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  ‘What we’re looking for is a fair shake’: Newfoundland inshore crab fishers resume pop-up protests around St. John’s

  They didn’t get a clear answer from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans on Monday, so inshore crab harvesters are holding “pop-up” protests again today, March Read More »
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  Brexit fishing victory as England’s most lucrative port lands record £43.6m of seafood

  Brixham Fish Market, in Devon, topped 2020’s £35.8million and the previous £40.3million record from 2017. And contrary to many Remainers predicting that leaving the EU would Read More »

• Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 36′ Wayne Beal Gillnetter/Lobster Boat

  To review specifications, information, and 10 photos’, >click here<, To see all the boats in this series, >click here< 06:07 Read More »

• Scientist captures amazing photos of massive Alaskan sockeye salmon run

  If the realms of science and art seems worlds away from each other, you’d be gravely mistaken. After all, when you’re studying the science behind the world Read More »

• Study to focus on fishing port of Belford, North Middletown

  “We’re going to explore options, meet with people in the community, the various property owners and fishermen, and try to develop a vision for the future.” Read More »

• Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 48ft. Fiberglass Crabber/Gillnetter 349HP Cat – Price Reduced!

  Specifications, information and 21 photo’s  click here  To see all the boats in this series, Click here 12:06 Read More »

• A whale washed up dead. Greens blame a Democrat.

  Environmentalists say Chellie Pingree’s defense of the Maine lobster industry could imperil a critically endangered whale. Doing what greens want would likely send the Democrat to Read More »
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  How warming waters around P.E.I. could affect snow crab and lobster

  Research scientist Joël Chassé says as the atmosphere warms, the ocean waters around P.E.I. are also heating up. “Changes are happening. It’s not deniable anymore. And Read More »

• Atlantic cod pushing out Arctic relatives?

  When I visited the AWI Biological Institute on the German North Sea island of Helgoland last year for a story on how climate change is affecting marine Read More »
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  Fishermen Protest Against Kyaukphyu Seaport

  Fishermen aboard 120 boats protested along the Thanzit River against the Maday Island deep seaport in Arakan State on Monday, as authorities have banned them from Read More »

• The meaning behind Ed Parker’s painting, The Lobster Trap – Thief of Tradition

  In the painting The Lobster Trap by Ed Parker, a Maine lobsterman lowers crates into the water while, unbeknownst to him, a large sea monster intertwines itself Read More »

• Offshore wind farm shot down again by New Jersey

  New Jersey has taken the winds out these “fishermen’s” sails again. Fishermen’s Energy, a Cape May-based alternative energy developer, lost in its latest attempt for approval to build Read More »

• BOEM Aims to Control Offshore Wind Developments’ Risk to Right Whales

  In advance of future offshore wind development in the New York Bight, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is preparing a region-wide environmental impact statement, paving the Read More »
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  Irish trawler owners asked to install cameras for EU fishing regulations project

  Irish trawler owners are being asked to voluntarily install remote onboard monitoring cameras that will one day be used to record potential breaches of EU law. Read More »
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  Boatbuilders riding wave of demand from lobster industry and other fisheries flourishes

  The lobster industry is booming and with it, its boatbuilding counterpart. While it is hard to predict the ebbs and flows of lobster stocks, current numbers Read More »
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  Pinnipeds, not commercial fishing, depriving Orca of salmon

  The plight of the orcas has caught the attention of government leaders after a mother orca was spotted carrying her dead baby for nine days in Read More »
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  In Belgium, horses pull shrimp nets in tradition unchanged for 600 years

  In the small western Belgian fishing village of Oostduinkerke, fishermen use horses, rather than boats, to go shrimp fishing — one of the very few places Read More »
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  Oceantech company offers benefits for lobster industry

  When Premier Stephen McNeil toured the Volta Labs startup house in Halifax last month, one company that seemed to catch his eye was SeaSmart, a new Read More »

• Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update, December 21, 2014

  The Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance is dedicated to its mission of continuing to help create sustainable fisheries without putting licensed fishermen out of business.” Read the Read More »

• Worried about the Cape’s striped bass? Look in the mirror. – A call for anglers’ self-regulation

  Once again this summer, a striped bass honey hole off the coast of Chatham will make it difficult for Capegoers to appreciate the severity of the Read More »

• What Jersey Shore fishermen can learn from offshore wind farm spinning off Long Island

  Only the silent hum of the ferry as it curved around the side of one of a dozen towering wind turbines could be heard Wednesday morning Read More »

• Two more arrests made in disappearance Petit de Grat boater Phillip Joseph Boudreau.

  Officers arrested a 65-year-old man in Little Anse at 11:05 a.m. Friday and another man, 43, in Arichat 40 minutes later, RCMP said in a news Read More »

• Something’s fishy: Canada’s fish products often labelled as the wrong species

  Canadians aren’t big fish eaters according to Statistics Canada, averaging less than 10 kilograms per person each year. But it’s safe to say when we do Read More »
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  NOAA says days-old North Atlantic right whale already injured by propeller

  North Atlantic right whale researchers were thrilled to find out a fourth calf had been spotted this year. But the excitement disappeared after learning the newborn, Read More »
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  Gulf of St. Lawrence Spring lobster season begins at 6 a.m. on May 15

  Fisheries and Oceans Canada says this year’s spring lobster fishery in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence will open May 15 and close on June 30. Read More »