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• Voracious protected seals starting to overrun waters off New England

  But what is the cost? Nils Stolpe, a Florida-based fishing industry journalist and advocate, calculated that since each seal consumed 5 percent of its body weight Read More »

• Enough IS Enough! FV Midnight Sun Closed area call

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• Salazar departure leaves ‘green’ posts vacant

  With  Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s announcement Wednesday that he intends to resign, the Obama administration finds itself in exactly the same place it was four years Read More »

• Alaska fishermen lobby Navy to delay training exercises scheduled for May

  The required permits are not yet in hand but the U.S. Navy is moving ahead on plans to conduct war training exercises in the Gulf of 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 »
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  Ocean In Focus 2012 Fifth Annual Conservation Photography Contest (WORLDWIDE, 10/3/2012) (Photo Credit: Steve Spring, Reef Rescue Palm Beach County/Marine Photobank)

  SeaWeb’s Marine Photobank (MPB) and Lindblad Expeditions are teaming up once again to deliver a truly unique ocean photography contest highlighting photographers who dig deeper for the Read More »

• The wave of Ocean Industrialization is building – NOAA IS BENT ON AQUACULTURE: or With friends like this….

  The wave of Ocean Industrialization is building. Wind mill farms that grow nothing, Open Ocean Aquaculture, Tidal Generation (which makes sense), and Ocean Mining. It appears to Read More »

• Petit-de-Grat murder suspect released on $60K bail – Dwayne Matthew Samson charged with 2nd-degree murder in Phillip Boudreau death

  Dwayne Matthew Samson, 43, appeared in Port Hawkesbury court on Tuesday. He was released on $60,000 bail — $10,000 cash and a $50,000 surety. [email protected] Related Read More »

• Geoduck quota within reach for Lower Elwha Klallam tribe despite China’s ban

  PORT ANGELES — The Lower Elwha Klallam tribe expects to meet its geoduck quota despite an indefinite Chinese ban on shellfish imports from Northern California to Read More »

• Coast Guard crew frees second fishing boat in two days from ice near Woods Hole

  A Coast Guard crew responded to a fishing vessel trapped in ice in Woods Hole Passage, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Saturday. This is the second case in two Read More »

• GDT Editorial: State investment in city’s waterfront

  OK, it will only add two berths for boats roughly 50 feet in length. And yes, a project cost of $100,000 is a zero or two Read More »

• 3MMI – El Nino Strikes Again: California Squid Fishery Dries Up

  Published on Oct 19, 2015, 3-Minute Market Insight:  Pacific Loligo Squid have been dramatically impacted by the warm water effects of El Nino. The Loligo fishery Read More »

• Habitat debate intensifies ahead of NEFMC vote; Many ask, “Do closures even work?”

  WASHINGTON (Saving Seafood) — December 16, 2013 — Georges Bank is home to some of the most important fishing grounds in New England. But large portions Read More »

• DFO scientist amazed by ‘extreme’ ocean temperatures

  A federal scientist based in Nova Scotia says ocean temperatures off the East Coast of Canada were about two to four degrees above normal in 2012, Read More »

• Northeast Fisheries Science Center say’s key fishing area for Atlantic cod in dire shape

  New data from the says research boats caught less of the fish this past spring than in all but one spring season dating back to 1968. Read More »

• Get On Board with #CatchOfTheDay!

  Members of the UK fishing industry are being encouraged to get on board with a forthcoming campaign designed to champion the diversity and sustainability of many Read More »

• RI Fishing Industry Faces Extinction under Federal Regulations

  It’s hard to image an Ocean State without a commercial fishing industry, but one local business owner warns it could happen. Increasingly restrictive federal regulations have Read More »

• Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell proposes king salmon research

  Alaska Gov. Sean Parnellsays he will propose $30 million over five years to study king salmon abundance. Parnell says the first installment will be $10 million Read More »

• Russians planning major Caribbean oil study

  The Russian government last month publicly expressed an interest in Caribbean oil and natural gas exploration, including off the coasts of nations near South Florida. [email protected]:54 Read More »

• Could marina project turn back the clock for New Smyrna?

  NEW SMYRNA BEACH — Several decades ago, crowds would flock to the banks of  to see fishermen offload their day’s bounty — boxes, sometimes hundreds of them, teeming Read More »

• Feds Quintuple Allowed Catch on Endangered Salmon Species

  Fisheries and Oceans Canada is allowing commercial fishermen to catch five times as many endangered coho salmon in anticipation of this year’s massive sockeye run on Read More »
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  Coast Guard saves 2 lobstermen from sinking vessel off the coast of Maine

  The Coast Guard rescued two people off their sinking vessel Friday, about 17 miles off shore from York, Maine. At around 3:15 p.m., Coast Guard Sector Read More »

• Provincial investment ‘absolutely necessary’ for massive Placentia Bay $230-million aquaculture project

  The companies behind a massive aquaculture project proposed for say government investment is “absolutely necessary,” but Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister Steve Crocker says the province will not Read More »

• NMFS Caves to the Enviro Quackeroos on Right Whale federally designated “critical habitat” under the Endangered Species Act

  In 2009, a coalition of environmental and animal protection groups formally petitioned the National Marine Fisheries Service to significantly expand habitat protections to include all of Read More »

• AK salmon permit values slump on forecast of lower fish prices

  2014 was one of the busiest years ever for brokers who help Alaskans buy, sell and trade fishing permits and quota shares. Olivia Olsen runs Alaskan Read More »