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• Windy Winter Has Been A Problem For Commercial Fishermen – Video

  Commercial fishing is a big industry here in the east but it has taken a hit recently because of all of the windy weather. continued – Read More »

• Framework 55 slashes groundfish quotas, halves at-sea monitors, enviros pissed

  It seems the proposed rule, also known as Framework 55, has a little bit of something for everyone to hate. They have until close of business Read More »
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  Researchers regroup in wake of 4 right whale deaths

  It’s been a deadly month for the endangered mammals, with the carcasses of two other whales — an adult female and a 9-year-old male — reported Read More »

• New England Fishery Management Council meeting September 24-27, 2018 in Plymouth, MA.

  The New England Fishery Management Council will be meeting at Hotel 1620, 180 Water Street, Plymouth Harbor, MA. September 24, 2018 – September 27, 2018. To read Read More »
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  Coronavirus: Cordova faces big decisions over how to run its famous early-season salmon fishery

  The famous Copper River drift gillnet season, known for prized fish that fetch high prices and high demand across America, is the earliest salmon fishery to Read More »
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  NOAA Fisheries Announces Common Pool Area Closure for Gulf of Maine Cod

  Effective at 4:15 pm on July 27, 2023 – Statistical areas 513 and 514 are closed for the remainder of Trimester 1, through August 31, 2023. Read More »

• Editor’s Log: Mitigate This! by Jim Hutchinson, Jr.

  Last month I received notification from the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (MAFMC) of a fisheries compensation fund deadline for financial losses stemming from construction of the Vineyard Read More »

• East-West hostility may stall Ross Sea conservation

  A proposal to protect one of the most pristine marine ecosystems on the earth, Antarctica’s Ross Sea, could be jeopardized by growing tensions between Russia and Read More »

• Battle over blueline tilefish intensifies-SAFMC requested emergency action for East Coast

  In a move that’s certain to heighten tensions over the management of blueline tilefish, the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council has requested emergency action that will Read More »

• Our view: Bay State’s ‘Sacred Cod’ has become NOAA’s sacred cow

  Yes, NOAA can show “scientific” data suggesting that these dire cuts — up to 77 percent for the Gulf of Maine cod catch — may be Read More »

• New York Summer Flounder Fishery for Federal Fishery Permit Holders to Reopen Tomorrow

  NOAA Fisheries today announced that it is reopening the New York Summer Flounder Fishery for federal permit holders on December 12.   This reopening is concurrent with Read More »
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  Tributes paid in Orkney following French lifeboat tragedy

  The three RNLI stations here in Orkney paid tribute after lifesaving colleges in France lost their lives in a lifeboat tragedy on Friday. Crew at stations Read More »

• Blue North to Build First-of-Its-Kind Low-Impact Sustainable Fishing Vessel – includes innovative feature called a “moon pool”.

  Seattle, WA (PRWEB) May 07, 2013 – Blue North, a sustainable natural resource company crafted for the 21st century, today announced that it has signed a Read More »
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  Resource Rich: Are You Sick of Being the HAVE NOT Province? 

  Newfoundland outports began as an act of defiance against the British rule. People moved to the coves and coasts, which are now more unique than anything Read More »

• Great urgency in debate over Great Bay – reduce the level of nitrogen and other pollutants discharged

  This is a point in the regulatory process where all citizens have the ability to affect the final outcome and language of a critical regulatory process. Read More »

• Coast Guard rescue crews assist fishing vessel in distress 95 miles east of Chatam, Massachusetts

  BOSTON — Coast Guard rescue crews assisted a fishing vessel in distress by air-dropping de-watering pumps after the 53-foot Canadian flagged vessel Island Cruiser collided with the Read More »
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  Don Cuddy: Mattapoisett company moving fishing tech forward

  Sometimes a chat over a fence is all it takes to set great things in motion. Fairhaven resident Karl Edminster was talking with his neighbor, marine Read More »
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  Gregory Mayhew has passed away

  Gregory Mayhew, 72, died peacefully at his home in West Tisbury on Wednesday evening, April 11, enveloped by the love of his family. Greg battled chronic Read More »
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  ‘Are We Getting Invaded?’ U.S. Fishing Boats Faced Russian Aggression Near Alaska

  Capt. Steve Elliott stood dumbfounded on the trawler Vesteraalen as three Russian warships came barreling through, barking orders of their own. On the ship Blue North, Read More »

• Investigators say boat sank off Cape May after dredge became snagged; boater still missing

  The 40-foot Linda Claire was at the mouth of the Delaware Bay, six miles west of Cape May Point, dredging for conchs and blue crabs Thursday Read More »

• Kinky capelin fish clog traffic in Newfoundland

  ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — In eastern Newfoundland, nothing clogs traffic like kinky sex on the beach. On any given day for the past week or so, Read More »
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  Coast Guard medevacs injured fisherman 86 miles east of Cape Cod

  A Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod aircrew medevaced an injured fisherman Thursday evening from 86 miles off the coast of Cape Cod. At around 5 Read More »

• Gloucester: Confronting a crisis – Fishermen shift focus; Tierney renews push for federal aid

  Joe Orlando, captain of the mid-sized dragger Padre Pio and president of the 35-boat Gloucester trawl sector, was modifying his nets to keep them closer to the Read More »
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  How cold was it in January? Bad enough to kill a lot of fish

  The record-breaking freeze that hit eastern North Carolina the first week of January was so cold that it killed a massive number of fish in tidal Read More »

• Winchester Bay, Thar be sardines here

  “In our minds,” he said, “fish buyers, fishermen in the sardine industry … we get a quota and it keeps getting reduced. We don’t think NOAA Read More »