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• Coast Guard continues search for two missing Maine fishermen despite snowstorm

  Two people aboard a fishing boat (F/V No Limits) that sank on Saturday afternoon were still missing on Sunday morning, On Saturday, the water temperature was in Read More »

• Louisiana State senator weighs in on red snapper issue

  BATON ROUGE — Federal officials should travel to the Capitol building here and explain why the state’s recreational red snapper season has shrunk to just nine Read More »

• Fishing company Sanford Limited rails against Hauraki Gulf “Sea Change” plan

  The plan called Sea Change -Tai Timu Tai Pari was unveiled in Auckland last night and suggests a blueprint to tackle growing problems like depleted seafood Read More »

• Monday evening (May 6th) Narragansett Town Council Meeting on Deepwater Wind

  The AFL-CIO president for R.I. sent out a robocall today encouraging members to come to tomorrow night’s meeting in support of Deepwater’s request to make a landing Read More »

• The Unforgiving Sea by Laurent d’Entremont

  The mighty sea has always been unforgiving, and this was sadly brought home recently, when five young men from the Woods Harbour and Cape Island area Read More »

• International overfishing study argues every fishing vessel should be tracked

  A team of international ocean scientists is urging policy makers around the world to start tracking every vessel on the planet — the same way ride-hailing Read More »

• No rest for the weary on commercial fishing boat

  The morning after on the Evening Star is marked with heaps of blood-tinged ice and buckets of bright dead fish.  Crew members use plastic shovels and Read More »

• Outdoors: Both man and nature must share blame for demise of shellfish

  Several factors are implicated in their demise. Over-fishing, pollution, habitat degradation, diseases and bad weather can all affect the highly vulnerable 2-year scallop life cycle. My Read More »

• Golden fish

  Update: This story was updated on May 21, 2017 to include new prices. In economic crisis, there is often opportunity. Commercial fishermen in Cordova, Alaska are Read More »
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  Coastal shark population on rise in southeast U.S, Gulf of Mexico

  A recent analysis of population trends among coastal sharks of the southeast U.S. shows that all but one of the seven species studied are increasing in Read More »

• NMFS Announces Public Webinars for the Final Rule for Amendment 7 (Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Management Measures)

  NMFS published a final rule to implement Amendment 7 to the 2006 Consolidated Highly Migratory Species (HMS) Fishery Management Plan.  NMFS is hosting two public webinars Read More »

• Problems surface at Fulton Fish Market

  Late last month in the Bronx, one of the city’s oldest and largest seafood wholesalers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The problems of M. Slavin Read More »

• Get ready for some awesome wake — it’s lobster boat racing season!

  Spectators and lobstermen alike are getting revved up for Boothbay Harbor’s Charlie Begin Memorial Lobster Boat Races set for Saturday, June 18, at 10 a.m. You’re Read More »

• P.E.I. lobster fishermen to vote on marketing board – Vote will coincide with lobster levy vote

  P.E.I. lobster fishermen voting next month on whether to introduce a marketing levy on their catches will also vote on whether to create a marketing board. Read More »

• Ninth Circuit Sides With Cook Inlet Fishermen

  The Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday that the federal government must manage fisheries in federal waters that require conservation, unless a fishery-management plan cedes control to a Read More »
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  Fishing Industry sees workers compensation rates hit 20-year low thanks to safety campaigns

  Stuart MacLean says it was a particularly dark event that helped spark a culture change when it comes to safety in the fishing industry: the sinking Read More »

• Federal plan for ‘geoduck’ fishing pushes First Nation to threaten blockade

  A First Nation threatening to block all fisheries in a large portion of the Strait of Georgia said it’s only doing so as a last resort Read More »

• No Go On Permit Stacking for Kodiak Salmon

  This is Fish Radio. I’m Stephanie Mangini. Stacking permit proposals dropped. The thoughts on permit stacking between Kodiak set-netters was mixed at the Board Of Fisheries Read More »

• Artificial reef building project planned for summer 2014

  “It’s like a manmade cave that we are putting on the bottom,” said Bob Martore of DNR. Frank Gibson III with the Beaufort Sportfishing & Diving Read More »

• Letter: Coalition keeps up fight for fishermen

  For over the past five years, the Northeast Seafood Coalition has actively participated in the New England Fishery Management Council process surrounding the Omnibus Essential Fish Read More »

• Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 44′ 11″ x 17′ Novi Lobster,1987, Fiberglass, Volvo

  For specifications, information, and 11 photos of the vessel, click here To see all the boats in this series, Click here  11:19 Related Read More »

• Government invests half-million dollars in seal meat

  The Canadian and Newfoundland and Labrador governments are putting $498,000 into a pilot project to develop value-added seal meat products. Gail Shea, the federal fisheries minister, Read More »

• Federal employment minister Pierre Poilievre says fish plants must boost wages

  Canada’s employment minister says changes to temporary foreign worker legislation will not be reversed or delayed after complaints by New Brunswick fish plant owners.  Pierre Poilievre says the Read More »

• Court finds Radical environmentalist anti-whaling Sea Shepherd’s in contempt

  The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a commissioner to determine how much Paul Watson and members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society he founded Read More »

• Officials considering closing fishing areas from Florida Keys to North Carolina – seeking fishermen’s comments.

  Representatives from the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council held meetings last week in Key West and other areas of the state to obtain input on setting Read More »