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  Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council meeting in Gulfport, MS April 16 – 20, 2018

  The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will meet April 16 – 20, 2018 at the Marriott Courtyard hotel, located at 1600 E. Beach Boulevard, Gulfport, Read More »
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  Smit Salvage has completed the removal of the wrecked fishing vessel Northguider

  On December 28, 2018, the trawler Northguider grounded in the Hinlopenstretet, the strait between Spitsbergen and Nordauslandet in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. Her crew put Read More »
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  NOAA audit questions Wespac’s grant award for DLNR

  An audit by the Inspector General of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has found questionable expenditures of $1.23 million by the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Read More »

• Fisheries enforcement in the Gulf under the JEA – On offshore patrol

  Thanks to a Joint Enforcement Agreement between LDWF and U. S. National Marine Fisheries (Service), wildlife agents also patrol federal waters extending from Louisiana’s boundary waters Read More »

• Lawmaker attacks oil companies’ ‘free’ drilling in gulf

  Once upon a time, the price of oil was so low — dropping under $11 a barrel in late 1998 — that Congress agreed that big Read More »

• Congress Proposes Relaxing Sea Lion Protections

  The Endangered Salmon and Fisheries Predation Prevention Act, a proposed amendment to the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act, could soon give tribal members and government fishery Read More »

• Obama: new measures to crack down on illegal fishing at “Our Ocean” 2015 Pow Wow!

  The Obama administration on Monday announced plans to further crack down on illegal fishing, a global problem that can hurt both fishing communities in impoverished nations Read More »
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  Survival of kiack fishery threatened, say Yarmouth County fishermen

  A fishery that provides lobster fishermen with a favourite bait for their catch is struggling with a declining population. Gaspereau, also known as alewife and locally Read More »

• European court expected to back attempt by pelt traders and sporran makers to reverse 2010 ruling Read the comments

  The Independent – A Europe-wide ban on the trade of seal fur and products is expected to be overturned this week, in a move that will Read More »
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  Ship strikes: Saving the Whales is Something the Shipping Industry Needs to Address Immediately

  It is a little known fact that up to 20,000 whales die each year because of lethal collisions with vessels. When presented with the sight of Read More »
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  Shrimp boat stranded by Hurricane Zeta a headache for all

  The smell from the fuel spill on Friday, along with the noise from the clean-up, was annoying to residents who lived on the north side of Read More »

• DFO investigates after dozens of lobster traps belonging to Mi’kmaw fisherman damaged

  Charles Francis fishes under a moderate livelihood authorization between DFO and Mi’kmaw harvesters, which allows designated First Nations community members to catch and sell lobster during Read More »
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  Newport News captain back from voyage delivering supplies to Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian

  Buck Ford guided his scallop boat, the Ocean Fox, to the Bahamas to drop off supplies and help desperate people in need after Hurricane Dorian slammed Read More »

• East Hampton Town Trustees to State Opposition to Methoprene – Why it Matters

  The Suffolk Legislature is expected to soon decide on the county’s 2018 vector control protocol, directly affecting the methods used by the Department of Public Works Read More »
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  Hundreds honor seafood industry hall of fame inductees

  While it’s been a rough year for the seafood industry on the Coast, Saturday was a time to celebrate a heritage that has resilience beyond disaster. Read More »
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  OPINION: Ban seismic testing, offshore drilling of NJ coast

  Summer is in full swing at the Jersey Shore. Over the next couple of months and into the fall, millions of visitors will head “down the Read More »

• High expectation, a season of disappointment – Upper Cook Inlet commercial fishing winds down

  The boom of fish the commercial operations in Upper Cook Inlet expected never arrived this year. High preseason expectations made the 2016 season a disappointment for Read More »
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  Obituary: Commercial Fisherman Ron Ellis

  Our friend, fellow fisherman, brother Ron Ellis, was lost to the ocean on February 20th, while swordfishing off San Diego. His fishing vessel, Defiance, was found Read More »
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  Russia, Norway to increase cod quota

  Norway and Russia share the marine resources in the Barents Sea and quotes for the different spices are negotiated annually. “I’m very pleased that we also Read More »

• National Marine Fisheries Service issues annual report on Fisheries of the United States, 2015

  This publication is the annual National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) yearbook of fishery statistics for the United States for 2015. The report provides data on U.S. Read More »

• An Evolutionary Family Drama

  Alewives are anadromous fish: Born in freshwater, they spend their lives in the ocean, returning annually to their birthplaces to spawn. Until colonial-era dams cut off Read More »

• Fish Grab: Push and pull, as fishermen debate proposed tourist fishery

  The notion that tourists should be able to drop a fishing line in the ocean all summer long has ignited a fierce debate on CBC Radio’s The Read More »
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  Maine lobster harvest value jumps by $46 million!

  State officials say Maine fishermen caught $46 million more worth of lobster in 2018 than they did the previous year. Maine lobstermen caught 120 million pounds Read More »
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  What we know and don’t know about dive boat Conception’s demise – crew, ship and regulations are all under scrutiny

  Amid anguish over 34 lives lost in the fire that consumed a recreational diving boat off the Channel Islands this week — one of the worst Read More »
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  Coast Guard searching for missing man near Cape May from capsized fishing vessel

  The Coast Guard is searching for a man who entered the water when a 32-foot fishing vessel capsized near Cape May, Thursday afternoon. Watchstanders from Coast Guard Read More »