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• Third Time in Three Years – Pesticides Believed to be Cause of Fish Kills in Canada

  For the third time in three years, dead fish have been spotted rising to the surface of Barclay Brook where thousands of fish died in 2011 Read More »

• AUDIO: NEFMC Groundfish Committee’s Sept. 19 Meeting looks at closed areas

  NEW BEDFORD, Mass. – September 19, 2012 – The New England Fishery Management Council’s Groundfish Committee met on Wednesday to further develop Framework Adjustment 48 to Read More »

• Cape Wind hopes loan not blown

  “This is another huge waste of taxpayer dollars for a project that will never get built,” said Audra Parker, head of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Read More »

• Already, I’m skeptical. Dalhousie professor to probe effects of aquaculture business

  Jon Grant doesn’t much care for the taste of Atlantic salmon. But the Dalhousie University oceanographer is passionate about Atlantic Salmon farming. He says critics who Read More »

• Safe haven from Hurricane Ingrid – Video

  “The opportunity to do this was a unique challenge but at the core at what the Coast Guard provides – safety of life at sea for Read More »

• Port of Galilee Rhode Island lands $2.9M to rebuild fisheries infrastructure

  “Modernizing the Port of Galilee is a smart investment that recognizes the importance of the fishing industry to our economy and will help spur business activity, Read More »

• Sweetening the (lobster) pot – With fewer harvesters at play, the industry is expected to be more viable

  The Lobster Fishery Sustainability Program, which ends on March 31, will definitely have a positive effect on lobster harvesters’ bottom lines in the future, says 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 »

• Deep Cove Aqua Farms Ltd. of Blandford, Nova Scotia agreed to a $45,000 fine

  A South Shore company that buys fish has been fined $47,000 for buying and possessing tens of thousands of kilograms of illegally caught groundfish and clams. Read More »

• F/V Fair Warning Coast Guard assisted after being ran aground in Wychmere Harbor

  Coast Guard rescue crews from Station Chatam, pollution responders from Sector Southeastern New England, and local fire and police assisted a 37-foot fishing vessel that ran Read More »

• Windy Winter Has Been A Problem For Commercial Fishermen – Video

  Commercial fishing is a big industry here in the east but it has taken a hit recently because of all of the windy weather. continued – Read More »

• Drought imperils California salmon, steelhead

  SANTA CRUZ — The sensitive populations of fish that spawn in Northern California’s creeks and rivers are starting to suffer from the brutal drought threatening the Read More »

• Coast Guard stops illegal fishing; releases endangered sea turtle and 5 sharks

  BROWNSVILLE, Texas — An endangered sea turtle and five sharks were released back  to the ocean late Sunday night after the Coast Guard spotted Mexicans fishing Read More »

• 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 »

• Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission: Atlantic Striped Bass not overfished or experiencing overfishing

  That’s right! After this week’s meeting we’re pleased to announce that the recent benchmark assessment indicates that the Atlantic Striped Bass resource is not overfished or Read More »

• Science Café Explores Controversy: First Offshore Wind Farm in the USA Now a Possibility for North Carolina

  North Carolina has more wind off its shores than any other state on the Atlantic Coast. The Federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has approved three Read More »

• The NFI claims that Greenpeace is a “science-averse” organisation that only cares about fundraising. (They ain’t the only ones!)

  Fish Info & Services Co.Ltd – The National Fisheries Institute (NFI) is accusing Greenpeace of lying about US retailers’ seafood sustainability practices, and thus challenging reporters Read More »

• Cool Fish, Hot Water III – Black Sea Bass

  Previous posts in our Cool Fish, Hot Water series have introduced two of the species that are moving into the Gulf of Maine, Black Sea Bass Read More »

• Coast Guard Closes Depoe Bay,Siuslaw,Tillamook Bay,Coos Bay,Umpqua River Bar Entrance’s Due to Hazardous Condition’s

  The Coast Guard will re-evaluate the bar closure’s on an ongoing basis and will re-open the waterway as soon as the offshore weather improves. The Coast Read More »

• F/V Bristol Leader catches fire in Seattle

  Firefighters were called to Pier 91 in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood for a fire on a fishing boat. Crews responded shortly after 3 a.m. Tuesday at 2001 West Read More »

• Opinion: Feds should ask local fishermen how to manage fish stocks By Robin Alden, Executive Director of Penobscot East Resource Center,

  One thing that is currently missing in our fisheries management system is a way to get good, local observations about conditions into the larger-scale federal scientific Read More »

• Scallops giving New Bedford fishermen a welcome break – Lucrative shellfish lift fishermen — and the port they call home

  NEW BEDFORD Gail Isaksen remembers when the commercial fishing industry in New Bedford Harbor collapsed in the mid-1980s: Cash-strapped boat owners scrimped on maintenance, borrowed to Read More »

• Our Views: Gulf of Mexico Dead zone needs attention

  Louisiana — and the nation that depends upon its fisheries — can’t afford anything less. continued@ theadvocate Read More »

• New Virginia Institute of Marine Science study shows ‘dead zone’ impacts Chesapeake Bay fishes

  The study, published in the May issue of Marine Ecology Progress Series, was authored by Andre Buchheister, a Ph.D. student in William & Mary’s School of Read More »

• Keep ‘catch shares’ out of Gulf of Alaska fisheries

  Catch shares, also known as rationalization, transfers fishery access rights away from the general public and into the hands of current stakeholders by dividing up the Read More »