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• Animal welfare organizations in B.C. are furious over the stolen teeth from their dead orca

  The young adult female whale was found floating off the coast Thursday and had been brought ashore. “Someone last night selfishly, cruelly, illegally cut off several Read More »
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  FISH-NL membership drive. Inshore harvesters offered second chance to break free of FFAW-Unifor

  The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH-NL) is launching today its second membership drive for inshore harvesters to finally break free of Read More »

• Deadline soon for feds’ response to fishing monitor petition

  A fishermen’s group says it’s still waiting on the federal government’s response to a petition it filed with the U.S. Supreme Court about the cost of Read More »
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  Canada: Government conflict of interest a threat to fish biodiversity: scientists

  Canada has made disappointingly little progress in preserving the variety of life in its oceans largely because of a contradiction in the federal department that’s supposed Read More »

• Coast Guard seizes 450 red snapper illegally caught off South Texas coast

  CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Coast Guard interdicted a Mexican fishing crew poaching in South Texas waters, Sunday, 30 miles offshore and 70 miles north of Read More »

• Sunday night – Live Stream Presentation – Tragedy and Courage on the Bering Sea – 360North

  One of the most riveting stories of disaster and bravery at sea is now a television documentary, being broadcast this week on KTOO’s 360 North. Tragedy Read More »
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  Another wild night at Happy Jack’s! “Happy Jacks Saloon: The Last Morro Bay Fisherman’s Dive”

  Bob “2-Beer” Bullnair refuses to listen to reason, especially if he’s into his third beer. 2-Beer works exclusively for Rafe Monk, captain of the Mary Anne. Read More »

• Commercial Fisherman Thomas “Tom” Michael Doak of Virginia has passed away

  Thomas “Tom” Michael Doak passed away on the morning of March 1, 2025, at the age of 68. He was born on November 22, 1956 in Read More »
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  Salmon cannon to help fish get around landslide on Fraser River

  Plans are underway for a pneumatic fish pump, also known as a salmon cannon, to be used to help fish migrate past a landslide on British Read More »

• Editorial: Fishery appeals ruling put onus on capping catch shares

  Yet no one should believe that this ruling marks the end of the fight over catch shares, or other aspects of the gross mismanagment of New Read More »
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  Fishing company and skipper on trial for alleged unlawful trawling in Tasman Sea

  Fishing company Amaltal and a skipper of its vessel the Apollo are on trial for allegedly trawling in an unauthorised area of the Tasman Sea. Amaltal, Read More »
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  Perpetrators Who Caused the Death of 69 People Were Convicted in the Wreck of a Trawler in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk

  Figures of the criminal case on the death of 69 people as a result of the crash of the Far East trawler in 2015 in the Read More »

• Lawmaker: Trump Can Undo Obama’s National Monument Decrees

  A top House Republican urged President-elect Donald Trump to rescind the Obama administration’s decisions to put millions of acres of land and ocean under stricter federal Read More »

• Alaska Department of Fish and Game announces its 2013 Kuskokwim River king salmon forecast

  On Friday, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced its 2013 Kuskokwim River king salmon forecast. It predicts 160,000–240,000 fish, with a drainage-wide goal of Read More »
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  British Fishermen Feared Pro-Brexit Campaigners Would Betray Them—and They Did

  Few communities in the United Kingdom were as supportive of Brexit as fishermen. Politicians pushing for the country to leave the European Union capitalized on the Read More »
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  Shrimp season may be slow, opens June 20

  Georgia’s shrimp season should start well when it opens June 20, but scientists and shrimpers expect it will taper off as fall settles in the Golden Read More »
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  The Lobsta Run: United chemistry teacher runs lobster transport business

  Matt Grata will soon head out on another one of his “lobsta runs” from his Vinco home to Maine’s ocean coast. It will be a combination Read More »
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  UFCA President Says Important Days Coming In Court

  The group representing 2,000 commercial fishing stakeholders in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have been granted intervener status in several Indigenous court cases. The latest came Read More »

• Earle McCurdy, president of the Fish, Food and Allied Workers: CETA good for fishery. Is it?

  McCurdy says minimum processing requirements will be phased out as a result of CETA. These are rules that require some species of fish caught here be Read More »

• Lobster wars: discount stores slug it out on the UK high street with £5 shellfish

  Lobster, once associated with only the swankiest restaurants, is now on the frontline of the supermarket price war. Discount stores fighting to lure Christmas shoppers are Read More »

• ‘Deadliest Catch’ crew joins Fish for Kids program in Bristol Bay

  Leave it to the crew of “Deadliest Catch to liven things up, even when it comes to a philanthropic effort by fishermen and Peter Pan Seafoods Read More »
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  Canada’s courts and governments have themselves to blame for the lobster fishery dispute

  Imagine the reaction you’d have if you, a Canadian worker, in any field, were told by the courts and the government that you could earn only Read More »
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  Whitby fisherman saved by “strength and determination” after dramatic rescue

  A Whitby fisherman’s mental and physical strength saved his life after a dramatic rescue. The fisherman was pulled into the water by his fishing gear and Read More »

• Law on menhaden snags Delaware Bay crabbers – video

  MIDDLE TOWNSHIP – Jimmy Layton fishes 300 crab pots in the Delaware Bay and fills each with about 2 pounds of menhaden that he catches himself. But Read More »

• Bringing the ocean back into the Earth Summit Briefing and Recommendations to the First Intersessional Meeting of UNCSD (Rio+20) The Pew Environment Group

   75% of global fisheries are either fully utilized or overutilized; 10 and it was reported a few years ago that 90% of the large marine predators Read More »