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• MSA Re-Auth Roadshow: ‘Facing disaster’ is assessment of groundfish fishery

  In fact, the sense of gloom and doom following drastic cuts to fishing quotas this year is so bad that fishermen aren’t even showing up for Read More »
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  Letter: Why Richard Gillett went on a hunger strike. ” In my opinion he is a brave man,,,”

  April 13th, Richard Gillett went on a hunger strike because he felt that rural Newfoundland and Labrador was facing a bleak future due to the mismanagement Read More »

• US announces withdrawal from crucial fisheries treaty with Pacific nations

  The United States has given Pacific Island nations notice that it plans to withdraw from the South Pacific Tuna Treaty, one of its most important aid, Read More »

• News Release: Coast Guard searching for missing fisherman near Queets River, Wash. Update – search suspended

  SEATTLE — Coast Guard rescue crews are searching for a missing 56-year-old fisherman in the Pacific Ocean about eight miles west of the Queets River, Wednesday Read More »

• More than 450 Cook Inlet fishermen receive aid money

  In Cook Inlet, 454 checks were mailed — 481 eligible fishermen received applications for the payments. Another 330 checks were sent to Kuskokwim fishermen, out of Read More »

• Pregnant orca died of bacterial infection

  Cottrell said the infection likely originated with the calf before spreading to the mother. He said the calf weighed 175 kilograms, and it was too soon Read More »

• Shad Resurgence Marks a Cleaner Delaware River

  American shad were once so common that East Coast rivers were  described  as being “black” and “boiling” as tens of millions of fish  migrated  upstream each Read More »

• Harmful Red Tide to Sweep Across Southwest Florida

  Red tides can also be harmful to marine life. Reports of dead fish have already been received from Charlotte County, Fla. Read more here Related Read More »

• The Obama Administration’s Commerce Department Is Obstructing Justice. Swartwood II

  What are they afraid of? The findings, by Special Master Charles B. Swartwood III regarding NOAA’s fishing enforcement tactics, were completed in early May. They are said Read More »

• Hurricane Sandy stirs up trouble for NE fishing sector

  Hurricane Sandy did not spare New Jersey’s or New York’s fishing communities. Fishers are ready to venture out into the seas again soon, but nobody knows Read More »

• NC Fishermen: An Endangered Species

  For years, the North Carolina commercial fishermen have been bearing the brunt of attempts from outside interests to seize control of North Carolina residents’ food supply. Read More »

• BILOXI: Class of 2015 inducted into Maritime and Seafood Industry Museum’s Heritage Hall of Fame

  The number of inductees into the 2015 Maritime and Seafood Industry Museum’s Heritage Hall of Fame wasn’t as large as the first class, but you couldn’t Read More »

• Waters Warm, and Cod Catch Ebbs in Maine

  In the vast gulf that arcs from Massachusetts’s shores to Canada’s Bay of Fundy, cod was once king.,,“A fisherman’s job isn’t to get an unbiased estimate Read More »

• “Spiny” King Crab Hitting Market, Opening Commercial and Scientific Doors

  The crab is a Hanasaki king crab, otherwise known as a “spiny” king crab, and fishermen in the Bering Strait Region are harvesting it as a Read More »

• Sea Shepherd Attempts to Legitimize! Commences Recovery of Illegal Gillnet

  Yesterday, December 25, at approximately 1326 AEDT, the Sea Shepherd conservation ship, Sam Simon, located a discarded gillnet at 62° 16’ South, 081° 14’ East, inside Read More »

• The end of fish, or sustainable fishing? What’s the real status of fisheries?

  Published on Apr  7, 2013 Dr. Ray Hilborn from the University of Washington, provides some eye-opening facts about our fisheries, some of the misperceptions about fishing Read More »

• Something to crab about – Victoria Co-operative Fisheries Ltd.,

  Chronical Herald- Not that anyone else in Neils Harbour is putting on airs either, but Osborne Burke doesn’t at first have the look of a man in charge of Read More »

• Pete Tortorich Eats, Breathes and Lives Louisiana Seafood

  by Kim Hilsenbeck/Louisiana Seafood News With a 40-year career in the food industry, Pete Tortorich brings a lifetime of experience in marketing seafood to bear as Read More »
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  4R Harvesters want higher halibut quota

  Harvesters in the 4R fishing zone may be seeing plenty of halibut this year, but it’s all getting thrown back into the water. Now, they want Read More »
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  National Hurricane Center – Hurricane Jose – Hurricane Maria Public Advisory’s At 800 PM EDT

  Public Advisory At 800 PM EDT, the center of Hurricane Jose was located by an Air Force reconnaissance plane near latitude 37.5 North, longitude 71.2 West. Read More »

• Australian Maritime Safety Authority conducts crackdown on fishermen taking drugs

  The Australian Maritime Safety Authority is undertaking a major campaign across Far North Queensland targeting fishing fleets under the influence of drugs. Five men have already Read More »
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  Scientists find Bluefin tuna quick to swim away after catch and release

  Early results of a new study show catch and release has little impact on tuna. Gary Melvin, a research scientist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and a Read More »

• Farmed fish can only spare the ocean if we can swap out the fish oil that feeds it

  Fish farming gets a lot of flack, and salmon often bears the brunt of it. Much of this has to do with the fish food — namely, the Read More »

• LePage wants Maine to process own lobster, blames Legislature for stumbling blocks

  Gov. Paul LePage said he would like to see enough factories built in Maine so that all Maine lobsters that are to be processed can be handled Read More »

• Expanding monument will do more harm than good – Shane Yoshimoto, Honolulu

  I am writing regarding the proposal to expand the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument and to ban commercial fishing there. I work in Hawaii’s fishing industry, but Read More »