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  $36 million in trade relief awarded to Maine lobstermen

  Maine lobstermen have been awarded a total of $36,284,110.12 to date to help offset the financial harm they have experienced due to China’s retaliatory tariffs, according Read More »
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  Chesapeake Bay blue crabs in trouble, tighter harvest restrictions loom

  With the Chesapeake Bay’s crab population at its lowest ebb in more than 30 years, Maryland and Virginia are moving to curtail harvests in one of Read More »

• New Jersey: Opposition To Seismic Testing Plan

  New Jersey environmental officials say they will go to court in an effort to block a plan for seismic testing of the ocean floor. The National Read More »
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  We’re Being Regulated Out of Business, New England Fishermen Say

  “The New England fishermen are the most regulated fishermen in the world,” Jerry Leeman says. Leeman has been fishing in Maine his entire life. His father, Read More »

• Lobster Legend William V. (Billy) Wyss, of South Kingstown, RI has passed away

  William V. (Billy) Wyss, 69, of South Kingstown RI passed away on Sunday, September 29, 2024 with his family lovingly by his side. As with everything Read More »

• Mass Governor Elect Baker wants broader input on cod regulations

  Questioning the federal estimates used to essentially ban commercial cod fishing in the Gulf of Maine, Governor-elect Charlie Baker said it is time for other scientists Read More »
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  Oregon commercial crab fishery to open Jan. 15

  The commercial Dungeness crab fishery will open on most of Oregon’s coast on Jan. 15. Dungeness crab will be ready to be harvested from Cape Blanco Read More »

• Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 45′ Steel Surf Clammer with Ma State Permit

  To review specifications, information, and 34 photos’,>click here<, To see all the boats in this series, >click here< 09:54 Read More »

• Nearly naked PETA activist covered with BBQ sauce in Vancouver – Video!

  Amy Balcome, an almost naked PETA activist, was drizzled with barbecue sauce on a giant plate in downtown Vancouver Friday, asking people to “Try to Relate to Read More »
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  Monster crab measuring over nine feet hauled up in fishing nets of Kerry trawler

  A monster box crab measuring over nine feet has been hauled up in the fishing nets of a Kerry trawler. Normally found in the depths of Read More »

• Pilot fish survey taps industry expertise – comes amid intense criticism of traditional scientific methods for counting fish.

  Fish sampling surveys provide critical data for assessing the health of fish populations, which are at the core of fishing rules. Critics say the assessments have Read More »

• This one should be bookmarked to your favorites! – Inthetote – … an online archive of fisherpoetry, story and song

  These are the writings, musings, song lyrics and tales tall and small of the commercial fishing industry and the life and adventures that float within it. I’ve Read More »

• Ocean City Boat Featured In ‘Wicked Tuna’ Outer Banks Season Premiere Monday

  The National Geographic Channel’s fishing reality show returns for a new season on Monday and will feature the long-awaited debut of the popular Ocean City-based “Foolish Read More »

• UK Fishermen – Storm Surges and Wind Farms – Economic Disaster

  The government fund will allow people who make their living from the sea to receive up to £5,000 to replace lost or damaged fishing gear including Read More »
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  Nantucket History: Collapse of the Quahog Industry by Amy Jenness

  In 1913 an Edgartown fisherman named Sam Jackson was dragging for flounder around Tuckernuck Shoal when he discovered a massive bed of quahogs and forever changed Read More »

• F/V Misty Blue Missing – 2 Rescued, Coast Guard searching for 2 crew members

  The U.S. Coast Guard Northeast is searching for two crewmen who were aboard a vessel in distress 10 miles off the coast of Nantucket on Monday. Read More »

• Georgia: Shrimpers caught fishing illegally

  Six Georgia fishermen are in hot water for allegedly catching hundreds of pounds of shrimp in state waters before legally allowed to do so. Rangers caught two Read More »

• Global powers sign declaration on sustainable fishing

  ATHENS) – Officials from some of the world’s top fishing powers signed a declaration in Greece on Friday to promote sustainable management of fish stocks. The Read More »
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  Commercial fish traps can aid wild salmon recovery

  A new study evaluating alternative commercial fishing techniques further demonstrates the critical role commercial fish traps can play in recovering wild salmon and steelhead, improving fisheries Read More »
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  North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for February 1, 2019

  >Click here to read the Weekly Update<, to read all the updates >click here<, for older updates listed as NCFA >click here<16:16 Read More »

• Connecticut lobstermen are preparing for the start Sunday of the Long Island Sound fishery’s first-ever seasonal closure

  Theiller, vice president of the Connecticut Lobstermen’s Association, and Stonington lobsterman Michael Grimshaw, president of the Southern New England Fishermen & Lobstermen’s Association, both said they understand that Read More »

• Conflict looms over effort to reopen protected Gulf of Maine fishing ground

  Under the “preferred option” being considered by the council, the more than 500-square-mile closure zone would shrink by roughly 70 percent. All mobile “bottom-tending” fishing gear Read More »

• House bill seeks state approval of fishing closures

  On the heels of the recent announcement to close more than 10,000 acres of Florida’s Biscayne National Park to fishing, a bipartisan bill was introduced in Read More »
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  Venture IV – Trawler Designed for Western Scottish Waters

  Venture II Fishing Company in the UK recently took delivery of a new trawler built for operations off Scotland’s west coast. Designed by Macduff Ship Design Read More »
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  Commercial Fisherman Gary Haynes of Ketchikan, Alaska has passed away

  Gary Lin Haynes was born to Joyce and Ole Haynes October 12, 1954 in Ketchikan, Alaska. He was the third of three boys. Gary was born Read More »