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• Scallop wallop – Japanese imports are taking a bite out of New Bedford’s lucrative seafood industry at a time when the region’s shellfish are in shorter supply.

  Rahm Emanuel, the U.S. ambassador to Japan, landed a deal to supply U.S. military bases in Japan with scallops and other Japanese seafood products. Japan is Read More »
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  New Bedford fisherman sentenced for evading $431,000 in federal taxes

  A New Bedford man was sentenced in federal court in Boston for evading more than $431,000 in federal income taxes over the course of seven years. Read More »
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  Halibut poachers sentenced to jail time

  Robert and David Gudgell, former fishing boat operators for Pacific Salmon Charters, will need to update their resumes. At a sentencing hearing on Wednesday in South Read More »

• Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 38′ Young Brothers Tuna/Charter, Caterpillar 3126

  To review specifications, information, and 34 photos’, >click here<, To see all the boats in this series >click here< 11:45 Read More »
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  Watching Wind And Solar Fail To Power The World Economy

  You don’t have to be any kind of a genius to figure out that wind and solar generation are never going to supplant fossil fuels in Read More »

• Alaska: As Stream Levels Drop, Salmon Die Before Spawning

  Some rainfall over the weekend may have eased a looming crisis for pink salmon stocks in Southeast Alaska. The summer’s fine weather and record salmon runs Read More »
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  Zombait! Maine inventor’s device puts the wiggle back in dead bait fish

  The product, appropriately named Zombait, is a hinged tube with a battery-powered motor inside that can be stuffed down the throat of dead bait to make Read More »

• Big Catches, Big Prices cause boat backlog for Nova Scotia fishermen

  A booming lobster industry certainly has its ups, but some of the downs are becoming apparent to one fisherman from Kelly’s Cove, N.S., who says he Read More »
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  Seal bait returns crab catch rates comparable to squid, MUN study reveals

  A new study from Memorial University has found that seal bait can be used to catch snow crab. The study, first conducted as a student thesis Read More »
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  Forget Maine, Jersey fisherman catch quality lobsters

  As the sun begins to set over Shark River, the boat “Fully Loaded” approaches the dock. As the name suggests, it’s fully loaded with lobsters. “It’s Read More »

• Scientists, Industry Leaders Question Validity of Yellowtail Flounder Assessments

  As the Transboundary Resources Assessment Committee (TRAC) publicizes its recommendations for drastically reduced catch limits for Georges Bank yellowtail flounder, a diverse group of industry stakeholders and marine scientists Read More »

• Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association awarded funding for decarbonization

  An organization that supports Alaskan small boat fishermen will be getting more than half a million dollars to help them deal with the challenges of climate Read More »
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  Maine: Second round of meetings scheduled on right whale issue

  Earlier this week, DMR Commissioner Patrick Keliher announced that he would hold a second round of meetings with each of the state’s seven Lobster Zone Management Read More »

• RCMP Officers find 1.5kg of elvers while arresting man passed out behind the wheel of his truck

  An Indian Brook, N.S. man is facing charges after police say he was found impaired by drugs behind the wheel of a car in Concession, N.S., Read More »

• EXTREMELY important meeting re offshore windmills – Notice from the Long Island Commercial Fishing Association

  This Monday, Dec 1 at Inlet Seafood from 6-8 p.m., an EXTREMELY important meeting re offshore windmills, run by Cornell with funding from BOEM, the fed Read More »

• Holiday season is time to crack down on oyster poaching in Chesapeake Bay

   The weeks leading to the holidays tend to be the most active for oyster poachers in the Chesapeake Bay, but the Maryland Department of Natural Resources Read More »
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  Veteran fisherman Tom Lindberg tried to save his deckhands

  The daughter of the veteran Cobble Hill fisherman who died when the Arctic Fox II capsized in the waters off Washington state said her father put Read More »
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  Another push for catch shares – Nils E. Stolpe, FishNet-USA

  Don’t get the idea from this that I oppose any fisheries management regime. What I do oppose is having the future of particular fisheries determined by Read More »
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  What really killed the whales? Environmental groups in New Jersey are squaring off.

  Following the discovery of a 30-foot humpback whale that washed ashore in Atlantic City earlier this month, several groups including Clean Ocean Action wrote to President Read More »
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  Massachusetts Lobstermen fear end of their livelihood

  Dan Pronk is worried a new set of proposed NOAA and NMFS restrictions aimed at saving the North Atlantic right whale could be the nail in Read More »

• Now this is Real Environmentalism in it’s purest form – Volunteers needed for herring run cleanup April 6

  Weymouth Ma — The turnout of volunteers for the annual spring cleanup of the herring  channel in East Weymouth has grown since its inception in 1988, and Read More »
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  State of Alaska plans distribution of 2016 pink salmon season disaster relief funds

  The state is working on distributing roughly $56 million in relief funds to those affected by the 2016 Gulf of Alaska pink salmon season disaster.,,, Julie Read More »
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  Harvesters Warn of ‘Dire Effects’ as Minister Aims to Protect Fish Stocks from Climate Disruption

  A recent appearance by Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray at an industry annual meeting has set off a sea squall of controversy, with harvesters and unions warning Read More »

• Wearing Rose Colored Glasses on P.E.I. – High hopes that Invasive green crabs could become lucrative commercial fishery

  P.E.I.’s first commercial green crab fishery is underway. Fourteen fishermen have been granted licences from the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans to fish this invasive Read More »

• F/V Second Chance hires salvage company to help get shrimp boat off the Port Aransas sandbars

  It has now been three weeks since the ‘Second Chance’ shrimp boat washed up along the shore in Port Aransas, but it looks like it’s finally Read More »