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• Brookings gets innovative seafood processing plant

  BC Fisheries owner Mike Manning cut the ribbon Aug. 19 on a $9.6 million seafood processing facility that will benefit southern Oregon coast crabbers and shrimpers. Read More »

• First stage of review of fish rulemaking released

  The inspector general started the investigation last year after requests from former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank and U.S. Rep. John Tierney. The lawmakers say rulemakers had Read More »

• Laine Welch: Pink salmon catch likely to shatter forecast

  With pink salmon coming in stronger than expected, Alaska’s salmon catch this summer is poised to blow past the pre-season forecast of 179 million fish. “We Read More »

• Newfoundland threatens to pull support for Canada-EU trade deal

  For Canada to meet the terms of the recently signed trade pact with the 28-country European Union, Newfoundland must jettison what are called minimum processing requirements Read More »

• Off the Arctic Coast of Alaska: Remains of Lost 1800s Whaling Fleet Found

  NOAA archaeologists have discovered the battered hulls of two 1800s whaling ships nearly 144 years after they and 31 others sank off the Arctic coast of Read More »

• Gretna, Louisiana fishing captain Nam Nguyen fined $62K for illegal longline fishing

  BATON ROUGE, La. – Federal authorities have fined a Gretna fishing captain $62,500 for allegedly using live bait on longline gear and possessing J-hooks and a permit to Read More »

• Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee announces steps to protect lakes from carp

  TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Authorities plan stepped-up monitoring and commercial fishing operations in the continuing effort to prevent Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes. Read Read More »

• Commercial, recreational flounder fishermen at odds

  Two months have passed since the state’s Marine Fisheries Commission was supposed to approve new protections for flounder, but fishermen are still catching them under the Read More »

• With Sadness: The passing of fishing vessel Captain Lars Sovik of Fairhaven, Ma

  Lars Sovik, 75, of Fairhaven died March 3, 2014 at home, surrounded by his family, after a courageous battle with cancer. He was the husband of Read More »

• The Vice Chair of the NFFO South East committee explains how the industry is often wrongly accused of damaging the environment.

  The finger is often pointed at fishermen as being the direct cause of any damage done to seabeds in our waters. However, this is by no Read More »

• Study offers view of what turbines may look like off Sunset Beach, NC – Video

  The Federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has been looking into adding wind turbines off the coast of Brunswick County. But before any decisions are made, Read More »

• Digby fisherman wins jumbo lobster contest with 19.6 pounder

  John Morehouse of Digby won the Lobster Bash Jumbo Lobster contest with a 19.6-pound lobster. Morehouse beat out two other lobsters at the weigh in on Read More »
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  The shark hunters of the Hebrides

  They were hunted in Scottish water for at least 200 years, chiefly for the gallons of valuable oil found in their livers. Basking sharks became a Read More »

• This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – Southeast AK has best Dungeness season ever; More fishing updates

  This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch … Lots of fishing going on from one end of Alaska to the other. With a few exceptions, most Read More »

• Fishing crews seethe at ineligibility for aid – “You’re going to have winners and losers.” Maggie Mooney-Seus

  The National Marine Fisheries Service said 194 fishing permits qualified for the $32,000 check. But local fishermen say some fishermen own several permits, sometimes dozens, so Read More »

• Newfoundland Cod Fishery Announces Milestone Sustainability Assessment

  ST. JOHN’S, NL–(Marketwired – March 13, 2014) – Newfoundland’s only commercial cod fishery is back on the map following an announcement that it has entered full Read More »
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  The struggle to preserve Charleston’s ‘working waterfront’

  In McClellanville, longtime commercial fishing businessman Rutledge Leland is mulling retirement from Carolina Seafoods and talking to the town’s cadre of shrimpers and other fishing professionals Read More »

• Cove-based study eyes ‘juvenile’ bluefin tuna

  The project, being coordinated by researchers and scientists at UMass’ Large Pelagics Research Center based in Gloucester’s Hodgkins Cove, will use the latest in electronic pop-up Read More »
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  FFAW proposes buyout for 3Ps fishers

  Last October, the union submitted a proposal to the provincial and federal governments for funding to retire fishing licenses in that region. According to briefing documents Read More »

• AMSEA to hold two Fishing Vessel Drill Conductor Workshops in South Carolina in March

  Alaska Marine Safety Education Association workshops meet the U. S. Coast Guard training requirements for drill conductors on documented commercial fishing vessels operating beyond the federal Read More »

• Wind farms vs wildlife – The shocking environmental cost of renewable energy

  Wind farms are devastating populations of rare birds and bats across the world, driving some to the point of extinction. Most environmentalists just don’t want to Read More »

• The EU is making poor countries poorer

  The EU likes to present itself as a global force for good, fostering aid and development in the world’s poorest societies. It boasts of its £12 Read More »

• Feds bust Boca man for illegally taking, then shipping, Florida Keys lobster

  A Boca Raton man pleaded not guilty in federal court in Key West Friday to taking, possessing, transporting and selling Florida Keys spiny lobster in violation Read More »

• Kleven’s Pelagic Fishing Vessel for Gitte Henning

  Kleven has signed an agreement with Danish fishing vessel owner Gitte Henning AS on the building of a combined pelagic trawler/purse seiner. 90.5 m wide and Read More »

• Of Sea Barons and Serfs – Selling off the sea: how our fish lost their freedom to market forces

  Over the last two decades, there has been a silent, neoliberal revolution in our oceans. “We are, quite seriously, on the brink.” Jerry Percy, Executive Director Read More »