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• Is Cape Wind Dead? Leading Constitutional Law Expert: Expensive Cape Wind Power Contract “Forced Down NSTAR’s Throat”

  “The Settlement Agreement between NSTAR, the Department of Energy Resources and Cape Wind makes it crystal clear that the only reason NSTAR agreed to buy Cape Read More »

• Story off base in characterization of Alaska fisheries board appointee

  I have concerns about the recent article of Feb. 4 in the Alaska Dispatch News, “Did Alaska Fish Board appointee really discover an endangered species?” I am Professor Read More »

• Economic Contribution of White Shrimp Commercial Fishing in the Gulf of Mexico States

  The annual commercial landing values of wild American white shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico Region in 2015 reached $153.7 million, which is about 75.3% of Read More »
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  Communities to kick off boat blessing ceremonies

  As temperatures warm up, the bayou communities of Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes are preparing to send their shrimpers, trawlers and fishermen out onto the Gulf waters. Read More »
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  Mayport fishing vessels scramble for docks in Jacksonville in advance of Hurricane Irma

  The entire First Coast shrimping and fishing fleet is in the process of moving away from the coast and into a safer docking space in downtown Read More »

• The oil might not be as visible in the gulf, but the residents are still coping with effects of the nation’s largest offshore oil spill.

  The Gulf of Mexico is deep blue again. On the Alabama coast, children run on crowded beaches and splash in the surf. In fishing villages, shrimpers Read More »

• 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 »

• West Coast groundfish certified as sustainably harvested 14 years after economic disaster

  After the United States established a 200-mile exclusive fishing zone in 1977, the groundfish fleet grew rapidly, helped by the government. Warnings from scientists that the Read More »

• Oral argument scheduled for observer lawsuit

  Oral argument in the lawsuit over the federal observer program is scheduled for April. Judge H. Russel Holland will hear from The Boat Company, the Fixed Read More »

• Fears Ramsgate’s fishing fleet could be no more in 2016

  A Ramsgate fisherman fears the town’s  next year if new fishing restrictions on Sea Bass come into force. The European Commission is considering a complete fishing Read More »

• Coast Guard Medevacs Commercial Fisherman 50 Miles Off Ocean City, Md. – Video

  An aircrew from Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City, N.J., performs a medevac from an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter Sunday, June 7, 2015. The Dolphin crew medevaced Read More »

• Direct-buy seafood still finding its sea legs

  Being allowed to do something and being able to do it are two different things. Buying seafood direct from a fisherman for personal use is no Read More »
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  25 years ago, the crew of the Andrea Gail was lost in the ‘perfect storm’

  At the heart of Gloucester, America’s oldest seaport, visitors will find an eight-foot-tall bronze fisherman at the wheel of his ship. Engraved at the base of the Gloucester Fisherman’s Read More »

• Fisherman must shell out $100,000 for three rock lobsters caught illegally in marine park

  Two years ago, commercial fisherman Christopher George Hansen caught what might be the most expensive rock lobsters ever netted. The Tasmanian delicacies should have brought him about $200 at market; instead, he Read More »

• Size matters, P.E.I.’s Bearded Skipper tells minister

  When Canada’s federal minister of Fisheries and Oceans leaned on his lobster trap last weekend and asked if size matters, the Bearded Skipper knew he had Read More »

• Letter: Ludger W. Dochtermann, Bycatch 14-011 (C7) CGOA Trawl Bycatch Management Discussion Paper & CFAs etc.

  Secretary Pritzker, Chair Olson and NPFMC members: My name is Ludger W. Dochtermann, owner of the F/V Stormbird and F/V Northpoint. Among the species we fish Read More »

• Another View: Sardine population isn’t crashing by D.B. Pleschner

  Environmental groups such as Oceana complain that the sardine population is collapsing just as it did in the mid-1940s. They blame “overfishing” as the reason and Read More »

• From Oregon Department of Fish Wildlife – Vessel Contract Applications (2015)

  ODFW is looking to contract with local vessels for the 2015 field season to assist with scientific monitoring. Applications are now available to bid on contracts Read More »
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  North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for March 27, 2017

  Click here to read the Weekly Update, to read all the updates, Click here 07:21 Related Read More »

• Meet the fishermen who spend eight months at sea chasing profit, adventure and barramundi

  Kooch, 43, has been battling his wits with the metre-long silver-scaled fish since he was a 16-year-old deckhand just out of school. “Everyone likes the idea Read More »

• Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc says increasing the minimum lobster size balances sustainability, economic benefits.

  A decision to increase the minimum size for lobsters caught in the western end of the Northumberland Strait will not be changed by the new fisheries Read More »

• The Medal of Bravery to be awarded to the Miss Ally divers

  Four local divers Donnie Mahaney, Thomas Nickersonm Gary Thurber, and Thomas Hennigar, who braved the elements to search the capsized hull of the CF/V Miss Ally will Read More »

• Shellfish industry pins hope on Freeport research

  Clammers, who have been anecdotally documenting green crabs devouring the clam populations for the last few years, are now getting a chance to put defensive measures Read More »

• Louisiana has an ambitious $50 billion plan to fight coastal wetlands erosion. But will it work?

  As Brig. Gen. Duke DeLuca wrapped up his 32-year career with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in August, he contemplated the key to Louisiana’s massive, Read More »

• Biggest fish in the ocean receives international protection

  Tuna and other fish species may congregate around , but new rule reduces the chance that the giant sea creatures could get caught in nets targeting Read More »