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• Why Does the ‘Calamari Capital’ Import the Frozen Stuff from China When Buying Local Supports the Economy?

  Globalization has hit Rhode Island hard. Those manufacturing jobs that allowed my immigrant parents and generations of other Rhode Islanders the opportunity to raise their families Read More »

• Baby Salmon being devoured by predators – We’re spending millions to feed the fish!

  It’s a quiet, damp Friday at the Feather River Fish Hatchery and not much is happening above the surface. The buildings where they spawn the adult Read More »

• Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council Meeting October 20 – 24, 2014 in Mobile, Alabama

  Click here to view the Committees Agenda – Click here to view the Council Agenda – Click here to watch the meetings live 14:43 Related Read More »

• Maryland’s DNR chief won’t say why he fired longtime manager of crab program

  Maryland’s Department of Natural Resources Secretary Mark J. Belton on Monday offered lawmakers no explanation for why he fired the longtime manager of the state’s crab Read More »

• MSC Introduces New Bilingual Ecolabel for Canadian Market

  CANADA – The Marine Stewardship Council has launched a new, bilingual French-English ecolabel in response to requests from MSC partners in Canada who want to further Read More »

• N.C. Wildlife Federation’s Sound Solutions Campaign targets gear

  The federation, a statewide conservation organization advocating for the state’s wildlife and habitat, held a press conference Tuesday at the Crystal Coast Civic Center, releasing what Read More »

• Skyrocketing shrimp prices put squeeze on restaurants, stores

  The price of shrimp has skyrocketed in the last four years, with the price for the largest shrimp increasing from $6.40 per pound in 2010 to Read More »
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  Alaska Seafood processors relying more heavily on U.S. workers this year

  Seafood employers need to fill many seasonal jobs every salmon season. In general, that process remains the same year to year. Nelson San Juan is the Read More »

• Coast Guard to present award to fishing vessel captain, crew

  The media is invited to an award ceremony at Coast Guard Sector San Diego, Thursday, where the Coast Guard is scheduled to recognize a Point Loma Read More »

• Rubio’s red snapper red herring

  I see by the paper that Sen. Marco Rubio is getting into the political swim again. And once again he shows how unqualified he is for Read More »

• Saving Seafood Analysis: Sylvia Earle Alliance Misleads Public on Habitat Closed Area Changes

  WASHINGTON (Saving Seafood) March 18, 2013 – After nearly 20 years, there is little evidence that the habitat area closures off the New England coast benefit Read More »

• Magnuson-Stevens Act – National Standards 1, 3, 7 – Proposed Revisions

  Today, a proposed rule to revise guidelines for National Standards 1, 3, and 7 was filed in the Federal Register. National Standards 1, 3, and 7 Read More »

• Fukushima radiation on B.C. coast measured by crowdfunding – Scientists from Woods Hole recruiting ‘citizen scientists’ to collect data

  People along B.C.’s coast are being asked to step in where governments in Canada and the U.S. have not — to measure radiation from Japan’s crippled Fukushima Read More »

• Fish-stealing whales take bite out of black-cod harvest

  How do you keep a whale from grabbing the fish off your lines? Do you put out decoy buoys to try to trick them? Do you Read More »

• Good catch: Fishermen clean ocean of lost crabbing gear

  “The most exciting thing about this project is that the fishermen themselves are taking the lead,” said Kirsten Gilardi, director of the California Lost Fishing Gear Read More »

• Two letters from Salvatore Novello, Gloucester, Mass

  NOAA HAS TO CHANGE THEIR WAYS AS OUR OCEANS ARE CHANGING!!!, and IN PUT, AS A STAKE HOLDER, IN GULF OF MAINE FISHERIES. Read the letters Read More »

• Joe’s Lobster Mart owner fights state over seafood license

  The health department action came after Vaudo, 63, pleaded guilty in March to receiving stolen property, willfully misleading police during an investigation and failure or refusal Read More »

• Environmentalists say fishery change threatens leatherbacks

  The change could open up a swordfish fishery south of Point Sur for all or part of a prohibited fishing season, when giant leatherbacks arrive from Read More »

• Vintage San Francisco: Dungeness crab seasons

  As a cloud hangs over the upcoming Dungeness crab season, let’s take a look back at happier days on the wharf. Commercial fishing in San Francisco Read More »
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  Report: $1.2 billion of output from Southcentral fishing

  Seafood employs more people in Southcentral than mining in the entire state, pays out more in Anchorage than construction, and has enough management and logistics infrastructure Read More »

• Reducing pelagic longline fisheries by catch – Fishery research: A squid that a shark won’t eat

  A New Jersey native is working on a shark repellant that will reduce the by-catch of sharks and rays in the . It’s called SuperPolyShark and Read More »
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  Foreign ownership of British fishing fleet investigated

  Foreign ownership of the British fishing fleet is being investigated by a government agency, ITV News has learned. There has long been a loophole that allows Read More »

• Oakland couple fined, sentenced to jail for poaching dozens of Dungeness crabs in Half Moon Bay

  A pair of poachers was sentenced to jail time and fined more than $20,000 Wednesday for smuggling dozens of Dungeness crabs in hidden compartments on their Read More »
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  Quake-struck communities still cut off

  Some quake-stricken settlements along the closed section of State Highway 1 are beginning their third day without water, power or a route out. Ward, with a Read More »

• Rep Bill Cassidy and Sen. David Vitter – H.R. 1430, the Offshore Fairness Act of 2013.

  This legislation will give states in the Gulf of Mexico and the south Atlantic the option to expand their offshore jurisdiction up to 10 miles off Read More »