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• LSU AG Center will hold its annual Louisiana Fisheries Summit for commercial fishermen at Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center

  March 12 – 13, 2013 – Topics will include fisheries and seafood industry status updates, marketing, refrigeration, shipping and boats and motors. The summit will also Read More »
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  Fishermen protest outside Fisheries office, lobsters dumped at ‘dozens’ of sites across Nova Scotia

  Several dozen lobster fishermen gathered outside a federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) office in southwestern Nova Scotia on Monday to continue their protest over Read More »

• People are pulling out their fire grates and steamer pans – Be safe when eating oysters

  Oyster season begins Oct. 15, bringing back for the ‘R’ months a taste treat reputed also to be an aphrodisiac. “People are pulling out their fire Read More »
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  Updates to the Lobster Industry from Commissioner Keliher

  As I have promised before, I want to make sure you are as informed as possible as the situation around right whales evolves. There have been Read More »
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  Bristol Bay Fisheries Report: July 2, 2020

  Fish are picking up around the bay. The run leapt past the 4 million fish mark and is approaching 5 million, and the runs in the Read More »

• Lawsuit accuses Costco of selling shrimp fed by slave labor

  A lawsuit filed Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015, in San Francisco accuses retail giant Costco of selling giant shrimp that was produced by slave labor in Thailand. Read More »

• How Stellwagen Bank came to be named

  Once upon a time there was a man named Henry Stellwagen. We know that time was the mid-1800s, and Henry served in the United States Navy. Read More »

• NOAA report finds commercial and recreational saltwater fishing generated $199 billion in 2011

  Economic information related to commercial and recreational fishing activities, and fishing-related industries in the United States are reported in the annual Fisheries Economics of the U.S. statistical Read More »

• Deadliest Catch Roundup – Season 12 – Various articles leading up to tonight’s Season Premier

  ‘Deadliest Catch’ Returns With A New Captain And A Life-Threatening Emergency At Sea Click here – ‘Deadliest Catch’ Sneak Peek: Meet the Newest Captain! Click here – A Read More »

• Fisherman survives day at sea adrift in fish bin, “I’m Ryan Hunter Harris and I’m not going to die here.”

  SITKA, Alaska (AP) — A fisherman who spent a night adrift in a 4-by-4 foot  plastic fish bin after his boat sank off Alaska says he Read More »
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  In Labrador, desperate pleas for search and rescue resources still unanswered

  Dwight Russell can’t forget the apologetic words from one of the RCMP officers who came to his door on a Sunday evening in September. “We just Read More »
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  World First: LNG-Fueled Fishing Trawler Powered by MAN D&T

  MAN Diesel & Turbo was picked to provide a complete propulsion package and fuel-gas system for the world’s first fishing vessel with LNG propulsion, an 86-m Read More »

• Marine Matters: “Oh, I’ve got the blues so bad . . .”

  Are you feeling blue? I’m not. It’s mid-July, the weather is warm, the Japanese beetles have not yet decimated my garden, and I just ate my Read More »

• Yes on Question 7: Maine needs to prepare for a changing fisheries future

  Do you favor a $7,000,000 bond issue to facilitate the growth of marine businesses and commercial enterprises that create jobs and improve the sustainability of the Read More »

• FISH-NL calls on FFAW President Keith Sullivan to apologize to members

  The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH-NL) is calling on Keith Sullivan, president of the FFAW-Unifor, to publicly apologize to his members Read More »

• New rules for commercial spiny lobster bully-netting get final vote

  If given final approval by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, bully-netting would become a more regulated sector within the state season on spiny lobster Read More »

• Fisheries protests give rise to a new John Efford — but what’s next for the unofficial leader?

  Until this month, the general public would have associated Efford’s name with his late father — the former fisheries minister who was a firebrand in his Read More »

• PNA tuna MSC Certified product hits European market – I wonder how.

  The Pacifical tuna is skipjack tuna caught from wild schools (rather than using Fish Aggregating Devices or FADs) and carries the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) ecolabel. more@solomanstarnews  Read More »

• Bristol Bay drift permits drop in value

  Just a few months ago, a permit for driftnet salmon in Bristol Bay went for over $225,000. There were many in that general price range late Read More »

• Cape Cod fishermen hoping for a lifeline as the region faces ongoing cod shortages

  The fishermen of Cape Cod have been forced to approach the American government for a bailout to save the region’s fishing community. Falling catches, caused by Read More »

• Alaska Editorial: Mind the gaps

  This week in Anchorage, the state brought in experts to identify the gaps in the draft plan. They received some useful comments. Reviewers urged that more Read More »

• Scotland’s ‘Green’ Jobs Myth Implodes: Wind Turbine Manufacturer Sacks Hundreds

  A job that depends on subsidies, isn’t really a job, at all, it’s a make-work scheme cooked up by closet socialists. And, so it is, with Read More »

• Denmark Finds Sea Shepherd Guilty of breaking the Faroe Islands Pilot Whaling Act

  On Friday, Netherlands-based marine conservation charity, Sea Shepherd Global, and five Sea Shepherd volunteer crewmembers were found guilty in a Danish court of breaking the Faroe Read More »

• Arctic Nations Sign Declaration to Prevent Unregulated Fishing in the Central Arctic Ocean

  The five states that surround the central Arctic Ocean – Canada, the Kingdom of Denmark in respect of Greenland, the Kingdom of Norway, the Russian Federation, Read More »

• DFO slashes crab quota in latest blow to N.L. fishing industry

  In yet another blow to the Newfoundland and Labrador fishing industry, federal fisheries has announced that the total allowable catch for snow crab will be cut by 22 Read More »