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• Listen to the Bristol Bay Fisheries Report, July 18, 2016

  The total run to Bristol Bay through Sunday is now 41.2 million. Sunday was another two million fish day, with 1.5 million landed and 500,000 counted Read More »

• Where do local fish come from? UNH says Red’s Best

  Red’s Best is a Boston-based fish processor which caters to several fishermen fishing in the Gulf of Maine. For the pilot program, UNH Dining will be purchasing Read More »

• Mr. Governor, Don’t Build That Wall

  Governor Lepage joined a coalition of governors in February who support offshore oil drilling. Lepage became the first Northeast governor to join the Outer Continental Shelf Read More »

• “The fishing industry, in general, is in a very negative mood,” The Controversial Science of Counting Fish

  At the meeting in Portsmouth on Friday, scientists detailed the complexities and uncertainties of counting fish that live out of sight. They also took questions from Read More »

• Fightin windmill’s ain’t enough, right? NROC Aquaculture Working Session These discussions are an essential part of the regional ocean planning effort in New England

  November 9, 2012 — The following was released by the Northeast Regional Ocean Council (NROC) about their upcomming Aquaculture Working Session. We are holding three working Read More »

• Following court decision Cook Inlet fishermen wait for direction

  Concerned fishermen gathered at the North Pacific Fishery Management Council’s October meeting in Anchorage to discuss a recent federal court decision that turns control of salmon fisheries Read More »

• Dishonest fisherman Scott Steer jailed, banned for 10 years

  A skilled fishing master who plundered the halibut and sablefish grounds off the west coast of Vancouver Island has been jailed and effectively banned from the Read More »

• The EDF Fish Tale of Bubba and Miguel

  An article written by some former  WWF stooge that never caught a fish for a living about a guy named Bubba that didn’t like being a fisherman. Read More »

• Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 36′ Fiberglass Lobster/Gillnet, Cummins

  Specifications, and information and 22 photos click here  To see all the boats in this series, Click here  11:04 Read More »

• NOAA Fisheries Approves Amendment 18 to Address Fleet Consolidation in Groundfish Fishery

  NOAA Fisheries has approved Amendment 18 to the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan. The Amendment establishes permit accumulation limits to minimize fleet consolidation in the groundfish Read More »

• With a $3.8 million bid, Rhode Island’s Deepwater Wind New England won the nation’s first offshore wind energy auction

  The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management had split the 164,750-acre area, roughly 2½ times the size of Nantucket, into two portions for development. Deepwater Wind beat Read More »

• Fishery closures suggested to save West Coast killer whales

  Strategic fishery closures and marine habitat protection are part of a proposed plan by the federal government to protect the threatened killer whales off Canada’s West Read More »

• For California salmon, truck rides and bucket lifts

  What do you do when you have 30 million young salmon ready for their big journeys downstream, but drought and development have dried your riverbeds to Read More »

• Thousands of alewives return to Penobscot, tributaries after nearly 200 years without adequate access to upstream habitat

  After nearly 200 years without adequate access to upstream habitat, the alewives finally are back. And not just a few of the river herring have returned. Read More »

• New Jonah crab rules for East Coast fishermen

  Fishing regulators say there will be a new limit on how many Jonah crabs fishermen will be allowed to harvest. East Coast fishermen’s catch of Jonah Read More »

• Labrador shrimp fishery seeing boon from rising ocean temperatures

  A journalist who covers the seafood industry says global warming may be wreaking havoc on the world’s fish stocks as a whole, but could be related Read More »

• The World’s Biggest Fishers Agree To Catch Less Tuna – Greenpeace immediately denounced the reduction

  Asia-Pacific fishing nations and territories agreed on Thursday to cut catches  of young bluefin tuna by 15 percent, with an agreement environmentalists said  would not stop Read More »

• Mexican fishing vessels in Gulf generate growing concern

  On a crisp winter morning in the Gulf of Mexico, a 33-foot U.S. Coast Guard special-purpose craft bounced across white-tipped swells in pursuit of a rickety Read More »

• Mother grieves for Westbrook sailor who fell off fishing vessel

  Barbara A. Foster always dreaded the possibility the ocean could one day claim her son, and Friday she got the call she feared — 47-year-old Martin Read More »

• Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr, R-Gloucester files bi partisan Seafood Marketing Program bill

  The bill, which calls for the establishment of a Massachusetts Seafood Marketing Program within the Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF), has drawn the support of 23 Read More »

• Fisheries Minister Vaughn Granter Optimistic About Revisiting LIFO

  The Fisheries Minister says he’s cautiously optimistic that when provided the evidence, the federal government will abandon the LIFO policy. The latest in a series of Read More »

• PD Editorial: No more red herrings in water talks – “Without a healthy Bay-Delta system, there is no salmon fishing,”

  The delta smelt is an easy target. Substitute “salmon” for “smelt” and try making the case for giving up on an endangered species to secure a Read More »
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  Georgia shrimping season spawns unusual crop: optimism

  The rope that dangled down into the hold of the Jo Ann B from a small square opening in the deck suddenly went taut. The winch Read More »

• EDITORIAL: High time for safety sea change in fishery – The Chronicle Herald

  As Nova Scotians gathered Sunday to honour workers who have died on the job, many of them were remembering fishermen who never returned home. continued Read More »

• Seal hunt off Nova Scotia dormant as pelt market disappears

  The seal hunt off Nova Scotia’s shores isn’t dead yet, but it’s pretty much dormant, fishermen said Tuesday. If market conditions improve, I’m sure we’ll be Read More »