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• “The Queensland government’s response is a f—ing joke,” – Fishers furious over delayed warning of toxic foam spill

  Fishers are furious they weren’t warned for days about a toxic foam spill in Brisbane waters, saying hundreds of kilograms of prawns were caught in the Read More »

• Renews fisherman Gerard Chidley appointment part of major changes at NAFO

  NAFO has long been a source of controversy and intrigue since its inception in 1979. The organization’s role is basically to manage and monitor fish resources between Read More »

• When enviro bloggers go koo koo

  The saddest untold story in the environmental movement is the demise of the world’s oceans. We are literally eating it to death. Fish stocks are collapsing Read More »

• The Dolphin Death by Fishermen hysteria seems to be dying down as the body count stack’s up off the coast of NJ and Va.

  Mooney-Seus said the widespread geographic area where the dolphins were  washing up suggested a disease as the culprit, rather than a fishing net or  other human Read More »

• A great migration is under way – Spring brings fish by the millions to Chesapeake Bay

  Tourists aren’t the only ones flocking to our waters this time of year. A great migration is under way beneath the surface, too. Triggered by warming Read More »

• Green light! Oregon Senate gives fish commish go-ahead to Buckmaster by 18-12 vote

  The sportfishing industry and some recreational anglers lobbied hard to stop Gov. Kate Brown’s appointment of Astoria resident Bruce Buckmaster to the commission because of his Read More »

• “epic battle” “ultimate catch” – Videos of shark catches popular, but is act legal?

  Then he says, “When you’re a fisherman, you have no idea what you’re going to catch,” he said. “If you do happen to catch something that Read More »

• Fishing crew receives Carnegie Hero award for sea rescue

  According to the award citation, on Jan. 25, 2012, a 67-foot fishing vessel, the Heritage, became disabled in a severe storm while crossing Alitak Bay off Read More »

• Tweeting for fresh salmon in Sausalito

  If you want fresh local salmon, check out Sausalito’s same day, sea-to-table social media fishing enterprise. Gary Root’s latest business venture involves a commercial salmon boat Read More »

• Ocean Executive nets aid for online trading platform

  Our technology will help streamline the sales and marketing process for a wide range of seafood companies, not just locally, but across the globe,” Ocean Executive Read More »

• Alaska Seafood Industry Asks For Retaliatory Ban on Russian Imports

  It’s been two weeks since Russia banned imports of American food products into its country. Now, Alaska’s seafood industry is asking the U.S. government to strike back. Read Read More »

• Stop efforts to limit the number of charter and head boats — the first step toward for-hire catch shares!

  This Wednesday, June 13th, the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council will again consider snapper-grouper for-hire limited entry at its meeting in Ponte Vedra, Florida, so it’s Read More »

• Goliath grouper grows in anglers’ wrath

  Goliath grouper, lionfish eggs, shark chum and gun silencers are among the topics top state wildlife regulators will ponder next week. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Read More »

• 75 Years After Steinbeck Sailed, a Boat Is Readied to Go Back to Sea

  Rule 1 in the world of working wooden boats, since the days of dugout canoes and fishing skiffs, has been that when they are no longer Read More »

• Coast Guard rescues 2 from sinking shrimp boat near Brunswic, Georgia

  Two fishermen were rescued from their sinking shrimp boat by a Coast Guard aircrew Friday off the coast of Saint Simons Island near Brunswic, Georgia. Watchstanders at Read More »

• Southern New England Lobstermen face new restrictions

  Southern New England’s fading lobster fishery will be the subject of a battery of new regulations to try to save the crustacean’s population locally. The interstate Read More »

• After pursuit at sea, captain busted trying to smuggle illegal immigrants into South Florida

  The boat entering the Hillsboro Inlet might have gone unnoticed, if the captain hadn’t made an “aggressive” U-turn beside a sheriff’s boat and headed back out Read More »

• New Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute International Program Director Alexa Tonkovich Promoted from Within

  The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute has a new director for its international marketing efforts. Alexa Tonkovich, who has worked the past four years as ASMI’s Asia Read More »

• Coast Guard calls in fishing fleet in preparation for Sandy By ARIEL WITTENBERG southcoasttoday.com

  However, the Coast Guard’s bulletin warns that “no matter where this storm tracks, a dangerous, potentially life-threatening storm is expected for mariners.” “Winds and seas of Read More »

• Demand for fishery abuse report gains steam. Republican Paul Broun and Senator John Kerry lean harder on Commerce

  The 66-case study, which reportedly runs more than 500 pages, with recommendations by the author — special judicial investigator Charles B. Swartwood III — was submitted Read More »

• Lower East Pubnico Fisherman Paul Vernon (Brex) Malone dies after fall from the mast of CF/V Savana & Jax off Cape Sable Island

  “Before most of those assets were either in the air or had left the shore, we received a call back from the same fishing vessel stating Read More »

• Notice of Intent To Review Monitor National Marine Sanctuary Boundary Expansion

  The Expansion Working Group, as the basis for their recommended expansion models, has considered four broad thematic categories, which include: (1) The Colonial and Pre-Contact Period, Read More »

• Fisherynation.com welcomes our newest sponsor, AFG Flame Guard USA

  If you own a commercial vessel, an inboard pleasure boat, a boat with a cabin, or desire convenient fire protection in your home or vehicle, get the Read More »

• Sanford assesses quitting the Pacific tuna business

  New Zealand’s biggest fishing company Sanford has considered abandoning the Pacific tuna business, since its executives disagree on the way the fishery is being managed. “If 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 »