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• The NOAA to steer up to $10M to aid for fishery

  As numerous Gloucester fishing vessels rest at the dock, with fishermen unable to cut a profit, NOAA announced Thursday a plan not to directly bail out Read More »

• Do you love your Ocean? Against Ocean Mining? LOST? This Clinton Email should jack ya!

  As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton intervened in a request forwarded by her son-in-law on behalf of a deep-sea mining firm to meet with her or Read More »
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  Make-or-break moment for province’s Liberal MPs; seal vote goes before Parliament on Wednesday

  Seaward Enterprises Association of Newfoundland and Labrador (SEA-NL) is calling on the province’s six Liberal Members of Parliament to vote for a bill before Parliament Wednesday Read More »

• Upgrading Sacramento’s wastewater treatment could cost $2 billion

  In December 2010, the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board told the plant to clean up its effluent as a condition of renewing its state Read More »

• This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – Pink salmon diets take a direct hit.

  Now, a federal study reveals its first signs on how corrosive oceans are affecting sea life – and it points to big trouble for pink salmon. Read More »
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  DFO warns 80% of N.L. snow crab are below fishable size

  Eighty per cent of the snow crab in the province’s waters are now smaller than fishable size, and new biological research from the Department of Fisheries Read More »
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  Fisheries minister casts line to Ottawa for lobster poaching task force

  Fisheries Minister Keith Colwell says he’s “very concerned” about the possibility of violence related to lobster poaching in southwest Nova Scotia and he’s proposing an idea Read More »

• Being Pushed Out: Offshore wind farms add to woes of Dutch fishing fleet

  Plans to extend the number Dutch offshore wind farms are adding to the problems faced by the Dutch North Sea fishing fleet, said the Financieele Dagblad Read More »

• U.S. Sen. David Vitter – Protecting red snapper fishing – The Commercial/Recreational Conflict

  The group responsible for overseeing our fisheries and protecting this access is the Gulf of Mexico Regional Fishery Management Council. But this group, supposedly dedicated to Read More »

• Commercial Fisherman in Northern California Takes Legal Action to Challenge Dock Prices

  In the commercial fishing industry, rising costs, particularly fuel prices, have long been a major concern for fishermen across the United States. However, one commercial harvester Read More »

• Michigan men charged with federal wildlife crimes – Aquarium owner accused of collecting Keys fish, selling them

  The owner of Michigan aquarium-supply firm made two business trips the Florida Keys in 2011, towing a boat behind a specially equipped van, to collect live Read More »
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  The check is (almost) in the mail

  Active lobstermen are being advised to open mail from the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission in the coming months, because the envelopes that arrive just might Read More »

• Fishermen’s Alliance Highlights Offshore Wind Threat to Haddock, Lobster Fisheries in Gulf of Maine

  An alliance of groups representing New England’s fishermen is highlighting scientific research that suggests offshore wind development could have “population-scale effects” on key fish and crustacean Read More »

• Hawaiian leaders urge President Barack Obama to expand marine conservation area

  A group of Native Hawaiian leaders have urged President Barack Obama to expand what’s already one of the largest marine conservation areas in the world. But Read More »
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  Coast Guard Medevacs Man from Fishing Vessel 154 Miles East of Kodiak, Alaska

  A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevaced a crewman from the fishing vessel Cape Greig 154 miles east of Kodiak, Tuesday. The Read More »
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  EDITORIAL: Menhaden harvest limit actually means something

  Last week, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, the partnership, or “interstate compact,” that sets harvest limits for 27 fisheries up and down the Atlantic Coast, Read More »

• Black market lobsters cost man $94k

  A WA man has been fined and banned from lobster fishing for two years after selling hundreds of rock lobsters on the black market. Graham Thomas Read More »

• Goliath grouper harvest becoming popular idea – Florida F & W Conservation Commission wants the your opinion

  In a University of Florida survey, 1,518 recreational hook-and-line fishermen, 574 recreational spear fishermen, 697 commercial fishermen and 352 sightseeing divers answered a series of questions Read More »

• Something’s Fishy – The Central Pacific Nation of Kiribati Boasts It Has Created One of the Largest No-Fishing Marine Reserves in the World. Unfortunately, It’s Not True

  Meet President Anote Tong of Kiribati, a Central Pacific country of three-dozen postcard-pretty coral atolls that may become uninhabitable some day because global warming is causing ocean Read More »

• FWC takes up Keys issues: Commercial fishing boats, lobster traps

  Loopholes for bogus fishing boats and suspicious crustacean traps may be plugged by state fishing regulators Wednesday and Thursday. Concern about a new breed of stone-crab Read More »
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  North Carolina fishermen pull up lost crab pots in effort to clean up the coast

  On a cold and blustery morning, Keith Bruno, a commercial fisherman from Pamlico County, loads up his boat and heads out. Today, he’s not looking for Read More »
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  Coast Guard suspends search for missing man after boat capsizes near Bodega Bay

  The Coast Guard suspended their search Sunday morning for a man who was missing after Coast Guard crews rescued three people Saturday evening from a capsized Read More »

• FFAW Demonstrations Tomorrow (Monday)

  FFAW-Unifor is holding demonstrations for all members and community supporters on Monday, March 28 at 11 am at the Confederation Building in St. John’s & Civic Read More »
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  Faced with crashing crab stocks, council looks to swiftly analyze closures and trawl impacts

  As crab fishermen face a dire season in Western Alaska this year, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council is looking for quick analysis and the fleet Read More »
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  Bristol Bay bust – Bristol Bay salmon prices hit rock bottom

  Prices paid commercial fishermen for their catches of wild, Bristol Bay sockeye salmon have just set a modern record low of 50 cents per pound. That’s Read More »