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• Is NOAA About to Crack? ‘Pausebuster’ study under intense scrutiny

  According to House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), who is leading a Congressional investigation into the infamous Karl et al 2015 “Pausebuster” study, NOAA whistleblowers Read More »
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  Engine failure on big scallop trawler investigated by TSB

  Canada’s Transportation Safety Board expects to complete its preliminary investigation by Tuesday into an engine failure last week on board the scallop dragger Atlantic Destiny. The TSB dispatched Read More »

• Body found after fishing boat capsizes off New Brunswick – Two still missing as of 1:15 pm eastern – Full scale search underway

  The boat, operating out of Tabusintac, issued the distress call at around 5:30 a.m. local time. Three crew were onboard. Mike Bonin of the Joint Rescue Read More »

• 2010 BP oil spill still having an impact on commercial fishing

  Commercial catches for several varieties of seafood have decreased since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries officials said. Since Read More »

• With fish stocks rebounding, Congress mulls steps to ease catch limits

  “At a time when fisheries jobs and the economic activity they create are critical to keeping our coastal communities alive, it is important that we ensure Read More »

• Gillnetters oppose WDFW initiative to raise commercial fishing license fees for residents, lower for non-residents

  Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has proposed an initiative called “Washington’s Wild Future: A Partnership for Fish and Wildlife” Among the policies, it calls for Read More »
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  Northern Shrimp lovers lining up for local catch

  Joe Jurek knew his catch would be popular. He just didn’t know how popular. Jurek, a Gloucester-based groundfisherman who specializes in yellow-tail flounder on most fishing Read More »

• Fishing industry, aviation linked in Alaska from earliest days

  After proving itself in the mid-1920s conducting surveys of Southeast Alaska, the airplane found itself unexpectedly increasingly useful to the burgeoning fishing industry in the state. Read More »

• New Mid Atlantic Council recommendation revises fluke cuts

  A memo released by the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council staff on Friday revised the earlier recommended fluke cuts downward from 43 percent to 25 percent for Read More »

• ‘Worst of all possible times’ to gut fish commission, chair says

  The three-member commission that oversees Alaska’s lucrative limited-entry commercial fisheries is urging lawmakers not to pursue proposals for elimination for at least another year. The state Commercial Fisheries Entry Read More »

• F/V Kelly Anne, High ‘n Dry at Refuge Cove – (Great photos!)

  (SitNews) Ketchikan, Alaska – In the wee hours this morning,  the F/V Kelly Anne, out of Washington, grounded on the Refuge Cove beach in the Sunset Read More »

• Starkist CEO hits back at Bumble Bee ‘buy American’ comments

  Frank Pogue, vice president of marketing and corporate affairs for Starkist, hit back at comments from Bumble Bee Foods CEO, Chris Lischewski, over rules on who can supply Read More »

• Western Aleutian Steller Sea Lions Potentially Falling Prey To Sleeper Sharks

  There has been plenty of money spent trying to figure out why the sea lion population in the Western Aleutians is not recovering. But nobody has Read More »

• Electronic Monitoring — Straight talk about New England’s fisheries, Chris Brown, Bob Dooley

  In any relationship, uncertainty and mistrust tend to circle back and magnify themselves over time. In the case of New England fishermen and federal regulators, the Read More »

• PNA Must Cut Purse-Seine Juvenile Bigeye Catches

  HONOLULU (23 November 2013) A proposal that would subject the US longline tuna fisheries to a 45 percent reduction in bigeye tuna catch is being proposed by the Parties Read More »

• Dear President Obama – Opposed to expanding Papahanaumokuakea marine monument, Isaac and Shyla Moon, Kalaheo

  A group of seven Hawaii residents (William Aila, Kamanaopono Crabbe, Isaac Harp, Kekuewa Kikiloi, Marvin Kaleo Manuel, Victoria Holt Takamine, Nainoa Thompson) recently wrote you a Read More »

• Huge ice cap on Lake Erie puts arrival of spring on hold

  The large ice cap still encrusting most of Lake Erie would cover all of Long Island, Connecticut and Rhode Island combined. It’s two feet thick in Read More »

• Moulton, reps press NOAA on monitors

  “We made it very clear that we don’t support the costs of at-sea monitoring being shifted to the fishermen,” Moulton said after the meeting. Moulton, along Read More »

• Mass Republican Candidates Sean Bielat – Daniel Botelho Site Over Regulation of Fishing Industry on Campaign Trail

  9th Congressional District race, Daniel Botelho of Fall River. Within the new 9th District, Botelho wants less regulation of the fishing  industry, including more generous catch limits. Read More »

• Learning lessons from BP oil spill-On the surface the damage seems limited, but the seabed is covered with a thick layer of gunk.

  The idea was that dispersants would dissolve the oil and that what was left would be strongly diluted in the sea water. This would cause very Read More »

• Fallen stars: Wasting disease spreading along West Coast, including Humboldt County tide pools

  Local starfish appear to be dying of a disease spreading along the West Coast that causes the invertebrates to lose their arms — and in the Read More »

• Natural News gets an A+ for integrity! – Obama now seizing ocean territory via executive orders

  (NaturalNews) President Obama’s efforts to destroy American commerce by limiting U.S. companies’ abilities to explore new sources of energy took another turn recently when the nation’s Read More »

• ‘Everything I ever had, I had to build or rebuild’

  A commercial fisherman who lives in Bay Center, Washington, Horne has built or rebuilt boats, a truck, and even the off-the-grid house he lives in with Read More »

• U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Advances Fisheries Law

  “And we’re trying to maintain the integrity of the original act by adding some smaller changes, and (among) the smaller changes are flexibility,”  (Don Young) told the Read More »

• Changes loom for Maine elver fishery – catch limits – swipe-card monitoring of elver sales – welfare fraud prevention project

  Maine’s lucrative elver fishery is facing some big changes, including smaller catch quotas and a new swipe-card monitoring system that state officials hope will help manage Read More »