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• Governing the high seas – the push for UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS),

  Mining is about to begin under the seabed in the high seas,,,The biggest failure, though, is in the regulation of fishing. Overfishing does more damage to Read More »

• The first commercial fishing announcement of the season in the Upper Cook Inlet restricts commercial king salmon fishing in the Northern part of the inlet.

  The setnet fishery, which has had an average of 53 permit holders during the last ten years, is comprised of fishermen on both the East and West Read More »

• Its Crazy! I’m getting Talking Fish Eco Shyster Peter Shelley Comments! Acknowledge Your Posts, Dude.

  Seems as though CLF Eco Shyster Peter Shelley is selective about what comments he puts up at his Talking Fish blog. He’s a real Cherry Picker! Read More »

• Drakes Bay Oyster Company’s farm flap reverberates far beyond Drake’s Bay

  Drakes Bay Oyster Company’s legal bid to continue operating in federally protected waters has broader implications than simply the fate of the Marin County family-owed business Read More »

• Ocean Pasture Plankton Collapse Cataclysmic Say German Media – Russ George responds

  DW reports (April 2016): Food chains represent the greatest interdependency within the webs of life. The marine food chain, for instance, is essential for oceans – Read More »

• UPDATED: Video – F/V Hornet sends May Day, F/V Exodus, USCG respond.

  SEATTLE — Coast Guard crews assisted three people after their vessel began taking on water three miles west of the Columbia River entrance, Friday. Following dewatering Read More »

• Maine Fishermen concerned about loss of disaster relief funding

  The Maine Department of Marine Resources announced on March 1 that it will soon be issuing the third and final payment to Maine-homeported commercial groundfish permit holders under federal Read More »

• Fisherman’s widow sought to have fishing vessel seized before it sank

  The firm that owns a fishing vessel that sank early Wednesday miles off Mount Desert Island is being sued by the widow of a Westbrook man Read More »

• Date set for rockfish lawsuit hearing – To my Alaska Connection – ABOLISH CATCH SHARES NOW!

  U.S. District Court judge Marsha Pechman has announced that a long-awaited hearing on the fate of the new Kodiak rockfish catch share plan will take place Read More »

• Local fishing organizations gear up for Cook Inlet meeting

  KENAI — With more than 230 regulatory proposals, some several pages worth of suggested changes to the Cook Inlet finfish fisheries, nearly 500 written comments and Read More »

• New fishing regulations seek to limit whale, dolphin deaths

  A new federal rule proposal that seeks to support the state’s fisheries  while also protecting whales, dolphins and other marine mammals from  getting hurt or killed Read More »

• Nova Scotia to ban drilling on, around Sable Island

  The Nova Scotia government took another step to help make Sable Island Canada’s 43rd national park Wednesday. Energy Minister Charlie Parker tabled legislation that would ban Read More »

• Baker | Aquaculture is a risky racket … but isn’t everything?

  I’ll never forget the first time I laid eyes on a fish farm. It was an experimental cod grow out operation in Trinity Bay, and it Read More »

• A little rain wasn’t going to stop them from racing off the coast of Stonington!

  Lobster fishermen are a tough lot, so a little rain wasn’t going to stop them from racing off the coast of Stonington. “Oh, we’re out here Read More »

• Gulf of Maine Cod: “It’s more hysteria that seems to be driving management right now, and not thoughtful approaches to meeting the law,”

  After an emergency move by federal officials last week to close commercial and recreational cod fishing in parts of the Gulf of Maine, the  is in Read More »

• Oceana hails catch monitoring lawsuit victory

  Conservation organization Oceana has announced a “major litigation victory” that it says will require stronger accountability through catch monitoring for the New England groundfish fishery. The Read More »

• A LIFO Win for the Inshore Fleet! Maybe. Who wins when they redistribute the quota is the next question.

  The Ministerial Advisory Panel conducting an external review of the Last-In, First-Out policy (LIFO) released its recommendations yesterday. The Panel recommended abolishing LIFO and implementing permanent Read More »

• Three Lower Keys brothers accused of harvesting lobster from illegal artificial habitats – expected to plead guilty

  Charles, Ryan and Tyson Veach face allegations of harvesting spiny lobsters from casitas, catching more than their daily commercial bag limit and falsifying commercial fishing reports Read More »

• As Pacific sardine collapse worsens, scientists worry about possible ripple in the ecosystem

  Nearly a year into a West Coast sardine fishing ban enacted to protect the collapsing population, the fish formerly worth more than $8 million to Oregon’s Read More »

• Sedgwick lobsterman faces criminal charges, 3 yr suspension after violent ocean confrontation

  A Sedgwick fisherman is facing criminal charges and a possible three-year suspension of his lobster license because of a last fall in which he allegedly rammed Read More »

• Baby lobster abundance suggests strong harvests will continue

  Lobster fishermen and government officials are seeing indications are that lobster stocks will be plentiful in the Gulf of St. Lawrence for the next few years Read More »

• Lobster Mac and Cheese, an Economist’s Perspective

  The Canadian lobster industry has experienced price volatility in recent years due to an unexpectedly high volume of lobster. In Canada, environmental regulation was so successful at Read More »

• ‘Everything I ever had, I had to build or rebuild’

  A commercial fisherman who lives in Bay Center, Washington, Horne has built or rebuilt boats, a truck, and even the off-the-grid house he lives in with Read More »

• Editorial: Feds need to press Brown to look at all options for a Bay-Delta fix

  The Sacramento Bee – If Gov. Jerry Brown had his way, the tunneling machines would be boring right now under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, carving out Read More »

• It’s not every day scientists discover a new ocean current.

  Well, in 2004, two Icelandic researchers announced that they’d found what they thought was a whole new ocean current flowing south through the Denmark Strait, off Read More »