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• Fisherman’s service symbolic – Tyson Townsend, 25, of Woods Harbour will be rememered today at 2 pm

  Twenty-five years after five fishermen were lost at sea off Nova Scotia’s coast, one of the victims in the province’s most recent maritime disaster will be Read More »
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  Florida’s building boom threatens wildlife-rich lagoon

  The most biologically diverse waterway in America is seriously ill. The Indian River Lagoon is repeatedly being choked with oxygen-robbing algae, its surface increasingly dotted with Read More »

• Lafond paints commercial fishing boat Oliver H. Smith for chub season

  Alex Tassoul of Kewaunee and Andy Lafond, owner of Lafond’s Fish Market in Kewaunee, stand in front of the Oliver H. Smith, a commercial fishing boat built in 1944 Read More »

• Volunteers will be dishing out some free surplus salmon from Michigan DNR weirs.

  American Canadian Fisheries and area veterans groups we will be distributing fish to the general public at several locations throughout northern Michigan.  The cost of distributing the Read More »

• Hey. It had to happen. The state’s 400 licensed eel fishermen are being filmed for a show called ‘Eel of Fortune.’

  Maine’s eel fishing season has the potential to be packed with drama. Made-for-TV drama, apparently. Crews from a proposed Animal Planet network show called “Eel of Read More »
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  Fishermen found clinging to cooler 23 miles off Florida coast

  In his 25 years of spearfishing, Dean Brodley had never seen anything like the situation that played out in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday. Brodley Read More »

• Federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea visits Ladner for roundtable talk with fisheries groups and First Nations

  Federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea visited the West Coast this week to sit down with fisheries groups and First Nations and listen to their concerns about Read More »
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  Crab Boat washes up onto beach at Port San Luis

  A boat broke free of its mooring and washed up onto a beach at Port San Luis on Sunday morning. The co-owner of the boat launch Read More »

• House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings presses Obama administration for ocean plan docs

  Chief Surgeon Doc Hastings (R-Wash.)House Natural Resources Committee and his surgical team has ordered a P.E.T. scan of the National Ocean Policy to understand the workings of Read More »

• Recreational Fishing Industry report seeks federal fisheries reform

  Several stakeholders in the recreational fishing and boating industries released a set of recommendations for the incoming administration and Congress to change the way federal overseers Read More »

• The Lone Star is Still Stuck in the Mud of the Igushik River!

  The 78-foot sunken fishing tender Lone Star is still stuck in the mud in the Igushik River as responders try and figure out a new way to Read More »

• John Steinbeck boat rusts in Anacortes

  Time has been less kind to the Western Flyer. The battered old tub, which has been called one of the most famous boats in American nonfiction, Read More »

• From the Deckboss – A few items

  $9 an hour , UFA going to the authorities, Hey kids! Need money for college? As always, read the comments! Read more here Related Read More »

• 796 pound tuna largest bluefin landed in Wedgeport tournament

  One thing organizers say they like most about the Wedegport Tuna Tournament and Festival is it is a family affair. That proved to be the case Read More »

• NOAA scientist says federal fish counts suffer from ‘perception issue’

  It’s not easy counting fish. Just ask the people who have to do it. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s fisheries division is responsible for estimating Read More »

• Zappa 1 tuna fishermen handed five-year suspension after guilty pleas

  Three men who fished out of the Antigonish area are banned from the catch-and-release bluefin tuna fishery for five years after pleading guilty to a total of Read More »

• Jim Lovgren – Fishery managers responsible for Summer Flounder mismanagement

  Earlier this year the state of New Jersey was found to be out of compliance by the Atlantic States Marine Fishery Commission [ASMFC] in regard to Read More »

• Seafood Giant’s Tactics Fishy, Rival Claims

  NEWPORT, Ore. (CN) – Seafood giant Pacific Seafood is trying to ruin a small company that buys its crabs from independent fishermen in an attempt to Read More »

• The 131-foot fishing processor Juno caught fire in Westport, Wash., at approximately 1:30 a.m – Nothing crazy to report yet.

  The master of the fish processor was aboard the vessel at the time it caught fire, but no injuries have been reported. The fire was reported out Read More »

• Guest opinion: Dumping on our fisheries – Rep. Les Gara

  Care much about the decline of Alaska’s king salmon and halibut? I do. You do, and that’s why you voted in 2006 for strict water quality Read More »

• Concerned in British Columbia: Is salmon food being threatened?

  Harvesting of — could have unintended consequences for local marine life. Of particular concern, she said, is the sand lance, a small, slim fish that she Read More »

• Fishermen, welfare-bums, friendly drinkers? East Coast stereotypes, fact or fiction

  British Columbians are left-wing pot-smoking radicals, Albertans are ultra-conservative cowboys and Ontarians believe they’re the centre of the universe. Then there’s Atlantic Canada, to most Canadians Read More »

• European buyers more acceptant on Alaska salmon MSC withdrawal. (to MSC, or to not MSC – that is the question)

  undercurrentnews.com – An acceptance of Alaska salmon producers decision to withdraw from the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) is very much in evidence at the European seafood Read More »

• DFO POACHER PATROL Is Serious About Poaching!! Have seized eight boats and 50 gillnets as part of a crackdown on the lower Fraser

  Fishery officer Nicole Gallant 30 officers are currently working on the lower Fraser, and they’re using boats, vehicles and even air surveillance. Enforcement operations are taking Read More »

• Southeast Dungeness crab harvest below average

  Most areas in Southeast closed to commercial fall fishing for Dungeness crab on November 30. The State has crunched the numbers and the season was below Read More »