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• US may blacklist Thailand after prawn trade slavery revelations – Excellent Video

  The US is considering downgrading Thailand on a human trafficking blacklist, following revelations in the Guardian that slaves are being used in the production of prawns Read More »

• Dead salmon found along muddy Elwha River after hatchery release

  Staff at the department’s Elwha Channel hatchery released 196,575 juvenile fish, ranging from 4 inches to 8 inches in length April 5, about 3½ miles from the Read More »

• Ramea’s new secondary scallop-processing plant started its first production May 24.

  Plant owner Danny Dumaresque said it’s an exciting time for everyone as the production moves ahead as planned, although its original opening date of April was Read More »

• UFA Wants Coast Guard Presence in Arctic in Line With Development

  Alaska’s largest statewide commercial fishing trade association is tracking movement in Congress on revisions of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act, which is key to Read More »
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  On this Day: April 12,1977: “Mother ship of the Russian fishing fleet” seized by Coast Guard off Nantucket

  On this day in 1977, a so-called “mother ship of the Russian fishing fleet” off New England was taken to Boston to join another Soviet vessel 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 »
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  ‘A Speck in the Sea’ tells tale of boyhood pals’ brush with death on Long Island fishing excursion

  After more than 10 hours in the frigid ocean 40 miles south of Montauk Point, John Aldridge didn’t know if there was any fight left in Read More »

• Canada Continues to Advance Sustainable Fisheries Management and Protection of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems at the Annual Meeting of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization

  Halifax, Nova Scotia – At this year’s  annual meeting in Halifax, the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO)  adopted a range of measures to strengthen the conservation Read More »

• Plan for artificial reef off Ocean County fuels fighting among fishermen

  New Jersey plans to limit commercial fishing to small sections on the two existing artificial reefs in state waters and construct a third one off Ocean Read More »

• Sept 24 – 26 NEFMC Meeting – Live Streaming Informatio​n

  The public is invited to attend the September 24 – 26, 2013 New England Fishery Management Council meeting beginning at 8:30 a.m. at the Cape Codder Resort, Read More »

• Stock Assessment Prioritization: Guiding decisions on which fish stocks to assess

  What are stock assessments?  Assessments for managed fish and shellfish stocks are an important core activity of NOAA NMFS. Why is prioritization needed?  There are 478 Read More »

• Remembering the pilot boat ‘Can Do’

  GLOUCESTER — The Bible describes a time when the seas “mount up to the heaven” and then “go down again to the depths.” It was like Read More »

• Bluefin Tuna Sells for $117,000 at Tokyo Auction

  The owner of a chain of sushi restaurants paid ¥14 million ($117,000) for a 200-kilogram bluefin tuna at the first auction of the year at Tokyo’s Read More »

• N.C. to allow bay scallop harvest in Bogue Sound area

  Seafood dishes and fishermen’s paychecks will get a little sweeter in North Carolina this winter. For the first time since a 2006 moratorium on bay scallop Read More »

• Coast Guard medevacs fisherman near Cold Bay, Alaska

  The Coast Guard medevaced a 36-year-old man from the 252-foot fishing vessel American Triumph approximately 92 miles north of Cold Bay, Alaska, Thursday. Watchstanders at the Coast Read More »

• Flooding 60-foot F/V Endeavor contact Coast Guard for assistance at 09:15 this morning, tied up 12:20 this afteroon

  NORTH BEND, Ore. — A Coast Guard boatcrew from Station Yaquina Bay, in Newport, assisted three men aboard a commercial fishing vessel taking on water about 10 Read More »

• Always Top Quality! Your Seafreeze Ltd. PREFERED PRICE LIST for November 21, 2013 has arrived

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  Central Coast should look to Rhode Island for bad experience with wind turbines  

  Our commercial fishermen met with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, and the bureau plans on putting hundreds of wind turbines off our coastline, taking hundreds Read More »

• Coast Guard Air Station Astoria receives the service’s first centennial celebration painted helicopter

  Coast Guard Air Station Astoria received a yellow-painted MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter at its base in Warrenton, Friday, in celebration of 100 years of Coast Guard aviation. Read More »

• Lobster Fisherman loses hand in lobster boat accident

  A 51-year-old lobster fisherman from West Point, P.E.I., remains in hospital in Halifax, following a frightening accident at sea on Saturday that resulted in the loss of Read More »
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  Heavy ice off East Coast 2017 caused by winds, cold temperatures, and icebergs

  Heavy sea ice off Newfoundland and southern Labrador has been an issue for months: it brought record-breaking numbers of polar bear visitors onshore in early March Read More »

• Pricey sea cucumbers face increasing sea otter appetites

  Sea cucumbers are the most valuable of Alaska’s dive fisheries and give a nice boost to coastal towns, especially in Southeast. Annual harvests each October hover Read More »

• New Bedford launches seafood branding campaign and website

  For generations New Bedford fishermen withstood the elements to do their jobs. Through rain storms they fished. In choppy waters they fished. Against harsh winds they Read More »

• Alabama man admits shooting dolphin in Mississippi Sound

  GULFPORT — A commercial boat captain from Bayou La Batre, Ala., has pleaded guilty to shooting a dolphin with a shotgun in the Mississippi Sound in Read More »

• Deadliest catch: Fisherman hauls in a 50-lb military shell. Not once, but three times!

  A retired RCMP officer and gunsmith got quite a surprise last week when a local fisherman asked to show him a military-style shell that had gotten caught in his Read More »