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• The Poacher and the Dirty Dealer Caper – Cape Cod Oyster theft case unveiled

  A West Yarmouth man has been indicted in the theft of more than $40,000 worth of oysters and equipment from beds off Dennis and Barnstable last Read More »

• DAVID G. SELLARS ON THE WATERFRONT: Port Angeles-made vessel destined to be floating classroom

  Armstrong Marine, the aluminum boat fabricator on U.S. Highway 101 midway between Port Angeles and Sequim, launched Coastal Explorer last week. For the past three weeks, Read More »

• The Gulf Seafood Institute Position Paper Details it’s Platform for MSA Reauthorization

  The Gulf Seafood Institute (GSI) has authorized a position paper detailing the organizations platform on the upcoming reauthorization of the Magnuson Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Read More »

• THOMAS A. NIES NEFMC: Scientific scrutiny, not fishing, must take precedence – Would close 55 sq miles of Stellwagon “reference” area

  I offer a few comments to Patriot Ledger readers on a piece published Sept.  18, “Charter boat operators say ban would put them out of business.” The Read More »

• Fishermen have Rights. Human Rights. The International Bill of Human Rights.

  There’s always been quabbles with how fish resources are managed. Well now some folks are saying that process could raise human rights issues. We’ll find out Read More »

• ANNOUNCEMENT: Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council

  Due to inclement weather, several items scheduled for the Council’s February meeting have been cancelled or rescheduled. The meeting will continue to be streamed online at http://mafmc.adobeconnect.com/february2014/  until Read More »

• Maine lobster industry encouraged to plan ahead for likely fishery decline

  Patrick Keliher, commissioner of the Maine Department of Marine Resources, stressed that message Tuesday to a few dozen lobstermen and other people who attended an industry Read More »

• Independent Greenpeace? Never Mind

  Greenpeace makes a big deal about how it’s independent. It tells us again and again and again that it accepts no government or corporate money. We Read More »

• Confessions from the Lone Shark Conservationist Who Supports California’s Drift Gillnet Fishery

  Prej•u•dice, Noun – Preconceived opinion not based on reason or experience. – I’m telling my story for a couple reasons. First because I know a lot Read More »

• Rep. Antonio F.D. Cabral-Fishing industry needs research money as well as disaster relief

  The elections may be over, but the current Congress still has work to do…..We need reliable, independent science.  And Massachusetts is best equipped to provide it….That’s Read More »

• #sealfie campaign misguided, activists claim

  TORONTO — The growing “sealfie” social media campaign is being criticized for defending Inuit rights that are not, in fact, under attack. Read more here globalnews.ca  Read More »

• Two environmental groups to create political alliance for political influence

  Two major environmental groups will announce Monday that they are creating an alliance between their two political action arms, in an effort to expand their influence Read More »

• My Turn: Support reductions of Chinook salmon bycatch By Gary Ault and Eric Jordan

  Juneau Empire – Alaska’s king salmon are facing troubled times. Returns to state rivers stretching from Cook Inlet to the Yukon have been much lower than Read More »

• Congress eyeing changes to commercial fishing law

  mainetoday.com – WASHINGTON — As Congress prepares to revisit the law governing how U.S. fishermen ply their trade, New England’s beleaguered groundfish industry illustrates the challenge Read More »

• F/V FIERCE ALLEGIANCE gets $4M Major Vessel Overhaul at Pacific Fishermen Shipyard

  In the fall of 2012, the FIERCE ALLEGIANCE pulled in to Seattle for a major overhaul after her 10 years in the Gulf of Mexico oil Read More »

• Letter: Cape Pond Ice deserves city’s, state’s help

  I would like to go on record to support Scott Memhard’s request to have Cape Pond Ice taken out of the state’s Designated Port Area……The reason Read More »

• “Dark Energy”: Life Beneath the Seafloor Discussed at Upcoming American Geophysical Union Conference

  “Who in his wildest dreams could have imagined that, beneath the crust of our Earth, there could exist a real ocean…a sea that has given shelter Read More »

• Exposed; “The Devolution of the Seas,”, Alan Sielen opts for outdated and refuted information on tuna stocks

  WASHINGTON (Saving Seafood) — February 24, 2014 — Writing in an essay originally published in Foreign Affairs, (“The Devolution of the Seas,” November/December 2013) Alan Sielen, Read More »

• Study Finds There Are Literally More Fish in the Sea

  A new study from researchers with the Malaspina Expedition, managed by the Spanish National Research Council, found there could be 10 times more fish mass in the Read More »

• $75.6M wastewater treatment project moves forward in Portsmouth to meet the new nitrogen standard.

  Councilors were unanimously in support of the move, which involves the city using a technology known as “biological aerated filter” to reach a total nitrogen limit Read More »

• Chesapeake Bay Commercial Fishermen’s Association – Maryland Watermen’s symposium set at Chesapeake College April 18

  EASTON — A symposium to educate the public on the economic impact the commercial fishing industry brings to Maryland will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, Read More »

• Senate Considers Treaties to Go After Fish Piracy

  The U.S. Senate is considering two international treaties that Sen. Lisa Murkowski says would help crack down on pirate fishing in the North Pacific. Murkowski today Read More »

• New Quotas Announced for Mackerel and Butterfish Fisheries – National Marine Fisheries Service,

   Through this action, the butterfish mortality cap will also be increased by 1,299 mt (141 percent increase over the 2012 butterfish mortality cap).  The increased butterfish mortality cap will Read More »

• Bering Sea Canyons May Become New Marine Wildlife Preserve

  The Federal agency responsible for commercial fisheries in the Bering Sea have made, what some consider, a landmark decision Monday, June 3rd. The North Pacific Fisheries Read More »

• Peter Shelley’s (as usual) bogus arguments on the AUDIO: Federal Court Appeal Against NOAA – Thanks Dicky

  This is regarding CLF lawyer Peter Shelley’s intervention in the Amendment 16 Lawsuit Appeal Oral Arguments Hearing on September 5, 2012.  In general, the defendants’ arguments Read More »