Recent Posts

• Coast Guard still investigating F/V Alaska Juris sinking

  It’s been four months since the F/V Alaska Juris sank in the Bering Sea, and the U.S. Coast Guard is still trying to figure out why Read More »

• Card plan for Maine’s valuable urchins draws mixed response

  Joe Leask, a diver on the Maine coast who is also the chairman of the Maine Sea Urchin Zone Council advisory board, said he’s not sure Read More »

• Scary lessons for Bristol Bay from recent B.C. mine-waste accident

  For millennia, humanity’s insatiable appetite for valuable metals has degraded the integrity of ecosystems that provide habitat for the world’s wildlife, and the clean water and Read More »

• Shutting down ‘shark finning’: US fishermen promise a fight

  American fishermen are digging in for a fight over a proposal to shut down the vestiges of the U.S. harvest of shark fins, prized for soup Read More »

• Big Three Conspire to Fix U.S. Tuna Prices, Wholesaler Says in Antitrust Class Action

  The “oligopolistic structure” of the nation’s three largest packed-seafood companies – StarKist, Bumble Bee and Tri-Union – helps them conspire to fix tuna prices, a class Read More »

• Kirk Fish Co. rides out another stone crab season in Goodland

  Goodland’s afternoon stickiness pushes through the doorway of the fish house where Patty Kirk is hand-mixing her umpteenth batch of mustard sauce. It’s May 11, a Read More »

• NOAA/NMFS Declines to List Thorny Skate as Threatened or Endangered

  In response to a petition from Defenders of Wildlife and Animal Welfare Institute to list thorny skate (Amblyraja radiata) under the Endangered Species Act, we have now determined that Read More »
• 

  North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for August 22, 2016

  Click here to read the Weekly Update, to read all the updates, Click here 16:12 Related Read More »

• Tell Your Members of Congress: Stop the Approval of GE Salmon – Food & Water Watch

  This holiday season, the FDA has disregarded the concerns of hundreds of thousands of consumers around the country by moving forward with the approval of genetically Read More »

• Omega Protein Employees and Supporters Call for Fisheries Managers To Protect Menhaden Jobs

  457 Omega Protein employees and supporters have signed a petition urging the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) to protect the jobs created by the Atlantic Read More »

• Snow crab fishery off to slow start – Harvests expected to pick up as more vessels move out of Pacific cod and bairdi tanner crab fisheries

  Harvest figures for the commercial Bering Sea snow crab indicate it’s another slow start season for this fishery, a total allocation of 6.8 million pounds notwithstanding. Read More »

• FISHY BUSINESS: There are plenty of fish in the sea

  “The ocean has been over-fished, there are only a few more years of fish out there; and then they will all be gone.” “There simply are Read More »

• Alaska fisheries thrive — yet industry is on the edge

  It has been a really good year across most of Alaska’s commercial fisheries. Salmon prices are up, harvests are good, fuel costs are down, and there’s Read More »
• 

  Northern Shrimp – If shrimp fishery reopens, Maine to get lion’s share

  The Gulf of Maine, closed since 2014 to shrimp fishermen, will operate under strict state allocations when and if it ever reopens to shrimping. The Atlantic Read More »

• New lead biologist for lobster monitoring program, to oversee management of scallop, urchin, shrimp and large whale research

  Kathleen Reardon has coordinated the state Department of Marine Resources’ lobster monitoring programs for the past 10 years.  Reardon will direct and coordinate a comprehensive lobster Read More »
• 

  Brexit vanguard abandoned by Theresa May: UK fishermen cut adrift by political elite

  During the 2016 EU referendum, fishing quotas briefly became a major talking point in UK politics. Prominent Leave campaigners used the restrictive quotas to demonstrate the Read More »

• Alaska Delegation Fillets GM Salmon Report – Begich said. “I will fight tooth and nail,,,,,,,”

  ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska’s congressional delegation was united in its opposition Friday to a draft report from the federal Food and Drug Administration saying that the Read More »

• Canadian government announces funding to improve commercial fishing safety

  The Canadian government has announced a new Commercial Fishing Safety component of the Government of Canada’s Boating Safety Contribution Program. Under this new component, up to Read More »

• Fishermen say camera requirement invades privacy

  The cameras do a job on-boat observers have usually performed, allowing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to cover more ground by providing fleet-wide coverage. A Read More »
• 

  Meghan Lapp’s response to Oceana Gib Brogan’s NY Times Article “A Knockout Blow for Fish Stocks”

  Unfortunately for NY Times readers, this article is full of false and misleading information. It has caused quite a stir not based on fact, but based Read More »

• Oceana blame’s sardine overfishing, not just warmer waters, for sea lion deaths.

  But marine conservation nonprofit Oceana, which has a California office in Monterey’s Heritage Harbor, connects another dot to the scarcity of sea lion food: sardine fishing. Read More »

• Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission sinks Connecticut lobster industry

  “We have been beaten to death around the clock,” said Frate at his seafood store on Darien’s Post Road last week. Since the die-off that began in Read More »

• Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update JANUARY 6, 2013

  “  The Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance is dedicated to its mission of continuing to help create sustainable fisheries without putting licensed fishermen out of business.” Weekly Read More »

• Spanish fish barons admit taking illegal catches in UK waters

  Two companies run by Spanish fishing tycoons are set to receive one of the largest ever fines for illegal fishing – expected to be more than Read More »

• David Morgan, heroic deckhand in deadly 1986 Bodega Bay shipwreck, dies at 62

  Nine people out for a day of ocean fishing perished in the sudden tragedy that struck the Merry Jane party boat just outside of Bodega Harbor Read More »