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• From Virginia, another idea for reversing crab decline

  The latest idea for pulling Chesapeake blue crabs back from the brink of disaster — a fascinating and frustrating subject about which everyone seems to have Read More »

• DFO justifies Area 6 northern shrimp catch by offshore fleet

  Fisheries and Oceans Canada is defending its decision to allow offshore factory freezer trawlers to catch northern shrimp this spring, even though its own scientists say Read More »

• Icelands Fishermen’s Strike Began Last Night – All ships not in harbor are on their way to land

  A fishermen’s strike began at 11 pm last night when wage negotiations had failed between them and Fisheries Iceland, RÚV reports. This is their first strike Read More »

• Four men arrested on elver charges in two incidents

  Two men, a father and a son from Massachusetts, are facing criminal charges after Maine Marine Patrol officers found them with 31 pounds of elvers in Read More »

• Work starts on disputed offshore windmill project

  Work began Tuesday on a proposed New Jersey wind power project that’s still very much up in the air. Fishermen’s Energy held a groundbreaking in Atlantic Read More »

• Southeast Alaska Chinook Salmon Quota Numbers Fall for 2013

  The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has announced its Chinook salmon harvest quota for Southeast Alaska. The department says the all-gear harvest for 2013 is Read More »

• Animal Rights Crusaders Crash Brooklyn Lobster Party To Protest Crustacean ‘Torture’

  An animal rights group barged into a lobster boil party in Brooklyn yesterday, shouting, holding signs, climbing on tables and dousing one another in “blood.” Collectively Read More »

• Petition urges NOAA Gloucester shutdown

  With the regulated industry facing a virtual implosion based on a disputed legal ruling, an online petition campaign has been initiated to pressure Congress to close Read More »

• Katherine the great white shark swimming off Grand Banks

  A great white shark named Katherine spent most of the holiday season swimming near the Grand Banks off the south coast of Newfoundland. Marine research group Read More »

• Bristol Bay Fishermen’s Association seeks more members, better payouts

  The name isn’t the only thing changing for the group formerly called the Alaska Independent Fishermen’s Marketing Association. Now dubbed the Bristol Bay Fishermen’s Association, the Read More »

• 20-year shellfish harvester says he can’t wait long for return of cod

  The return of an expanded commercial cod fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador can’t come soon enough for Basil Goodyear, a fisherman in Lumsden who’s been relying Read More »
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  Two bumbling hired thugs arrested for allegedly sinking a lobster boat in trap turf war

  Two people are in jail and a third man is expected to be charged for the intentional sinking of a lobster boat last week. This is Read More »

• Censored Maine Fishermen Seek Assurances that Searsport Dredging Won’t Harm Bay

  “My name is David Black and I’m from Belfast and I fish in this area out here. Wayne fishes beside me. We are the face of Read More »

• California Salmon forecasts favorable, despite drought uncertainty

  Predictions for a robust king salmon haul buoyed California fishermen assembled Wednesday for a preseason meeting with state and federal regulators, even if forecasts fell short Read More »

• Virginia Marine Resources Commission revokes licenses over oyster violations

  NEWPORT NEWS — The commercial fishing licenses of four local watermen were revoked Tuesday for numerous and repeated criminal oyster violations. Two of the watermen, , Read More »

• Cannery Row history: Western Flyer puzzle takes shape

  Revelations at the Cannery Row Symposium just keep getting better and better. Last year it was announced that the Western Flyer, the fishing boat leased by Read More »

• Feds Reverse Course, Lift Ban on Fishing for Rare Pacific Bluefin Tuna – Center for Biological Diversity Distraught!

  “Bluefin tuna have been decimated by overfishing, and the world has called in their Pacific bluefin tuna fleets — but California fishermen continue to catch endangered Read More »

• The global warming campaign is filled with Boris Wormism, and it’s catching up ” the self-serving coalition of environmentalists and big business hoping to create a carbon cartel”.

  In Denial –  The meltdown of the climate campaign.  By STEVEN F. HAYWARD. It is increasingly clear that the leak of the internal emails and documents Read More »

• Coast Guard medevacs ailing fisherman 170 miles northwest of St. Paul Island, Alaska

  Coast Guard 17th District command center watchstanders received a request from Health Force Partners in Seattle that a 22-year-old man aboard  was ill and needed a Read More »

• August 17th is StarKist Samoa Day in American Samoa!

  Governor Lolo Matalasi Moliga has proclaimed August 17 as StarKist Samoa Day in honor of the cannery’s 50 years of service to American Samoa. In his proclamation, Lolo detailed Read More »

• West Coast starfish die-off prompts calls for emergency help from Congress

  With millions of starfish dying all along the West Coast, Washington state Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives say it’s time for Congress to intervene Read More »

• Jensen Maritime Awarded for Vision and Innovation in Design of the Northern Leader Fishing Vessel

  Jensen Maritime, Crowley Maritime Corp’s Seattle-based naval architecture and marine engineering firm, has been honored with the New Wave Award, which recognizes the company’s vision and innovation Read More »

• MSY Threat to Small-Scale Fisheries

   A rational, balanced and proportionate fisheries management approach would aim to continue this steady climb towards high-yield fisheries, without bankrupting the fleets.,, political courage – to Read More »

• Lobster prices high as catch drops and China imports climb

  Lobster lovers are used to adjusting to high prices, but this winter, they’re shelling out even more for the cherished crustaceans because of a lack of Read More »

• Animal rights industry never has to take bait

  A few years ago my wife and I took two of my boys to the Northern Territory and were lucky enough to be given extensive access Read More »