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• Pirate fishing poses unnecessary threat to US fishers (it’s fishermen)

  WWF – “While our nation’s fisheries managers focus on many issues this week, they urgently need to figure out how to get illegal fish products out Read More »

• Bay Area commercial fisherman unloaded the season’s last haul of salmon – best Chinook fishing since 2005

  The king salmon fishery, one of the most valuable in California, continues to rebound after suffering through three shortened or canceled seasons between 2008 and 2010. Read More »

• Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife – Public meeting on salmon forecast kicks off season-setting process

  Kicking  off the annual salmon season-setting process, the Washington Department  of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) will present initial forecasts – compiled  by state and tribal biologists Read More »

• A Must Read – Common-sense fisheries oversight needed By Daniel Goethel. “Extinction”

  As the debate looms over whether Gulf of Maine cod catch limits for 2013 and beyond should be cut by 90 percent or a mere 80 Read More »
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  Newburyport: ‘Dead in the Water’ to be screened at Custom House Maritime Museum April 4 at 7:30 p.m.

  A new documentary film dealing with the devastating impact of federal regulations on the lives of New England ground fishermen will be shown at a Custom Read More »

• Some Deepwater Resistance to Deepwater Wind

  PEACE DALE — Both sides of a recent debate held at the Lily Pads Professional Center agreed on one thing: climate change is being caused by Read More »

• Fisherman maintains family consumed over 10,000 pounds of seafood each season! BP Balks!

  The claim, filed by New Orleans-based law firm Herman Herman & Katz, contends that Plaquemines Parish resident Kim Champlin, of Buras, and his extended family, routinely Read More »

• Fish fight: Walmart caught in the middle of Alaska salmon tangle

  After a push from Alaskan salmon fisheries, Walmart considers alternative seafood certification systems. Will this undermine the Marine Stewardship Council’s dominance? [email protected] 15:08 Related Read More »

• Terrifying Photo’s of Giant tiger shark reportedly caught off NSW North Coast

  Conservationists are investigating the possibility that a gigantic, four-metre tiger shark was caught off the NSW coast this week by commercial fisherman. Byron Bay-based conservation group Positive Change for Marine Read More »

• Massachusetts Lobstermen’s Association President Arthur “Sooky” Sawyer added to state Fisheries Advisory Commission

  Gloucester will be doubling its representation on the state’s Marine Fisheries Advisory Commission when local lobsterman Arthur “Sooky” Sawyer joins the board this week. Sawyer, president Read More »
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  This fisherman is determined to fight the rising tide of government quotas

  There’s another species in the ocean that is slowly disappearing. This one doesn’t have fins, but orange waders, heavy rubber gloves, and fishing tackle. It’s the Read More »

• New fishing advocacy group has ambitious agenda

  NEW BEDFORD — A new group has thrown its hat in the ring in the battle over  current fishing regulations in New England and they have Read More »

• U.S. imposes new seafood import rules – DFO says it’s too soon to know what fisheries in Canada will be affected

  The United States is now requiring proof that its seafood imports are harvested in a way that minimizes harm to marine mammals like whales — and that Read More »

• New England cod decline similar to N.L. cod crash: scientist

  Rose noted that while some people are jumping on fisheries management as being inept, it is . “The same people often don’t mention that the haddock Read More »

• MSA – Federal fishery law changes leave fishing communities vulnerable – Darren Platt, Commercial Fisherman, Kodiak

  From the article – However, there are issues that both parties should be able to effectively address, despite ideological disparities. One of these is the re-authorization Read More »

• The interagency love affair – Strengthening Coast Guard, NOAA partnerships

  In 2013, the Coast Guard and NOAA signed the Nation’s first-ever , which strengthened the relationship between the two services. Even more recently, in October 2014, Read More »

• Coast Guard Responds to Fishers Fears of Compliance – WPMC searching for potential exemptions

  Honolulu – The US Coast Guard, Monday in Honolulu, presented the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council with an overview of the new federal safety examination Read More »

• Carlos Rafael released on $1M bond, puts home and business up for collateral

  New Bedford fishing magnate Carlos Rafael will be allowed to return to his Dartmouth home under strict bond conditions and to continue working while facing federal Read More »

• Seals ‘brought TB to the Americas before Europeans’

  BLAME the marine mammals. Seals and sea lions may have brought a form of tuberculosis to the Americas, centuries before the Spanish did so. Read more Read More »

• US Commerce shortchanges’ American Samoa of monies that fishing companies pay for polluting territorial waters

  At a meeting yesterday at the Tauese Ocean Center to inform district governors, county chiefs, and village mayors about the National Sanctuary of American Samoa, Alo Read More »

• Marine Protected Areas – Fishermen say Ottawa not clear on what potential protected areas will mean for fishing grounds

  Cape Breton snow crab fisherman Basil MacLean speaks for many in coastal when he complains Ottawa has not been clear about what a potential marine protected Read More »

• Environmental Group Sues Over Seismic Work in Cook Inlet

  23:33:26 – Oral arguments are being heard Friday in US District Court in Anchorage for a lawsuit that challenges the decision made by the National Marine Read More »

• Spare fleet readies for Togiak herring season

  At the quiet Dillingham Boat Harbor Monday, the four-man crew of the F/V Skagerrack was on deck, patching holes in their net and mending a leaky Read More »

• Commercial Fishing Boat Runs Aground Near China Camp In Marin County

  Two boaters in distress were able to safely walk to shore after a 30-foot commercial vessel lost power in the North Bay and ran aground Saturday Read More »
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  This Alaska teen’s biggest catch was a 57-foot whale. Animal-rights activists didn’t like it. He’s not backing down.

  He sat on stage, the governor on one side, the lieutenant governor on the other, his parents at the end, and he told a story bigger Read More »