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• Northern shrimp in the Gulf of Maine season slashed 74pc by the ASMFC

  The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) this week set the season’s shrimp catch limit at 1.38 million lbs — down from 5.3 million lbs in 2012 Read More »

• Bremerton geoduck diver critically hurt in accident off Green Point

  SEATTLE — A commercial geoduck diver from Bremerton was in critical condition at Harborview Medical Center on Tuesday afternoon after a diving accident in the water Read More »

• Bristol Bay commercial halibut fishery opens Sunday

  Halibut management throughout Alaska relies on a mix of state, federal and international rules, and Bristol Bay is no different, with sport, subsistence and commercial fisheries Read More »

• Human trafficking: Moment of truth arrives for Thailand

  This week, the US State Department will unveil its annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, and the widespread expectation is that Thailand – which has been Read More »

• NEFMC Balks at Ban on Herring Trawling

  The council declined to endorse the ban at its meeting Wednesday in Newport. The proposal would have prohibited trawling until each vessel has an independent full-time Read More »

• Brexit: Bob Geldof’s Boat Funded by Goldman Sachs!

  Bob Geldof and his despicable tirade against fishermen in the Thames has been exposed as a Goldman Sachs funded operation. Reports from insiders also reveal that Read More »

• Federal judge tosses another fisheries management rule

  Federal judges keep smacking down the North Pacific Fishery Management Council’s decisions. For the second time in the last three months, a federal court has overturned Read More »

• Coast Guard conducts medevac of injured man from R/V Sikuliaq in the Great Lakes

  At about 8:45 a.m., the crew of Coast Guard Cutter Mobile Bay was notified via a shipboard radio of an injured man aboard the motor vessel Sikuliaq, a 254-foot Read More »

• How Bering Sea crab fishing was made safer

  The dangers of the Bering Sea crab fishery have been made famous by the reality TV show “Deadliest Catch.” But in the last 15 years, that industry Read More »

• American Seafoods struggles with high debt, low fish prices, has ratings agencies warning it may soon default on its massive debt.

  American Seafoods Group, whose fleet of big, blue-and-white catcher-processor ships harvests more fish than any other U.S. company, may soon default on some of its massive Read More »

• Cape Porpoise Harbor – A lobstering family

  At 17 and 18 years old, Ben and Cooper Nunan are the two youngest siblings in a family of five. They’re also the  in Cape Porpoise Harbor where Read More »

• Port Mouton fisherman thinks organized theft ring at work

  Donaldson Fisher named his lobster boat “Positive Thinking”, but there weren’t many positive thoughts on his mind last month when he came to Port Mouton wharf Read More »
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  Letter: New year brings new hope for the fishery – Francis Patey, St. Anthony

  As we move through January and discard the old calendar, we might ask ourselves what kind of year 2016 was for rural Newfoundland and Labrador. For Read More »

• Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council Meeting in Philadelphia, PA October 7-9, 2014 – Listen online

  The public is invited to attend the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council’s meeting on October 7 – 9, 2014 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The meeting will be held at the Courtyard Read More »

• NOAA Fisheries Greater Atlantic Regional Administrator Announces Retirement

  NOAA Fisheries Greater Atlantic Regional Administrator John Bullard today formally announced he will retire on January 5, 2018. Bullard, who took the top job in the Read More »

• Opening day: Island baymen continue an Island tradition

  Monday, was opening day to take bay scallops in New York State waters, an annual and important ritual for the handful of Shelter Island baymen. Long Read More »

• Sportfishing boat builder appointed to Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission

  Jim Bittle of Central Point, owner of Willie Boats, Inc., in Medford, has been nominated by Gov. Kate Brown to replace Jason Atkinson of Jacksonville on Read More »

• Trudeau directs reopening of Coast Guard base, action on Fraser salmon

  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has formally directed new Fisheries Minister Hunter Tootoo to reopen the closed  that had become a flashpoint for local criticism of the Read More »

• FWC biologists: Lobster casitas too problematic

  “We’re done,” said marine salver John Coffin, who has worked with other commercial divers to legalize casitas. “I really feel betrayed by (FWC) staff. The biology Read More »

• Tina Ward was penniless and unemployed – Fish, family and the ties that bind

  Tina Ward was penniless and unemployed the day she stepped from the bus in Seaview, Washington, and headed in to apply for a job as a Read More »

• Southeast commercial king crab season will remain closed

  The fall red and blue king crab fishery has been opened only twice in the past decade, in 2005 and 2011.The numbers are still at historically Read More »

• Our Pain, Their Gain – Cod quota raised in Iceland for the upcoming fishing year (it will be imported here, keeping prices low at the dock)

  The Marine Research Institute (MRI) recommends a 20,000-tonne increase in the cod quota for the upcoming fishing year. This was reported by the MRI in its Read More »

• Managing Forage Fish: New limits hope to protect game fish

  Earlier this month, the , at least for now, prohibited the development of new fisheries and expansion of existing ones for unregulated forage fish throughout the Read More »

• NAFO to discuss TACs at upcoming 36th annual meeting in Spain

  Catch limits will take center stage at the North Atlantic Fisheries Organization’s meeting in Vigo, Spain, on Sept. 22-26, said the European fisheries and maritime affairs Read More »

• Hearing set on rules defining placement of Lake Superior trap nets

  BAYFIELD – A proposed rule defining the number and placement of commercial fishing trap nets in a restricted use area on Lake Superior is the topic Read More »