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  ‘If I lose my right, I have nothing’: A Mi’kmaw fisherwoman’s fight for her right to fish

  For the last 21 years, Marilynn-Leigh Francis has dropped her lobster traps near Digby, N.S. She said she has a right to fish there as a Read More »

• Its here! The Alaska Marine Safety Education Association Spring 2016 Newsletter

  The Spring newsletter is here! Along with daffodils and an early crop of salmon berries, this spring brings the first cruise ships of the year to Southeast Read More »

• Apalachicola Bay-Franklin County Oysterman: “We’re going to lose everything we’ve ever worked for”

  “I don’t know how families are going to survive,” said his wife and fellow oysterman, Betty Shiver. For the oystering couple, making a decent living these Read More »

• NEFMC Postpones Coral Action for Continental Slope/Canyons, adopts GoM Coral Protection Zones

  The New England Fishery Management Council today adopted coral pretection zones for the Gulf of Maine as part of its Omnibus Deep-Sea Coral Amendment. However, it Read More »

• Fortuna City Council to meet Monday; fisheries restoration grant up for discussion

  Times-Standard – The Fortuna City Council will meet Monday to consider a resolution that would allow city staff to apply for a fisheries restoration grant. continued Read More »

• Louisiana shrimpers forced to gamble their livelihood to stay in the industry

  Craig Theriot looks out at the Gulf of Mexico as his boat is fueled up. It’s the waters he’s worked his entire life. If anything breaks Read More »

• New Yellowtail Flounder Survey Raises Questions Over Accuracy of Official Population Estimates

  The initial results of a new, independent survey of Georges Bank yellowtail flounder raises questions over whether federal assessments of yellowtail abundance have been systematically underestimating the Read More »
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  Deepwater pulls back, wind farm on hold

  The wind turbine project planned off the coast of Montauk is dead in the water, at least for now. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management confirmed Read More »

• Louisiana Regulators to Close Blue Crab Fishery for Thirty Days

  Crabbing in Louisiana comes to an abrupt halt Sunday night when a state imposed 30-day prohibition goes into effect. In an effort to protect against over-harvesting Read More »
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  P.E.I. scallop fisherman hooks more than he bargained for

  Charles Doull knew his scallop drag hooked on to something big, but even he, a seasoned fisherman, was surprised to discover it was a massive anchor that’s Read More »

• Mexican fishermen burn boat, demand environmentalists out

  Dozens of fishermen have burned a boat as part of a threat to force out a ship operated by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in Mexico’s Read More »

• Conservative Cape Cod scientist announces 2nd run for Congress, hoping to challenge Keating

  A Brown University biology professor calling for tighter border security and less government regulation is taking his second run at the U.S. House of Representatives, announcing Read More »
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  On the Puget Sound, the Women Whose Lives and Work Revolve Around Salmon

  In the town of Bellingham, Washington, everyone knows when the salmon run come fall. Shimmery silvers and chum salmon break the chilly water’s surface with their Read More »
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  Solutions sought to ease conflicts over Southeast Alaska’s rising sea otter populations

  A hundred years ago, the fur trade wiped out sea otters in Southeast Alaska. They were reintroduced in the 1960s with 412 animals brought from Amchitka Read More »

• Recreational IFQ’s? Louisiana wants to give 150 anglers almost unlimited access to red snapper

  Despite vehement opposition from recreational-fishing advocacy groups, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says it has worked up a pilot program that will award a Read More »
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  Offshore Wind Farm Costs $150,000 Per Home Currently Powered

  An offshore wind farm in Rhode Island went online Monday, but building it costed $150,000 for every household powered. Three miles off the coast of Block Read More »

• Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 82′ Steel Stern Dragger, 525HP Cummins KTA 19 M

  To review specifications, information, and 10 photos, >click here< , To see all the boats in this series >click here<11:46 Read More »
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  Happening Now! Fishermen block off DFO building in St. John’s for protest

  Fishermen have set up camp outside the Department of Fisheries and Oceans office in St. John’s Thursday morning for another protest. The group of 18 protesters Read More »

• Hawaii Bigeye Tuna Industry Reels Two Months after Reaching Its Quotas

  HONOLULU (08 Oct. 2015) For the past two months, since early August, about a quarter of the 145 active vessels in the have been prohibited from Read More »

• Study highlights threats to Southern Resident killer whales

  A NOAA report released on June 25, 2014, which focused on 10 years of research and conservation efforts on the endangered Southern Resident killer whales, confirms Read More »

• Couple “Tie’s the Knot” on the deck of the bride’s longliner

  As part of the ceremony for Tracy LaCosta of Campbell’s Creek and her husband Ben Hickey, a rope knot tying took place. While the fisherman’s knot Read More »

• NY reports progress restoring wild Lake Sturgeon

  Researchers in New York have found two wild lake sturgeon juveniles, the first  caught after years of stocking intended to restore populations of the  once-plentiful Great Read More »

• Oral argument scheduled for observer lawsuit

  Oral argument in the lawsuit over the federal observer program is scheduled for April. Judge H. Russel Holland will hear from The Boat Company, the Fixed Read More »

• Canadian crustaceans satisfying China’s demand for Atlantic lobster

  The Chinese wholesaler wanted 1,000 kilograms of live lobster from Nova Scotia – the bigger the better – and he wanted it in Beijing in less Read More »
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  Coast Guard searching for Fort Pierce fishing captain who fell overboard

  The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for 31-year-old Russell Minor, the captain of a 46-foot fishing vessel who reportedly fell overboard at 2:57 a.m. on Sunday Read More »