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• Parties mum on settlement to end salvage claim against drifting Spruce Head lobster boat

  The case centers on the 42-foot lobster boat Xtreme Measures which broke from its mooring off Spruce Head during a blizzard in February 2013. Owner Jason Read More »

• Blue Harvest Fisheries Acquires Hygrade Ocean Products

  Blue Harvest Fisheries, LLC has today announced the acquisition of Hygrade Ocean Products Inc. Hygrade is a New Bedford, Massachusetts, based processor and distributor of scallops, Read More »

• Meetings will shape AK fishing futures: salmon vs coal, setnet ban, NPFMC, BOF, IPHC

  It’s a meeting line up like never before for Alaska’s fishing industry. Starting off  this Friday  – the  state Department of Natural Resources will hear both Read More »

• IG cites NOAA for lack of response – implies clearly that NOAA officials are showing insufficient interest in resolving these problems.

  “We are currently reviewing NOAA’s controls and processes surrounding fisheries rulemaking as the first phase of our assessment of transparency and the rule of fishery councils in Read More »

• Lobster fishermen enjoy tide of good prices, landings

  Prices and landings remain high nearly a month into the South Shore lobster season. The average price to fishermen is $6 per pound for canners and Read More »

• Tendering report sought after possible electronic monitoring ‘gaming’ exposed

  The North Pacific Fishery Management program heard about the status of the new  marine observer program at its Anchorage meeting. continued Related Read More »

• The Gulf of Maine: Poster Child for Global Weirding?

  Since it’s snowing this evening, again, I though I’d write something on climate, which I know is not weather. As so often, the great state of Read More »

• Inland Fisheries – Asian carp study reveals market for the invaders

  The despised Asian carp in the Illinois River has been beaten with baseball bats and harpooned with arrows at local events, but a study from the Read More »

• Body found after fishing boat capsizes off New Brunswick – Two still missing as of 1:15 pm eastern – Full scale search underway

  The boat, operating out of Tabusintac, issued the distress call at around 5:30 a.m. local time. Three crew were onboard. Mike Bonin of the Joint Rescue Read More »

• The International Joint Commission seeks tough rules to reduce Lake Erie algae

  The U.S. and Canada should crack down on sources of phosphorus runoff blamed for a rash of harmful algae blooms on Lake Erie, an advisory agency Read More »

• Acoustic monitoring of Atlantic cod reveals clues to spawning behavior – Phys.Org

  For decades researchers have recorded sounds from whales and other marine mammals, using a variety of methods including passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) to better understand how Read More »

• Coast Guard launches search for sunken fishing boat in Sandy Hook Channel

  The U.S. Coast Guard and other agencies were searching for a fishing boat that reportedly capsized off the coast of New Jersey on Tuesday evening, authorities Read More »

• Capt. Dave Marciano: Catch shares for tuna could end fishery

  The end of the tuna fishery has begun. No one thought that giving one group of selected wealthy individuals their own special quota in the guise Read More »

• Sea lice pesticides used in salmon industry may be hazardous – can harm, or even kill, lobsters, federal scientists find

  Salmosan®​, a pesticide currently approved for use in the Bay of Fundy, can be hazardous to lobsters and other species hundreds of metres from a farm, the research conducted at Read More »

• Columbia River Gillnet Killer Kitzhaber and the Greedy Greens

  Oregon governor John Kitzhaber may have announced that he will resign, but a sweeping FBI investigation of him and his fiancée, Cylvia Hayes, is only getting Read More »

• Ventura harbor closure takes an economic toll, thanks to strong currents and El Niño conditions

  The Small Business Administration declared a state of emergency for the Ventura Harbor businesses on Feb. 26, according to a press release. The declaration enabled the Read More »

• Observer changes, Gulf ratz on tap for North Pacific council

  Changes to the observer program and discussion of a possible Gulf of Alaska rationalization program are back on the menu at the North Pacific Fishery Management Read More »

• The Fisheries Broadcast with John Furlong

  Monday June  3, 2013 – Genetically modified salmon,  engineered to grow faster, Friday May 31, 2013 – More reaction to the issue of the CETA talks, Read More »

• NOAA report may underestimate the decline of Northeast groundfish industry

  Dan Georgiana has taken a look at NOAA’s report on the state of the multispecies fishery and drawn his own conclusions. The report follows: The “2013 Read More »

• Ad hoc committee wrestles with otters – audio

  A committee of fishermen and other Petersburg residents is wrestling with what to do about the impact of a growing sea otter population on Southeast’s commercial Read More »

• July 4, 2016 – May God Bless our Freedom, and the United States of America

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• Various reports of salmon news from Bristol Bay – KDLG Radio

  Just 71,000 Sockeye Harvested Sunday   More Fishing in Egegik Monday   Outbound! King Salmon Airport Busy Monday as Eastside Districts Wind Down  Flying the Togiak River Related Read More »

• First federally permitted offshore mussel aquaculture project on east coast soon to get underway

  The first shellfish aquaculture project permitted in federal waters off the U.S. east coast is expected to begin operating next spring.  Scientists and fishermen are partnering Read More »

• New Coast Guard HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircraft now operating out of Air Station Cape Cod

  The HC-144 Ocean Sentry, received by Air Station Cape Cod in August 2012, is a more efficient platform with the ability remain in the air for Read More »

• New maps show Bering Sea holds world’s most acidic ocean waters

  The world’s most acidic ocean waters are found in the winter in the Bering Sea, according to studies by scientists at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Read More »