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• NOAA Reports Show Strong Economic Gains from Fishing, Continued Improvement in Fish Stocks (While Destroying New England)

  U.S. commercial and recreational saltwater fishing generated more than $199 billion in sales in 2012, a gain of seven percent over the previous year, with the Read More »

• Fishermen accuse DFO of sinking progress

  Fishermen who are part of a lobster advisory committee found themselves questioning where the ‘advisory’ part comes in as they expressed frustration at a recent meeting Read More »

• Douglas Ward Wickens fell off a fishdragger. If Ward had been wearing a PFD…

  Douglas Ward Wickens fell off a fishdragger, the Silver Angel, on May 3, 2011, about nine kilometers south of Cape Sable Island. His captain, the only other Read More »

• June 2-10, 2014 North Pacific Fishery Management Council Meeting, Nome, Alaska – Listen Live!

  The North Pacific Fishery Management Council will hold the 218th Plenary Session  June 2-10, 2014, in Nome, Alaska at the Mini Convention Center, 409 River Street, Nome, AK. The AGENDA, Read More »

• Loss of shrimp season hits the pocketbook hardest

  NOBLEBORO — Behind Tim Simmons’ house, down a hill past piles of coiled rope and brightly painted bundles of lobster buoys, sit 100 shrimp traps.The traps Read More »

• North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for May 29, 2015

  Click to read the Weekly Update for May 29, 2015 as a PDF  To read all the updates, click here  20:37 Related Read More »

• New Zealand: Underwater life in Kaikoura Canyon marine nature reserve entirely wiped out after earthquake

  A 7.8 magnitude earthquake in November at Kaikōura, on New Zealand’s South Island, has destroyed all creatures living on the seabed in the Kaikōura Canyon marine Read More »

• How will battery of new regulations affect Southern New England’s lobster fishermen?

  Southern New England’s fading lobster fishery will be subject to a battery of new regulations, possibly closed fishing areas and stricter size standards, to try to Read More »
• 

  Fish pie – Everyone wants a piece

  Representatives of the haves and have-nots of American ocean fisheries gathered in a packed college classroom here on Wednesday to offer Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, their Read More »

• Doug Gregory takes over as executive director Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council on May 20

  After more than two decades as Monroe County’s marine extension agent, Doug Gregory soon heads to Tampa to become executive director of the federal Gulf of Read More »

• Regulators in New England cap river herring catch

  The caps proposed Thursday by the New England Fishery Management Council during their meeting on Cape Cod target so-called mid-water trawlers, which catch herring by pulling Read More »

• South Carolina Working Waterfront: Rural attitude, commercial fishing still embraced in McClellanville

  McClellanville stands apart from other working waterfronts in South Carolina in a couple of important ways. Its geographic isolation has helped maintain a rural attitude, and Read More »

• Chesapeake Bay commercial fishermen reinvent themselves in an effort to stay afloat

  When you begin a new career at 61, you’re bound to hit snags. Farley is building a tourism business around his expertise in the Chesapeake Bay. Read More »

• Two opposing views of the Gulf Red Snapper Fishery

  John Sackton —   Feb 11, 2013 — A new allocation fight is taking place in the Gulf of Mexico with recreational charters, backed by the Coastal Read More »

• Gloucester Marine Railways steps back for its future

  The 158-year-old set of marine railways now known as the Gloucester Marine Railways Corp. has undergone a series of changes over the years, notably taking on Read More »

• 35,000 walrus come ashore in northwest Alaska

  An estimated 35,000 walrus were photographed Saturday about 5 miles north of Point Lay, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.Observers last week saw about Read More »

• Pollution: Learning the Limits for Marine Species

  Work by biologists and marine scientists at various Norwegian research institutions over the past 10 years has covered such commercial resources as shrimp, scallops, herring and Read More »

• Agencies Mull Options to Prepare for Future Domoic Acid Events

  In 2015/2016, there was an unprecedented bloom of a single-celled plant called Pseudo-nitzschia in ocean waters, which resulted in  elevated levels of domoic acid in Dungeness Read More »

• Nantucket Sound location of most fatal turtle entanglements

  By Aug. 1, Chatham fisherman Jamie Eldredge has pulled the 200 conch pots he has in Nantucket Sound. He has made the summer switch to fishing for dogfish Read More »

• Alaska Board of Fisheries to Meet in Anchorage

  All portions of the meeting are open to the public and a live audio stream is intended to be available on the Board of Fisheries’ website Read More »

• Interior Approves New York City Offshore Wind Project, Commercial Fishermen Oppose

  The Offshore Wind Project in New York City is given a go signal by the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) last week. On the other hand, Read More »

• Edgartown commercial fishermen continue to adjust to new realities

  Edgartown’s commercial trap fishing industry is tough work. It is evident as much in the number of working boats and fishermen seeking conch and sea bass Read More »

• Vessel rescues 19 fishermen from burning boat off Bermuda

  A plume of black smoke alerted the crew of a cargo vessel to possible distress. As they pulled closer in the Atlantic Ocean, they found a Read More »

• House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs Hearing – Opening Statement – Randy Fisher Executive Director of the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission

  May 22, 2013 (Congressional Documents and Publications/ContentWorks via COMTEX) — Good Morning. My name is Randy Fisher and I am the Executive Director of the Pacific States Read More »

• Second Second Giant Sea Creature Washes Ashore Along Santa Monica Coastline

  SANTA MONICA, CA — For the second time in recent months, a giant sea creature has washed ashore in California.  First it was a rare oarfish Read More »