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• Fish in the Global Balance

  There are reasons to be optimistic about some forms of aquaculture……And the food that feeds the most important farmed fishes, like salmon, has to come from Read More »

• Maine Lobstermen OK with fee hikes to improve marketing

  Robert Baines, a lobsterman from South Thomaston and chairman of the Lobster Advisory Council, said it is usually difficult to unite lobstermen on a single issue, Read More »

• The mysterious elver, from Sargasso Sea to sushi

  MACHIAS, Maine — Lost in the rhetorical fog of the ongoing economic, political and cultural controversies surrounding the netting of glass eels along Maine’s rugged shoreline Read More »

• Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 42′ Duffy Lobster/Scalloper, 500HP, 6 Cylinder Lugger

  Specifications, information and 14 photo’s click here To see all the boats in this series, Click here  13:18 Related Read More »
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  The Latest on Hurricane Matthew 0:500 EDT THU OCT 06 2016

  CHANGES WITH THIS ADVISORY: The Hurricane Warning has been extended northward to Altamaha Sound, Georgia, and the Hurricane Watch has been extended northward to South Santee Read More »

• Bioengineers look to Alaska Pollock to help save lives

  When researchers at the University of Tsukuba in Japan were looking for biomaterials that could improve the performance of surgical sealants, they turned to a familiar Read More »

• ‘Wicked Tuna’ sets sail for filming Season 3 (top search engine story here is Hard Merch sinking at the dock)

  The third season holds new surprises with Marciano taking to the seas in a newly outfitted boat, the Hard Merchandise, after it sank at the dock Read More »

• Fishermen say camera requirement invades privacy

  The cameras do a job on-boat observers have usually performed, allowing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to cover more ground by providing fleet-wide coverage. A Read More »

• Atlantic Canada’s halibut fishery has been given the Marine Stewardship Council’s sustainable seal of approval.

  “We’re all for it,” Bill Murphy, cost control manager with Fisherman’s Market International Inc. on the Bedford Highway, said in an interview Tuesday. The non-profit U.K. 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 »

• $1 million fish pier project tops Rockland list

  A $1 million overhaul at the city’s fish pier tops Rockland’s proposed capital improvement program for 2015-2016. The fish pier work would consist of replacing the Read More »

• Hot-button issue of king salmon bycatch will come before fisheries council

  In the final day of its December meeting, the council also decided to give the commercial fishing industry more time to work on plans to reduce Read More »

• Coast Guard responds to grounded F/V Kim Thanh

  LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Coast Guard worked with local agencies and commercial response companies to remove a grounded fishing boat from Ormand Beach, Ventura County, Calif., Read More »

• Tanner Crab Stock Healthy

  Alaska Public Media – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration downgraded the southern tanner crab – or bairdi – in its annual report to Congress. In Read More »

• Former fishermen sue Japanese Government for hiding Bikini atoll H-bomb fallout records

  A group of former fishermen Monday filed an unprecedented lawsuit seeking compensation from the government for failing to disclose, for decades, records of their exposure to Read More »

• Greenpeace – Just 97 of the ‘world’s cutest’ sea mammals remain – Are these people for real?!?!

  One of the world’s “cutest” sea mammals is at risk of extinction unless a ruling is passed to protect the vaquita porpoise. Mexico has one last Read More »

• John Furlong, CBC host and producer, dead at 63

  John Furlong, a CBC journalist who covered every facet of Newfoundland and Labrador, has died just weeks after being diagnosed with cancer. He was 63. Having worked Read More »
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  New Bedford City Officials Draft New Business Plan For Fishing Port

  New Bedford city officials have unveiled a draft plan to expand the business opportunities for the city’s lucrative port. The Port of New Bedford is the Read More »

• 2017 Commercial Salmon Harvest Summary

  The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) has compiled preliminary harvest and value figures for the 2017 Alaska commercial salmon fishery (PDF 130 kB). Although Read More »

• James “Whitey” Bulger, guilty of killing Gloucester fisherman John McIntyre, other counts

  Among the 11 the jury found him guilty of was that John McIntyre, a mechanic and fisherman who had been on the Gloucester-based swordfishing vessel Valhalla, when Read More »

• New restrictions pose threats for local lobstermen – “It will be disastrous for these guys all the way from Sandwich to Hull,”

  Since he set his first trap in 1963, Bill Adler’s life has revolved around commercial lobster fishing. But the future of the industry on which Adler Read More »

• Fundy fishermen lose bid to stop tidal turbine in Minas Basin

  A group of Bay of Fundy fishermen have lost a bid to overturn the approval of a project in Nova Scotia’s Minas Basin. In February, the Bay of Fundy Inshore Fishermen’s Read More »

• Kodiak Island Borough Assembly and City Council Decry ‘Fish Stealing’

     Last night the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly and City Council gathered for a joint work session to discuss a variety of topics pertaining to both governing Read More »

• North Pacific Fishery Management Council gets review of Bering Sea pollock program

  After two years of almost ceaseless contention, the North Pacific regulatory waters have cooled down for now. The Council oversees all federal fisheries between three and Read More »

• UPDATED: Man shot, run over by boat in fishing dispute – Police statement describes chilling encounter on water with missing fisherman Phillip Boudreau

  3 suspects in Cape Breton man’s slaying remain in custody – [email protected] One of the suspects in the murder of Phillip Boudreau told police the victim was Read More »