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• EDITORIAL: It’s time to share marine protection

  Nova Scotia has already paid an upfront price for being an environmental pioneer. So it’s time to carefully consider the long-term impact of the aggressive implementation Read More »

• Commercial longline seasons to open March 11th, on time

  Commercial longliners in Alaska can go fishing on March 11 after all. The National Marine Fisheries Service announced Friday. March 3 that March 11th will be Read More »

• New Bedford puts $100K toward fishing museum

  More than 100 people packed into the Whaling Museum for Sunday’s Taste of the Port event, which focused on creating a New Bedford Fishing Heritage Museum. Read More »
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  Trump team wants State Dept. to disclose how much of your money it sends to international environmental groups

  Donald Trump’s presidential transition team has asked State Department officials to disclose how much money it provides each year to international environmental groups. It’s the latest Read More »

• New England Fishery Management Council reject expanded protections for herring

  In a decision lauded by state regulators and decried by environmentalists, federal regulators ruled this week that a plan to extend greater conservation efforts to river Read More »

• FAQ: Radiation from Fukushima – and Answers from Ken Buesseler, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

  Since mid-2011, I have worked with Japanese colleagues and scientists around the world to understand the scope and impact of events that continue to unfold today. Read More »

• David Suzuki sounds the alarm that the sky is falling, and there is no limit to his “endangered species” dogma

  Suzuki: Downgrading endangered species legislation troubling – Despite the evidence that endangered species laws are effective, governments in Canada are proceeding with deregulation and abdicating their responsibilities Read More »

• Sewage spill closes shellfish beds in Charleston S.C.

  Shellfish harvesting beds in a portion of the Intracoastal Waterway in Charleston County were closed Wednesday due to a sewage spill at the Sullivan’s Island Wastewater Read More »

• Lobster price comes with a catch

  THE VANGUARD – Looks like Old Man Winter has been able to accomplish what lobster fishermen haven’t been able to do for themselves over the past Read More »

• North Carolina Commercial fisherman Jeremy Blair Myers killed in a fishing accident

  North Carolina Wildlife Officer Matt Criscoe said Jeremy Blair Myers, 34, of Wilmington, was killed after his clothing got caught in a fishing reel, slamming his body Read More »

• ‘Codfather’ fraud plea hearing pushed back to end of the month

  The hearing where a New Bedford fishing magnate is expected to plead guilty to federal fraud charges has been pushed back. The U.S. Attorney’s Office had Read More »

• Battle over blueline tilefish intensifies-SAFMC requested emergency action for East Coast

  In a move that’s certain to heighten tensions over the management of blueline tilefish, the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council has requested emergency action that will Read More »

• ‘Wicked Tuna’ and Tequila’

  The fishermen of Gloucester, Massachusetts are in the hunt once again to catch the biggest and largest quantity of their prize bluefin tuna. Often they have Read More »

• Opposition Mounts to Seismic Blasting off the Jersey Shore

  “We’re concerned here,” said Capt. Jim Lovgren of the  in Point Pleasant Beach at a small rally against the blasting held there Friday morning. “That’s not Read More »

• One scandal of the National Marine Fishery Service, unknown but for Richard Gaines

             Who in the Hell is Richard Gaines?!! Richard Gaines, Staff Writer, Gloucester Daily Times. Read it here with two video interviews by GMG’s JoeyC   Related Read More »

• Alaska to get $20.8 million in fish disaster funds

  Alaska communities will receive $20.8 million in aid for the disaster declarations on the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers and in Cook Inlet. The designations came in Read More »

• Feds Send Man to Jail for Overfishing as 6,000 Drug Convicts are Freed

  These are embarrassing times for the nation’s criminal justice system; as the Obama administration executes the nation’s largest mass release of federal prisoners, it’s sending a Read More »

• U.S. dollar surge boon to N.S. lobster

  When the value of the Canadian dollar plummets, cross-border shoppers feel a twinge of pain in their pocketbooks. But for people in the fishing industry, it’s Read More »

• Maine’s river herring making dramatic comeback

  River herring – in the midst of a dramatic comeback in Maine’s rivers with the recent removal of dams that blocked their spawning runs for decades Read More »

• Crawling with crab! Temporary glut slows processors

  A perfect storm of weather, strong catches and domoic acid worries has led to a glut of crab on the market, overwhelming processors and making it Read More »
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  Pebble mine gets no better with time – Danielle Stickman

  In early 2006, when George W. Bush occupied in the White House and the Republican Party was firmly in control of Congress, then-CEO of Canadian-based Northern Read More »

• Commercial fishermen for the second time accuse Pacific Seafood of abusing its market power

  After a two-year armistice, the legal warfare has resumed between Pacific Seafood Group and a handful of Oregon commercial fishermen who claim the large Clackamas company abuses Read More »

• Potential harvest of most fish stocks largely unrelated to abundance – University of Washington-led study by Hilborn/Vert/Jensen/Amoroso

  Fisheries managers should sharpen their ability to spot environmental conditions that hamper or help fish stocks, rather than assuming that having a certain abundance of fish Read More »

• Hammerhead shark protection debated – National Marine Fisheries Service pushed by WildEarth Guardians and the Natural Resources Defense Council.

  A proposal to protect the great hammerhead shark has sparked a debate over whether federal protection is necessary to conserve a majestic ocean predator or whether Read More »

• Mixed start in Monterey Bay for commercial salmon season opener

  Santa Cruz >> Martin Towne said he considered himself lucky when he landed 18 salmon on the first day of commercial salmon season Thursday. Towne docked Read More »