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• It’s not every day scientists discover a new ocean current.

  Well, in 2004, two Icelandic researchers announced that they’d found what they thought was a whole new ocean current flowing south through the Denmark Strait, off Read More »
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  NOAA says Haddock flourish, while cod stocks dwindle

  The groundfish stock updates released this week by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reflect what the agency says is the continuing deterioration of the Gulf of Maine Read More »

• Fallout follows after New England plan for protecting herring is shelved after much ado

  (AP) — A plan to protect the important Atlantic herring from what many believe is its biggest threat has been shelved indefinitely after years of work Read More »
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  A Moray Aviation group fundraising event will reunite Skipper with Rescuers of daring 1988 mission

  A Moray aviation group will stage a reunion between a north-east skipper and the rescue heroes who saved him from stormy seas. Volunteers from the Morayvia Read More »
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  Members of Alaska crab industry are holding out hope for high prices and a late fishery.

  The Alaska Board of Fisheries hasn’t yet decided whether to review harvest guidelines for Eastern Bering Sea Tanner crab and potentially open the season in January Read More »

• Great White Sharks Are Back – Has a marine mammal conservation program become too successful?

  Gordon Waring, a seal specialist at the NOAA, cautions that marine biologists don’t actually know how seals interact with fisheries, and so far there is no sign that Read More »
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  North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for July 28, 2017

  Click here to read the Weekly Update, to read all the updates, Click here  16:41 Related Read More »

• Department of Fisheries and Oceans: Northern cod biomass at highest rate since 1992

  The Atlantic cod stocks are returning, but there’s still a long way to go before a large-scale commercial fishery becomes viable again. That’s the finding of new Read More »

• How the Trans-Pacific Partnership would benefit Washington’s seafood industry

  Existing tariffs — some as high as 20 percent in some TPP countries — are a big hurdle when we export, making it difficult to offer Read More »

• Make way for herring

  HARWICH — In the next two weeks, the herring will start their annual run from Nantucket Sound to Hinckleys Pond. But before this annual rite of Read More »

• The Scots Bay Wharf takes a whacking

   The Scots Bay wharf took a serious pummelling during post-tropical storm Arthur. Waves generated by gale-force winds ripped out the midsection of the wharf near Cape Read More »

• Jim Talbot left ‘huge legacy’ in Bellingham, but his biggest deal was with Soviets

  A prominent Seattle resident who had a profound impact on the Bellingham community is also being remembered for his role in the regional commercial fishing industry. Read More »

• NJ BPU Does it’s part to keep junk out of the ocean – again rejects pilot wind farm off Jersey coast

  The state on Friday again rejected a pilot wind farm project off the New Jersey coast, arguing that the company’s financial plan is unsound and would Read More »

• Baker: Why FFAW head Keith Sullivan will be tested early, and often

  It was a result that was never much in doubt, but one that raises a few interesting questions nonetheless. In what was essentially a coronation, Keith Read More »

• Waldoboro Selectman Emphasizes Importance of Jobs, Commercial Fishing Industry in Run for House

  Waldoboro selectman is hoping to parlay his time at the municipal level of government into a role in the Maine State Legislature. Abden Simmons, R-Waldoboro, is Read More »

• Louisiana: Shrimp season starts slowly in local waters

  Fall shrimp season has gotten off to a slow start in area waters, fishermen and wholesalers say. The season opened at 6 Monday morning in Louisiana’s Read More »

• Virginian-Pilot Editorial: Real risks to Virginia coast

  The April 2010 blowout at BP’s Macondo well gushed for 87 days, a total of 4.9 million barrels of oil, coating beaches from Louisiana to Florida. Read More »

• Locals reflect on dying industry as Sound closes to fall lobster harvesting

  A third-generation lobsterman, Matt DeMaula has patrolled Long Island Sound alongside his father and uncles for more than two decades. When he thinks back to his early Read More »

• Public Meetings, Public Hearings, Amendment 28 – Red Snapper Allocation-March 10 through March 24, Various Locations

  All public hearings begin at 6:00 p.m. local time and end no later than 9:00 p.m. March 10 Orange Beach, AL, March 11 Mobile, AL, For Read More »

• Coast Guard medevacs female from the 109-foot F/V Tuxedni near Sitka, Alaska

  The Jayhawk crew rendezvoused with the Tuxedni in Tebenkof Bay, 67 miles southeast of Sitka, hoisted the woman aboard and flew her to Sitka where she was Read More »

• The Toxic Legacy Of California’s Gold Rush

  The Gold Rush of the 1800s may seem a distant historical phenomenon at this point, but its effects are still being felt in California. According to Read More »

• Fishing industry hails court decision to open West Coast of Vancouver Island herring fishery

   “The right decision for the right reasons,” says BC Seafood Alliance Executive Director Christina Burridge of Mr. Justice Manson’s decision on 27 February 2015 to dismiss Read More »

• NEFMC proposal would limit access to hake fishery – concerns “over unrestrained increases in fishing effort”

  The New England Fishery Management Council is hosting a public meeting tonight in Gloucester as an initial step in possibly drafting an amendment that would modify Read More »

• Possible World Record breaker for longest lobster roll at the P.E.I. Shellfish Festival

  At 79-feet and one-inch long, organizers felt the sandwich was big enough to earn the Guinness world record. The sandwich was prepared by Charlottetown chef Ross Read More »

• Shell approval for oil drilling off Nova Scotia raises alarms in fishing industry

  The approval from the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board to allow Shell Canada to drill two oil wells on the edge of the Scotian Shelf is Read More »