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• Alaska Fisheries Disaster Money Stripped From Relief Bill

   The U.S. House has stripped a relief bill of money for the fishery disaster in Alaska. Read more Related Read More »

• Not clear how TPP will affect fishery, says FFAW’s Keith Sullivan

  The president of the Fish, Food and Allied Workers Union says it’s not yet clear how the deal reached this week will affect Newfoundland and Labrador’s Read More »

• Only 3 percent of juvenile salmon survived California drought in 2015

  Only 3 percent of the juveniles of an endangered salmon species survived the drought along the Sacramento River in 2015 despite extraordinary efforts by federal and Read More »

• A great Northern Shrimp article: 2015 Commercial Northern Shrimp Fishery Moratorium Announced

  In addition to announcing the moratorium for the 2015 commercial northern shrimp fishery, ASMFC also announced a draft amendment that would establish a limited entry program Read More »

• Lobsterman accused of stealing traps, Some confiscated equipment belongs to late Tony Rahn

  PORTSMOUTH — A lobsterman charged with one felony, two misdemeanors and more than 130 violations — including allegations that he stole a deceased lobsterman’s traps — Read More »

• Paralytic shellfish poison prompts harvesting closure – Affected areas include Mahone Bay, St. Margarets Bay, Terence Bay and Cole Harbour

  The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has closed part of Nova Scotia’s southern coast to shellfish harvesting after measuring high counts of Paralytic Shellfish Poison (PSP)[email protected] Read More »

• Fisherman’s widow sought to have fishing vessel seized before it sank

  The firm that owns a fishing vessel that sank early Wednesday miles off Mount Desert Island is being sued by the widow of a Westbrook man Read More »

• Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 44′ 11″ Offshore Lobster-Gillnetter Cat 3408TA

  Specifications, information and 50 photos click here  To see all the boats in this series, Click here 12:39 Related Read More »

• Japan to halve tuna catch in Northern Pacific

  Japan plans to slash by half the amount of juvenile bluefin tuna taken from the Northern Pacific starting in 2015, compared to the 2002-2004 average, reports Read More »

• Environmental Threat Turned Sustainable Business for the Gulf of California

  Considered a threat to the biodiversity of marine ecosystems of the Gulf of California, the cannonball jellyfish Stomolophus meleagris is intended to be exploited commercially throughout the Read More »
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  VIMS cracks the case of blue crab parasite

  Marine researchers have spent 15 years trying to nail down the life cycle of a single-celled parasite fatal to blue crabs. On Thursday, they announced they Read More »

• We Are Not Pirates, Just Hard Working Fishermen Holding Oil Tanker Crew Hostage For Money

  The hijackers who seized an oil tanker and its eight-man crew off Somalia are demanding “compensation” for a rise in illegal fishing in Somali waters. VOA’s Read More »

• Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update MAY 26, 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 »

• Merkley, Wyden, Schrader, DeFazio, Blumenauer and Bonamici Ask Coast Guard to Keep Newport Air Facility Open

  In a letter to Admiral Paul Zukunft, Commandant of the Coast Guard, the Oregon lawmakers stressed the safety implications of closing the facility, writing that the Read More »

• Trident’s new fishmeal plant to go online soon in Naknek

  The newest processing plant in Bristol Bay is about to go online this month. Trident Seafood’s multi-million dollar fishmeal plant should get a test run with Read More »

• Alaska Fish Radio – Salmon Numbers Soar as Fall Fisheries Begin

  This is Fish Radio. I’m Stephanie Mangini. Fall Fisheries gear up as salmon continue to blow up. More updates after this…[email protected] Related Read More »

• ‘Deadliest Catch’ crew joins Fish for Kids program in Bristol Bay

  Leave it to the crew of “Deadliest Catch to liven things up, even when it comes to a philanthropic effort by fishermen and Peter Pan Seafoods Read More »

• Subsidizing the effort, Riverhead gets help to avoid repeat of Peconic fish kill

  It’s 5:30 a.m. and Will Caldwell and his crewman Dave Inoue step into the shallow water to set a seine net at the mouth of the Read More »

• Donald Clattenburg, a retired New Bedford fisherman, recalls the rescue of his fishing vessel, the Venture I, on Jan. 9, 1966.

  NEW BEDFORD — The year was 1966, four years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Cold War tensions between the world’s superpowers — the Soviet Union Read More »

• 2nd body recovered, 3rd fisherman still missing in Newfoundland’s Placentia Bay

  Three fishermen were reported overdue Tuesday evening, according to a person involved in the search. The body of one of the men was located early Wednesday Read More »

• NOAA plans to open federal waters in Pacific to industrial-scale fish farming – Even Sylvia Earle thinks its wreckless

  As traditional commercial fishing is threatening fish populations worldwide, U.S. officials are working on a plan to expand fish farming into federal waters around the Pacific Read More »

• Spiny dogfish populations 2014 – Using satellites to reassess population estimates

  As of August 2014, it is suspected that there are more spiny dogfish in the Gulf of Maine and perhaps the northeast than has been thought Read More »

• Bay de Verde fish plant will be rebuilt after huge fire, owners assure workers

  Hundreds of vital jobs also went up in those billows of black ash but owners the Quinlan Brothers offered some much needed reassurance. “There has been Read More »

• Michigan commercial fishing harvest’s value rises in 2014

  The commercial fishing industry’s total catch last year in Michigan was down slightly, but its cash value was up. Officials say the total harvest was 200,000 Read More »

• Herring festival hangs in balance – Lack of set price keeps fishermen out of water

  As locals prepare to celebrate the humble herring, a dispute over prices of the omega-3 rich silvery fish has organizers of the Sausalito Herring Festival wondering Read More »