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• New Brunswick: Record lobster season hurting fishermen – Some brokers have stopped buying, set quotas due to unprecedented catches

  Lobster fishermen in northeastern New Brunswick are reporting record catches and are getting nervous no one will buy their product. It’s only halfway through the lobster Read More »

• NJ back to court to stall seismic study

  Scientists have yet to begin using loud air gun blasts to study the sea floor off New Jersey, and state officials said Tuesday they are going Read More »

• Mystery fish halts Cape May Harbor dredging

  Marina owners and commercial fishing docks in the Port of Cape May are banding together to fight a winter-time ban on dredging designed to protect a Read More »

• Rolls-Royce to Design, Equip Canadian Stern Trawler

  The shipbuilding company in Norway has received an order from a Canadian company for a shrimp stern trawler to be designed and equipped by Rolls-Royce, whose Read More »
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  North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for May 19, 2017

  SOUTHERN FLOUNDER LAWSUIT SETTLED! Click here to read the Weekly Update, to read all the updates, Click here  11:50 Related Read More »

• Lolo cites fisheries and construction as best options for economic expansion

  PAGO PAGO, American Samoa – According to Lolo, in spite of international political and financial trends, at a local level there is resurgence in the fisheries industry Read More »

• Big changes coming along Morro Bay’s waterfront as leases expire

  Over the next few years, Morro Bay residents and visitors should expect to see significant makeovers,, The city’s “fishing village” vision calls for architectural renovations that Read More »

• The Morgan’s long journey: Five-year restoration has brought ship to the eve of departure

  Mystic – When work began in November of 2008 on what would become the $10.6 million project to restore the whaling ship Charles W. Morgan, there Read More »
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  Counting Fish – A Film by Don Cuddy

  New England groundfishermen are in trouble, with catch limits set so low that many boats remain tied to the dock. But the industry has little confidence Read More »

• Fisherman Kirby Elson’s legal challenge of inshore fishery rules is back on

  A Labrador fisherman who launched a legal challenge of rules for Atlantic Canada’s inshore fishery only to back away from litigation last week has had another change of Read More »

• New England Fishery Management Council – Sept/Oct Council Report

  Please contact Public Affairs Officer Patricia Fiorelli with any questions or concerns at (978) 465-0492 ext. 106 or [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>.  11:42 NEFMC – CouncilReport_10.2013.pdf 266K   View   Download Read More »

• Maine congressional delegation asks Obama to rebuff ban on lobster exports to EU

  Maine’s congressional delegation on Monday asked the Obama administration to resist efforts to ban the import of live Maine lobsters by European Union countries, saying the Read More »

• Fisherman pleads guilty to 39 albatross deaths

  A commercial fishing boat skipper who caused the death of 39 albatrosses refused to use bird-scaring devices because he had “nothing but f…… trouble with the Read More »

• Fishing in murky waters: the administration’s secretive oceans policies come under fire

  The Obama administration is using its “phone and pen” method of governing by executive action to push its agenda and extend its powers in a huge new area: Read More »

• A fishy business: Dramm Corp. turns fish scraps into organic fertilizer

  Dramm Corp.’s Algoma plant is turning recycled fish scraps into a $2.2 million fertilizer business. The business got its start in the 1990s when Algoma resident Chuck Bowman began gathering dead alewives Read More »

• Fishing remains huge part of Ron Rosse’s life

  A Lee County native who was introduced to fishing at a very young age, continues his passion near Captiva Island where his earliest memories were formed Read More »

• Bristol RI to consider boater’s insurance mandate

  To the dismay of commercial fishermen who attended Monday night’s meeting of the Bristol Harbor Commission, Dom Franco, commission chairman, opened debate as to whether the Read More »

• Three men charged with fishing offences in Victoria County

  Three Cape Breton commercial fishermen were arraigned in Ingonish provincial court Thursday for alleged fishing violations. Robert Courtney, 63, faces eight charges, including two counts of Read More »

• 100-year-old mystery solved: Adult eel observed for the first time in the Sargasso Sea

  After more than a century of speculation, researchers have finally proved that American eels really do migrate to the Sargasso Sea to reproduce. A team supervised Read More »

• It’s time for 1906 Antiquities Act to be drastically reformed or scrapped altogether.

  Clearly, the intent of creating these monuments has nothing to do with historical or cultural preservation. As Maine Gov. Paul LePage rightly noted, the designations would Read More »

• Lawsuit against Jindal considered over reef money

  At issue is Jindal’s continuing diversions of millions of dollars donated by oil companies to turn old drilling rigs into artificial reefs to instead pay for Read More »

• Pocket-Sized Digital Brix Refractometer Aids Lobster Vitality Assessment in North Atlantic

  Already in use everywhere from wineries and fruit packers to firehouses and metal shops, ATAGO’s ubiquitous PAL-1 refractometer is finding more and more homes on fishing Read More »

• On “Forage Fish”, Pew’s Peter Baker Misses the Mark, savingseafood.org tears through the dogma.

  The paper’s recommendations are based around the assumption that “forage fish” is a legitimate and useful categorization of species to be used in fisheries management, and Read More »

• Banking on Wealth? by Menakhem-Ben Yami

  Current trends in Western fisheries economics, as exemplified by the position of the World Bank, religiously promote free markets for fishing rights During the last decade, Read More »

• Fish worker advocates push for ‘code of conduct’ for SouthCoast companies

  NEW BEDFORD — To improve safety in industries dominated by immigrant workers, a local group will try to recruit city companies to sign a workplace code Read More »