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• Editorial: Feds cannot allow exiting NOAA chief any transition role

  There can be no celebration, only a sense of profound relief over the resignation and coming exit of Jane Lubchenco as chief administrator of the National Oceanic and Read More »

• First of nine new COAST GUARD Hero Class vessels unveiled in Sarnia

  RCMP officials have a new tool to stop crossborder smuggling and human trafficking across the Great Lakes. Canada’s Fisheries and Oceans Minister Keith Ashfield unveiled the 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 »
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  North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for May 02, 2022

  The “Rule of Law” is the political philosophy that all citizens are accountable for the same laws. This philosophy helped fuel the American revolution and was Read More »

• Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 75′ Steel Shrimp Dragger, 3412 Cat

  To review specifications, information, and 21 photos’,>click here<, To see all the boats in this series, >click here< 08:10 Read More »

• Drug testing a touchy issue on New Bedford’s waterfront

  Local scallop captain Rick Lynch, 44, gave a compelling interview last October to Don Cuddy, program director for the New Bedford-based Center for Sustainable Fisheries. Cuddy Read More »

• Lawyer requests former co-op manager serve 45 days for lobster scheme

  The recommendation for a sentence for 53-year-old Robert Thompson of St. George was filed Friday by attorney Walter McKee. The U.S. attorney’s office has until Tuesday Read More »

• New Jersey Governor Chris Christie vetoes offshore wind project again

  Christie has vetoed a bill that could have resurrected Fishermen’s Energy’s 24MW Atlantic City offshore wind project. The legislation, which passed both houses of the state Read More »

• What You Didn’t Know About the Andrea Gail and ‘Perfect Storm’ Location

  In the fall of 1991, a catastrophic storm swept the northeastern coast of the U.S., wreaking havoc along the coast of Massachusetts. The Andrea Gail set Read More »

• Commercial harvest of Atlantic dolphin from Maine to Florida Closed

  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that the commercial harvest of Atlantic dolphin from Maine through the east coast of Florida will be closed at Read More »
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  R/V Bigelow: Overspread, Under spread, or the Perfect spread.

  Today both commercial and recreational fishermen believe that NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science is problematic while N.E. Trawl Panel Members who regulate the R/V Bigelow net, state Read More »
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  Nordic Aquafarms pushes forward with onshore fish farm in Humboldt County

  Humboldt County has given Norway-based seafood company Nordic Aquafarms the green light to move forward,,, “We also expect the discharge draft permit to be sent out Read More »

• Crab Detectives

  SitNews – Did you know that red king crabs are cannibals and eat their babies, but blue king crabs do not? Or that deep water golden Read More »

• Alaska’s white hat turns a little grey – Editorial comment, by John Sackton, publisher of Seafoodnews.com

   Ouch. The allegations that American Seafoods used flow scales that understated the weight of its pollock catch on multiple vessels in 2011 is a black-eye for Read More »
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  Science journal article disputes claims that aquaculture is a sustainable industry

  Inka Milewski, a research associate in the Department of Biology at Dalhousie University, said Monday her conclusions are partly based on a series of long-term studies Read More »

• As Black Sea Bass Stake New England Claim, Fishermen are Concerned.

  As waters warm off the coast of New England, black sea bass are moving north and, fishermen say, threatening the region’s most valuable aquatic species: the Read More »

• Reunited after 20 years: tagged tuna tells tales

  We have been reunited with an old friend. We met a long time ago, 22 years in fact, and we certainly left our mark during that Read More »

• 3 fishermen plucked from Miramichi Bay

  Three fishermen from Esgenoopetitj First Nation were rescued in northern New Brunswick on Friday morning, after spending several hours in the water. more@cbcnews   15:02 Read More »

• New Tool Aims To Help Scallop Fishery Adapt To Climate Change

  Researchers with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the nonprofit Ocean Conservancy that analyzes data on changes in the Read More »
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  RESCHEDULED: South Atlantic Fishery Management Council meeting in Charleston, September 30 – October 5, 2018

  The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council will postpone its quarterly meeting originally scheduled for September 16 – 21, 2018 in Charleston, SC due to the threat Read More »

• Welding accident sparks fishing boat fire on Fairhaven waterfront

  A fishing vessel recently acquired by the owners of BASE Seafood Auction caught fire and burned on the Fairhaven side of the harbor early Thursday morning. Read More »

• My Turn: Magnuson-Stevens reauthorization moves forward – Rep Don Young

  Almost 40 years ago, without regard for the conservation of our fisheries or the needs of the Alaskan people, foreign fishing fleets dominated the waters off Read More »
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  100 MPH Process: Fisherman Dewey Hemilright of Wanchese, NC on Wind Energy

  “Sometimes I wish I wasn’t so entrenched in this stuff,” commercial longline fisherman Dewey Hemilright said. “It’s hard to turn my mind off.” Hemilright, who fishes Read More »

• The Myopic Ramblings of Talking Fish. ENGO Year in Review – 2013

  As 2013 draws to a close, let’s take a look back at some of the ups and downs of fisheries management featured on Talking Fish this Read More »
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  The story of how a Black man pioneered the salmon canning industry in British Columbia in the 1870s

  Located on an island on the Fraser River in British Columbia, Canada, is the Deas Island Regional Park What many do not know is that the Read More »