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• March 25-26 – Northwest Fisheries Science Center’s 4th Science Symposium in Seattle, Washington – Webinar Broadcast

  Join us for the Northwest Fisheries Science Center’s 4th Science Symposium, taking place at NOAA’s Western Regional Center in Seattle, Washington. Read information here  Webcast instructions Read More »

• H.R. 1456 and S. 793 – Congressman Walter B. Jones Weighs in for North Carolina Fishermen

  Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) is moving to help Eastern North Carolina fishermen who could be hurt by legislation pending before Congress.  The bills threaten America’s Read More »

• Papahanaumokuakea Review Spurs Tension With Conservation Groups, Fisheries

  President Donald Trump’s targeting of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in the northwest Hawaiian Islands for national review has revived a lopsided debate between Native Hawaiians, Read More »

• Fish talks stalled but US given 18 months extension – US will pay US$63 million /12,000 days where the Vessel Day Scheme is in force

  Parties to Nauru Agreement nations—the Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Solomon Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and Papua New Guinea—control Pacific waters where the majority Read More »

• Trump policies could mean big boon for Hawaii’s commercial fishermen and the enviro’s are upset!

  The debate over fishing regulations at the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument is heating up again. The council that helps outline rules for fishing in the federally protected Read More »
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  28 accidents reported since crab season began off Oregon, Washington

  Since the commercial Dungeness crab season began on January 15th, Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Portland marine investigators have responded to 28 marine accidents involving commercial Read More »

• Caribbean Fishery Management Council to hold public hearing Monday

  ST. CROIX – The Caribbean Fishery Management Council will have a public hearing Monday night on St. Thomas to accept input from fishers, the public and Read More »

• Body of overboard fisherman recovered

  The body of a fisherman who was dragged overboard by fishing gear this morning has been recovered, and transported to U.S. Coast Guard Station Brant Point, Read More »

• Self-employed fishing boat captain accused in international drug conspiracy

  “The evidence appears to show that the  Defendant (Robert Evon) was involved in a conspiracy involving importation of  approximately seventy-seven (77) kilograms of cocaine through several  Read More »

• Card plan for Maine’s valuable urchins draws mixed response

  Joe Leask, a diver on the Maine coast who is also the chairman of the Maine Sea Urchin Zone Council advisory board, said he’s not sure Read More »

• The thrill of the fight – Waterboro man featured on tuna fishing show “Wicked Tuna”

  KENNEBUNKPORT — Five years ago, he was injured – and not for the first time – and so Bruce Hebert thought his days of fishing for Read More »

• Blowing in the wind – Menakhem Ben-Yami

  American commercial fisheries are feeling increasingly beleaguered. On top of being plagued for the last four years by the adverse catch-share system, they had been hurt Read More »

• CETA breakthrough revives discussion over contentious fisheries renewal fund

  Newfoundland and Labrador’s representative in the federal cabinet says talks are underway about how the province might be compensated for losses incurred once a Canada-European Union Read More »

• UPDATED: The 76-foot fishing tender Neptune – Haines Harbor Reopens As Cleanup Efforts Continue

  [email protected]  20:01 Related Read More »

• Maine elver eeling begins Sunday under strict quotas, monitoring

  For the first time, fishermen eelers will be required to stay within individual catch quotas in response to rising concerns about the sustainability of one of Read More »

• First MAN D2676 Workboat Engine Ready for Launch

  Last December, MAN Engines introduced its latest generation in-line six-cylinder engines for workboats. Now the first MAN D2676 LE443 engine off the production line will be Read More »

• Coast Guard: Budget cuts to limit flights, patrols

  Adm. Robert J. Papp said Wednesday that emergencies will be a priority. He didn’t say how many patrol hours would be cut under what’s known as Read More »

• The 131-foot fishing processor Juno caught fire in Westport, Wash., at approximately 1:30 a.m – Nothing crazy to report yet.

  The master of the fish processor was aboard the vessel at the time it caught fire, but no injuries have been reported. The fire was reported out Read More »
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  Missing fishermen feared dead ‘wouldn’t last more than five minutes’ in freezing Loch Fyne, says uncle

  The search for Duncan MacDougall, 46, and Przemek Krawczykis in the Argyll waters is now a recovery operation despite a heroic attempt to save them. The pair Read More »

• Niaz Dorry of Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance – Top 10 Myths About Seafood, Fisheries, and Marine Conservation

  To me, from the start it was these similarities that were the untold story of the ocean and fisheries work. Some of the items on the Read More »

• China’s appetite for N.E. lobster boosts industry

  Somewhere in Shanghai, a Chinese family is delving into a Boston lobster — and paying as much as $100 for the sumptuous meal. With a booming Read More »

• “It’s been a long time coming.” Lobster season in southwestern Nova Scotia may be best in decade

  A lobster fisherman in southwest Nova Scotia says this season, which ends at midnight tonight, may have been the best in a decade. Bernie Berry, captain of Read More »

• Redd revival on the Rogue – Dam removal means river teems with big chinook that dig, spawn in egg nests

  With the dam gone three years now and the fine sediment washed away, the bar now teems with big chinook digging and spawning in their egg Read More »

• savingseafood.org: Inaccuracies Abound in Joint Press Release from the Conservation Law Foundation & Earthjustice

  The press release misstates important facts about groundfish, starting with a quote from CLF’s Senior Counsel, Peter Shelley: “cod are in the worst condition ever in the Read More »

• Kleven’s Pelagic Fishing Vessel for Gitte Henning

  Kleven has signed an agreement with Danish fishing vessel owner Gitte Henning AS on the building of a combined pelagic trawler/purse seiner. 90.5 m wide and Read More »