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• 2 arrested in assault of ‘Deadliest Catch’ star Jake Harris

  Authorities in Washington state said Tuesday that two people accused of beating one of the stars of the TV series “Deadliest Catch” over the weekend were Read More »
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  BASE Seafood Auction set to unveil revolutionary software to buoy groundfish industry

  In his dimly lit second floor office surrounded by artifacts of the past, from antique license plates to model fishing vessels to family photos, Richie Canastra Read More »

• NOAA releases $8.3M to Massachusetts for groundfish disaster

  Ed Barrett, a commercial fisherman from Marshfield, thinks the money will help a lot of fishermen missed in the first round of disaster aid released last Read More »

• Three Rescued From Burning Vessel Off Brookings Tuesday Evening; GoFundMe Set Up For Survivor

  Three people are in a San Francisco-area hospital after their fishing vessel caught on fire about 50 nautical miles off the coast of Brookings on Tuesday. Read More »

• FFAW-Unifor upset with DFO decision to draft inadequate northern shrimp plan

  The Fish, Food and Allied Workers (FFAW-Unifor) union is criticizing a decision to move forward with drafting a rebuilding plan for northern shrimp that it calls Read More »

• The Donald Marshall decision and Digby’s lobster wars 

  A debate over illegal fishing has reached a boiling point in southwest Nova Scotia. Amidst accusations from non-Indigenous fishers about black market lobster sales, the Assembly Read More »
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  Bernadette Jordan: Fisheries officers will enforce the rules. Moderate livelihood fisheries must take place within the commercial season

  Anyone caught harvesting lobster outside the commercial fishing season this year will have to contend with fisheries officers, says federal Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan. The minister Read More »
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  Exhibition celebrates town’s lifeboat heritage

  A new exhibition celebrates the “very intrinsic part” a lifeboat station has played in the history of a town in the west of the island. The Read More »

• Federal scrutiny on the Bounty’s ill-fated final voyage

  More than a week before Hurricane Sandy became a superstorm that would zero in on New York and New Jersey, the captain of the tall ship Picton Read More »

• Renovated Damariscotta Mills Maine fish ladder ‘a magic thing’

  NOBLEBORO, Maine — When the alewives return in the next few weeks to Salt Bay at the head of the Damariscotta River, ready for the arduous Read More »
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  Walter Kumiega reflects on eight years in the House

  Deer Isle carpenter Walter Kumiega represented District 134—Deer Isle, Stonington, Isle au Haut and eight other communities—for eight years in the state legislature before becoming ineligible Read More »

• Bearing Sea Crab Fishermen and processors had their IFQ permits in hand by the close of business Thursday.

  Several crab fisheries in the Bering Sea are open as federal regulators were successful in getting fishermen their IFQ permits so they can drop pots. The end Read More »

• Sandy grant program open to N.J. fishing businesses – From NOAA federal fishery disaster declaration fund

  Fishing businesses upended by Hurricane Sandy may be eligible for up to $10,000 in grants to recover from the 2012 storm that tossed around boats and Read More »
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  Fishermen vow to prevent construction of Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm – would rather die than allow it to go ahead

  French fishermen have declared that they would rather die fighting than allow a fully approved offshore wind farm to be built off Brittany, and have vowed Read More »

• Bay of Fundy lobster season gets off to good start

  According to a 2013 report from Fisheries and Oceans Canada, lobster landings in the Bay of Fundy are  Each of the past five lobster fishing seasons Read More »

• Fed probe of NOAA rules due in November – By Richard Gaines GloucesterTimes.com

  The U.S. Commerce Department’s inspector general expects to make public in November a procedural review of how NOAA and its regional fishery management councils make rules Read More »
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  California officials vie to improve response after oil spill

  California officials on Monday said better communication and detection technologies could improve the state’s response to an oil spill like last month’s crude pipeline leak off Read More »

• Opinion: Cashes Ledge decision a victory for open government

  The decision by the Obama administration to pass on a proposal to make a large swath of the Gulf of Maine a national monument is not Read More »

• North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for Nov. 9, 2015

  Click here to read the Weekly Update, to read all the updates, Click here 17:55 Read More »
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  Car was engulfed in flames after violent crash. Watch fishermen pull out the driver.

  Jim Biggart says his brother Andy might not be alive today if it weren’t for the fishermen who rushed to pull him from his burning car. Read More »

• Bigelow Breakdown – Fish Survey at Risk of Skewed Data?

  Even before mechanics found deeply pitted bearings near crankshafts in its generators, problems that could have led to catastrophic engine failure, the Henry B. Bigelow was Read More »

• NOAA Regional Director John Bullard – NOAA sees ‘status quo’ on closed fish areas, ignoring climate affects on fisheries

  NOAA Regional Director John Bullard, in a letter to the New England Fishery Management Council, indicated the federal agency will not stand with fishing advocates in Read More »

• Super sockeye run could whack weak stocks

  Conservationists are worried a predicted bonanza of sockeye salmon returning to the Fraser River this summer will also bring a frenzy of fishing that could harm Read More »

• Different states with different rules sting SouthCoast fluke fishermen

  POINT JUDITH, R.I. — April 9 was a good day for Tony Borges, captain of the Sao Paulo. He only had to throw 100 pounds of Read More »
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  Undersea cable survey marks milestone in Maine’s offshore wind quest

  Three marine vessels that study the makeup and geology of seabeds are scheduled to arrive in Maine over the next week or so to survey the Read More »