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• Former fisherman Paul Ciaramitaro pays homage to disappearing industry – Of wooden boats and iron men

  Paul Ciaramitaro grew up working on the Gloucester waterfront, in a family where money was hard to come by. His hard-knock life has been marked at Read More »

• Court orders new safeguards to prevent fish farm disease spreading to ocean

  The federal government has been ordered to shore up its regulations to ensure diseases aren’t transferred from fish farms to the ocean. A Federal Court judge Read More »

• Coast Guard searching for overdue fishing boat near Majuro

  HONOLULU – The Coast Guard is searching for an overdue 82-foot commercial fishing vessel near the Republic of Marshall Islands, Friday.  reportedly went missing with nine people Read More »

• Something to crab about – Victoria Co-operative Fisheries Ltd.,

  Chronical Herald- Not that anyone else in Neils Harbour is putting on airs either, but Osborne Burke doesn’t at first have the look of a man in charge of Read More »
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  A Tale of two pictures – NOAA and Enviros have it all wrong on Gulf of Maine Cod!

  This is a picture of approximately 2000 lbs. of cod.  It represents the first time I have targeted cod in two years.  While one picture does Read More »

• Woman shot on fishing vessel in Port of Cape May

  The New Jersey State Police said a Lower Township man was arrested for attempted murder after he shot a Whitesboro woman aboard a fishing vessel docked Read More »

• Brown OKs fishing for 240 million to 280 million invasive Lake Tahoe crayfish – Announces Tax Credit Program for Fleet Build UP!

  Officials estimate the lake holds 240 million to 280 million invasive crayfish, a freshwater crustacean that resembles a small lobster. They are a major food source Read More »

• Massive Molasses Spill Devastates Honolulu Marine Life – “Everything down there is dead.”

  That’s one stunning quote from Hawaii News Now’s latest report about the devastating damage that’s been done to the marine life off Honolulu’s Sand Island by Read More »

• Commercial fishing much more fun when catching lots of fish, even above the Arctic Circle

  It is my first day commercial fishing with my father again. As he fires up our 115-horsepower Suzuki boat motor, it roars on the back of Read More »

• Louisbourg Seafood hopes to keep more than 1,000 crates of lobsters alive long enough to find buyer

  Responding to a supply glut, lobster buyers are doing whatever they can to keep thousands of lobsters alive until prices improve. Many have dropped prices and Read More »

• Turtle Excluder Devices: Public meeting on shrimping regulation gets little feedback

  A new federal regulation on Coast shrimpers may add more stress on an already stressed industry. Wednesday’s meeting discussed expanding the use of Turtle Excluder Devices Read More »

• North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for January 11, 2016

  Click here to read the Weekly Update, to read all the updates, Click here 14:09 Related Read More »

• Bluefins lure famed fishing boat captain – Linda Greenlaw will join anglers on chartered tours chasing one of the world’s most sought-after fish.

  PORTLAND – Trying to get a fisherman to divulge secrets, especially about favorite fishing holes, is usually a waste of time. But this summer, anglers will have Read More »

• Undercover sting operation off Sandwich nets alleged Striped Bass poachers

  On Sunday night a small fleet of four boats motored out into Cape Cod Bay. The 50-foot patrol boat Thomas Paine, two smaller patrol boats and Read More »

• Is there a dark side to North Carolina’s fishing heritage? Just more ENGO bunk?

  According to David Sneed there is! Plenty of colorful stories about our state’s heritage of commercial fishing are published on a regular basis across North Carolina Read More »

• Prospect of “China” fisheries deal still of great concern for Bahamians

  Since Agriculture and Marine Resources Minister V. Alfred Gray gave permission for Bahamian Ambassador to China Paul Andy Gomez to discuss further a $2.1 billion proposal Read More »

• Weir fishermen struggling to catch herring in Bay of Fundy

  Some fishermen in the Bay of Fundy are worried the centuries-old herring weir fishery could be coming to an end because of a lack of fish. Read More »

• Fishermen sentenced to prison following convictions in stone crab trap case

  Capt. Romualdo Ricardo Salado, 44, of Stock Island and mate Christopher Joseph Payne, 54, of Miami were both found guilty in March of one count of Read More »
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  Nova Scotia lobster fishermen reject idea of surveillance cameras on boats

  The global demand by consumers (enviro’s) that seafood be harvested sustainably made its way into a firehall in Lockeport Thursday. More than a hundred fishermen from Read More »

• Conservationists push to bypass or remove dams, restore alewife run in Maine

  Alewives, which grow to 11-12 inches in length, play a critical role in the marine ecosystem. They are eaten by virtually every other marine fish, mammal Read More »

• It looks so good, I had to share it with you! Tuna Wholesale – From Boston Sword & Tuna

  A BST signature product, our fresh tuna supply is the answer to all your tuna wholesale demands. Our longline fishing vessels – the Iron Maiden and Read More »

• Anglers debate OC offshore wind farm – Dredging and fishing near turbines could (will)be prohibited

  ANNAPOLIS — If a wind farm is ever built off the coast of Ocean City, it could enhance recreational fishing by creating artificial reefs, but hurt commercial Read More »

• Scott Lang – Northeast Fisheries Science Center cannot ignore other fishery data

  From the article: Prior to the June meeting, NEFSC hosted an “empirical approach” TRAC Yellowtail Benchmark meeting in April to “evaluate all relevant data sources with Read More »

• ‘We were damn near killed’: Atlantic Charger captain speaks out on survival, rescue

  The nine men who survived the sinking of the Atlantic Charger off Nunavut last month are trying to put the harrowing ordeal behind them, with the skipper Read More »

• NCFA Weekly Update for Feb. 6, 2015

  Click here Weekly Update for Feb. 6, 2015 as a PDF  19:33 Related Read More »