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• US Coast Guard convenes Marine Board of Investigation into loss of F/V Destination

  WASHINGTON- The U.S. Coast Guard has convened a Marine Board of Investigation into the loss of F/V Destination and its six crewmembers. A Marine Board of Read More »
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  Commercial ice fishermen in Rice County Minnesota remove carp by the truckload

  February fishing in Faribault is nothing new. Ice fishing houses routinely dot Rice County’s lakes in this frigid month as intrepid outdoorsmen continue their Minnesotan search Read More »

• Virginia: Some area marinas collecting increased bushel fees from oyster harvesters as baywide delicacy rebounds

  On a cloudy muggy morning along the shores of Deep Creek in Newport News’ Menchville area, third generation marina operator Lonnell Perok-Coffen carries on the business Read More »

• Bad Actor Making Hoax Distress Calls Gets Vinalhaven Island Man a Year in Prison

  A 23-year-old Vinalhaven man will spend a year in federal prison for making fake distress calls last year that prompted a wide-ranging Coast Guard search.Owen R. Read More »

• Video footage of shark strapped to car in Perth goes viral

  A Perth motorist has been filmed driving with a shark strapped to the front of their 4WD in Safety Bay near Rockingham, with the video proving Read More »

• Shall we eat tigers? This is how it would work – we would breed tigers in captivity, thousands of them.

  Then we would go into the jungle with big drag nets and catch every animal we could find as feed for the tigers. Some of these Read More »
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  Amendments to the NAFO Convention to come in to force today

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA, 18 MAY 2017- Significant amendments to the Convention establishing the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO), that were agreed in Read More »

• Coast Guard crew seizes lancha, 297 illegally caught fish, and detained Los Cuatro Ladrones de Pescado

  20:37:41CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Crewmembers of the Coast Guard Cutter Brant seized a lancha and detained Mexican nationals caught illegally fishing in U.S. waters, Wednesday, in the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone. Read More »

• Alaska: Strong forecasts, busy regulatory year ahead for fisheries

  The coming year should prove a lucrative year for , even in the face of the doom and gloom surrounding the chinook salmon declines and a Read More »

• ‘Sea Level Research’ Is Seismic Ruse for Oil Exploration – Neal Roberts, Lanoka Harbor, N.J.

  I read with interest last autumn when a retired Princeton University professor emeritus wrote a letter to the editor defending the Rutgers University seismic testing proposed for the ocean Read More »

• Clearwater Seafoods Launches New Argentine Scallop Harvesting Vessel

  Clearwater Seafoods and Glaciar Pesquera S.A. announced that they have recently added a newly designed, state-of-the-art factory vessel to their Argentine scallop fleet, replacing and retiring Read More »

• Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council meeting in Baltimore, Maryland: December 12-15, 2016

  The public is invited to attend the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council’s December 2016 meeting to be held December 12-15, 2016 in Baltimore, Maryland. The meeting will Read More »

• Cold weather, low prices hurt lucrative elver market

  Baby eels, called elvers, are Maine’s second most-valuable fishery after lobsters. The volume and value of the state’s elver fishery have boomed in recent years, with Read More »

• Enviro group Oceana pushing for gillnetting reforms

  Oceana, the ocean conservationist that labeled the Northeast multispecies groundfish fishery as one of the nation’s nine most wasteful fisheries, is pushing for reform of gillnet Read More »

• National Fisheries Institute bristles at comments by Canada’s fisheries minister

  An American seafood industry association is disputing statements by Canada’s fisheries minister that Canadian producers need to “raise their game” in order to meet new traceability Read More »

• Texas Shrimpboat captain found with illegal lobster tails

  The operator of a Texas-based shrimp boat has been arrested after Lee County deputies searched the boat and found undersized lobster tails and fish. 45-year-old Francisco Read More »

• New Brunswick: On the cutting edge! Transfering genes from one species into those of another, the Zebrafish.

  The researchers at the University of New Brunswick  added genes to zebrafish — small fish that reproduce quickly and have transparent skin during their embryonic stage — Read More »

• New lobster processor in Gouldsboro to hire 160, start this summer

  GOULDSBORO, Maine — Once again, there are signs that the former Stinson Seafood sardine cannery in the village of Prospect Harbor is coming back to life. Read More »

• Washington State Bill would allow counties to ban fish farming

  OLYMPIA — A bill sponsored by a Sequim Democrat in the state House would allow counties to ban net pen aquaculture. The one-page bill, filed Thursday by Read More »

• 3 fishermen in Miramichi Bay hoisted to safety by Cormorant

  Three fishermen were rescued early Monday after their vessel ran aground in Miramichi Bay near Neguac. The crew sent a mayday call at about 10:30 p.m. Read More »

• East Hampton Fisheries Committee Pushes For Economic Study Of Local Fishing Industry

  Cornell Cooperative Extension and the East Hampton Fisheries Committee are looking for money to study how much the fishing industry contributes to the local economy. The Read More »

• Discard ban delayed

  Fishing leaders are high about cod and haddock quotas being set to rise significantly. They are also relieved a plan to introduce a discard ban on Read More »
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  Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 230ft. Steel Freezer Trawler, 4896HP, 12 Cylinder Wartsila 12V28B

  Specifications, information and photo’s and videos click here  (click the square on blue header for menu, here ) To see all the boats in this series, Click here 12:42 Related Read More »

• Maine joins Alaska in quest for Arctic influence

  The move to start calling in the ice-free port of Portland twice a month builds upon Eimskip’s recent opening of services to northern Norway. The company’s Read More »
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  “Gloucester: When the Fish Came First.” New coffee-table photo book captures legacy of the Gloucester fisherman

  “I wanted to get to know the place so I picked up 35-millimeter cameras,” Nubar Alexanian recalled. “I wanted to find one of the most successful Read More »