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  Owning the Owner Operator Policy

  I read a blog post this week and the first paragraph rang so true to me: how most media stories would lead you to believe that the fishery Read More »

• 1 Fisherman found dead, 1 rescued from Gulf

  A shrimping trip turned tragic after a Pasco County boat sunk in the Gulf of Mexico, claiming the life of 29-year-old Anthony Coffey. His cousin, William Read More »

• Trump’s nixing of trade pact disappoints Alaska seafood exporters

  Alaska seafood exporters are disappointed by President Donald Trump’s decision to officially withdraw from a sweeping trade agreement among Pacific nations that would have eradicated import duties imposed Read More »

• Pacific Fishery Management Council meeting November 12-19, 2014, Costa Mesa, California – Listen Live!

  The Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) and its advisory bodies will meet November 12-19, 2014 in Costa Mesa, California to address issues related to coastal pelagic Read More »

• A Rosie Report! Observer program gets ‘sea legs’ as fisheries recover

  This summer, the alleged assault of a federal fisheries observer by a deck boss of a groundfish trawler from Astoria,,, Brad Pettinger, director of the Oregon Read More »

• Trials set to begin in Alaska subsistence fishing case

  ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Sam Jackson believes a favorable trial verdict for him and other Alaska Natives cited for illegally fishing king salmon could help his people Read More »

• Petersburg Alaska Seafood Company Makes Big Move – Audio

  KFSK – Petersburg – One of Petersburg’s small seafood processors is about to get a lot bigger. Tonka Seafoods has bought a long-unused cannery building and dock from Trident Read More »

• FDA tests confirm hepatitis A in scallops imported from Philippines likely source of outbreak of virus in Hawaii

  U.S. Food and Drug Administration tests found hepatitis A in scallops from the Philippines, which have been identified as the likely source of an outbreak of Read More »

• The Dangerous Side of Fishing for Squid

  Our cover story this past weekend about John Aldridge, a Montauk-based lobsterman who fell off his boat and was rescued by the Coast Guard after nearly Read More »

• Sandy Semans Ross – My view: N.C. Wildlife Federation petition is short on science and facts

  The Outer Banks Catch is a nonprofit focused on providing fact-based education to consumers about the commercial fishing industry and communities, and the habitat and water Read More »

• Massachusetts Court Reverses Ruling in Rotten Scallop Coverage Dispute

  The Massachusetts Appeals Court has reversed a lower court’s ruling in a case examining whether damage to scallops at a seafood processing facility, when the cause Read More »

• Does this fish look like a piranha to you?

  Bryton Shockley, a commercial fisherman, was out on Florida’s Lake Okeechobee when he reeled in a creature that caused him to wonder, “is that … a piranha?” Read More »

• Small boats face double fishing hit – Fed, state fishing rules sock small operators – unintended consequences

  At the back of the groundfishery’s pecking order is a small group of small boat fishermen operating in the three-mile wide confines of state waters with Read More »

• OPINION: ‘Fisher’ falls short of creating gender equality in fishing industry

  In this week’s report on Alaska’s fishing industry, fish columnist Laine Welch offered an off-the-dock response by those in the fishing industry about the use of Read More »

• Coast Guard medevacs man from F/V Alaska Juris near Dutch Harbor, Alaska

  ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Crews from the Coast Guard Cutter Boutwell and Air Station Kodiak medevaced an injured man from the F/V Alaska Juris near Dutch Harbor Friday. [email protected]  The Alaska Read More »

• ADF&G closes shrimp fishing in Juneau

  Sport and personal use shrimp fisheries in the Juneau area will be closed starting Monday. The commercial shrimp fishery, which opens in October, will also be Read More »

• Scientists skeptical over proposed EU ban for North American lobsters

  North American scientists are refuting Sweden’s claim that an all-out trade ban is needed to head off an invasion of eastern North American lobsters, a move Read More »
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  Get your fresh, wild caught seafood while you can

  Get your fresh, wild caught seafood while you can. That’s the message from third generation Bowen-based commercial fisherman Terry Must. Mr Must has been fishing commercially Read More »

• Scientists say new fisheries law “guts” protection for habitat

  OTTAWA — Three of Canada’s leading fish scientists say Canada’s rewritten Fisheries Act protect the fish species that people eat, while dropping protection for huge numbers Read More »

• Cormorants – A problem on our local marshes?

  Medina Journal-Register – This destruction of the environment became more evident to me in recent years when I went on a few fishing trips to the Read More »

• Must be tough for these guy’s when their progressive champions are on the “wrong” side! CLF: New rules could allow ‘full collapse’ of cod stocks

  STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE – Boston —While many Massachusetts elected officials have lobbied for less severe  reductions in fish catch limits than the cuts set to Read More »

• Oak Bluffs Selectmen Try to Cool Heat Over Scallop Closure in Sengie

  Oak Bluffs selectmen this week tried to broker a compromise solution in a heated dispute among town shellfishermen over the closing of Sengekontacket Pond to bay Read More »

• N.C. watermen – Riding along was an unwelcome passenger – a sea turtle observer

  Flounder fishermen Britton Shackelford and Caine Livesay motored over the Roanoke Sound at dawn Tuesday in a 17-foot skiff toward the first of seven gill nets.  Read More »

• Marquesas Key: Coast Guard looking into commercial fishing vessel firing shots at recreational boat

  U.S. Coast Guard investigators are looking into a report that someone aboard a commercial fishing vessel fired several shots at a recreational boat about 20 nautical Read More »

• Halibut season opens; SE fleet already lands 260,000 lbs.

  A little more than three days into the 2016 halibut season, Area 2C, Southeast Alaska, has had the fleet hitting it the hardest. Nearly 260,000 pounds Read More »