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• Update: Coast Guard carrying on search for scalloper

  The U.S. Coast Guard continued an air and sea search along the inshore waters of Massachusetts Bay today for two scallop fishermen whose boat the Foxy Read More »

• Research detects antibiotics traces in commercial seafood

  Two scientists have carried out a new study to examine the persistence of antibiotics in seafood raised by aquaculture and have found traces of five of Read More »

• 3-Minute Market Insight: What Happened to the Coho Salmon Market?

  Coho Salmon prices have plummeted over the past year for wild caught Coho’s out of Alaska. So what happened to the Coho Salmon market? Ken Radcliff Read More »

• Just in! – NCFA Weekly Update for Jan. 23, 2015

  Weekly Update for Jan. 23, 2015 as a PDF 11:42 Related Read More »

• Florida Keys commercial lobster fleet prepares for Saturday’s opening

  Hopes are high for high prices and calm seas as the Florida Keys commercial lobster fleet prepares for Saturday’s opening of the regular crawfish season. “Based Read More »

• Plans for a local Asian Carp processing center are on the way

  EAST PEORIA, Ill. — Local leaders, international entrepreneurs, and local businesses are cooking up a plan to control the invasion of Asian Carp in the Illinois Read More »

• “Time is not on our side, so we must act now” – Grassroots petition asks US President to save canneries

  A grassroots movement has been formed by local businesswoman Mrs Kathy Pilimai and local businesses and working class people to help save the local tuna industry. Read More »

• Canadian government announces funding to improve commercial fishing safety

  The Canadian government has announced a new Commercial Fishing Safety component of the Government of Canada’s Boating Safety Contribution Program. Under this new component, up to Read More »

• The abandoned Irish Piper did not go quietly. But go it did!

  The 41-foot wooden boat, one of the more infamous vessels in Gloucester because of its previous owners’ penchant for abandoning it at various boat yards and Read More »
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  New video appears to show disfigured, unhealthy farmed salmon

  Hereditary chief George Quocksister Jr., 68, from the Laich-Kwil-Tach Nation has been gathering footage of unhealthy salmon all month. Quocksister has been going from salmon farm to Read More »

• ‘Wicked Tuna’ premier party set for July 23 at Pirate’s Cove Pavilion

  “Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks,” the third season of the National Geographic TV channel series featuring North Carolina fishermen, will have a local premier party on Saturday, Read More »

• NOAA releases $705k in Federal Disaster Assistance to RI to help local fishermen

  U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse together with Congressmen Jim Langevin and David Cicilline and Governor Gina M. Raimondo and the Rhode Island Department of Read More »

• AESA Urges U.S. Government to Reject ESA Listing for American Eel

  Following a petition from the Council for Endangered Species Act Reliability (CESAR) (click here to see petition), the U.S. government this month will once again consider Read More »

• Please give to the Galloway Family Fund in Memory of Captain Ronald Lynn Galloway

  The Galloway family was struck by tragedy this week when his shrimp boat was over turned while returning to dock. This man sacrificed his life to Read More »

• Sea Shepherd confronts illegal Antarctic Patagonian toothfish poaching vessel – placed under citizens arrest!

  Bob Barker skipper Peter Hammarstedt said he had notified the Thunder captain and his crew “that they have been placed under citizen’s arrest”. “They must cease Read More »

• Underwater Observations of Square Mesh 4-Panel Codends | HD

  Published on Mar 19, 2013           Square Mesh 4-Panel Codends to reduce the discards of juvenile haddock taken in a trawl fishery off Cornwall. This work was Financed Read More »

• AquaBounty GM Salmon Eggs Cleared for Production in Canada

  CANADA – Environment Canada, the agency of the Government of Canada with responsibility for regulating environmental policies and issues, has decided, [email protected] fishsite  11:06 Related Read More »
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  Fishermen fall ill after WW2 chemical bomb they dragged aboard in their nets explodes

  A group of fishermen had to be quarantined after a World War Two shell containing chemicals exploded on their boat. The four men had hauled up Read More »

• Commerce Secretary asked to cut by-catch of salmon in the Bering sea–Aleutian Islands Pollock fishery

  T–C–C officials said the Chinook salmon stocks are crashing, and they need to do everything possible to reverse the trend. The petition asks for an order Read More »

• Fish cops issue striped bass warning

  Federal fishing officials are warning anglers and commercial fishermen it is illegal to catch striped bass in waters outside three miles. The ban on catching stripers Read More »

• An Excellent Five Part Photo Series – Building a Wooden Lobster Boat

  I love wooden lobster boats. This is a five part series, from start, to finish at Johns Bay Boat Company located in South Bristol, ME. The Read More »

• Environmental Defense Fund — Fishery vote should protect more habitat

  This Thursday, the New England Fishery Management Council will finally vote on the , the culmination of a multi-year process of creating, eliminating and modifying fishery Read More »

• Quota Holds Steady for Red King Crab, Down for Snow Crab

  The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is holding about steady on its quota for Bristol Bay red king crab for the season beginning Oct. 15, Read More »

• North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for September 7, 2015

  Click here to read the Weekly Update, to read all the updates, Click here 11:12 Related Read More »

• Warm water blamed for lowest sockeye salmon run on record

  Warm summer temperatures may have Lower Mainlanders feeling good, but they are proving lethal for sockeye salmon. The Pacific Salmon Commission recently revised its already low Read More »