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• Public Comments Sought on Proposed Changes to Harbor Porpoise Take Reduction Plan

  National Marine Fisheries Service is proposing to revise the Harbor Porpoise Take Reduction Plan to eliminate the consequence closure strategy due to changes in fishing practices that Read More »

• iPhone and Android App helps track changes to fishing laws

  The app, available for both iPhone and Android users, was developed for the management council by an outside contractor that previously worked on similar software for Read More »

• Aquaculture research proposed for abandoned fish plant in Souris by former AquaBounty employees

  The Canadian operation is made up of former employees of AquaBounty, a genetically-modified salmon producer that also has its base in eastern P.E.I. CATC has its eye Read More »

• Calvert fisherman Laurie Sullivan remembered fondly

  People in Calvert, on the southern shore of Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula, are mourning the loss of fisherman Laurie Sullivan, 59, who died Wednesday after he was pulled Read More »

• Start of the wave? Sudden boatloads of Chinook salmon off Alberni raise hopes

  Up and down the West Coast commercial fishermen are filling harbours waiting and hoping for an opening to fish Chinook salmon. Despite preliminary estimates of a Read More »

• Lobster Fishermen Gather for Massachusetts Lobstermen’s Association’s Conference, Talk of Future

  The future is uncertain for lobster fishing south of Cape Cod, a top state fisheries biologist told a gathering of lobster fishermen at a conference last Read More »

• The American Albacore Fishing Association (AAFA), MSC certified a second time – North and South Pacific albacore

  The AAFA includes families that have fished commercially for generations and AAFA’s commitment to sustainability and the MSC programme has both helped stabilize the albacore tuna Read More »

• Weak link in the food chain – Most marine life relies on a regular and ongoing supply of phytoplankton.

  These microscopic marine plants lie at the base of the marine food chain and  form the staple diet of minute ocean creatures called zooplankton. Without  enough Read More »

• Maine’s lobster industry feeling pain of slow start – Some say the crustaceans are ‘back on the old time clock’

  David Cousins, president of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association and a South Thomaston lobsterman, said lobstermen expect shedding to pick up and catches to escalate at the Read More »

• Gov. Inslee uses dying Quilcene oysters to support his efforts toward climate change legislation

  Billions of baby oysters in the Pacific inlets here are dying, and Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington is busy spreading the bad news. <Read more here> 11:05 Read More »
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  North Carolina Fisheries Association – Update on yesterday’s North Carolina shrimp petition meeting!

  ALL FIVE ADVISORY PANELS VOTE TO DENY THE SHRIMP PETITION! Thanks to all fishermen, their families, consumers and other supporters of North Carolina’s commercial fishing communities Read More »

• Newfoundland / Labrador Cod fishing for food: right or privilege?

  I’m writing on the last day of the first leg of the 2013 recreational cod fishery. It’s early Sunday morning and the rain is pouring down Read More »

• Newfoundland & Labrador’s Northern Shrimp Inshore Fleet: a lesson in the importance of small scale fisheries.

  Small scale fisheries are crucial for the social and economic well-being of coastal communities. But when push comes to shove, we need data to back up Read More »

• Baker | Shrimpin’ ain’t easy – Federal decision to cut inshore shrimp quotas mystifying, devastating for NL economy

  I wonder how many people casually dismissed the news this week about northern shrimp quota cuts as just more “fishermen crying and whining” about their lot Read More »

• Indepth – A controversial decision: Fishery Managers Scale Back 2014 Pacific Sardine Harvest

  A controversial decision by the Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) would set catch limits during the initial phase of the 2014 Pacific sardine season well below Read More »

• UPDATED: Maine’s elver-fishing industry could be affected by new regulations – harvest to be cut by 25% in 2014

  The American Eel Management Board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission is meeting Wednesday in Georgia to discuss and possibly vote on new regulations. Options Read More »

• New, state-of-the-art research vessel visits the Exploratorium – video (like a real fish trawler, only bigger!!)

  Docked at the Exploratorium in San Francisco from now until July 1st is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) 209-foot, state-of-the-art fisheries research vessel Bell M. Read More »

• Fishermen hope legislation benefits industry. Charlston Huckster wearing a cheap rug strokes’ em with Pew Lotion!

  Locals in the fishing industry, including Baumann, hope the research could lead to further regulatory change to the Magnuson-Stevens Act which sets catch limits designed to Read More »

• More Maine lobstermen to carry fed observers – mandatory for fishermen as a condition of their federal permit

  Any Maine lobsterman with a federal lobster permit may now be contacted by federal fishery observers asking to send a representative on his or her boat Read More »

• Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council Meeting in Philadelphia, PA October 7-9, 2014 – Listen online

  The public is invited to attend the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council’s meeting on October 7 – 9, 2014 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The meeting will be held at the Courtyard Read More »

• American Samoa: Sea cucumber off limits for 6 months

  Governor Lolo has signed an executive order placing a ban on the removal of sea cucumbers from local waters. The worm-like and usually soft-bodied echinoderms keep Read More »

• Mackerel fishery closed unexpectedly, leaving some P.E.I. fishermen without enough bait

  Atlantic Canada’s commercial inshore mackerel fishery closed early for the first time in the fishery’s history, and some Island fishermen don’t have enough bait.  The chair Read More »

• WWF calls for suspension of commercial tuna fishing

  WWF is calling for the immediate suspension of commercial fishing of the Pacific bluefin tuna stock which it says is teetering on the edge of collapse Read More »
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  Medieval Histories – Medieval Cod Wars 1415 – 2017

  In the 15th-century long-distance fishing appeared as one of the first global industries. Then – as now – huge political and economic interests were at stake; Read More »

• Yurok Tribe Files Intent to Sue National Marine Fisheries Service and the Bureau of Reclamation

  In response to massive fish disease outbreaks in back-to-back years on the Klamath River, the Yurok Tribe submitted a 60-day notice of intent to sue the Read More »