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• Ottowa Targets Fishermen

  Finance Minister Bill Morneau sucker-punched Canadian business owners, and now Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc wants to finish fishermen off. Mr. Morneau’s attempted seizure of retirement savings held Read More »

• Cannonball jellyfish operation – Let science decide if business is good fit

  You don’t have to like the idea of a cannonball jellyfish operation — or trust the people who would operate it — to admit their legal Read More »

• Council asks for analysis of Gulf of Alaska catch shares

  After more than a day of staff reports and public testimony on a possible Gulf of Alaska trawl bycatch management program, the North Pacific Fishery Management Read More »
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  Reward offered for info leading to arrest in lobster boat sinking

  Maine’s Operation Game Thief is offering a $2,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest and conviction of anyone involved in the sinking of Hooper’s Read More »

• Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update MAY 12, 2013

  “The Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance is dedicated to its mission of continuing to help create sustainable fisheries without putting licensed fishermen out of business.” Read the Read More »

• Salmon season opens in SW Alaska

  With the summer peak season just around the corner, early June saw a number of initial openings for commercial salmon fishing in Southwest Alaska. While the Read More »
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  Hurting US Shark Fishermen: Enviro and recreational groups lobby Congress to pass the Shark Fin Trade Elimination Act of 2016

  A collective composed of 80 nonprofit and conservation organizations penned and postmarked a letter to the United States Congress, asking that legislators pass the Shark Fin Read More »

• Alaska lawmakers face down GMO salmon – Murkowski asks Alaskans to contact FDA during extended comments

  JUNEAU EMPIRE. Genetically-modified salmon is nearing federal approval for human consumption and Alaska’s sate and federal lawmakers have taken up torches against what they refer to as “Frankenfish.” Read More »

• Gloucester’s oldest fishing vessel is entering its next stage of restoration, and we need your help to see it through.

  We are the Phyllis A. Marine Association (PAMA), Inc., a non-profit corporation established in 2006, to promote the history of gillnetting in Gloucester, Massachusetts through the Read More »

• HabCamV4 sees large numbers of young scallops off Delaware Bay

  “We’re seeing many swimming scallops and other behaviors that are providing insights into how the animals live and interact in that environment,” Hart said. “Baby scallops Read More »

• The distorted view of reality – A Knockout Blow for American Fish Stocks?

  Today, in the New York Times, Oceana’s Gib Brogan ignores the facts of the New England fishing industry, a hollowed out shell of what once was Read More »
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  UK’s undersea communications cables ‘uniquely vulnerable’ to sabotage – report

  Terrorists using deep-sea grappling hooks attached to fishing trawlers could intercept the UK’s network of undersea communications cables, a report has warned. It said they remained Read More »

• West Coast sardine populations, long sinking, look even worse in forecast

  Sardines off the West Coast have continued on a steep decline, with populations this summer forecast to be down 93 percent from a 2007 peak, according Read More »

• Lobster keeps Maine fishing ports among top nationwide in value

  Stonington remained Maine’s top port for overall value of its commercial fish landings, which had an estimated total value of $49 million,,,, Nationally, New Bedford, Massachusetts, Read More »
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  Unalaska business owner denounces city position on trawler

  The mothershippers are fighting back with the help of a local proxy in a politicized commercial fishing tussle reaching all the way to Washington, D.C. The Read More »

• Prized but Perilous Catch – In Hunt for Red Abalone, Divers Face Risks and Poachers Face the Law

  FORT BRAGG, Calif. — Every year, as steady as the tides, lifeless bodies are pulled from the cold, restless water along the rugged coastline north of Read More »

• 2014 CHARTER AND COMMERCIAL HALIBUT MANAGEMENT MEASURES ANNOUNCED

  NOAA Fisheries  NMFS provided notice Friday of the immediate effect of regulations of the International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC). The commercial IFQ halibut season opened at Read More »

• The Coastal Fishing Industry Grant Program – After Hurricane Sandy, fishing businesses get more help

  The Coastal Fishing Industry Grant Program, announced May 20 by Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office, was created with $20 million in federal funding. According to the governor’s Read More »

• Beleaguered Mar-Lees signs lease on New York plant to produce meals on plates – Deal makers dropping like fly’s!

  Michael Strange, who joined Mar-Lees as vice president of product development, has a photo on his Linkedin page of “plated entrees with ‘Skin Pak’ technology”, which Read More »

• Hybrid green crab species threatens N.L. lobster – also eat clams, scallops and even each other

  They’re fearless. They can live for weeks out of the water. They will eat anything, even each other. “They were born ferocious,” said Cynthia McKenzie, a Read More »

• Two N.H. Fish and Game officers presented with Life Saving Award

  Two New Hampshire Fish and Game officers were presented with the Fish and Game’s Life Saving Award for their courageous actions rescuing two fishermen from a Read More »
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  Navy, Coast Guard rescue 3 fishermen 63 miles east of Brunswick

  The Navy, along with assistance from the Coast Guard rescued three fishermen Tuesday 63 miles southeast of Brunswick, Georgia. Watchstanders at Coast Guard 7th District received Read More »

• U.S. Labor Department: Two Gloucester Fish companies on hook for not paying overtime

  The U.S. Labor Department has filed suit against two Gloucester waterfront businesses and their owner, seeking more than $200,000 in damages after the company failed to Read More »

• U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Indonesian Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries Sharif C. Sutardjo Talk Fishery Sector

  Mr. Kerry stressed that the world is now facing a significant drop in production from commercial fisheries. The issue is also impacting the U.S., particularly in Read More »

• In Maine, climate change is taking a toll

  On Sheepscot Bay off Georgetown, Jim McMahan prodded his old lobster boat through the smooth waters, methodically lowering a mechanical winch to check on his hundreds Read More »