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  Wild Wild West sets new record at Stonington lobster boat races

  Lobstermen put away the traps and opened the throttles this weekend at the Stonington lobster boat races. About 75 boats participated in the races this year, Read More »
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  Canada, Britain strike new trade, beating Brexit, incorporating expiring EU pact

  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his British counterpart, Boris Johnson, announced the deal during a live video news conference on Saturday morning.,, Britain’s decision to leave Read More »
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  GoFundMe Established For Gravely Injured Hampton Bays Man

  Matthew Raynor, 29, and a resident of Hampton Bays, was gravely injured in a diving accident doing just that near Towd Point in North Sea.  Matthew Read More »

• New Jersey takes giant step back from offshore wind following White House moves, Shell pullout

  In a pair of rapid-fire announcements, the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities said Monday it was ending the state’s fourth round of solicitation for new Read More »

• Interior secretary set to visit Boston as enviros launch marine monument campaign

  When Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke visits the Boston area on Friday, environmentalists plan to greet him by rallying for the preservation of national monuments that are Read More »

• Mid Atlantic Fishery Management Council Meeting in Annapolis, MD: December 9-12, 2013

  The public is invited to attend the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council’s December meeting in Annapolis, Maryland. December 9-12, 2013 Westin Annapolis Hotel 100 Westgate Circle Annapolis, Read More »
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  DEC: Party boat anglers caught dumping illegal fish in Montauk Harbor

  State marine enforcement officers issued eight tickets and 22 warnings last month after people aboard a party boat were spotted throwing “hundreds of pounds” of illegal Read More »
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  Fish Factory Vessel Leaking Ammonia in Tacoma

  A 77-year-old fish factory vessel with a checkered history is reportedly leaking ammonia in Tacoma, Wash. The U.S. Coast Guard said on Wednesday it is responding Read More »
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  Ban Mega Trawlers from Irish waters says Sinn Féin as F/V Margiris ploughs seas off Cork coast

  It’s already been banned from Australian waters – now Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on fisheries says the FV Margiris and so called “super trawlers’ like her should Read More »
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  ‘There’s no future in it’: Parry Sound commercial fishers given ever-decreasing catch limits

  Earlier this year, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry announced it was “modernizing” the commercial fishery, including a move toward fishers digitally reporting their daily Read More »

• Fish Galore! It’s a fine Fishy Friday in Newlyn

  Cool cloud colours this morning but still autumnal temperatures pervade… Lots of fish photo’s, from Tuna to Turbot! >click to read< 08:34 Read More »

• As the oceans warm, fish populations are on the move.

  Few people see the effects of climate change as clearly as fishermen. As the climate changes and the oceans warm, fish are moving in search of Read More »

• PEIFA president is optimistic, sees signs of higher prices

  The president of the P.E.I. Fishermen’s Association is chomping at the bit to get the 2016 spring lobster fishery underway next weekend and he’s optimistic of Read More »

• From the Deckboss – A salmon summit in Seattle

  For a long while, Alaska and the MSC seemed to be happy partners. In recent years, however, many players in the Alaska seafood industry have become Read More »
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  ‘Waves of tears’

  When Angie Chase got the phone call that a fishing boat had flipped near the Tillamook coast, she “just knew.” Todd Chase was on the fishing Read More »

• The North Carolina Fisheries Association reorganizes, vows more active voice on issues

  The North Carolina Fisheries Association begins its sixth decade as one of the oldest commercial fishing organizations in the country with a reorganization to again become Read More »

• New Bedford to unveil Fishermen’s Tribute Monument at 6 p.m. June 30 in Tonneson Park

  New Bedford will celebrate the installation of the Fishermen’s Tribute Monument at 6 p.m. June 30 located in Tonneson Park on the New Bedford waterfront. The Read More »
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  Alaska Supreme Court hears challenge to fish landing tax

  Since the 1990s, Alaska has taxed seafood caught by factory trawlers and floating processors through the Fisheries Resource Landing Tax. Even though the fish is caught outside Read More »

• UNCW professor studies declining flounder population in the New River Estuary of North Carolina

  Since 2005, professor of marine biology Fred Scharf along with his team of UNCW undergraduates and graduate students, have been studying the migration patterns and genetics Read More »

• “Everything helps”: Local shrimpers happy for foreign shrimp tariffs

  The U.S. International Trade Commission has found that the U.S. Seafood industry has been suffering due to foreign frozen warmwater shrimp. “It’s going to take time Read More »
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  Blended Waters: It’s simply unbelievable!

  It’s safe to assume that most of our population enjoys seafood and it’s likely that if you’re reading this, you do as well. I know I Read More »

• Disputed National Marine Fisheries Service data leads to a correction

  After significant objection from the recreational fishing and boating community, the National Marine Fisheries Service is taking steps to correct a key fisheries economics  report that Read More »

• Business Opposition Grows Stronger to Offshore Oil Exploration and Drilling

  Today we are delivering our clear message to Interior Secretary Zinke—no offshore oil exploration and drilling in the Atlantic Ocean. With the addition of the Miami Read More »

• Delano: Biden administration won’t leave lobstermen alone

  Lawmakers and a federal appeals court last year defeated a federal plan to save endangered whales by eradicating New England’s lobster industry. With those plans undone, Read More »
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  SAFETY: A gradual culture change has been taking place across much of the fishing industry

  As one of the world’s leading insurers of fishing vessels, Sunderland Marine keeps a close eye on the fishing industry’s evolution and has encouraged increasing safety Read More »