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• A rescue’s success hinges upon your EPIRB

  It was another early Friday morning for the crew of a Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules based out of Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C. Fifty-knot Read More »

• Quinault Indian Nation join West Coast crabbers on strike

  Fleets from Central California to the Canadian border are refusing to fish as the crabbing season opens along the coast. The strike is due to a Read More »

• Regulators Postpone Plan to Try to Preserve Lobsters

  Interstate fishing regulators have decided to hold off on starting the process of crafting a plan to try to preserve the dwindling southern New England lobster Read More »

• Maine’s problematic green crabs dwindled in 2014

  University of Maine at Machias marine ecology researcher Brian Beal says the amount of crabs is 10 percent of last year’s level at a key Freeport Read More »

• Gov. Rick Scott announced Wednesday that the state will spend $90 million to further hydrate the Everglades

  During a stop in Fort Myers, Scott discussed a plan to construct a 2.6-mile bridge on Tamiami Trail in Miami-Dade County. A similar 1-mile bridge opened Read More »

• Commercial large coastal shark season to close 11:30 p.m. Friday in Louisiana, federal waters

  Vessels with federal shark research permits may continue to operate. Those permits require a designated NOAA Fisheries observer on board until the research quota is reached. Read More »
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  California Dungeness crab fleet nets $68 million haul, but small boats continue to struggle

  California’s valuable Dungeness crab fishery appears to have rebounded after a disastrous 2015-16 season that threatened to knock even longtime fishermen so far back on their Read More »

• Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Shareholders’ Alliance fights NOAA over aqua farms

  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA)  decision to approve industrial offshore fish farming last month in federally protected waters in the Gulf of Mexico is Read More »
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  ‘SNL’ explains why you should never order the diner lobster, ‘Les Misérables’-style

  Many diners seem to have absurdly long menus with far too many things on it, sometimes including lobster. And you should never get the diner lobster. Read More »

• Forecast for Cape seals: Lots of gray

  CHATHAM — On a recent fishing trip around Monomoy Island, Orleans fisherman Bill Amaru and his crew counted 4,000 gray seals that had hauled out on Read More »

• New Bedford Fishermen dislike options for NEFMC’s Draft Omnibus Habitat Amendment 2 management plan

  NEW BEDFORD — Fishermen spoke up against additional habitat protection options presented by the New England Fishery Management Council to update its fishery management plans during a Read More »

• El Nino shaping up nicely

  The numerical models continue to point to a strong El Nino event bringing the promise of heavy winter rains. About two month ago, I had some Read More »

• Pacific call out big fishing nations on catch data– Bigeye crisis link to high seas, reporting loopholes

  Pacific nations have slammed major fishing nations using loopholes to duck out of properly reporting their fishing catches in the Pacific.  members attending the 10th Scientific Read More »
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  Fishing boats collide near Tignish

  A Tignish lobster fishing boat sustained extensive damage to its starboard side when it collided with another lobster boat Monday morning. Both vessels made it back Read More »

• Fishermen fight for lucrative, volatile portion of New River

  Sneads Ferry – A small ad in The Daily News was the first official notice of proposed restrictions to a popular New River fishery the Marine Corps Read More »

• New Yellowtail Flounder Survey Raises Questions Over Accuracy of Official Population Estimates

  The initial results of a new, independent survey of Georges Bank yellowtail flounder raises questions over whether federal assessments of yellowtail abundance have been systematically underestimating the Read More »

• Paul Davis should pull support for trade deal, says Lorraine Michael

  The fund was created to help this province’s fishing industry deal with the elimination of minimum processing requirements (MPRs) for fish products being exported to EU Read More »

• A Rare Albino Haddock!

  Fishermen have landed an extremely rare ‘albino’ haddock at estimated odds of one in 100,000,000. The incredible catch was made about 45 miles north of Unst Read More »

• Letter: Competing with NOAA’s smoke and mirrors – Paul Cohan, Captain, F/V Sasquatch, Gloucester

  Time and NOAA have much in common. You can’t speed either of them up, nor slow them down, and stopping either of them is right out Read More »

• Buyer: Lobster fee deal must involve fishermen

  Any belief that a potential lobster marketing fee can move ahead without fishermen from southwestern Nova Scotia was categorically put to rest Monday by a buyer Read More »
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  Fish, Drugs, and Murder – As fisheries along this idyllic looking coast unravel, so does social order.

  Lieutenant Olivier Ramirez didn’t waste time. On an August morning in 2015, he scrambled a small coast guard team on Costa Rica’s Pacific coast. Local fishermen Read More »

• Torpedo ray tagged by Dalhousie University researchers

  Researchers from Dalhousie University in Halifax are hoping technology will help them learn more about some underwater giants living off the East Coast.  What makes this Read More »

• Cod prohobition imperils deep-sea fishing charter businesses

  Gibson said the ban on cod possession probably will remain for two years and could last a generation if cod stocks don’t recover. In recent years, Read More »

• Maine DMR – “We’re gonna nip ten days off of your scallop fishing season”!

  Maine fishing regulators are proposing to trim 10 days from scallopseason along the state’s southern coast. The state Department of Marine Resources announced the proposed terms Read More »

• PRIMNM Town Hall Listening Session: Strong Opposition to Proposed Monument Expansion

  20:07:55 Related Read More »