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• China doesn’t have any Arctic coastline, but it is keen to cooperate with those countries that do

  Danish Arctic Ambassador Erik Vilstrup Lorenzen and Greenlandic Deputy Foreign Minister Kai Holst Andersen made the remarks in an interview with China Daily in Beijing on Read More »

• Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 48ft Crabber – Gillnetter, 230HP Detroit Diesel

  Specifications, information and 22 photo’s  click here To see all the boats in this series, Click here 15:00 Related Read More »

• Bluefin Tuna Sells for $117,000 at Tokyo Auction

  The owner of a chain of sushi restaurants paid ¥14 million ($117,000) for a 200-kilogram bluefin tuna at the first auction of the year at Tokyo’s Read More »

• Some local restaurant owners believe there’s something fishy about catches from Lake Erie

  The advent of spring and summer means we can now look for perch, walleye and our other favorite Lake Erie fish on local restaurant menus. The Read More »

• Fishermen hope Trump will end Atlantic Ocean’s first marine national monument

  New England fishermen who opposed President Barack Obama’s creation of the Atlantic Ocean’s first marine national monument are now hopeful President-elect Donald Trump will abolish it, Read More »

• Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update MAR 1, 2015

  The Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance is dedicated to its mission of continuing to help create sustainable fisheries without putting licensed fishermen out of business.” Read the Read More »

• Meghan Lapp, Jim Kendall, Speak about New England’s Ground Fish situation.

  The New England fishing business has been hurting for years as catching limits continue to decrease sharply. Read more – video Related Read More »

• Animal rights protesters who disrupted Chick-Fil-A also targeted recreational fishermen

  Animal liberation protesters who disrupted “Cow Appreciation Day” at a Pinellas Park Chick-Fil-A also targeted a St. Petersburg family who were fishing at Crescent Lake Park Read More »

• 5 Insane Things ‘Deadliest Catch’ Leaves Out About My Job

  Basically, the ocean wants you dead. If you wind up going overboard, the odds are heavily in the ocean’s favor — you’ve got roughly 20 minutes Read More »

• Does the size of a boat matter?

  Do fishermen within the small boat sector get the representation they deserve and do they even want or need that representation? Firstly to share a lovely Read More »

• Crabbing: an inherently dangerous job

  Some may wonder if the 2017 Dungeness crab season was ill-fated: First delayed by weeks to make certain crab were free of domoic acid toxin, delayed Read More »

• Spotted in Maine! Pot Warp ‘n All! Those Maine fishermen sure don’t pull punches.

  ©jjthefisherman Related Read More »

• Another Company Refuses to Stock Non MSC Labeled Salmon from Alaska – SODEXO

  U.S. Senator Mark Begich is objecting to a decision by a large food contractor to only serve seafood certified as sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council. Read More »

• New Global Policy Effort to Tackle Crisis of Plastic Litter in Oceans Urged

  Plastic litter is one of the most significant problems facing the world’s marine environments. Yet in the absence of a coordinated global strategy, an estimated 20 Read More »

• New England Fishermen needlessly on the hook for uncertainties of stock estimates

  Proper stock assessments are the key to sound fisheries management here in New England. The current and now primarily survey-based assessments are heavy with uncertainty and Read More »

• Virginia shucks oyster taxes, starts user fees

  On Monday, Virginia officially shucks its antiquated bushel-based tax system for commercial oyster operations and replaces it with annual user fees. But not all watermen are Read More »

• What is really happening in the Gulf? Declining seafood catches and deformities, and a legacy of psychological and social problems

  “It’s disturbing what we’re seeing,” Louisiana Oyster Task Force member Brad Robin told Al Jazeera. “We don’t have any more baby crabs, which is a bad Read More »

• Pallone Opposes Cuts to Summer Flounder Quotas at Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission meeting

  Today, at the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, a spokesperson for Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) provided a statement arguing that proposed reductions for Summer Flounder Read More »

• This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch … Pet treats from pollock skins.

  Getting value from every part of the fish is the focus of Alaska’s pollock industry.  What used to be regarded as ‘byproducts’ of fish fillets or Read More »

• A new 58-foot trawler/seiner, the F/V Adamant, for Petersburg, Alaska’s Adamant Fisheries.

  The new boat, designed by prolific fishing boat designers Hockema & Whalen Associates, was built within fourteen months from the ground up at the Platypus yard in Read More »

• Boothbay Harbor lobstermen report great white shark feasting on whale carcass – Video

  “I’ve never seen anything like that,” Casey told the BDN in a brief telephone interview Friday morning. “It was biting off chunks of the blubber. [email protected] Read More »

• Escapees change the wild salmon

  For the first time, scientists have managed to quantify how escaped salmon have interbred with wild salmon in Norwegian rivers. These results provide a basis for Read More »

• Coast Guard medevacs 68-year-old man from F/V Tidelands

  The Coast Guard medevaced a 68-year-old man Wednesday from the 200-foot fishing vessel Tidelands approximately five miles northeast of Great Machipongo Inlet near Cape Charles. Read Read More »

• It’s simple for Alaska: Fish first means no to Chuitna coal project

  In 1920, the Boston Red Sox traded Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees. Even today we recognize that decision as one of the worst in Read More »

• American Seafoods restructures debt, attracts new backers

  After reeling in new capital, the company that calls itself “the largest harvester of wild-caught fish for human consumption in the U.S.” has reduced its debts Read More »