Alaska village, is trying to elbow its way into a lucrative commercial fishing program that helps boost economic opportunity Read More »

• Porbeagle shark swims onto endangered list

  Canada has only one shark to call its own, and this week the species was listed for the first time as endangered under an international convention. Read More »

• Ayotte: ‘NOAA Is Not Balancing Its Own’ Fishing Standards – Presses for answers at Dr.Kathryn Sullivan Confirmation Hearing – Video

  At a Commerce Committee hearing Thursday focusing on the nomination of Dr. Kathryn Sullivan to serve as the next NOAA administrator, Ayotte noted that NOAA guidelines stipulate that Read More »

• NOAA Regional Administrator John Bullard bemoans state of groundfish at Explorium talk

  The session, the third in the Explorium’s Global Voice speaking series, was low-key, especially compared to the last few New England Fisheries Management Council meetings where Read More »

• House stymies aid for fisheries

  Two bills before the House would together appropriate $51 billion for “Sandy relief” programs, and much of the money is unrelated to the October 2012 super Read More »

• R.I. fishermen turn to digital tools to help survey of lobster catches

  Thick fog obscures all but the lower towers of the Claiborne Pell Bridge as Al Eagles throttles down the Catherine Ann and drifts up to one Read More »

• Dick Grachek – Pew laboring overtime on Tuna, in the Biblical sense.

  Couldn’t resist; spent the whole day on this, got so fired up at their blatant BS. DG Fish News EU reports another missive from Pew (see Read More »

• GEARNET Northeast Groundfish Gear Conservation Engineering & Demonstration Network- Proposals are due December 31, 2012

  Northeast Groundfish Gear Conservation Engineering & Demonstration Network  FINAL CALL FOR PROPOSALS –GEARNET is currently scheduling port and sector meetings for December to develop your  ideas for Read More »

• Fox News Reporting: Behind Obama’s Green Agenda Sunday, October 7 at 9 p.m. ET

  Hosted by Bret Baier A Fox News investigation exposes rogue regulators at the EPA and a United  Nations-inspired ‘sustainability’ program that some say aims to dismantle  Read More »

• CHATHAM: Experts tag last Great White shark of year off Cape

  The fourth, and possibly last, great white shark to be fitted with a tracking device this year was tagged Thursday afternoon by a team of state Read More »

• F/V Aspasia Skipper honored for role in Icy Strait rescue

  John Hagen’s name did not make the news last June, when he intentionally beached his troller Aspasia in Icy Strait to rescue Tim Lane, who was Read More »