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• Blue crabs poised to make comeback in Delaware – Oysters problematic

  Last spring and summer, crabs were in short supply, and combined with other factors, prices for them peaked at more than $300 a bushel. Crabs are Read More »

• Saving Striped Bass (It sounds so dramatic!)

  By June, the fish will be racing through these waters on the way to coastal New England as part of their northern migration, a biological spectacle Read More »

• ‘Citizen scientists’ volunteer to count herring

  With her thumb poised on a clicker, Jeana Homola rapidly pressed down as she  counted hundreds of herring shooting through the fish ladder into Upper Mill  Pond in Read More »

• New England: The Center For Sustainable Fisheries About To Launch

  A new organization, committed to finding ways to help solve the crisis in New England’s Commercial Fishing Industry, is about ready to begin its work. The principals behind Read More »

• Red crab fishing season underway

  The Bristol Bay red king crab fishing season is underway, and the quota is almost the same as last year’s, at 9.7 million pounds. That’s down Read More »

• Alaska Delegation Asks For Consensus Among CDQ Groups

  Coastal Villages Region Fund, the state’s largest Community Development Quota group, has been asking for more fish for their fishermen. It would require Congress amending the Read More »

• Campbell River fisherman feeds fish to those less fortunate

  Joshua Duncan can’t stand seeing people go hungry when there are so many extra fish. On Saturday, Aug. 23, the Campbell River fisherman donated 500 sockeye Read More »

• Gulf oil spill’s effects still has seafood industry nervous

  Three years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the Gulf of Mexico seafood industry is still holding its breath and expecting the worst. After all, sick fish Read More »

• Mass. Governor hopeful Avellone sees new fishing, drug roles

  Responding to questions about the needs of the state’s fishing industry, Avellone identified the need for the state to work with NOAA and the federal government Read More »

• Defining our future Down East

  William Chadwick’s speech captured first place at the NCTSA conference in Greensboro April 5, 2017. His speech is about government regulations and conservation groups putting local Read More »

• DAVID G. SELLARS ON THE WATERFRONT: Too heavy to hoist

  Platypus Marine, the full-service shipyard, yacht-repair facility and steel-boat manufacturer on Marine Drive in Port Angeles, attempted to haul out Sea Mac (freshly repowered), an 87-foot Read More »

• Conservationists push to bypass or remove dams, restore alewife run in Maine

  Alewives, which grow to 11-12 inches in length, play a critical role in the marine ecosystem. They are eaten by virtually every other marine fish, mammal Read More »

• Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City helicopter crew helped fulfill the dream of a Queens boy with a life threatening illness

  Eight-year-old Colin Flood, diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia, is battling his second round of the disease after fighting it off with chemotherapy and a bone marrow Read More »

• Omega extends the Olive Branch – Meeting could lead to truce over menhaden

  Decades of animosity don’t disappear overnight. But a conversation is a good place to start. Officials from Omega Protein met with recreational charter captains Tuesday night Read More »

• NOAA ’13 report is bleakest yet – Data shows 4-year lows in landings, revenues

  The Northeast Multispecies Groundfish Fishery hit four-year lows in just about every pivotal category during the 2013 fishing season, including landings, revenues and the number of Read More »

• Maine Lawmakers ask NOAA about trouble in scallop fishing industry

  Two lawmakers from Maine want to know what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is doing to address trouble in the Atlantic scallop fishing industry. U.S. Read More »

• Warm Gulf of Alaska leads to unusual happenings, worried scientists – Fishermen used to the unusual

  “I’m really worried. I’m very concerned. Hot water, lots of nutrients, potentially harmful alga blooms, and other species we don’t even know about … this is Read More »

• NOAA backs off forced worker furloughs

  The four-day work furloughs that had been in the immediate future for the 200 employees at the Northeast regional offices of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Read More »

• Panel endorses changes to tribal elver bill, deal ‘pretty much gone,’ says tribe

  AUGUSTA, Maine — Changes that a legislative panel made Wednesday to a tentative agreement, state fisheries officials had made with the Passamaquoddy Tribe over elver fishing mean Read More »
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  Reality check – As they gear up for the season, Island fishermen receive two days of safety and survival training.

  Don’t put the injured on the raft first, they can slow down the evacuation. Don’t stow survival suits below decks. Don’t leave port without a Nerf Read More »

• Seafarers UK: Maritime industry to supply free safety devices

  SEAFISH has welcomed the news that the UK maritime industry bodies’ have pledged more than £150,000 in additional funding to provide more commercial fishermen with free Read More »

• P.E.I. and Nova Scotia: Lobster licence stacking to reduce fishery

  A new plan to allow P.E.I. and Nova Scotia fishermen to hold more than one lobster licence will reduce the number of traps in the water. Read More »

• Chaos among crew on F/V American Dynasty leading up to the collision

  An American fishing vessel ran into a docked HMCS Winnipeg in Esquimalt Harbour last spring because of a chaotic series of failures by crew and on-board Read More »
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  WPFMC asks for transparent analysis of proposed marine monument expansion

  The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council on Wednesday agreed to a resolution that asks the U.S. government to address a suite of concerns before acting Read More »

• Study: Narragansett Bay temps reached record highs, lows last year

  An oceanographer at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography said temperatures in Narragansett Bay hit record highs and lows in 2015. Jeremy Collie Read More »