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• F/V ‘Sea Mac’ Owner/Operator Indicted on Lacey Act Charges

  In announcement made Friday, U.S. Attorney  Karen Loeffler reported that State of Washington resident, 54-year-old Steven Carr was indicted by a Grand Jury in Anchorage for Read More »

• Fisher could have been paid $16,000 for his ‘wasted fish’ – David Tomasson, Chairman, Freshwater Fish Marketing Corp.

  I am dismayed to see the recent stories in the Winnipeg Free Press about the commercial fishing industry in Manitoba, specifically the issue of usable fish Read More »

• FISH-NL: Fisheries and Oceans Minister Dominic LeBlanc missing boat on problems plaguing industry

  The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH-NL) is outraged with an attack by the federal Minister of Fisheries and Oceans on the Read More »
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  Dwindling winter steelhead are on their own again at Willamette Falls

  With the first four dozen winter steelhead counted at Willamette Falls and scattered early catches reported in both the Clackamas and Sandy rivers, Oregon scientists, fish Read More »

• Two more sentences handed down for Deepwater Horizon fraud, claimants falsely alleged commercial fishing ties

  Two St. Tammany Parish residents were recently sentenced for their roles in defrauding the Deepwater Horizon claims center in which they claimed to have lost wages Read More »

• North Carolina Legislation would put a net ban referendum on November ballot

  Late last month, state Rep. Billy Richardson, D-Cumberland, told a room full of recreational fishermen in Wilmington he would push for a statewide referendum to ban Read More »
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  Fishery managers weighing cuts in Bay crab harvest

  Chesapeake Bay crabbers will likely face some harvest restriction this season to protect future generations of the iconic crustacean, a move managers say is necessary because Read More »

• Falmouth selectmen support keeping Northeast Fisheries Science Center in Woods Hole

  The Northeast Fisheries Science Center facility in Woods Hole was built before men walked on the moon and is due for an upgrade — but whether Read More »

• Japanese Fishermen Painted as ‘Sadists’ in Oscar-Winner “The Cove” 

  A group of Japanese fishermen have broken their silence over a controversial annual dolphin kill that was the focus of the Oscar-winning documentary “The Cove”. “In Read More »

• Fishermen Suspect Tory Brexit Pledge Masks Betrayal on £6.3bn Fishing Zone

  The Government has committed to scrapping the Fisheries Convention of 1964, allowing Britain to take back control of its territorial waters from the EU out to Read More »
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  Two-Headed Sharks Keep Popping Up—No One Knows Why

  Two-headed sharks may sound like a figment of the big screen, but they exist—and more are turning up worldwide, scientists say. A few years ago off Read More »

• Tampering with our Future – Genetically engineered fish, the FDA and labeling GE/GMO foods, By Anne Mosness

  The thought of experimenting with animals to create new life forms that can be patented, produced in commercial feedlots, and marketed without labeling makes most people Read More »

• Ensuring We Continue to Preserve the Independence of the Inshore Fleet in Canada’s Atlantic Fisheries – The Honourable Gail Shea

  The Honourable Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, today issued the following statement: As a proud Maritimer, I know full well the importance of the Read More »

• Deep sea fish quotas cut for two years in the Northeast Atlantic

  The EU Commission proposed today an overall cut in quotas for deep sea fishing in the northeast Atlantic for the next two years. However, environmental groups Read More »

• A bluebird day: Commercial fisherman Captain Geordie King by his sister, Heather King – Nice!

  Back in New England, my brother Geordie’s been a commercial fisherman for more than 30 years. He developed his passion for boats as a kid, out Read More »

• Groundfish managers from afar hold workshop – The Who Fishes Matters Tour – On the Cape

  BARNSTABLE — Cape fishermen will hear from a panel of fisheries experts from Canada and France, and get to brainstorm ideas for solutions to social, environmental, Read More »
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  Charged with illegal fishing, Mi’kmaw man seeks to redefine Supreme Court’s Marshall decision

  Exactly 18 years after the Supreme Court of Canada issued a clarification of its ruling on Indigenous peoples’ right to fish, a Mi’kmaw fisherman from New Brunswick’s lawsuit against Read More »
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  Herring fishery underway near Prince of Wales Island

  Fishing has started in another commercial herring fishery in Southeast Alaska this month. Fishery managers expect herring could be starting to spawn this week in a Read More »

• Coast Guard assists sinking fishing vessel 130 miles east of Nantucket

  The Coast Guard is responding to a fishing boat taking on water 130 miles east of Nantucket, Massachusetts, Saturday. At about 12:45 a.m., the fishing vessel Read More »

• Seal Meat: Veal of the Ocean

  “The meat is pretty much not like much else you’ve ever eaten,” says Perrin, chef/owner of The Mallard Cottage, a restaurant on the forefront of the Read More »

• N.C. Man Pleads Guilty to Illegal Bass Fishing

  A North Carolina fisherman pleaded guilty Monday to the illegal harvest and sale of Atlantic striped bass in federal waters in 2010. The Justice Department said Read More »

• Just Now!! A tight fit.

  Gloucester – A tight fit. The lobster boat Dominatrix drives between the stern of the herring trawler Western Venture and the Coast Guard station’s large vessel Read More »

• Record Run Leads To Glut Of Pink Salmon

  The record setting pink salmon catch in Alaska last year has left seafood processing companies with several year’s worth of inventory of canned product, although not Read More »

• 75-year-old Little Torch Key man pleaded guilty this week to federal charges of illegally selling bonnethead sharks

   faces five years in federal prison and $250,000 in fines. However, Horan doubted the judge will send the older man, who lost one of his arms Read More »

• Kodiak Hiring choice questioned – From King Crab Capital to Hard on Bottom Trawl Capital of the World.

  The city of Kodiak and the borough just approved the ultimate insider – one who has long represented such huge trawl interests as the at-sea factory Read More »