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  Vessel monitoring technology partnership makes tracking more accurate

  Accurate vessel monitoring is now easier with a technology offering that combines monitoring with a transponder. exactEarth’s exactTrax small vessel monitoring technology is now incorporated into Read More »

• Gulf fishermen get 14-day fall red snapper season despite uncertainty surrounding the fishery

  Federal scientist still don’t know for certain how many pounds of red snapper recreational fishermen caught this year, but the Gulf of Mexico’s chief fisheries manager Read More »

• Dr. Robert E. Hueter – I am writing to share my strong opposition to S. 3095, The Shark Fin Trade Elimination Act.

  August 5, 2016 – The Honorable Bill Nelson United States Senate Washington, DC  20510   Dear Senator Nelson:  I am writing to share my strong opposition to S. Read More »

• The Last Fishermen of Long Island

  Photographers Doug Kuntz, 57, and Tara Israel, 30, are both natives of Eastern Long Island. Although they grew up decades apart, both Kuntz and Israel were drawn Read More »

• Warm water expected to keep killing Willamette River salmon

  Higher water temperatures in the Willamette River are most likely the cause of spring Chinook salmon deaths, according to fish biologists from the Oregon Department of Read More »

• Scientists track drop in lobster numbers

  Marine scientists are not sure what is causing the decline in baby lobster settlements in their traditional near-shore, rocky habitats except they now seem to rule Read More »

• American Somoa misses out on quota transfer fisheries revenues

  Statements by the governor’s fisheries advisor at the meeting of the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council last week indicate that the territory missed out on an Read More »

• Looking to unseat Rep Walter Jones, Hurst wants to unsnag over-regulated fishermen

  Coastal North Carolina needs a representative in Congress who will champion job-creating regulatory reforms and tell Washington lawmakers to stop childish partisan bickering, Carteret County Democrat Read More »

• Elver fishermen reach half of quota with three weeks left in season

  There’s less than three weeks to go in Maine’s big-money elver fishing season. And while fishermen are having luck atching eels, even the Maine Marine Patrol Read More »

• New York’s black market for stolen seafood is booming!

  The three men arrested in the theft of more than $1 million worth of barbecued frozen eels aren’t the only ones allegedly selling stolen seafood to restaurants Read More »

• FFAW- Premier’s approval of OCI exemptions signs away millions in rural economic development

  ST. JOHN’S, June 21, 2017 – FFAW-Unifor is shocked and deeply disappointed in the provincial government’s decision to issue further exemptions to Ocean Choice International (OCI), Read More »
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  Some New England Fishermen Consider A Fight Over Obama’s Monument. This Is Why They Should.

  When the concept of the National Marine Monument arose, it was a surprise to many people, and the notion of it becoming reality seemed far fetched. Read More »

• DAVID G. SELLARS ON THE WATERFRONT: Boat that once carried Fleet Adm. Nimitz visits Port Angeles, Port Townsend

  THE WINGS OF Freedom vintage planes from World War II arrive on the North Olympic Peninsula this Monday morning (click on the story on the homepage). Read More »

• In the Guest Writer Column – The Massachusetts commercial striped bass fishery. Poster child for an abused resource – John Rice, Director, CIIFA

  The Massachusetts commercial striped bass fishery. This fishery is the poster child for an abused resource. The MA DMF policies and regulations for the striper fishery Read More »

• Stormy weather puts fishing boat in distress, 5 people rescued northeast of St. John’s

  Five people have been rescued from a fishing boat in distress 150 nautical miles northeast of St. John’s. A spokesperson for the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Read More »

• GEARNET Northeast Groundfish Gear Conservation Engineering & Demonstration Network- Proposals are due December 31, 2012

  Northeast Groundfish Gear Conservation Engineering & Demonstration Network  FINAL CALL FOR PROPOSALS –GEARNET is currently scheduling port and sector meetings for December to develop your  ideas for Read More »
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  L.I. Sound lobstermen avoid regulatory pincers

  Lobstermen working Long Island Sound dodged new limits on their fishery last week when federal regulators failed to adopt restrictions aimed at reversing a decades-long decline Read More »

• Global population’s of squid, octopuses and cuttlefish are booming

  The world’s squid, octopuses and cuttlefish have been going through a massive, 60-year population boom, a new study has found. Published yesterday in Current Biology, the Read More »

• Gulf of Alaska fishermen wary of Congressional intrusion into council process

  Editor’s note: Stephen Taufen of Groundswell Fisheries Movement did not write the petition distributed by AMCC. This article refers to a separate memo of his own Read More »

• St. George lobsterman charged in sinking of rival’s boat

  According to documents filed in Knox County Unified Court, Alan B. Norwood, 47, of St. George, was charged with aggravated criminal mischief, class C, for allegedly Read More »

• Insiders see changing dynamics in fisheries market

  While the Bay State fishing fleet’s haul of cod has dropped precipitously, the  waters now teem with others species that had not been present in such Read More »
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  New Lobster Boat Under Construction in North Carolina

  Custom Steel Boats, Inc. of Merritt, N.C., in collaboration with Ted & Todd’s Marine of Beaufort, N.C., announced a new construction project. Custom Steel Boats is Read More »

• Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update FEB 1, 2015

  The Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance is dedicated to its mission of continuing to help create sustainable fisheries without putting licensed fishermen out of business.” Read the Read More »

• Ninth Circuit Sides With Cook Inlet Fishermen

  The Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday that the federal government must manage fisheries in federal waters that require conservation, unless a fishery-management plan cedes control to a Read More »

• Environmental Defense Fund Launches Toolkit to Help Fishermen and Managers

  On the 17th October, in San Francisco, CA the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) today launched the world’s most comprehensive toolkit for designing and implementing management systems Read More »