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• Super Bait

  A new type of bait is changing the game for anglers and commercial fishermen alike. Fishing Physics holds the patent to the new super bait, and Read More »

• Maine lobstermen worried about cuts to how much herring they can catch for bait

  Fishermen in Maine say they’re dealing with a new setback: a nearly 90 percent cut in how much herring they can bring in to bait lobster. Read More »

• Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Names Jeff Mayne New Chief of Enforcement Division

  KATC.com – The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) promoted Jeff Mayne to colonel, which is the highest ranking position in the Enforcement Division.Col. Mayne Read More »
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  Bend Over! – Critics Say Wind Farm Rates Constitute Price Gouging

  There are a lot of ways to deflect the criticism, but really none to refute it: The South Fork Wind Farm will charge higher rates for Read More »
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  Don’t let wind industry disrupt fishing industry

  As owner of Empire Fisheries, one of Connecticut’s largest commercial fishing companies, I testified recently at a hearing before the General Assembly’s Energy and Technology Committee Read More »

• Guest speaker Lobsterman David Spencer reviewed the state of the commercial fishing industry in Rhode Island

  As the guest speaker at Seamen’s Church Institute’s annual meeting on Monday, Nov. 14, Newport’s David Spencer, a lobsterman and president of the Commercial Fisheries Research Read More »
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  No Offshore Wind: WV to work with VA on nuclear technology

  Virginia lawmakers and West Virginia lawmakers are in talks on how to collaborate on expanding nuclear energy and innovating nuclear technology. Earlier this month, Virginia Gov. Read More »
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  Study pinpoints trend toward fisheries specialization

  Commercial fishermen in Alaska have gotten older in the past three decades. As it turns out, they’ve become more specialized, too. Fewer permits overall are in Read More »

• Maine says it must curtail the elver harvest because of declining population, but fishermen say their livelihood is being interfered with.

  Industry officials supported quotas based on historical catch during the first public hearing hosted by state regulators this week in Augusta. Another hearing will be held Read More »
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  Coast Guard aircrew medevacs fisherman from vessel near Cold Bay, Alaska

  A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew, forward-deployed to Cold Bay, medically evacuated a mariner from the fishing vessel F/V Golden Alaska, on Read More »

• Renewed calls for income bridging as harvesters and plant workers experience worst ice situation in decades

  Severe ice conditions continue to affect people working in the fishing industry. Harvesters and plant workers have been without income for several weeks, some for over Read More »
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  French minister says, We still want a ‘few dozen’ more fishing licences

  France has received 93% of the fishing licences it requested but wants Britain to issue a few dozen more, It comes after the UK and Jersey Read More »

• North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for November 20, 2023

  The North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission (MFC) met last week in Emerald Isle, NC. I am happy to report there was good turnout from fishermen giving Read More »
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  How is Coronavirus impacting BC’s fishermen?

  Doug Kostering, a fisherman who docks in Port Hardy, had a two week delay to this start of his halibut fishing this year as the offices Read More »
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  Whale injuries from drift gillnets off California spark lawsuit against U.S.

  Environmentalists on Thursday sued the agency overseeing U.S. fisheries, claiming it had failed to protect endangered humpback whales from entanglement in drift gillnets used in commercial Read More »

• Faeroe Islands Boom by Selling Salmon to Russia – Video report included.

  As the tit-for-tat economic confrontation between Russia and the West nears its first anniversary, there are plenty of losers: associates of President Vladimir Putin  barred from Read More »
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  Tonight: Captain Greg Mayer gears up for more bluefin action on ‘Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks’

  As National Geographic is about to premiere its fourth season of Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks Sunday, July 30 at 10 p.m., the Outer Banks of North Carolina Read More »

• Pacific Seafood Halts All Processing in Eureka, Laying Off an Undisclosed Number of Employees

  Pacific Seafood, the processing and distribution giant based in Clackamas, Ore., has halted all processing activity at its Eureka plant, dramatically scaling back its operations there Read More »

• National ocean policy sparks partisan fight National ocean policy sparks partisan fight. Wrong, Juliet. It’s non partisan.

  Check the Links Partisan battles are engulfing the nation’s ocean policy, showing that polarization over environmental issuesdoesn’t stop at the water’s edge. For years, ocean policy Read More »
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  F/V Emmy Rose: NTSB uses video, high-res photos in probe of sunken fishing vessel

  Investigators trying to learn why a commercial fishing boat sank off Massachusetts nearly a year ago, taking the lives of all four crew members, are using Read More »
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  Hundred organisations opposes industrial ocean fish farming

  More than a hundred organisations have formally announced their united opposition to industrial ocean fish farming in U.S. waters. According to Friends of the Earth, the move Read More »

• Louisiana Oysters on the brink: ‘It’s not a decline; it’s zero population’

  Three years after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, local oystermen and processors say Louisiana oysters are tough to come by this winter and the state’s $300 Read More »
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  Canadian Perspective: France and the U.K. are feuding over fish. What is this war of words really about?

  It’s war! Well, it’s a fish war. And like past fish wars, the words are ferocious, the stakes are tiny, gunboats make an appearance, but the Read More »
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  Deepwater Wind to be purchased by Danish energy giant Orsted

  The agreement, announced by both companies Monday morning, would create a combined company with offshore wind leases and projects across the Eastern United States. Orsted, formerly 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 »