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• Toxin Levels Dropping in California Crabs

  Seafood lovers and California’s commercial fishermen received good news Thursday as tests revealed dropping levels of the dangerous neurotoxin that has temporarily delayed the state’s crab Read More »

• Getting Hooked! Fishermen can prepare for hooking injuries

  Many fishermen are familiar with the feeling of getting a fishhook stuck in their hand, arm or elsewhere. Usually, it’s a quick fix if the fisherman Read More »

• The former High Liner Foods fish plant in Burin has avoided the wrecking ball.

  After roughly two years of negotiations with the Nova Scotia-based company, the town has acquired the facility. The acquisition means the building won’t meet the same Read More »

• Green light stops sea turtle deaths in gillnets

  Illuminating fishing nets is a cost-effective means of dramatically reducing the number of sea turtles getting caught and dying unnecessarily, conservation biologists at the University of Read More »
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  State and Federal Authorities’ visit to fish house remains a mystery

  Business appeared to be carrying on as usual Friday at Lou-Joe’s Fresh Seafood, a day after agents from the Internal Revenue Service and two other government Read More »

• Mines minister Bill Bennett to meet Alaska fishermen, natives

  Bill Bennett met with mining representatives in Alaska last November, four months after a tailings dam burst and spilled 24 million cubic metres of waste into Read More »

• This is Fish Radio. I’m Stephanie Mangini. South-East Alaska Crab Season Tell All

  “We have weather delay criteria in regulation for tanner and king crab fisheries in South East. If we have winds thirty-five knots or higher on the Read More »

• Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update, July 19, 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 »
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  A Drone May Save Your Life in the Future.

  Drones have many uses—from military strikes to package delivery. One of the most important uses is to save lives. In times of emergency, a drone is Read More »

• Study: FloScan Reduces Commercial Fishing Operation Costs

  FloScan announced the latest in a series of Case Studies detailing how their fuel computer systems are being used in a real world commercial environment. FloScan Read More »

• Flatfish flexibility OK’d; Steller sea lion EIS not ready

  The North Pacific Fishery Management Council took final action on several  groundfish issues, and made preliminary moves toward additional changes in the  future at its April Read More »

• Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update February 10, 2013

  “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 »

• Clinton Outlines Policy on Coasts, Oceans in Response to Letter from 115 Ocean Leaders

  Like it or not, surfers are stakeholders. A group of people with skin in the game regarding the health of our oceans. That manifests itself differently Read More »

• An assortment of today’s offshore energy article’s, titles, and links – Are you losing your grounds?

  New York – A Commitment To Wind Energy – Click here  Martha’s Vineyard – DONG Energy meets and greets Islanders – Click here  New Jersey – Fishermen’s Energy Read More »

• New England fishing industry blames government limits for downfall – They’re right, but citizens don’t “get it” in Knoxville!

  As fishermen are sidelined, taking their boats out of service for lack of work, New England’s marine industry that repairs, stores and cleans boats is next Read More »

• NEFMC Groundfish Committee’s Oct. 11 Meeting Prompts Discussion Related to Closed Area Access and Transboundary Stock Shares- Lots of Audio

  NEFMC Groundfish  Oversight Committee met last Thursday to continue development of  Framework Adjustment 48. HAMPTON, N.H. – October 11, 2012 – The New England Fishery Management Council’s Read More »

• Fisheries Working Group meeting on Offshore Renewable Energy – November 14th at 8:00 AM

  November 12, 2012 — The Fisheries Working Group meeting on Offshore Renewable Energy will be next Wednesday, November 14th at 8:00 AM at the New Bedford Read More »
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  Fisheries council boosts Gulf of Maine quotas for cod, haddock, pollock

  The New England Fishery Management Council voted to increase cod and pollock quotas for 2018, a move that is expected to benefit New England’s fishing industry. Read More »

• Controlling Agreements – DFO cracks down on fishing licences it says are fronts for corporations

  Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans is taking action against more Atlantic fishermen it says are holding inshore fishing licences as fronts for corporations. The department says Read More »

• Yukon River king salmon run called “dismal”

  As of Tuesday, only about 20,000 kings had been counted past a sonar located 16 miles from the Canadian border near Eagle. The Pacific Salmon Treaty Read More »

• Sea Hag Seafood’s lobster processing plant shuttered, up for auction

  A seafood processing plant that opened less than four years ago with the hope of bolstering the lobster industry is closed and up for auction. Sea Read More »

• Open Letter to Presidential Candidates on Saving the Oceans: Industrial Fishing Must Be Banned to Stave Off Wholesale Disaster

  Danny Quintana, founder of the Global High Seas Marine Preserve, is making a direct plea to the Presidential Candidates to take up an issue that is Read More »
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  Seaspan launches Canadian Coast Guard’s first Offshore Fisheries Science Vessel

  The first large vessel to be designed and built under the Canadian National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSS) was launched at Seaspan Shipyards on December 8. ‘Sir John Read More »

• BP settlement could remove local control – negotiations are secret

  Because the negotiations are secret, it’s hard for anyone to know how serious or legitimate the suggestions are that the settlement might favor the Natural Resources Read More »

• CETA: Canada-European Union pact worries US lobster industry

  Members of the U.S. seafood industry are fearful that Canada’s approval of a new trade deal with the European Union will cause big problems for the Read More »