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• Companies signal interest in offshore Va. winds

  Energy Management Inc., developer of the Cape Wind project in federal waters off Massachusetts’ Cape Cod, and Sea Breeze Power Corp. alerted the federal Bureau of Read More »

• EU ministers OK Baltic catch limits; Envirocrat activists object

  The ministers reached the agreement Thursday night at a meeting in Luxembourg. In a statement, they said the limits take into account scientific advice as well Read More »

• Governor Lolo Moliga calls for united front on 100% Buy America Act

  Governor Lolo said the lobbying efforts waged by Bumble Bee and Chicken of the Sea are very aggressive and powerful hence there is a great danger Read More »

• FISH-NL takes its message to Port de Grave

  FISH-NL (Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador) is just about finished its provincial tour, with a scheduled late-afternoon meeting Wednesday in Torbay being Read More »

• Rights of Spawning Salmon Could Trump Gold Miners’ Federal Guarantee

  Salmon spawning in America’s great Northwest is nothing but a brief, fleeting romance that is always followed by death. However, the annual rite of watery reproduction Read More »

• CHOW CHOW CHOW! LIVE from Capitol Hill Ocean Week

  We’ll be live streaming June 10, 11 & 12 exclusive coverage, including every official panel, special guests, and fascinating roundtable discussions. Don’t miss a minute! —http://oceansLIVE.org   About Read More »

• B.C. fish farm opponent Don Staniford can’t appeal to Supreme Court of Canada

  Staniford hoped to fight a B.C. Court of Appeal decision that slapped him with $75,000 in damages for defaming Mainstream Canada in a campaign that alleged Read More »

• The Western Flyer has drawn the attention of a Canadian documentary filmmaker.

  “This is a part of our history,” said Ian Hinkle, a former resident of Port Townsend who now lives in Victoria.  “It’s sad to see a Read More »

• I dunno about this one! Atlantic, Pacific Fish Face Mixing as Arctic Warms

  “There will be an interchange of the fish communities between those two seas,” beginning as soon as 2050, said Mary Wisz, lead author on the report Read More »

• Sad news today. Father of three identified as Vinalhaven lobsterman who died at sea

  Lobsterman Jeremy Philbrook, 36, was the person who died off Vinalhaven. Philbrook was married to Keeley Philbrook and had three daughters ranging in ages from about Read More »

• DFO Director ‘Ready to Tackle Endangered Coho’ – will ‘do their best’ to protect endangered salmon species. Will it be enough?

  When sockeye salmon return en masse to the Fraser River this year, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) will have a large presence on land and water Read More »

• NOAA Numbers: Gulf Spill Sampling Questioned – “Their numbers were very low,” – “I thought what is going on here? It didn’t make sense.” (We Know!)

  Riki Ott, an independent marine toxicologist who has studied effects of the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska as well as the BP spill, said she was “totally Read More »

• Heres a handy interactive doodadd to play with – Rebuilding Depleted Fish Stocks –

  Rebuilding Depleted Fish Stocks To be considered sustainable, a population of fish must produce enough young to replace the fish that are lost each year due Read More »

• We went down hard, but FixMyWP.com picked us back up!

  When you do what we do and things go bad, its always a problem trying to get things fixed. We depend on people to keep the Read More »

• Coast Guard in Southeastern New England, local partners, good Sam save 5 lives in 3 separate incidents

  The Coast Guard, partner agencies, and a good Samaritan teamed up to respond to three separate Southeastern New England maritime emergencies since Thursday evening. At about Read More »

• Tomorrow’s Catch: A Proposal to Strengthen the Economic Sustainability of U.S. Fisheries – Costello

  This proposal calls for an amendment to the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, the federal law currently guiding the management of U.S. fisheries, that would, Read More »

• Bellingham – Commercial Fisherman Robert Briscoe running to ensure port is economic engine

  I have walked the docks since I was 4 years old and I’ve seen many changes over the 41 years I’ve been commercial fishing out of Read More »

• High Court Clears Way for Bristol Bay Initiative

  The Alaska Supreme Court has cleared the way for an initiative that would require legislative approval for major mining operations in the Bristol Bay watershed, like Read More »

• Gloucester City Council eyes stand on fed fishing aid

  The City Council is expected to weigh in on the disbursement of the $75 million in federal disaster relief funds Tuesday when it takes up a Read More »

• In dip net drama, there’s more than one side to the story

  Too many Kenai River dip-netters are slobs, pigs, miscreants, call them what you want. There is no debating this. The evidence is obvious to anyone who Read More »

• Cod quota rollover is tightened, too – “we intend to allow just under 2 percent” John Bullard

  NOAA Regional Administrator John Bullard has agreed to extend a 10 percent carryover of uncaught fishing quota to the new fishing year — for all stocks Read More »

• Seafood groups pick up $5.9M tab for ADF&G hatchery salmon research

  Processors and seven hatcheries have agreed to pony up millions to keep an Alaska Department of Fish and Game research project going. Pacific Seafood Processors Association Read More »

• Coast Guard crew medevacs fisherman from vessel off Willapa Bay, Wash.

  A Coast Guard aircrew medevaced a fisherman reportedly going in and out of consciousness from a vessel 48 miles west of Willapa Bay, Washington, Friday. Sector Read More »

• Rep. Louise Stutes, R-Kodiak calls for Pink Salmon Fishery Disaster Declaration

  Two measures of relief for Alaska’s pink salmon industry, reeling from the lowest harvest since the late 1970s, are being sought. Rep. Louise Stutes, R-Kodiak, last Read More »

• Greenhouse gases endanger the B.C. coast’s economy – British Columbia’s scallops

  Karl Nerenberg has been reporting on federal politics from Parliament Hill for rabble.ca since September, 2011. In his long career, he has won numerous awards as Read More »