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• Maine’s lobster industry feeling pain of slow start – Some say the crustaceans are ‘back on the old time clock’

  David Cousins, president of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association and a South Thomaston lobsterman, said lobstermen expect shedding to pick up and catches to escalate at the Read More »

• COMMENTARY: 40 years after Magnuson-Stevens, not all promises kept

  The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act turned 40 last week and federal and state fishery managers marked that event with an opinion piece in the Read More »

• House members blast Brown’s Bay Delta Conservation Plan – A real fish killer!

  Five members of Congress (all Democrats) held a news conference in Sacramento this morning to renew their staunch opposition to the Bay Delta Conservation Plan proposed Read More »
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  Hurricane Irma – Public Advisory – 1100 PM EDT Sat Sep 09 2017

  At 1100 PM EDT (0300 UTC), the eye of Hurricane Irma was located near latitude 23.5 North, longitude 81.0 West. Irma is moving slowly northwestward away Read More »

• HONOLULU: Federal and State governments fishing for compromise on shark fin laws – At the bottom of all of this is greed!

  Hawaii law bans possession, sale, distribution or trade of any shark fin. However federal law allows legal fisherman to land shark fins as long as they Read More »

• Massachusetts: State to cap the amount of fishing disaster relief

  The Division of Marine Fisheries said it will cap the amount of disaster relief available to individuals who hold groundfishing permits — essentially cutting in half Read More »

• Van Drew Measure Asks President to Reject Summer Flounder Catch Reduction

  A measure sponsored by Senator Jeff Van Drew and Bob Smith urging President Donald Trump to reject the proposed reduction in the summer flounder catch limit Read More »

• BP asks judge to temporarily halt Gulf oil spill settlement payments amid misconduct probe

  BP PLC argues in a court filing that it shouldn’t be required to take the risk that hundreds of millions of dollars in claims payments could Read More »

• A Grey Day – Joel Woods

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• Gulf of Alaska – Time to get a handle on bycatch numbers – By Dave Kubiak – peninsulaclarion.com

  For years fishery managers and those concerned about bycatch have been plagued by a lack of real numbers on how many king salmon, crab and halibut Read More »

• Begich Introduces Magnuson-Stevens Reauthorization Bill

  As the 113th Congress nears its close, U.S. Senator Mark Begich has introduced legislation to reauthorize the Magnuson-Stevens Act (MSA), the primary federal law that governs Read More »
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  Court documents suggest Carlos Rafael may sell all permits

  Documents filed in U.S. District Court on Thursday suggest that Carlos Rafael’s time as the New Bedford’s “codfather” may be coming to an end. As part Read More »
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  NEFMC Discusses Offshore Wind, Clam Dredge FW, Skates, Groundfish, Herring, IFM, and More at Mid-April Meeting

  The New England Fishery Management Council met April 17-19 in Mystic, CT and discussed a wide range of issues that touched on everything from industry-funded monitoring Read More »

• BIG STORY! – Prodigy to pariah: N.J. oysterman’s bizarre battle with the state

  New Jersey oyster farmers – But what really horrifies them is a more recent tale involving one of their own: Marc Zitter, a rookie farmer who Read More »

• Editorial: Fishermen should look for smart ways to survive

  As spring Chinook salmon congregate in the ocean around the mouth of the Columbia River in anticipation of their ancient migration to upriver spawning grounds, this Read More »

• Bay Delta Conservation Plan will fail to restore the estuary by Dan Bacher

  Tuesday, March 20 was a busy day for Restore the Delta (RTD), a coalition opposed to the Brown administration’s rush to construct massive peripheral tunnels to Read More »

• NOAA urged to expedite decision to allow the American Samoa purse seiner fleet to fish in the high seas.

  Tri Marine International’s CEO, Mr. Renato Curto and Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Joe Hamby visited senior NOAA and Department of Commerce officials in Washington, D.C. this Read More »

• Jesus Christ! Not Cape Pond Ice. Cape Pond Ice on the block

  Scott Memhard cited the decision by NOAA against allowing the industry a second year of relief via interim catch levels as forcing his hand. The first year Read More »

• Big changes in the air over little menhaden? – Hearings examine ecological value, catch allocation of forage fish species

  The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, which regulates near-shore fishing from Maine to Florida — including the Chesapeake Bay — has invited public comment on several Read More »

• Some Mass Lawmakers fear some Cape Cod fishermen will miss out on aid

  Many Cape Cod fishermen, operating under shrunken quotas for cod, have shifted their focus to catching other fish species such as dogfish, skate and monkfish. But Read More »

• Kodiak’s Local Fishermen Voice Opinions For New Gulf Catch Share Plan

  This is Fish Radio. I’m Stephanie Mangini.  Kodiak locals take action in new Gulf catch share plan. More after this…listen @fishradio  16:45 Related Read More »

• Don Young hits term limit for House subcommittee chairmanship

  Alaska’s sole congressman, Don Young, will not chair any committees or subcommittees during this term of Congress, having reached term limits in all of his prior positions. Young Read More »

• Artificial reef building project planned for summer 2014

  “It’s like a manmade cave that we are putting on the bottom,” said Bob Martore of DNR. Frank Gibson III with the Beaufort Sportfishing & Diving Read More »

• Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Rhode Island governors ask Congress for $100 million in fisheries disaster assistance

  WASHINGTON — September 12, 2012 — The governors of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Rhode Island today wrote to Senate and House leadership requesting $100 million in Read More »

• Newfoundland and Labrador snow crab certified as sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council.

  CBCNews – “This is absolutely the gold standard,” said Chris Curran, the vice-president of sales and marketing at Ocean Choice International. “[It’s] globally recognized in wild fisheries Read More »