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• Guest View: Strong action on menhaden best for coastal economy and ecology – Peter Baker – Pew Environment Group.

  Unfortunately, a recent guest commentary in this paper (“Guest View: Menhaden fishery needs reasonable — not drastic — action,” Nov. 7) presented an outdated picture of the Read More »

• New Quotas Announced for Mackerel and Butterfish Fisheries – National Marine Fisheries Service,

   Through this action, the butterfish mortality cap will also be increased by 1,299 mt (141 percent increase over the 2012 butterfish mortality cap).  The increased butterfish mortality cap will Read More »

• Last of their kind – As fish stocks dwindle and catch limits tighten, a way of life is disappearing, too.

  IT HAS BEEN MORE THAN 30 YEARS since Russell Sherman nearly died in the ocean off the coast of Maine, but the Gloucester fisherman remembers as Read More »

• Another Cod Story – Cod forsaking the Gulf of Maine

  The prospects for restoring the cod population in the Gulf of Maine to a commercially sustainable level seem to be getting even more dismal than before. Read More »

• Arniston fishermen destitute after selfless sea rescue

  Durban – They have no boat and no income after a rescue mission went awry, but they will always have hope. And this hope is the Read More »

• Fishermen panic buy shares at inflated prices as government confirms reform agenda

  Fishermen in New South Wales are reported to be panic buying shares at massively increased prices to ensure they can continue working next year. That is Read More »
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  Hawaii Commercial Fishermen, Seafood Consumers Hit Again as President, Pew’s Ocean Legacy Closes Additional 442,778 Square Miles of Fishing Grounds in the U.S. Pacific Islands

  “We do not believe the expansion is based on  the best available scientific information,” said Kitty Simonds, Council executive director. “It serves a political legacy rather Read More »

• IFQ market for AK halibut, sablefish in a stall for all regions except Southeast

  Alaska’s record salmon season has permit brokers hopping, especially for seine cards. But it’s a very different story for the quota share market. This is Fish Radio. Read More »

• Northern shrimp stocks still ‘critical’ – no improvement in spawning biomass

  It’s the season to talk about the prospects for the shrimp fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador and the initial information for the new season does not Read More »
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  Year in Review: Alaska Fisheries – Board shakeup, drifters win, sockeyes up as pinks, crab crash

  After a hectic fisheries year in 2015 involving felony charges, forced retirements and resignations, the 2016 Board of Fisheries confirmation cycle was mild, with few of Read More »

• $10 Million budget Proposal to get better counts of Gulf red snapper makes headway

  The next time government researchers go out in boats to collect data on snapper with fishing lines and underwater cameras, they might have a flood of Read More »

• Radiation from Fukushima nuclear disaster not found in B.C. salmon

  Five years after the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan, radioactive contaminants continue to circulate across the Pacific to Canada’s West Coast, but not at dangerous levels. Read More »

• Karena Adler, 62, pioneer for women in the fishing industry, dies

  Karena Adler, who charted a pioneering path for women in the ownership ranks of the North Pacific fishing industry, died Jan. 1 after a protracted illness. Read More »

• House Subcommittee Hearing (in part) to Exempt Commercial Fishing and For-Hire Fishing Vessels

  From Garden State Seafood Association: The Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the U.S. House of Representatives Read More »

• Divide between Newfoundland’s crab fishers, diners is hard to swallow

  Fishermen have been valued members of society since at least the time of the apostle Peter, a fisherman (and fisher of men) who is still the Read More »

• Who knew? Rhode Island is King of squid; More pounds are brought to shore than any other seafood

  Squid is to Rhode Island what lobster is to Maine; cod is to Massachusetts. “Fifteen years ago, you didn’t see calamari on the menu,” says Glenn Read More »

• Canadian Coast Guard vessel to be named after soldier killed in 2008

  The Canadian Coast Guard said Thursday the sixth of its Hero Class vessels — a ship named for a young soldier killed in Afghanistan — has Read More »

• Filmmaker Baltasar Kormakur gets deep – DD – What inspired you to make ‘The Deep?’

    BK – When I was 18-years-old, the 1984 fishing tragedy was national news in Iceland.  Everyone can identify with this story because many here have Read More »
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  South Shore lobstermen dismayed by failed bid for longer season

  Lobstermen are busy loading their boats with traps and buoys and getting their gear back in the water after a three-month closure lifted this week for Read More »
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  Small – but packs a punch!

  It isn’t often that a 15 metre fishing boat hits the industry headlines but the launching in Norway last month of the TA Senior has certainly Read More »

• Warren Maine man admits to helping sink lobster boat

  A 21-year-old Warren man was sentenced Thursday, Jan. 26, to three months in jail for his role in the sinking of a lobster boat off St. Read More »

• Utilizing sound technology, scientists assess northern shrimp population along the Maine Coast

  This winter, a small fleet of Maine fishermen will head out to hunt for northern shrimp, even though the fishery itself has been closed for three Read More »

• Pew Charitable Trusts promoting illegal fishing crackdown

  In New England, one of the U.S.’s most active fishing areas, between 12 and 24 percent of the total catch of species such as cod, flounder Read More »

• Southwestern Maine likely to see further restrictions on scallop season

  WISCASSET, Maine — The Department of Marine Resources on Wednesday took no action to further restrict scallop fishing from the New Hampshire border to Penobscot Bay, Read More »

• Fishermen make last-ditch plea to feds over harbor porpoises closure date

  Members of the regional fishing industry have made a last-ditch effort to negotiate with the National Marine Fisheries Service about a closure scheduled to begin Oct. Read More »