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  On Friday, the commercial fishery won the day – Gillnetters get continued access to main Columbia channel

  By a tight 4-3 vote, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Commission veered away from an outright ban on gillnetting in the main channel of Read More »

• MSA Re-Auth Roadshow: Testimony of Prof. Kevin Stokesbury to Congressional panel about cooperative fisheries research

  This written testimony by Dr. Kevin Stokesbury should be read, and forwarded to every Congressman and Senator as proof of the way forward in fishery management and Read More »

• Commercial driftnet opening set for Saturday in upper Cook Inlet – 7 a.m. and go through 7 p.m. Saturday

  Commercial driftnet fishermen — but not setnet fishermen — will get a chance Saturday to target Cook Inlet sockeyes, state fishery managers announced Friday evening. Read more here 09:05 Related Read More »

• Civil penalities from NOAA could be next for Carlos Rafael

  Judge William Young’s judgment filed Wednesday appeared to be the finish line to Carlos Rafael’s case. Young, though, by ordering the forfeiture of four vessels and Read More »

• Andrzejczak & Land Aquaculture Bill Heads to New Jersey Governor’s Desk

  Legislation Assemblymen Bob Andrzejczak and Bruce Land sponsored to promote aquaculture in New Jersey recently gained final legislative approval in the Senate. The bill now heads Read More »

• Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 42′ Duffy Lobster/Scalloper – 500HP Lugger L6125-A Diesel

  Specifications, information, and 14 photo’s click here To see all the boats in this series, Click here 20:07 Related Read More »

• Fish stocks for sale – Maurice Adams, Paradise

  With the respect to John Gillett’s recent letter (“Fishermen never wanted a big brother”), let me say that with the amendment to the NAFO agreement a Read More »

• Operation Sea Lion disperses sea lions, for now

  The borough’s war against aggressive marine wildlife dubbed “Operation Sea Lion” has been successful in keeping the animals off the floats and away from people. It’s Read More »

• Cool weather delays Louisiana inshore shrimp season

  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — This has been the second-coldest spring in the last century, and as a result, brown shrimp have grown more slowly than the Read More »
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  Fish feud: ITQ’s – Will changes to the West Coast salmon industry hurt or help independent fishermen?

  The B.C. salmon fishery keeps resisting a market-based management system. Critics accuse the feds of pitting independent fishermen against corporate giants, but what if this new approach Read More »

• WHITE SHARKS HEADED FOR CALIFORNIA ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST (if it’s the last thing they do, they will stop fishing)

  The California Department of Fish and Game will recommend that the Northeast Pacific population of white sharks be listed as a threatened or endangered species under Read More »

• Cap’n Oscar sinks again

  The Cap’n Oscar sunk — again. The Port of Astoria’s 69-foot steel fishing vessel, the Cap’n Oscar, sank up to its pilothouse next to Pier 2 Read More »

• Liberals to reopen Maritime Rescue Sub-centre in St. John’s

  New federal Fisheries Minister Hunter Tootoo and the Liberal government will reopen the Maritime Rescue Sub-centre in St. John’s. The Nunavut MP signed the mandate given to him by new Read More »

• Concerned in British Columbia: Is salmon food being threatened?

  Harvesting of — could have unintended consequences for local marine life. Of particular concern, she said, is the sand lance, a small, slim fish that she Read More »
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  Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 65′ Fiberglass Longliner with Permits, Cummins 855TA, 40 KW Genset

  Specifications, information and 35 photo’s click here Swordfish Directed, Shark Directed, Atlantic Tuna Longline permits. Price Reduced.  To see all the boats in this series, Click Read More »

• Butterfish: In search of a lost market

  From the late 1970s through the ’80s, the small, silver-colored butterfish was a high-flying commodity in Japan. Millions upon millions of pounds were bought and sold, Read More »

• Straight out of Frelard: Leaner, greener fishing boat engines

  Erling Skaar started worrying about the way fishing boats burn dinosaur juice in 1973, when the Arab oil embargo drove prices up and supplies down. This choked off Read More »

• NOAA – Dolphin deaths an “Unusual Mortality Event” in the Mid-Atlantic

  Under the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 (as amended), an Unusual Mortality Event (UME) has been declared for bottlenose dolphins in the Mid-Atlantic region from early July 2013 through the present. Read More »

• Four men arrested on elver charges in two incidents

  Two men, a father and a son from Massachusetts, are facing criminal charges after Maine Marine Patrol officers found them with 31 pounds of elvers in Read More »
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  UPDATED: Vessel Safe in Yarmouth Harbor – Pump dropped to fishing boat taking on water off Yarmouth

  A Hercules aircraft has dropped a pump to a 13-metre fishing vessel taking on water off Yarmouth, N.S., and the situation is “stable,” according to the military’s Read More »

• Jackie Odell, Northeast Seafood Coalition @ “Managing our Nation’s Fisheries” conference – timelines should be replaced with fishing mortality rate-based strategies,

  Odell Wednesday offered an alternative to 10-year, or any rebuilding timelines. They “should be replaced with fishing mortality rate-based strategies, which on average over the long Read More »

• NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center Scientists link oil exposure to reduced survival of fish

  Federal scientists may have found a link between the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill and a decline of herring and pink salmon populations in Prince William Read More »

• Three Spend Hours Treading Water After Boat Sinks Off La Jolla – Plucked from the sea by F/V New Sea Forth

  la jolla patch – A man and two teenage boys were hospitalized after being recovered by a commercial fishing vessel more than three hours after their Read More »

• When enviro bloggers go koo koo

  The saddest untold story in the environmental movement is the demise of the world’s oceans. We are literally eating it to death. Fish stocks are collapsing Read More »

• Fishing-industry groups blast Inslee over his picks for federal council

  Gov. Jay Inslee’s handling of nominations for a federal fishery-council seat has come under attack from the leaders of major North Pacific fishing-industry groups, which have Read More »