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• Aug. 28-29 – Gulf of Maine Cod Peer Review Meeting – Sheraton Harborside Hotel Portsmouth, NH

  Meeting: The public is invited to listen in to a panel of scientific experts who will review the recently released Draft Gulf of Maine Cod Operational Read More »

• Mid-Atlantic Fishery Council Meeting in Baltimore, MD: December 10-13, 2012

  November 20, 2012 — The public is invited to attend the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council’s December 2012 meeting to be held at Pier V Hotel, 711 Read More »

• Sea Shepherd Attempts to Legitimize! Commences Recovery of Illegal Gillnet

  Yesterday, December 25, at approximately 1326 AEDT, the Sea Shepherd conservation ship, Sam Simon, located a discarded gillnet at 62° 16’ South, 081° 14’ East, inside Read More »
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  On This Day: February 18 – 1952: Coast Guard rescues 32 sailors from stricken tanker Pendleton

  On this day in 1952, one of the most daring rescues in the history of the Coast Guard took place six miles off Chatham. The tanker Read More »

• Catch Shares – BJ Brown Summed Up What Was Going To Happen In The Fishing Industry In Gloucester 4 Years Ago

  This was filmed in 2010 and it’s only gotten worse. What he predicted back in 2010 is about 10 times worse 4 years later. As I Read More »
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  Fishermen accuse wind farm giant of bullying in compensation row

  North Norfolk fishermen say they are fearful for their future, after Ørsted, the Danish energy giant behind Hornsea Project Three took out a High Court injunction Read More »

• Warming trend continues in waters off Atlantic Canada

  Warmer ocean temperatures off Atlantic Canada continued in 2016, maintaining a trend that started earlier this decade, according to survey results from Canada’s Department of Fisheries Read More »

• Western Pacific Fishery Management Council Responds to the President’s Pacific Monument Expansion Decision

  The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council (WPRFMC) acknowledges that the President’s amended Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument (PRIMNM) expansion plan reduces the economic toll Read More »
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  Florida’s building boom threatens wildlife-rich lagoon

  The most biologically diverse waterway in America is seriously ill. The Indian River Lagoon is repeatedly being choked with oxygen-robbing algae, its surface increasingly dotted with Read More »
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  Start of salmon season gives hope to fishing industry crushed by Coronavirus pandemic

  The Bay Area’s fishing industry has been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic. But, local fishing companies are hoping salmon season will help change their fortunes. The Read More »

• Fish and Game Provides an Overview of This Year’s Sockeye Fishery in the Nushagak District

  The man who makes the day to day management decisions for the commercial salmon fisheries in the Nushagak District provided a brief season summary during a meeting Read More »
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  Remembering the Salty Lady’s Roger Thomas

  In the 1940s, a boy named Roger Thomas first walked knee-deep into the breaking waves of Monterey Bay, fishing rod in hand, and fell in love Read More »

• Kerrisdale Capital Slams Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd – Pebble Mine shares are ‘worthless’

  A New York investment firm tore apart claims by the owners of the Pebble mine project that developing the prospect is economically viable in a no-holds-barred Read More »
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  Work continues on federal plan for Cook Inlet salmon

  More than two years after a court ruling ordered the North Pacific Fishery Management Council to develop a management plan for the Cook Inlet salmon fishery, Read More »
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  Fishing vessel burns at Fishermen’s Terminal

  Dozens of firefighters responded by land and by water to a fire on a large fishing trawler at Fishermen’s Terminal just after 7 this morning. Seattle Read More »

• Louisiana: Shrimp Season To Close in Portions of State Inside and Outside Waters

  Today, Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Robert Barham announced a closure of the fall shrimp season in state inside waters west of the Mississippi River and Read More »

• Savannah McDormand, 20, mourned after Westport fishing boat death

  Savannah McDormand, a 20-year-old woman who was found dead on a fishing boat earlier this week in Westport, N.S., is being remembered as a fun person with a wry Read More »

• “I’m gonna cash in and screw.” – King of New England groundfishing plans to sell his fleet out of New Bedford

  The biggest player in the New England groundfishing industry says he is cashing out of the business, selling off his scallopers and later his groundfish draggers, Read More »

• Prolific writer Stephen R. Taufen hospitalized

  Stephen R. Taufen, a prolific writer on commercial fishing issues, was air ambulance to Anchorage, and is now hospitalized at Providence Hospital with an inoperable hematoma. Stephen was in intensive care Read More »

• Commercial fisherman remembers 3 colleagues who died when their boat, the Caledonian, capsized

  A crew member from the sister ship of the one that capsized off Vancouver Island over the weekend, is speaking out about the loss of three Read More »

• Conn. lobster die-off: no link found to pesticides

  Connecticut researchers found no pesticides in lobsters collected in Long Island Sound in late 2014, a new study has found, boosting evidence that warming water temperatures Read More »

• Pending Labor Day Ban On Harvesting Draws Grumbles From Long Island Sound Lobstermen

  The moratorium is mean to boost a lobster population that has decreased 95 percent. Darling is one of the few. He said the Long Island Sound Read More »

• Seven US fisheries scientists have raised a formal complaint of political interference over salmon studies – complaint of scientific misconduct

  The letter alleges that Klamath Basin area office manager Jason Phillips violated the agency’s scientific-integrity policy, adopted in 2011 as part of US President Barack Obama’s Read More »
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  The Business of Lobster

  With one of the fastest growing economies, and an exploding middle class that extends onto the mainland, the Chinese have developed a taste for the better Read More »
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  Strip club onboard Alaskan fishing boat making comeback

  An Alaska man is resurrecting a strip club he operated on board his converted crab boat before he was convicted on waste disposal charges involving the Read More »