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• CF/V Gale Force grounded by storm leaking fuel onto Comox beach

  “All of us, as hospital employees, have been watching oil and gas leak into the ocean on high tide every day, a big rainbow,” he says. Read More »

• N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission: Fisheries advisors sought

  N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission is looking for commercial and recreational fishermen and scientists for advice on various fisheries topics. Two regional advisory committees — northern and Read More »
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  DMC to host a talk on fishing and farming of scallops in Maine

  On Friday, July 7, Dana Morse will give a talk on scallops and their impact on Maine’s fishing and farming industry. The seminar will take place Read More »

• Alarmingly warm water in Gulf of Maine bringing changes

  Officials have suggested that higher temperatures in the gulf have been a factor in bacterial outbreaks in bivalves and in sea lice infestations in Cobscook and Passamaquoddy Read More »

• Know Your Supplier: FDA Refusing Record Amounts of Shrimp Contaminated with Banned Antibiotics

  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) recently reported that in October 2014 the agency refused a total of 101 entry lines of seafood. Of these Read More »

• Post-Brexit, north Queensland fishermen consider trade opportunities with the United Kingdom

  North Queensland fishermen are hoping that now the United Kingdom is to exit the European Union (EU) following the referendum last week, export markets could be Read More »

• Bluefin tuna and Pew, here we go again! – Nils E. Stolpe, FishNet USA/June 24, 2013

  On August 13, 1997 Josh Reichert, then Director of the Pew Trusts Environment Program and now Executive Vice President of the Trusts, in an op-ed column in the Read More »

• New group defends Treadwell in setnet ban initiative case

  The Alaska Fisheries Conservation Alliance, or AFCA, wants to ask voters to ban setnets in urban parts of the state. If the initiative made it on Read More »

• 60% of Japanese support whale hunt, 14% eats whale meat

  The survey comes less than a month after the United Nations’ top court ruled the annual mission to the Southern Ocean by Japanese whaling vessels was Read More »

• Plaintiffs file for class certification in Refugio oil spill lawsuit

  A class of plaintiffs who claim to be injured by the Refugio oil spill filed for class certification. After Plains All American Pipeline’s corroded Line 901 Read More »

• Gig Harbor-based boat sinks off Alaska; 1 dead, 1 missing

  KODIAK, Alaska – A fishing boat based out of Pierce County has sunk off the coast of Alaska, leaving one person dead and another missing.—-The U.S. Read More »

• SAFMC BULLETIN: Federal Waters Off South Carolina Closed to All Fishing for Brown, White, and Pink Shrimp Through May 31, 2014

  Effective February 13, 2014, at 12:01am Federal waters off South Carolina are closed to the harvest of brown, pink, and white shrimp through May 31, 2014. Read More »

• “Be bold. Think big.”- N.S. cousins prepare to launch schooner they built in Stewiacke

  Two cousins in Stewiacke, N.S. have built a 24-metre wooden schooner, just like their great-great-grandfather once did. Evan Densmore was only 22-years-old when he started designing the schooner Read More »

• You haven’t seen fishing like this before: Maine Photographer/Fisherman Video by Joel Woods is Featured on MSNBC News Feed! You GO, Joel!

  Commercial Fisherman Joel Woods shoots a pretty mean photograph! Actually lots of photographs. I am always impressed when I see them, and he has graciously allowed Read More »
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  Newly discovered illegal reef off the coast of Lee County impacting shrimpers

  An alert for one of Southwest Florida’s biggest industries after an illegal, manmade reef was discovered off the coast of Lee County. A shrimp net worth Read More »

• Red tide causes large fish kill in northeast Gulf of Mexico

  Citizens have reported observations of thousands of dead and dying bottom-dwelling reef fish, including grouper, hogfish, white grunt, triggerfish and snapper, as well as sea turtles Read More »

• Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission to consider capping shrimp licenses

  The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission restricts the impact of fishing on northern shrimp in the Gulf of Maine by setting a cap on the total Read More »

• Coast Guard, National Marine Fisheries Service seize 2,700 pounds of shrimp near Cameron, Louisiana

  The Coast Guard along with the National Marine Fisheries Service seized 2,700 pounds of catch, Tuesday evening, after boarding a fishing vessel near the jetties off Read More »

• Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission Pulls the Plug on Gulf of Maine Shrimp Fishery

  “The Northern Shrimp Technical Committee has considered the Gulf of Maine northern shrimp stock to have collapsed with very little hope for recovery in the near Read More »

• New South Wales: King Prawn prices drop as fishermen haul in record catches off Coffs Coast

  Fishermen off the Coffs Coast in northern New South Wales are reporting record catches of the iconic eastern king prawn. The Coffs Harbour Fishermen’s Co-operative’s seafood Read More »

• Some better news for haddock, and fishermen. Really?

  THE GLOOMY clouds hanging over New England’s fisheries lifted a bit last week when the NOAA reported that several species were no longer overfished off US shores, Read More »

• Don’t bite on risky lure of ‘catch shares’

  I can’t think of a more appropriate saying to use than “a wolf in sheep’s clothing” to describe the reality of what the Seafood Harvesters of Read More »
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  Japanese fishermen start morning wake-up call service to help you get your lazy butt out of bed

  Need to get up with the chickens? Leave it to the men who’re already awake and hauling in fish. The just-launched Fisherman Call is billed as “The world’s first wake-up call Read More »

• Projects Stall After Feds Allow Fish Farming in Open Ocean

  Some 90 percent of seafood consumed by Americans is imported — a fact that the Obama administration vowed to start turning around by expanding fish and Read More »

• Captain loses commercial fishing license for 10 years for oyster violations; 2 crewmen fined

  The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says three Houma men are convicted of oyster violations, and the captain of the boat involved has lost his Read More »