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• UPDATED: CF/V Cape Dorset crew rescued, vessel sank off Burin Peninsula – No injuries reported for all 19 crew members

  The fishing crew aboard the Cape Dorset is safe after the vessel sank off the Burin Peninsula Saturday morning. A distress call was sent out from the Read More »
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  DUMPING DAY DELAYED: Forecasted winds cancel Nov. 27 start of lobster season

  The opening of the lobster fishery off southwestern Nova Scotia has been delayed due to the forecasted high winds. The season, which was to have started Read More »

• Yukon River salmon swim to Canada in higher numbers

  Despite a below-average overall run, the most Yukon River king salmon in a decade have made it across the border on the way to their Canadian spawning Read More »

• Bankrupt fish processor’s quota for sale – 25 per cent, or 3,750 tonnes, of the province’s total allowable silver hake catch.

  The deadline for offers is Friday, March 14, at 3 p.m., according to a notice published in this newspaper on Jan. 28. The Business Development Bank Read More »

• Shark Fins: Waste or Resource?

  An article in the St. Augustine Record caught my eye on social media this week. Viewed as a winter resident of Florida the headline was quite shocking, Read More »
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  DWR answers letter from those impacted by Lake Oroville Spillways incident

  A letter sent to the Department of Water Resources dated April 19, 2017 which included questions and requests for information from a coalition of community groups, Read More »
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  The Luck of the Irish! – Fisherman catches rare one-in-100 million albino lobster off the west of Ireland coast

  A ONE-in-100 million white albino lobster has been donated to an Irish aquarium after it was saved from the chef’s cooking pot by a fisherman in Read More »

• National Marine Fisheries Service whale protection rules will snare lobstermen

  Earlier this month, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) published a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for proposed amendments to the federal Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Read More »
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  Lummi Island Wild Takes to the Streets with a Little Help from Signs Plus, Inc.

  With eight of the only twelve reefnetting commercial fishing organizations in the world right here in Whatcom County, Lummi Island Wild is among the unique and Read More »

• N.S. committee to work on system for tracking escaped farmed salmon

  Nova Scotia now has a committee to develop a system to track escaped farmed salmon. “This is a first step where government, industry and wild Atlantic Read More »

• Elver price dips from 2012 high but poaching persists – BDN MAINE

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  Federal fisheries minister refuses to reverse decision on surf clam licence

  Federal Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc has rejected calls to reverse his recent decision to award a multimillion-dollar Arctic surf clam fishing licence to a Nova Scotia Read More »

• Australia Seeks to Extend Commercial Fishing in Protected Waters

  Australia plans to allow fishing across 80 percent of its protected maritime sanctuaries, the government said on Friday in a proposal that would vastly extend commercial Read More »

• Furious over threats to the (Chesapeake) bay [Letter]

  I speak on behalf of all those who are passionate about the health of the Chesapeake Bay when I say I am furious (“Farm pollution rule Read More »

• Tropical storm Gabrielle Tropical storm Gabrielle – Hurricane Humberto is out there churning

  The storm has begun to accelerate northward and is expected to merge with a cloud front near New England, according to the Canadian Hurricane Centre. The Read More »

• DFO find’s non native shrimp along the shores of Newfoundland’s west coast.

  For the second time this year, DFO scientists have discovered a new species in the province’s coastal waters. Baltic shrimp have now found a permanent home Read More »

• A man-made attempt to save the rarest fish on Earth (its a guppy!)

  Olin Feuerbacher took a deep breath and plunged into the warm aquamarine water of a $4.5-million 100,000-gallon concrete and fiberglass tank in the middle of the Read More »

• Tangle net experiment: Columbia River fishermen try out gillnet alternative

  Even with a chance at late returning coho salmon, few commercial gillnet fishermen will be out with tangle nets on the Columbia River in the next two Read More »

• The Sea Lords – Kingpins of the Gulf make millions off red snapper harvest without ever going fishing

  A little-known federal program has turned dozens of Gulf of Mexico fishermen into the lords of the sea — able to earn millions annually without even Read More »

• Zurik: Snapper barons slam FOX 8 probe, but Trump admin. may think otherwise

  An alliance of fishermen who make millions off a public resource wants us to retract all our stories from our “Hooked Up” series. The series showed Read More »
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  Pacific Seafood, DOJ in fiery clash over Newport expansion

  Pacific Seafood Group, the industry’s billion-dollar behemoth, has thoroughly shaken up this bustling commercial fishing town with an expansion blitz that will increase its already dominant Read More »
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  Where are the friends of fishing?

  British fishing has long been neglected for two reasons. First Ted Heath sold it out by accepting the Common Fisheries Policy in his desperate desire to Read More »

• Cobscook scallop fishermen bemoan emergency shutdown of season leaving, job loss, scallops to die of old age – DMR declines comment

  There are “plenty of scallops around,” said Danny Jodway of Lubec, one of seven fisherman who gathered for breakfast at Helen’s Restaurant and invited reporters to Read More »

• Sealing the meal

  Blend skill with imagination, however, and you can do practically anything with seal meat; as chef Chris Sheppard proved at the grand opening of the Sealers Read More »

• NOAA seeks jurisdiction of Lake Michigan waters next to Wisconsin – Protecting shipwrecks or shipwrecking the economy?

  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is preparing to designate the waters of Lake Michigan next to Manitowoc, Sheboygan, and Ozaukee counties as a national Read More »