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• Alaska Board of Fisheries will meet Friday – discuss possible emergency regulation change – Kuskokwim River subsistence fishers.

  The Kuskokwim Salmon Management Working Group submitted an emergency petition asking the board to limit subsistence setnets to four-inch mesh or smaller as a way to Read More »

• Maine groundfishermen hurt by quota cuts to receive $640,000 in disaster relief

  The funds will be distributed in the form of rebates to fishermen for the fees they pay at the Portland Fish Exchange. About 40 fishing boats Read More »

• Outdoors: Commercial hoarding threatens to flatten winter flounder stocks

  telegram.com – Jason Colby, a charter boat captain who specializes in flounder fishing there, has fished the harbor dozens of times this season, coming home disappointed, Read More »
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  New super long-lining catamaran being built for Abbott family at Narooma

  The commercial fishing industry on the Far South Coast is about to get a big boost with a new 25-metre, state-of-the-art, long-lining catamaran being built for the Read More »

• Stranded sea lions overwhelm California rescue centers

  People in Marina del Rey, Calif., were surprised when a sea lion pup wandered into their apartment complex. But getting help for Walter when he was Read More »

• A comprehensive article about Massachusetts DMF Industry-Based Survey underway in Gulf of Maine

  Massachusetts received more than $21 million in federal fisheries disaster aid, most of which was distributed to fishermen. But the state kept some for research projects, Read More »

• Iles-de-la-Madeleine lobster fishery achieves MSC certification

  The fishery is located in Lobster Fishing Area (LFA) 22 surrounding the Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence off the east coast of Canada. Read More »

• Where did global warming go? The deep ocean, experts say

  The deep oceans have recently been soaking up much of the excess heat trapped under the ever-thickening blanket of greenhouse gases that humans pump into the Read More »

• Martello to lead Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association

  After a lengthy search, the Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association has a new executive director set to start in December. The organization, which is funded Read More »

• Dam blocking prime fish habitat on Walla Walla River will be removed in September

  A diversion dam blocking nearly 50 miles of prime fish spawning habitat on the Walla Walla River is slated for removal by September as part of a decadeslong Read More »

• Maine lobsterman Skip Werner devises “underwater lasso” for finding lost traps

  My boss Skip Werner has been lobstering for over sixty years. In that time he’s picked up quite a few helpful tricks of the trade, but Read More »

• Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update, November 23, 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 »

• Should We Close Part Of The Ocean To Keep Fish On The Plate?

  The novel conservation plan, introduced recently in a paper in the journal PLoS Biology,  would close international waters– where there’s currently pretty much a fishing free-for-all Read More »

• Shrimp: a Little Creature’s Big Impact by Matt Rhoney

  Shrimp has had a wide-ranging set of influences on the United States. This buggy little sea-creature has brought cash flow into our economy, nutrients into our Read More »

• Coast Guard responding to F/V Sea King – taking on water with four people aboard off Ponte Vedra, Fla.

  ATLANTIC BEACH, Fla. – Coast Guard boat and helicopter crews are en route to rescue four people aboard a sinking shrimp boat about 2 miles east Read More »

• Seafood harvesting employment in Alaska is on the rise.

  A new report in the November edition of state Labor Department publication Alaska Economic Trends says monthly employment in Alaska’s seafood harvesting sector in 2013 grew Read More »

• Kenai River East Side Setnetters shutout – told on Tuesday the river was 29 fish shy of meeting the lower end of the escapement goal.

  Nets remain dry in the East Side Setnet fishery where fishermen learned Wednesday that the fishery will be closed for the last regularly scheduled fishing period Read More »

• Brownsville company pleads guilty to relabeling Mexican shrimp as domestic

  Federal prosecutors say a Brownsville shrimping company has pleaded guilty to relabeling 35,000 pounds of hard-to-sell Mexican shrimp as wild-caught American crustaceans. U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite’s Read More »

• Spiny dogfish populations 2014 – Using satellites to reassess population estimates

  As of August 2014, it is suspected that there are more spiny dogfish in the Gulf of Maine and perhaps the northeast than has been thought Read More »

• Scallop fishermen will be able to catch more next year

  The New England Fishery Management Council approved rules on Wednesday that are expected to yield about 47 million pounds of scallops during the fishing year that Read More »

• Sea mammals find US safe harbor – “We have seen remarkable recoveries” “There isn’t enough research,”

  n 1972, a U.S. Senate committee reported, “Many of the great whales which once populated the oceans have now dwindled to the edge of extinction,” due Read More »

• American Samoa adamant shark protection is adequate

  The US National Marine Fisheries Service had sought public comments following a petition by two NGO groups which claimed the sharks are threatened by fishing. [email protected] Read More »

• REJECTED REJECTED REJECTED – North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission DUMPS bid for trawler ban in sounds

  The Marine Fisheries Commission meeting in Raleigh on Thursday unanimously dumped a petition seeking rules declaring most internal coastal waters as seafood nursery areas off limits Read More »

• As the scallop fishery rebounds, divers hope for a break

  These are tough guys (and at this point, no women hold commercial licenses to scallop dive). There are a lot of ways one could explain that: Read More »

• Liz Warren declines to accept Barney Frank’s proposal to press President Obama for relief for the fishing industry

  “Senator Warren appreciated the opportunity to meet with fishermen, family members, local small business owners, and advocates earlier this week in Gloucester and New Bedford to Read More »