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  Remembering the World’s Most Famous Sea Captain

  Phil Harris died on Feb. 9, 2010 — but his spirit lives on. Fans and friends from around the world mourned the loss of their favorite Read More »

• NOAA eases monkfish limits as ‘alternative’

  NOAA Fisheries has announced proposed measures that would loosen controls in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank on monkfish, which is seen as a lucrative Read More »

• Dungeness crab season delays hit Santa Cruz fishermen hard

  Crab fishermen were busy scraping last year’s crust of debris from marker buoys, replacing ID tags on old crab pots and getting new pots ready last Read More »

• Fish meet grisly end at Santa Cruz harbor – The only ones who didn’t complain about the dead fish were the birds!

  “It’s kind of a natural occurrence that happens from time to time,” said John Haynes, acting harbormaster. “With the sheer number of anchovies we had in Read More »

• Reminder — Gillnet Bycatch Workshop in Ocean City, Maryland — on January 22 and 23 — You can join via webinar!

  NOAA Fisheries (NMFS) and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission are hosting a workshop  to discuss protected species bycatch in mid-Atlantic gillnet fisheries. While gillnet fisheries interact Read More »

• Southeast’s salmon season begins ramping up as pink harvests start rise

  Southeast Alaska’s first king salmon troll opening of the summer has come and gone, and now the seiners are about the take center stage. Last week, Read More »

• Prosecutors dismiss charges against indicted fishing magnate Carlos Rafael’s bookkeeper

  Federal prosecutors moved Monday to dismiss the charges against Dartmouth resident Debra Messier, the longtime bookkeeper for indicted fishing magnate Carlos Rafael, after her case had Read More »

• Once again, Lu Dochtermann tells it like it is

  Once again, Lu Dochtermann tells it like it is, in the decades long fight to reduce for trawl catcher processors targeting other species for export.  He Read More »

• Harmful Red Tide to Sweep Across Southwest Florida

  Red tides can also be harmful to marine life. Reports of dead fish have already been received from Charlotte County, Fla. Read more here Related Read More »

• What we think: Governor Scott – Fight for imperiled bay, but don’t neglect springs – Fishermen need help, everyone piles on!

  “We must fight for the people of this region,” Scott said. “The economic future of Apalachicola Bay and Northwest Florida is at stake.” Bravo. Although Scott’s Read More »

• Jacobs (fourth-generation waterman) unopposed in District 36 in the Maryland House of Delegates

  “For 20 years, I feel like Annapolis has really regulated the industry, really in a way that has been very detrimental to the industry,” Jacobs said. Read More »

• Setting the Trap for a Lobster Thief

  Olger Bicaj been seen on a video tape breaking into J&J Lobster in Rockland, but he left before being apprehended. Bicaj returned that night, however, when Read More »
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  2 men arrested on drug charges aboard fishing boat in Buzzards Bay

  Two men were arrested Wednesday on drug charges while aboard a fishing vessel in Buzzards Bay as a result of a port security operation with New Read More »

• Hawaiian leaders urge President Barack Obama to expand marine conservation area

  A group of Native Hawaiian leaders have urged President Barack Obama to expand what’s already one of the largest marine conservation areas in the world. But Read More »
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  New Southern New England lobster fishing rules on the way amid warming waters

  New restrictions are coming to southern New England’s lobster fishery in an attempt to save the area’s population of the crustaceans, which has dwindled as waters 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 »

• Greenland telecom goes after Fisheries and Oceans Canada to get Trawler location information

  The company wants to know which fishing trawler’s gear broke one of its underwater internet and phone cables. Subsea cables crisscross the ocean so people can make Read More »

• Nova Scotia, P.E.I. lobster fisheries shut down – “We were blindsided. Never seen this coming at all,”

  The lobster fishery in Nova Scotia has come to a standstill, and some P.E.I. fishermen have been told to tie up their boats. In Nova Scotia, Read More »

• Me.Gov. Paul LePage on Friday ordered the creation of a task force to study and combat the invasive European green crab

  “Green crabs are threatening our state’s $25 million bivalve shellfish industry, which is Maine’s third most lucrative fishery,” LePage said. “It’s critical that we protect the Read More »

• Happy Thanksgiving to one and all.

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• Brown OKs fishing for 240 million to 280 million invasive Lake Tahoe crayfish – Announces Tax Credit Program for Fleet Build UP!

  Officials estimate the lake holds 240 million to 280 million invasive crayfish, a freshwater crustacean that resembles a small lobster. They are a major food source Read More »

• University of Washington – Ocean acidification center another example of state leading the nation

  Washington’s governor and state legislators in the last session created a hub at the University of Washington to coordinate research and monitoring of ocean acidification and Read More »

• Stakeholders hope for more input, more preparedness for potential cod fishery

  When it comes to a rebuilding plan for the northern cod stocks, the Fish, Food and Allied Workers (FFAW) union wants the government to remember why Read More »

• EU pressure on illegal fishing threatens more than 8,000 Thai fishing boats

  More than 8,000 trawlers in 22 provinces are likely to lose their commercial fishing licences after checks revealed the registration numbers did not match the vessels, Read More »

• Headed home to Gloucester – Coast Guard helps fishermen dewater, make repairs to flooding boat

  Four people are safely making their way back to port Friday following a multi-asset response to a fishing boat taking on water Friday morning about 60 Read More »