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  Some People Think This New Photo of the ‘Loch Ness Monster’ is Totally Legit

  Over the years a number of people have come forward with photos claiming to show the legendary Loch Ness monster, but most of them are almost always Read More »

• Japan’s Diet committee urges gov’t to keep whaling

  A fishery committee of the Japanese Lower House on Wednesday adopted a resolution, urging the government to continue whaling in the Antarctic and consider”every possibly option”to 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 »

• Alaska Fish Factor: Seventh Time Lucky for Personal Fisheries Priority? Fishy bills to watch, ComFish is coming!

  The priority shift has been introduced during each of the last seven legislative sessions by (now) Senator Bill Stoltze (R-Chugiak), but has never made it past Read More »

• Rare orange lobster unexpectedly found in Iowa!

  Hy-Vee workers made an unusual discovery in their perishable distribution center — a rare orange lobster. The female lobster weighed in at about 2.7 pounds. She Read More »

• Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 45′ Fiberglass Scallop/Gillnetter/Lobster, 6 Cylinder John Deere 6081 Diesel

  Specifications, information and 8 photo’s click here  To see all the boats in this series, Click here 11:39 Related Read More »

• “The Great Heat.” Could Global Warming Turn The Sound Into Blue Crab Heaven?

  NEW HAVEN — — Global warming already has begun to transform Long Island Sound, according to many marine scientists, creating climate-change winners, like blue crabs, and 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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  FAROE ISLANDS KEEP DAYS-AT-SEA INSTEAD OF QUOTAS

  The Faroese Governments proposal to make relatively dramatic changes to the laws regulating fisheries in Faroe Islands will not go ahead. A proposal from the Government Read More »
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  UPDATED: Tsunami warnings canceled – 7.9 earthquake in Gulf of Alaska, tsunami warnings issued for coast

  An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.9 hit deep beneath the Gulf of Alaska early Tuesday, and a tsunami warning was issued for coastal areas Read More »

• Today’s NEFMC Webinar

  I was, again, invited to the dance, and my date showed up impaired. Today’s webinar broadcast of the NEFMC meeting, (link posted at Fisherynation) is suffering the Read More »

• Contentious – An experimental soft-shell clam farm in Georgetown aims to keep green crabs at bay and enrich diggers.

  Marching across the clam flats near the head of Heal Eddy, you notice two things.mFirst, both the seafloor and the sea grass meadows on the shoreline Read More »

• South Carolina: Crabs, other fish showing impact of flood

  The onslaught of big crabs into the creeks feeding in the Charleston estuary is among the first indications biologists are getting of the effects of October’s Read More »

• Coho salmon: Pinks’ and chums’ eating cousin

  Juvenile coho salmon benefit from dining on the distant remains of their spawning pink and chum cousins. While juvenile coho salmon feed directly on spawning pink Read More »

• Deadly Sea Lion Mystery Draws Biologists to Remote San Miguel Island, Calif in Search of Clues

  It’s late June, and San Miguel Island’s white sand beaches are filled with barking sea lions. More than 100,000 of them. The marine mammals have come Read More »
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  Lobster: Don’t put us in same pot

  FOREWARD: The spring fishers of P.E.I. include over 1,000 fleets from Tignish to East Point to Victoria. We are grateful for the support of local businesses Read More »

• Maritime Gloucester hosts fleet diversity forum – the “Who Fishes Matters Tour;”

   For the workshop series, a team of fisheries experts from British Columbia, Nova Scotia, and France will join the region’s fishermen and fishing communities to develop Read More »

• Hamptons Fishermen on The Amazing Race Season 27 Finale – Cool!

  Several East End fishing boats and the local fishermen who operate them will appear on the Season 27 finale of CBS’s Emmy-winning reality contest The Amazing Race Read More »

• CCCFA Small-boat fishermen seek to protect fishery

  Ron Smolowitz accuses small-boat scallopers of “gaming the system” to access the Nantucket Lightship fishing area (“Working the system makes the system unworkable,” My View, April Read More »

• New England Fishery Management Council newsletter

  Click here to read the actions and announcements following the last council meeting. 17:17: Related Read More »

• Front line in Asian carp battle upstream from Starved Rock – “The commercial guys, they’re a wonderful asset,”

  The battle line stretches along 40 miles of the Illinois River, from the Starved Rock Lock and Dam upstream past Morris to within 10 miles of Read More »

• Kings curbed: Individuals can’t keep them, but commercial boats fish on

  As total closures or catch and release regulations have been imposed throughout Alaska on personal use and sport fishers, the commercial fishers have continued harvesting hundreds Read More »
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  Oregon Eyes Killing Sea Lions to Save Steelhead Trout

  Fish managers scrambling to gain approval to kill dozens of California sea lions feasting on threatened winter steelhead trout got a bump this week from a Read More »

• Stupid Ketchikan man faces assault charge of federal fisheries officer

  A 23-year-old Ketchikan man has been accused of swinging a knife in front of a federal fisheries officer. The agent noticed a large filet knife on Read More »

• Editorial: Fishermen’s fight fits Warren’s promise – I Don’t Believe That. But she can prove me wrong. PROVE IT , Liz.

  Fishermen, however, should take heart in the fact that Warren has been – and is being — advised on fishery issues by state Rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante, Read More »