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• Point Judith, RI Safety and Survival training – April 15, 2015

  This hands-on training, provided at no cost to commercial fishermen, is sponsored by Fishing Partnership Support Services, and conducted by Coast Guard Certified Marine Safety Instructors. Read More »

• Newfoundland and Labrador crab tie-up ends – Processors agree to pay an additional 17 cents a pound

  The Canadian Press Saturday, April 20, 2013 – 16:02  ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – A fisheries union and seafood processors in Newfoundland and Labrador finalized a deal Read More »

• Judge: Agency cited improper authority to increase Trinity flows

  The Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations, along with their legal representative Earthjustice, celebrated the decision Wednesday as a victory for salmon and the commercial fishing Read More »

• New York State Extends Commercial Black Sea Bass Season to October 13th

  Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced that the state has extended the commercial black sea bass fishing season to October 13. Originally scheduled to close on September Read More »

• BATON ROUGE, La – 3 cited for illegal oyster activity

  State wildlife and fisheries agents have cited three men for alleged oyster and boating safety violations in Bayou Stephan in Plaquemines Parish. [email protected]  07:20 Read More »

• Coast Guard medevacs injured 70-year-old man from Noyes Island, Alaska

  ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Coast Guard medevaced a 70-year-old man with an eye injury from Noyes Island approximately 34 miles from Klawock Tuesday. Sector Juneau command Read More »

• Seafood company to pay back wages to migrant workers

  An Alabama-based seafood company has agreed to pay a group of migrant workers back wages in a class action lawsuit. A federal judge Wednesday ordered R&A Oysters to pay Read More »

• UNE researcher gets $1.7M grant to aid fishing industry – will research the mortality rate of winter skates

  A federal agency has awarded a University of New England researcher and his colleagues $1.7 million for a research project they hope will help increase revenues Read More »

• Shell Canada asks regulator to leave huge pipe on sea floor off Nova Scotia

  Shell Canada has officially applied to abandon two kilometres of pipe it accidentally dropped on the ocean floor off the coast of Nova Scotia. The pipe, Read More »
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  Coast Guard, NOAA Discuss Safety Requirements For Vessels Chartered To Support Scientific Research

  Commercial vessels, in particular commercial fishing vessels, are often chartered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to engage in scientific research. There is a Read More »
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  HR 200 – 24 Fishing Groups from Around the Nation Call for Magnuson-Stevens Act Reforms

  Twenty-four members of Saving Seafood’s National Coalition for Fishing Communities (NCFC) are calling on Congress to enact broad reforms to the Magnuson-Stevens Act (MSA), including allowing Read More »

• The Real Story behind Canada’s Murder for Lobster Case

  Two years ago, in a small Nova Scotian village, a local troublemaker and lobster thief went missing, and three lobstermen eventually confessed to his vicious murder. Read More »

• For Rockfish, A Tale Of Recovery, Hidden On Menus

   For West Coast commercial fishermen and seafood lovers, there is reason to cheer. “On the East Coast, they call striped bass ‘rockfish.’ You offer them a Read More »

• There’s more to shrimping than trawling

  DELCAMBRE – Experts from the LSU AgCenter and Louisiana Sea Grant met with area  shrimpers to help them become more efficient, learn new technology and comply  with federal fishing regulations. Read More »

• Starkist threatens to move ops away from American Samoa due to rising wages, fishing rules

  US tuna canner Starkist has imposed a hiring freeze in and warned that it is considering shifting some of its production to Ecuador and Senegal,,, In Read More »

• Study: Seismic Testing Disrupts Fish Behavior

  Almost anyone who’s thrown a hook in the water to catch a fish in a quiet atmosphere probably knows intuitively that loud noises spook them: you Read More »

• Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission limits take of sea cucumbers to 200 a day

  Operators of a Ramrod Key processing facility for sea cucumbers came up short in their appeal to Florida’s fishery managers Wednesday. Agreeing with concerns of agency Read More »

• Cautionary fish tale from Australia’s Great Barrier Reef marine reserve

  All told, vessels have been catching 39% less seafood—roughly 4500 metric tons—in the Great Barrier Reef than before the closure, Fletcher and colleagues report in a Read More »
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  P.E.I. Lobster fishery reduces floating rope in hopes of protecting North Atlantic right whales

  Lobster fishers on P.E.I. are taking new measures this season to help protect the endangered North Atlantic right whales from entanglement. In January, Fisheries and Oceans Read More »

• The price of cod – The Fisheries Broadcast with John Furlong

  A harvester worries about this year’s cod fishery with a price that’s looking like it will be below last year’s – and a conversation with Danny Read More »

• Shrimp: a Little Creature’s Big Impact by Matt Rhoney

  Shrimp has had a wide-ranging set of influences on the United States. This buggy little sea-creature has brought cash flow into our economy, nutrients into our Read More »

• Great White Shark Baby Boom Expected Off Montauk

  There’s a baby boom of great white sharks expected in the coming months — and the massive mama sharks are about to head to the nursery, Read More »

• 25-30-year-old man Coast Guard medevaced from 680-foot fish processing vessel Ocean Phoenix

  Watchstanders at the Coast Guard 17th District command center in Juneau received the request for medevac from the master of the Ocean Phoenix when a crewman Read More »

• Seafood giant Clearwater Seafoods Inc. losses spike

  Clearwater Seafoods Inc. reported Wednesday a loss of $9.8 million on sales of $95.3 million in the second quarter of this year. “Strong catch rates in Read More »

• Fishermen want the hardest Brexit deal they can get

  Graham Doswell is in optimistic form as he unloads netfulls of lobster, crab, sprat, white bait and a solitary plaice after a hard days fishing off Read More »