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• Fisheries and Oceans minister says lobster industry’s on the right track

  She bases her optimism on the way the industry has responded to the 2008-09 recession and slumping lobster prices, seeking out markets around the globe. Fall Read More »

• The Canadian Cod Crisis: “There’s millions of cod. The cod is back, and it’s killing the crab and shrimp species,”

  Liberal leadership candidate Danny Duma­resque says fishermen need to catch a lot more cod very quickly or run the risk of a fisheries collapse that will Read More »

• Feds see early signs of Pacific fishery recovery

  HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) – After one of the West Coast’s most valuable commercial fisheries was declared an economic disaster in 2000, California and other Read More »

• Florida Fisherman John L. Yates Wins Supreme Court Case, is off the hook in grouper-tossing case

  A Florida fisherman convicted of tossing undersized grouper off his boat is off the hook after a divided Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that he should not Read More »

• Bearing Sea Crab Fishermen and processors had their IFQ permits in hand by the close of business Thursday.

  Several crab fisheries in the Bering Sea are open as federal regulators were successful in getting fishermen their IFQ permits so they can drop pots. The end Read More »

• Alaska’s fishing fatalities are dropping, no matter how you mix the numbers

  The deadliest catch is getting a lot less deadly. Last week, the  reported to the North Pacific Fishery Management Council that for the first time in Read More »

• MEEK: Let’s tackle temporary Canadian workers

  Everyone frets over Canada’s temporary foreign workers. But no one talks about our problem with temporary Canadian workers. Cory Guimond knows all about the latter group. Read More »

• Trials set to begin in Alaska subsistence fishing case

  ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Sam Jackson believes a favorable trial verdict for him and other Alaska Natives cited for illegally fishing king salmon could help his people Read More »

• Sheeeit Judge! It was only 3.26 million barrels! (I think he’s lyin’)

  BP’s Macondo well spilled only 3.26 million barrels of oil during the 87 days that followed the April 20, 2010 blowout that sank the Deepwater Horizon drilling Read More »
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  Historical Society donates fishing tug to Knife River

  A historical landmark paying homage to the North Shore’s once-thriving commercial fishing industry began its journey Wednesday back to where it was built in 1939. After Read More »
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  North Carolina scallop vessel may have struck an object

  One day after a North Carolina-based scalloper nearly sank in Buzzards Bay, the boat was in safe hands at Fairhaven Shipyard and the Coast Guard was Read More »

• Contentious – Fishermen look to replace human monitors with cameras

  The relationship between the region’s fishermen and the government observers who monitor their catch has long been uneasy, and that tension has only intensified since federal Read More »

• Wrecking the Sea Bed with Offshore Wind Part 5

  Finally I would like to bring up a topic nobody is talking about although I suspect it is a topic many involved with this project are Read More »

• Dallas chefs say small portions key to enjoying escolar, dubbed ‘the Ex-Lax fish’

  The fish has gone by many names: oilfish, white tuna, super white tuna, butterfish and walu among them. But the very qualities celebrated by these names Read More »

• Unprecedented Restrictions Change Lower Yukon Fishing Culture

  An unprecedented set of new policies from Alaska’s Department of Fish and Game are changing the way Yukon commercial and subsistence fisherman have been fishing their Read More »

• Three Off Shore wind article’s regarding Mass, Long Island and Maryland

  Massachusetts Readies for First Offshore Wind Procurement in June – Massachusetts is drawing closer to its first solicitation for wind energy in state waters, with a Read More »

• A halibut issue impacts south coast fishermen

  “This is absolutely the wrong way to run a fishery,” McCurdy said. “Fish should be allocated to active enterprises, not to wheeler-dealers sitting on the wharf.” Read More »

• U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee-$64 billion disaster assistance bill-includes $150 million-Northeast groundfishery and three other states

  The bill’s impetus was relief for the superstorm Sandy disaster, but lawmakers have added a variety of other disaster relief measures, including farm drought relief. http://www.gloucestertimes.com/local/x1839366712/Some-Sandy-relief-for-fishermen Read More »

• Pew calls for ban on international trade of Pacific Bluefin

  The Pew Charitable Trusts is calling for a ban on international trade of Pacific bluefin, after what it terms as a failure to come up with Read More »

• Coast Guard medevacs fisherman 37 miles off Manasquan Inlet, NJ

  The Coast Guard medevaced a fisherman Wednesday approximately 37 miles east of Manasquan Inlet, New Jersey. Crew members from the 45-foot fishing boat Vengeance notified watch standers Read More »

• Sitka herring fishery opener turns into spectator sport! – 21/2 hour event yields just over 4,000 ton

  If sold at last year’s price, today’s catch would be worth about $2.4-million to fishermen at the docks. This year’s price, however, remains unclear. The total Read More »

• First dose of Bull Bleep today: Cape Wind: Construction has begun – (Hey Stu! Manufacturing is not constructing! Until that first mono tube is driven,,,)

  Construction has begun on the long-delayed Cape Wind project, according to a high-ranking executive with the company chosen to supply the turbines. But exactly what that Read More »

• Salazar departure leaves ‘green’ posts vacant

  With  Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s announcement Wednesday that he intends to resign, the Obama administration finds itself in exactly the same place it was four years Read More »

• Opinion: Cashes Ledge decision a victory for open government

  The decision by the Obama administration to pass on a proposal to make a large swath of the Gulf of Maine a national monument is not Read More »

• Northern Gulf of Maine State Waters Exempted Scallop Fishery Meeting Scheduled

  The Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) will take public comment on a possible state waters exempted scallop fishery in the Northern Gulf of Maine (NGOM) scallop Read More »