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• Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update, September 20, 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 »

• Senator Murkowski demands answers as Interior Dept’s National Park Service is busted for ENGO Intoxication

  This is nut’s! The oh so trendy and hip National Park Service is caught policy making under the influence of the controversial Marine Stewardship Council, the Gen Ex Read More »

• Wording puts Canada at odds with UN fish plan – calls for the protection of fishermen “in situations of occupation,”

  A United Nations-sponsored proposal to protect and promote small-scale fisheries has run into a problem, with Canada emerging as the lone dissenting voice in a dispute that Read More »

• DNA may hold key to identify those ‘lost at sea’

  In 1990, the U.S. Coast Guard rescued 4,407 people nationwide. On March 25, 1990, however, William Hokanson Sr. and his 19-year-old son William Hokanson Jr. went Read More »

• Fiji police investigate high-seas shooting video

  A mobile phone left behind in a Suva taxi by an Asian fishing boat crewman is at the heart of a horrific video showing the killing Read More »

• Request to amend American Samoa National Marine Sanctuary rule

  The US Secretary of Commerce has been requested to make changes to the federal rule which established the American Samoa National Marine Sanctuary. The Governor’s Office Read More »

• Jones Inlet Seafood Co., Executives plead guilty to committing fraud, falsifying records and violating the Lacey Act.

  Jones Inlet Seafood Co., the company’s president, Michael G. Mihale and company vice president Bruce Larson Jr. admitted they underreported the amount of summer flounder they Read More »

• Virginian-Pilot Editorial: Real risks to Virginia coast

  The April 2010 blowout at BP’s Macondo well gushed for 87 days, a total of 4.9 million barrels of oil, coating beaches from Louisiana to Florida. Read More »

• Telling it like it is! NOAA has done enough already and has failed in spectacular fashion

  One wonders why a Marine Sanctuary is needed to protect shipwrecks.  Sanctuaries are usually established to protect ecosystems.  The typical reason for establishing a Sanctuary off Read More »
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  Not your grandfather’s fishery

  The harvesting is so different — bigger boats, bigger fishing effort, deeper-water fishing, so much further from shore on average, more ambitious in all respects. The Read More »

• New Hampshire’s beleaguered commercial fishing industry – $2M in federal funds

  New Hampshire’s 400-year-old commercial fishing fleet, made up of small boats, has worked under increasing federal regulations and restrictions since the Magnuson-Stevens Act was passed in Read More »

• Closed Areas need fed’s OK to open

  The New England Fishery Management Council has voted to recommend giving commercial groundfishermen access to parts of five areas that have been closed to them for Read More »

• More prawns going to the personal use basket

  Having been granted a new policy mandate by a bigger chunk of the annual non-tribal share of the harvestable part of the spot shrimp population, beginning Read More »

• EU fisheries policy ‘a failure’, concludes UK review

  The EU’s Common Fisheries Policy failed to achieve its central objectives, the government’s review of the balance of power between the UK and the EU has Read More »

• 2013 Marine Debris Cleanup Projects Announced

  SitNews) Ketchikan, Alaska – The Alaska Marine Stewardship Foundation announced today that it will be conducting eight marine debris cleanup projects throughout Alaska this season with Read More »

• Driftnetter Bangun Perkasa to be cut up, not used for target practice

  thebristolbaytimes.com – The high seas driftnetter Bangun Perkasa will never fish or float again, and it won’t be going down in a blaze of gunfire. “We’re going to cut Read More »
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  Hermine becomes a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico

  Tropical Storm Hermine officially reached hurricane status on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016, at 1:55 p.m. EDT. NOAA’s GOES-East satellite captured a visible image of the hurricane Read More »

• Opinion: NMFS Rule Recognizes that Fish Need Habitat, and if they don’t we’ll sue the sh!t out of ’em!

  Today, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) issued the final regulation regarding commercial fishing access to the longstanding protected habitat areas in the Gulf of Maine, Read More »

• Captain Elliott Neese saves crew onboard the F/V Arctic Hunter

  According to Captain Elliott Neese’s Facebook page, he rescued six crew-members from a sinking crab boat near Unalaska. Everyone is safe. Everyone knows that the captains Read More »

• Tarr Senate bill targets seafood marketing

  BOSTON – State Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr, renewing his call to confront “serious threats to the survival of the groundfish industry in Massachusetts,” has filed Read More »

• Victoria Co. snow crab fishermen could be hit hardest by quota cuts

  Snow crab fishermen in the waters off Cape Breton are preparing for a leaner season this year, with quota cuts approved or proposed in both the Read More »

• Getting HOT! Passamaquoddies say governor made threats over elvers – to shut down the entire fishery, allegedly threatened to call in the National Guard!

  Gov. Paul LePage threatened retaliation against Maine’s Passamaquoddy Tribe if it continues to issue elver-fishing licenses beyond the authorized state limit, a tribal council spokesman said Read More »

• UNE researcher gets $1.7M grant to aid fishing industry – will research the mortality rate of winter skates

  A federal agency has awarded a University of New England researcher and his colleagues $1.7 million for a research project they hope will help increase revenues Read More »

• Coast Guard searching for fishing vessel near St. George, Alaska

   A U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak HC-130 Hercules airplane crew and two MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crews are responding to an electronic position indicating radio beacon Read More »

• A frenzied, fast-tracked fish-farming bill, Stewart Lamont, Tangier

  For those who will recall, the Doelle-Lahey report was issued prior to Christmas. It called for the absolute reform of open-net pen aquaculture and its sloppy Read More »