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• Baytown, Texas – Coast Guard: 3 rescued, 1 missing from Texas shrimp boat

  The U.S. Coast Guard says three crew members have been rescued from an overturned shrimp boat and it will resume a search for a missing man. Read More »

• New program to help Louisiana shrimpers upgrade or purchase equipment.

  The shrimp refrigeration cost-share program provides eligible shrimp-vessel owners, docks and processors half the cost of refrigeration equipment for their businesses. Read [email protected] 12:15 Related Read More »

• Marine Protected Area Science Co-Chair Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement Charge by Dan Bacher

  Ron LeValley of Mad River Biologists, the former co-chair of the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative Science Advisory Team to create alleged marine protected areas Read More »

• Trump asked to remove all marine monument fishing prohibitions established by the past two administrations

  The request is from the chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, Congressman Rob Bishop, and American Samoa’s Congresswoman Aumua Amata. The letter says prohibitions Read More »

• Rep. Bradley Byrne argues for new red snapper rules in face of Obama veto threat

  Even as members of the U.S. House began debate on changes to the act that regulates the nation’s fisheries, the Obama administration indicated that the president Read More »

• Wabash River commercial fisherman arrested – harvesting shovelnose sturgeon from the Wabash River and selling the sturgeon eggs

  Illinois conservation police officers arrested Aaron Taylor, 34, at his home Thursday in Darwin, Ill., located on the Wabash River. The investigation revealed that Taylor had Read More »

• Are slaves catching the fish you buy?

  The Burmese slaves sat on the floor and stared through the rusty bars of their locked cage, hidden on a tiny tropical island thousands of miles Read More »

• Updates for upcoming halibut commission meeting – tension mounts

  The stage is set for some tension when halibut managers and stakeholders gather later this month in Vancouver.  Only one catch limit comment was submitted by Read More »

• Warming Waters Could Shift Salmon, Other Species on West Coast

  Fights over salmon have raged for decades in the Pacific Northwest. Overfishing in the late 19th century, the proliferation of dams in Oregon and Washington in Read More »

• American Samoa: Sea cucumber off limits for 6 months

  Governor Lolo has signed an executive order placing a ban on the removal of sea cucumbers from local waters. The worm-like and usually soft-bodied echinoderms keep Read More »

• Southwestern Maine likely to see further restrictions on scallop season

  WISCASSET, Maine — The Department of Marine Resources on Wednesday took no action to further restrict scallop fishing from the New Hampshire border to Penobscot Bay, Read More »

• Simple greed shut down cannery: Nobels

  The Skeena Queen Charlotte Regional District is demanding a higher stake in the region’s salmon resources, calling for a return to abandoned policies that protected communities Read More »

• California pearls.Turns out the Golden State accounts for the vast majority of the U.S. sturgeon and caviar production.

  ELVERTA, Calif. – With your flute of French Champagne this weekend, how about a little caviar on toast from California?,,,To the surprise of many would-be gourmands, Read More »

• PEI, NB fishermen demanding better prices – They argue questions require an immediate response:

  The Sou’Wester – While they have been locked in a word of words for the last several months over carapace size, lobster fishermen in PEI and Read More »

• Resolution in support of Exxon Valdez “Reopener for Unknown Injury”

  On Friday, the council’s board of directors unanimously passed a resolution in support of the “Reopener for Unknown Injury” from the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Multiple citizens Read More »

• Yukon River king salmon run called “dismal”

  As of Tuesday, only about 20,000 kings had been counted past a sonar located 16 miles from the Canadian border near Eagle. The Pacific Salmon Treaty Read More »

• ‘The fish aren’t there’? Industry isn’t buying it

  But the fishing community continues to disbelieve the National Marine Fisheries Service when it says, in the voice of John Bullard, “The fish aren’t there.” The Read More »

• The United Fishermen of Alaska has updated their “Community Fishing Fact Sheets”

  The fact sheets cover specific areas that are generally either municipalities or census areas. The updated community fact sheets cover 27 area of Alaska and something Read More »

• Scallop & Fishing Industry, Municipalities, Sue Feds to Ensure Seafood Interests Are Considered in NY Bight Wind Energy Project

  The Fisheries Survival Fund (FSF), which represents the majority of the limited access Atlantic scallop fleet, is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking a preliminary Read More »

• AUDIO: Dr. Kevin Stokesbury Discusses Alternative Survey Techniques for Stock Assessments at the MSA Reauthorization Oversight Committee Hearing

  (We are so lucky to have this guy.) “To me the way forward is to get out there, and work with the fishermen measuring what’s going Read More »

• Using more scallop parts could create new industry

  A few years ago Point Judith scallop captain Michael Marchetti had a conversation with Peg Parker, the executive director of the Rhode Island-based Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation. Read More »

• Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 45′ Fiberglass Scallop/Gillnetter/Lobster, 6 Cylinder John Deere 6081 Diesel

  Specifications, information and 8 photo’s click here  To see all the boats in this series, Click here 11:39 Related Read More »

• Research shows dogfish are a significant threat to cod

  February 7, 2013 — Dogfish provide significant competition for cod.   The estimated biomass of dogfish is 240,000 tons vs. only around 23,000 tons for both Georges Read More »

• High Liner sets record with $1b in sales

  High Liner Foods says its annual sales surpassed the $1-billion mark for the first time ever in 2014 as two recent acquisitions offset the negative effect Read More »

• Gloucester lands $75K state fishing grant – New Bedford the same for (drum roll,,,,) Another study!

  The funds became available after Tarr and Sen. Mark C. Montigny successfully worked to insert an amendment into the state budget. That amendment authorized $150,000 in state Read More »