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• Alaska senators hope to toss overbroad fishing-discharge regs overboard

  “The flawed regulation is written so broadly that it would penalize Alaska’s fisherman and more than 8,000 boats statewide simply for rinsing fish guts off their Read More »

• Atlantic Bluefish 2013 and 2014 Final Catch Limits Approved -New Spiny Dogfish Exemption Areas East and West of Cape Cod

  Today, NOAA/ NMFS announced approval of the final 2013 and 2014 catch limits for the Atlantic bluefish fishery. The Atlantic bluefish total allowable landings are 23.861 million Read More »

• Just now! Lobster boats drift waiting to buy bait in Gloucester harbor.

   With herring fishery in area 1A closed fresh bait and tempers are getting a little short. At least one of these boats was turned away due to Read More »

• Too many seals?

  In 1991, researchers counted six seal pups on Muskeget Island just northwest of Nantucket. In 2007 they counted 2,096. That, in a nutshell, describes the trigger for Read More »
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  Russian fish escaping into Louisiana waters? Sturgeon farming plan raises alarm

  Nutria, feral hogs and Asian carp are just a few of the foreign invaders harming Louisiana’s marshes and rivers. Now the state is entertaining the idea Read More »
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  Fishermen slap down Sturgeon over EU crusade and say she’s ignoring Brexit’s GRAND PRIZE

  Ms Sturgeon and her SNP party have consistently warned leaving the EU would be devastating for Scotland’s fishing industry, with “thousands” of jobs at risk. However, Read More »

• Study Finds Reduction in Pollution in Chesapeake Bay

  A new report says the states in the Chesapeake Bay’s watershed are making progress in reducing pollution, but fall short in preventing runoff from urban, suburban Read More »

• Indictment in BP claims scam reads like a movie

  The federal indictment of seven people accused of defrauding the BP claims process includes evidence that reads like a script from a movie. Fraud, conspiracy, dead Read More »
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  NTSB: Lack of preparation, training a factor in death of 2 on Alaska crab boat

  On December 6, 2016, the motor vessel Exito slipped below the surface of icy Dutch Harbor waters, never to be seen again. Aboard when it sank Read More »

• California Salmon forecasts favorable, despite drought uncertainty

  Predictions for a robust king salmon haul buoyed California fishermen assembled Wednesday for a preseason meeting with state and federal regulators, even if forecasts fell short Read More »

• Hundreds of pounds of Lake Erie fish left to spoil in untended nets

  A Leamington commercial fishing company and boat captain have pleaded guilty to allowing fish to spoil and have been fined a total of $3,500. Conservation officers Read More »

• Norfolk man pleads guilty in Chesapeake illegal-fishing case

  A Norfolk man has pleaded guilty to illegal-fishing charges stemming from a sting operation in a part of Deep Creek known for its trophy-sized trout. Bi Read More »
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  F/V Misty Blue: Divers will look for missing fishing boat Thursday

  The Coast Guard has suspended its search for the two fishermen who went missing after their boat sank off the coast of Nantucket, and because of Read More »

• The Surprising Side Effect of Anti-Anxiety Medication — on Salmon

  In a study out of Sweden’s Umeå University, researchers show oxazepam — a pharmaceutical prescribed to humans for the treatment of anxiety, alcohol withdrawal, and insomnia Read More »

• “Operation Icebreaker” – Chinese authorities bust huge seafood smuggling ring

  Frozen fish and crustaceans from Canada, India, Norway and Thailand were seized by Huangpu Customs in the southern port city of Guangzhou. But 21 “seafood smuggling Read More »
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  The fishing schooner Mina Swim and crew of 21 never seen again after leaving Burin a century ago

  It was a tragedy that left families devastated, and changed Burin forever, but the sinking of the Mina Swim might have been forgotten if not for the Read More »

• Oregon details its Columbia River fee expenditures

  Since 2014, Oregon has spent $2.4 million it collected from a $9.75 Columbia River Endorsement tag on largely recreational fishing enhancements and research. None went to Read More »

• West Coast fisheries to see ecosystem approach

  The Pacific Fishery Management Council is meeting in Portland this week. On Tuesday, it’s expected to adopt a new ecosystem management approach to managing  the catch Read More »

• Increasing Imports = Vanishing nets: Area shrimpers sail on despite rising costs

  No one would have predicted the demise of the Lowcountry’s most iconic industry just a few decades ago. Back then, the Gay’s dock would fill up Read More »

• Big changes in the air over little menhaden? – Hearings examine ecological value, catch allocation of forage fish species

  The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, which regulates near-shore fishing from Maine to Florida — including the Chesapeake Bay — has invited public comment on several Read More »

• Cod and costs: Lawsuit says groundfishing industry will collapse under cost of new federal mandate

  Maine fishermen would be among those hardest hit by a new federal mandate that requires groundfishing boat captains to pay for at-sea monitors, critics say. The Read More »

• Groundfish Closed Areas Proposed Reopening By Some Agency

  I got an email notice from some non existent agency they keep calling NOAA Fisheries, filled with John Bullard, NOAA Fisheries northeast regional administrator babble. Link I refer you to Read More »

• Commercial Crab Vessel Skipper Fined $15,000

  On April 10, 2017, Van Tan Le, skipper of the commercial crabbing vessel Vitamin Sea Vl, pleaded guilty to violating the Fisheries Act by harvesting Dungeness Read More »
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  Contact our sales team today @ 401 295 2585 or 800 732 273 Click here for the complete price list from Seafreeze Ltd. – We are Direct to Read More »
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  We were here first

  So this is what the future looks like in late August from the deck of a fishing vessel south of the Vineyard. This ship is doing Read More »