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• How big will the Gulf Dead Zone get this year?

   LiveScience -The predicted size of this year’s Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone depends on whom you ask. One forecast model predicts an unusually small area of Read More »

• Before You Grow Up: Be a Lobster Boat Deckhand

  The Good: you’re on the open ocean, the pay’s great, and you’ll never complain about hard work again. The Bad: it’s nearly around-the-clock, demanding physical labor—hauling Read More »

• Today John Bullard, New Leader of NOAA’s Northeast Region, earned respect

  I was almost sure, JB was gonna do what fishermen in New England are used to. I just knew he would follow suit. He did not. Read More »

• Coast Guard medevacs fisherman from F/V Atlantic Warrior 60 miles off Ocean City, NJ

  ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The Coast Guard medevaced a 42-year-old man from a fishing vessel approximately 60 miles southeast of Ocean City Saturday. Personnel aboard the fishing vessel Read More »

• Starved for attention, Captain Paul Watson: The Damn Hunger Games on the Columbia River

  Sea Shepherd is proud to announce the launch of the 2013 Dam Guardian campaign to protect California sea lions along the Columbia River in Washington and Read More »

• Socio Economic Studies and the Piss Poor Science of Fishery Mismanagement.

  Listening to the NEFMC meeting over the past three days, I’ve noticed some blatant flaws of connectivity on a number of issues. Where to begin? Thats as Read More »

• Battle over natural gas port proposal resurfaces

  Gov. Christie’s Office reaffirmed to the maritime administration that the state was opposed to the amended application [withdrawn in 2012], which essentially is this current project,” Read More »

• New Jersey’s Congressmen push for fishing industry disaster relief

  “New Jersey’s fishing industry is one of the drivers of our regional economy and a staple in coastal communities,” the congressmen wrote. “The fishing industry impacts Read More »

• 52-year-old Fisherman medevaced from F/V Katie Ann in Bering Sea – reportedly suffering from symptoms of intestinal bleeding

  ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew medevaced a fisherman reportedly suffering from symptoms of intestinal bleeding more than 110 miles Read More »

• Fishermen still struggling, three years after BP spill

  Fisherman say their catch is scarce, while Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser says oil is still washing ashore in places like Bay Jimmy. Three years after the BP Read More »

• Alaska Delegation Asks For Consensus Among CDQ Groups

  Coastal Villages Region Fund, the state’s largest Community Development Quota group, has been asking for more fish for their fishermen. It would require Congress amending the Read More »

• Cape Breton Premium Seafoods plant destroyed by fire

  Edgar Samson, president of Premium Seafoods Group, said he was saddened by the loss of the groundfish facility and retail market. He said the facility employed Read More »

• Lifting the Ban: After 20 years, Georges Bank clam beds reopen

  The National Marine Fisheries Service banned dragging for clams and other molluscan shellfish in Georges Bank in 1990, when state and federal officials found a spike Read More »

• Wayne Erny, 35, of Lake Charles, and Eric L. Linden, 33, of Grand Lake, cited for crab trap molestation violations in Calcasieu Parish

  The citations stem from a complaint from a crab fisherman on Black Bayou that some of his equipment was stolen. During the course of the investigation, Read More »

• Hearing scheduled for setnet lawsuit

  Oral argument in the Alaska Fisheries Conservation Alliance’s appeal of the Lieutenant Governor’s decision not to certify its proposed ballot initiative is scheduled for April 22 Read More »

• Our View: Commerce Department’s release of report would help heal relationship with fishermen SouthCoastToday

  Enforcement changes were implemented after Inspector General Todd Zinser’s report on whether different regions were being punished differently under NOAA, and on whether administration of the Read More »

• Dr. Ray Hilborn Discusses the Status of Federal Fisheries Management

  On Wednesday, September 11, 2013, Dr. Ray Hilborn, of the University of Washington School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, testified before the House Committee on Natural Read More »

• Fertilizers and sewage contain nitrogen and phosphorus suck oxygen out of water and kill marine life.

  Its the sewerage treatment plant’s I tell ya! The  Conservation Law Foundation should recognize this as the real ocean issue. The study may have real policy Read More »

• Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission Sets Fall Shrimp Season

   Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission announced the 2013 fall inshore shrimp season. continued@louisiana.gov Read More »

• Certified salmon: Park Service director endorses Alaska fish without the MSC label. He does NOT go far enough.

  Sen. Lisa Murkowski put Jon Jarvis, director of the National Park Service on the hot seat, and he tried to wiggle his way off the hook by Read More »

• Letter: Why can’t they just let us fish? – Dave Walker, Dartmouth Ma.

  I have posed this question to many people and in The Standard-Times: After having fished the waters of the Atlantic for hundreds of years, can someone Read More »

• Federal law requiring almost a million salmon ignored at great expense to Bay-Delta ecosystem and fishing industry

  “Our salmon runs are essential to California’s natural heritage, to fishing families and to an industry that reaches from the fishing dock to your dinner table,” said Read More »

• Oregon Coast to see new restricted areas – become off-limits to fishing and other “consumptive” recreational pastimes and commercial fishing beginning Wednesday.

  Restrictions begin at two new marine reserves at Cascade Head just north of Lincoln City and at Cape Perpetua south of Yachats, as well as slightly Read More »

• Final action set for trawl fleet king salmon bycatch limit – The council meets June 5 to 11 in Juneau. Crab, cod decisions due

  As fisheries managers throughout Alaska prepare for low king salmon returns, federal regulators are considering new limits on king bycatch in the Gulf of Alaska. The Read More »

• Fishing Groups Ask for Emergency Steps to Save Salmon – Brown and Obama administrations exacerbated impact of drought.

  Four fishery conservation groups have asked state and federal fishery and water officials to convene an urgent meeting to save California Central Valley Chinook salmon runs Read More »