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  The Cannon Beach dorymen

  Before Ecola Square became home to artisanal shops and condominiums, local author Peter Lindsey remembers that lot filled with dozens of dory boats. Lindsey also remembers Read More »
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  Steady and sustainable cod fishery needed to supply demand

  Other than Icewater Seafoods, in Arnold’s Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador isn’t well positioned for large-scale cod processing. And Icewater president – Alberto Wareham – says a Read More »
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  Offshore drilling foes, denied microphone, hold rallies

  With giant inflatable whales, signs that read “Drilling Is Killing” and chants of “Where’s our meeting?” opponents of President Donald Trump’s plan to open most of Read More »
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  Maine Shrimp Hitting Market Thanks to Spawning Study

  Despite a moratorium on the northern Maine shrimp fishing season for the third consecutive year, a few wholesale buyers, restaurants, and markets could have some Maine Read More »
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  Offshore Aquaculture: Groups divided over Gulf fish farming

  While proponents of aquaculture support expanding fish and shellfish farming in the Gulf of Mexico, local fishermen and food safety groups are wary of the consequences. Read More »

• The distorted view of reality – A Knockout Blow for American Fish Stocks?

  Today, in the New York Times, Oceana’s Gib Brogan ignores the facts of the New England fishing industry, a hollowed out shell of what once was Read More »

• Louisbourg Seafood hopes to keep more than 1,000 crates of lobsters alive long enough to find buyer

  Responding to a supply glut, lobster buyers are doing whatever they can to keep thousands of lobsters alive until prices improve. Many have dropped prices and Read More »

• New England cod decline similar to N.L. cod crash: scientist

  Rose noted that while some people are jumping on fisheries management as being inept, it is . “The same people often don’t mention that the haddock Read More »
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  Laurentian Channel Marine Protected Area – Fishing activity singled out for extra blame

  I have read many Government of Canada documents. Some of them caused me to roll my eyes, some of them caused chuckles, some were examples of Read More »

• The Honourable Keith Ashfield, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada: Carapace Size Increase for Lobster Fishing Area 25

  issued the following statement today on the minimum legal size for lobster fished in the western half of the Northumberland Strait between New Brunswick, Nova Scotia Read More »

• Active scallop fishermen not pleased with court decision that brought the inactive harvesters out of the woodwork.

  That’s the message a group of active scallop harvesters is hoping to make public after a court case involving their union and other scallop license holders Read More »

• Gulf Red Snapper War: Macaluso: Fight over red snapper has to stop

  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — It’s amazing to think anyone in Louisiana would try to derail recreational fishing efforts in our Sportsman’s Paradise. Yet, every time Read More »

• Wesmac 46 Battle Wagon prepares to battle tuna

  Wesmac Custom Boats launched its latest Super 46 last week, and though it has celebrity owners it is hard to imagine a more serious fishing machine Read More »

• Legal harvest of marine turtles tops 42,000 each year

  A new study has found that 42 countries or territories around the world permit the harvest of marine turtles – and estimates that more than 42,000 Read More »

• Huffman introduces bill to refinance decade-old fishing industry loan – “Revitalizing the Economy of Fisheries in the Pacific Act”

  Legislation aimed at alleviating the financial hardship of a federal loan that has been weighing on Pacific Coast groundfish fisherman for nearly a decade has moved Read More »

• Trump’s nixing of trade pact disappoints Alaska seafood exporters

  Alaska seafood exporters are disappointed by President Donald Trump’s decision to officially withdraw from a sweeping trade agreement among Pacific nations that would have eradicated import duties imposed Read More »

• PETA Lobster Shutdown. Maine DA: No charges to be filed

  District Attorney Geoffrey A. Rushlau sent a letter Monday afternoon to officials at the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, saying he did Read More »

• Fate of shrimp fishery will be decided soon

  Fishermen wondering whether there will be a shrimp season this winter won’t have long to wait for an answer. On Monday, Dec. 7, the Atlantic States Read More »

• Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update June 15, 2014

  “The Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance is dedicated to its mission of continuing to help create sustainable fisheries without putting licensed fishermen out of business.” Read the Read More »

• Connecticut lobster industry in hot water

  This fall, the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection will close the lobster fishery in the state for three months. [email protected] Related Read More »
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  Come 2018, The State Plans To Dispose Of The F/V Akutan

  After months sitting abandoned in Unalaska, the state announced Friday its intention to dispose of the fishing vessel Akutan. The processor was abandoned in Unalaska’s Captains Read More »

• NE Fishery Management Council SSC Meeting, Boston Jan. 20, 2016 SSC – Listen by webinar

  The public is invited to listen in to the January 20, 2016 Scientific and Statistical Committee Meeting (SSC). It is scheduled to begin at 9:00 a.m. at Read More »

• WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH NOAA? – Dick Grachek

  WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH NOAA? Or: Trouble in the Un-Regulated Community At the risk of stating the obvious: NOAA’s stock assessments are clearly inadequate. When they Read More »

• NOFish Announces Area Closures for Common Pool Northeast Groundfish Fishery

  The following area closures and possession limits are in effect as of today: Gulf of Maine Cod Closed: Possession limit ZERO American Plaice Closed:  Possession limit: Read More »

• Mass DMF giving Rec fishermen chance to reverse regulations – Because someone is bothered!

  Pete Kaizer can remember how the rips east of the island looked from the deck of the Althea K, his charter- fishing boat, just a few Read More »