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• Editorial – Save the fish, but also help the fishermen

  This newspaper understands the angry response severe restrictions provoked among those whose families  have earned their living from the sea for generations  – “I’m leaving here Read More »

• Black Point Fish Trap to close due to windmill farm cable installation

  The largest and oldest fish trap in Rhode Island will be closed due to the installation of the undersea transmission cable that will connect the Block Read More »

• Hampden firm pokes holes in traditional boat mooring, leaving room for lobsters, crabs and other sea life

  BDNMAINE – The main purpose of most moorings is to provide mariners with a secure place to tie their boats when they go ashore, but Stewart Read More »

• What’s the craziest question YOU’VE been asked about lobster fishing?

  Maine is a unique state.  Lobster fishing is a unique occupation.  In the summer months, tourists flock to Vacationland, eager to eat lobster in the rough Read More »

• Jury acquits Cushing lobsterman of gun threat against two men

  ROCKLAND, Maine — A Knox County jury deliberated for 20 minutes Wednesday morning before finding a Cushing lobsterman not guilty of criminally threatening two men in Read More »

• Its here! The Alaska Marine Safety Education Association Spring 2016 Newsletter

  The Spring newsletter is here! Along with daffodils and an early crop of salmon berries, this spring brings the first cruise ships of the year to Southeast Read More »

• Endangered and Threatened Species: Critical Habitat for Endangered North Atlantic Right Whale-Proposed rule; request for comments.

  We, the NMFS, propose to replace the critical habitat for right whales in the North Atlantic with two new areas. The areas under consideration as critical Read More »

• The $100 Million U.S. Government Fish Farm Nobody Wants

  If someone offered you a chance to invest millions of dollars in a business nobody wants, would you take it? If you’re the U.S. government, the answer is a resounding yes. Since Read More »

• Your Definition of Bycatch is Most Likely Incorrect

  So why is this important? One reason it’s important is because when the world’s largest ocean conservation organization does not understand what bycatch even is, then Read More »

• Video – Samson ropes live up to their biblical name

  Inside a nondescript industrial building on Thornton Street, workers are tending complex machinery that turns wispy skeins of synthetic fiber into ropes robust enough to tie Read More »

• National ocean policy sparks partisan fight National ocean policy sparks partisan fight. Wrong, Juliet. It’s non partisan.

  Check the Links Partisan battles are engulfing the nation’s ocean policy, showing that polarization over environmental issuesdoesn’t stop at the water’s edge. For years, ocean policy Read More »

• Oregon’s pink shrimp fishermen voluntarily suspend harvesting operations

  The pink shrimp fleet based in Oregon agreed to suspend harvesting operations May 4, due to an over abundance of sub­-legal sized shrimp. After six years of Read More »

• Alaska Board of Fisheries to Meet in Anchorage

  All portions of the meeting are open to the public and a live audio stream is intended to be available on the Board of Fisheries’ website Read More »

• Fishermen Eagerly Await Pink Salmon Opener; Astonishingly Early Start to Alaska Chum Salmon

  3-Minute Market Insight: This year is looking to be a good one for Pink salmon, both in Russia and here in North America. In the Prince Read More »
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  Rutherford, others sign letter opposing Atlantic coast seismic testing for oil exploration

  The same day that President Donald Trump touted new energy policies during a speech at the U.S. Department of Energy that he said were part of Read More »

• Massachusetts Department of Public Health aims to shut down Joe’s Lobster Mart

  In the wake of last month’s guilty plea by Joseph Vaudo to selling stolen oysters in his fish market, the state Department of Public Health now Read More »

• The election has enviro groups all worked up! – Reactions to Trump victory trickle in from seafood industry

  Seafood companies and industry groups have begun to issue statements and responses to the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States. Trump has Read More »

• Cod crisis: Iconic species faces an uncertain future

  Our cod crisis has become a sad cliche, ironic enough to catch the eye of the national media, and the truth does indeed hurt. Just ask Read More »

• New fish fight for New England

  The New England Fishery Management Council is looking at a plan to take 55 square miles of Stellwagen Bank, a section due east of Scituate and Read More »

• Omega Protein : Conservation groups and legislators look to change menhaden regulations

  With the lights of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel twinkling in the background, Barry Knight looked at a room full of supporters and realized he no longer Read More »

• Vatican warns of growing trend of fishing industry exploiting workers

   It is renewing an appeal to governments to urgently ratify the Work in Fishing Convention 2007 (No. 188) to ensure the welfare of fishing crew are Read More »

• Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 40′ Fiberglass Webber’s Cove Stern Trawler, Lobster, Volvo 102D

  For specifications, information, and 14 photos of the vessel, click here To see all the boats in this series, Click here 12:17 Related Read More »

• ASMFC approves 25 percent cut in striped bass harvest

  The changes will require a 25 percent reduction in the Massachusetts commercial quota and a reduction in the recreational bag limit from two fish per day Read More »
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  With a Lot of Help, Chinook Salmon Return to the San Joaquin River

  In California’s Central Valley, dusty dry riverbeds fill with water that for decades has been diverted for farmers and cities. Hatchery-reared salmon – bred with taxpayer Read More »

• On Tilghman Island, law-breaking watermen defended

  On a midwinter afternoon, William “Billy” J. Lednum steered the Kristin Marie into the Knapps Narrows, This was the 42-year-old waterman’s last trip before heading to Read More »