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• South Atlantic Council, NOAA science gets ripped! Another crooked closure of red snapper

  Many of you aren’t fishermen. But even if you don’t know a red snapper from gangsta rapper, this might still be worth a look. The South Read More »

• Obama, Clinton only impede private industry

  I am writing in response to the Sept. 17 news story, “Fishermen upset over the Atlantic monument creation.” The article quotes Grant Moore, president of the Read More »

• Financially troubled American Seafoods debt deal underway amid Rokke return talk

  The majority of payment-in-kind (PIK) noteholders in troubled US fishing company American Seafoods Group has agreed a restructuring agreement with an unnamed investor, according to a Read More »

• Water Temps & Fish Forum

  Not being a scientist, I’m not sure what it means (not that a scientist necessarily would), but a quick check of data collected over the past Read More »

• In a remote farm lab far from the sea – In search of a dolphin killer

  On a Pennsylvania farm 70 miles from the ocean, inside a sprawling lab facility built to treat horses and other four-legged animals, scientists are trying to Read More »

• Push is on to speed aid to fishermen

  Fishing advocates are questioning why the direct assistance contained in the federal fishery disaster aid plan is going to take so long to get to eligible Read More »
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  NOAA Seeking U.S. Commissioner to the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization

  NOAA Fisheries is seeking a U.S. citizen to serve a four-year term as a Commissioner representing the commercial fishing industry to the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization Read More »

• Coast Guard boatcrews seize 2 lanchas, 700 pounds of catch, and an eight member Mariachi band

  CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Boatcrews from Coast Guard Station South Padre Island seized two lanchas and detained eight Mexican nationals caught illegally fishing in U.S. waters, Thursday, in the Read More »

• Tuna fisherman angry at Kermadec Sanctuary

  Despite conservationists hailing the New Zealand government’s decision to turn the Kermadec Islands into a giant marine sanctuary, covering 600-thousand square miles, it hasn’t gone down Read More »

• Final draft of ocean plan out, management details unclear. Don Young see’s right through it!

  Peninsula Clarion – “From the very beginning, I have voiced my opposition to this red-taped monstrosity the administration calls a National Ocean Policy. Through hearings, in Read More »

• UPDATE: Two of four partially submerged fishing vessels recovered

  The U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday that two of four partially submerged fishing vessels had been recovered. Petty Officer Bill Colclough of the U.S. Coast Guard Read More »

• Cod’s mysterious defence strategies

  Low prices for wild-caught cod have kept cod farming profits minimal up to now. The additional challenges of expensive feeds, destructive diseases and high mortality have Read More »

• ASMFC Spring Meeting – May 2-5, 2016, Alexandria, Virginia

  The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission will meet in Alexandria, Virginia at The Westin Alexandria 400 Courthouse Square May 2-5, 2016. The agenda is subject to change. The Read More »

• New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell speaks out a special listening session in Gloucester

  NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — July 1, 2014 — Mayor Jon Mitchell today spoke out on the topic of fisheries management at a special listening session in Read More »

• Status quo tightens squeeze on fishermen

  Just six weeks into the new fishing year, Gloucester and other New England fishermen and their federal regulators share a common belief that the very existence Read More »

• Kodiak needs a crab restoration effort – LudgerDochtermann

  Toby Sullivan wrote a great piece on the early Kodiak crab fishery. A kick in the mouth with a reminder that the community of Kodiak was Read More »

• Timeline | Tragedy at Sea

  The search for five young Nova Scotia fishermen, believed to have perished when their fishing boat overturned in rough waters about 12-hours steam off Nova Scotia, Read More »

• Brilliant blue lobster caught off Antigonish, N.S. by lobsterman Sheldon Trenholm

  A rare blue lobster was caught in waters near Antigonish on Friday. Sheldon Trenholm of South River, N.S. was the lucky lobsterman who caught the brilliant blue crustacean Read More »

• US Shark Fishermen, Oceana wants you to waste the fins from your legal fishery

  State shark fin bans are under threat—from NOAA – Primordially graceful, sharks have roamed our oceans for 400 million years. They ruled the seas before the Read More »

• “It’s almost like a special run of crab.” Labrador crab fisherman ‘awestruck’ at size of this year’s catch

  A Labrador crab fisherman says this season is shaping up to be the best he’s seen in over 20 years on the water. William Larkham Jr. Read More »
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  Proposed Magnuson Stevens changes are reasonable – Support HR-200

  “Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill” Macbeth,Act III, Scene II I am wondering how much commercial fishermen know about acting? At a guess I’d Read More »

• Rep. Garret Graves pulls HR 1335 red snapper management amendment

  Rep. Garret Graves, R-Baton Rouge, pulled his amendment Monday (June 1) that would have transferred the authority to set fishing seasons in the Gulf of Mexico for red Read More »

• Computer Model Predictions: Major Reductions in Seafloor Marine Life from Climate Change by 2100

  An international team of scientists predict seafloor dwelling marine life will decline by up to 38 per cent in the North Atlantic and over five per Read More »

• Gail Shea still pushing ‘imperative’ lobster levy in Nova Scotia

  Federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea is continuing to promote the idea of a Maritime-wide lobster levy, even though momentum in Nova Scotia appears to have stalled. Read More »
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  FISH-NL questions quiet reopening of Canadian ports to banned Faroese and Greenland trawlers

  The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH-NL) is calling on Ottawa to explain its decision almost a year ago to quietly reopen Read More »