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  There’s something wrong with cod

  It will be another decade maybe, research shows, before harvesters can fish codfish commercially. It’s already been a quarter century since we’ve been able to fish Read More »
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  Coast Guard searching for a missing fisherman off the coast of Massachusetts

  There is an active search underway off the Massachusetts coast Friday morning for a missing fisherman. The search is focused on a line between Nomans Island, Read More »

• Oregon, Washington continue talks to ease gill-nets from lower Columbia River salmon migration lanes

  In 2009, a legislator suggested a commercial fishery in the Portland harbor  reach of the lower Willamette River. The same year, a highly placed official of Read More »

• Hurricane Harvey Downgraded to Tropical Storm Over Inland Texas

  At 100 PM CDT (1800 UTC), the center of Tropical Storm Harvey was located by National Weather Service Doppler radar near latitude 29.1 North, longitude 97.6 Read More »
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  Arbitrator upholds firing of Lobster 207 co-op CEO, clearing way for racketeering lawsuit

  The former CEO of Lobster 207, a fishing cooperative owned by the Maine Lobstering Union, on Monday lost in an arbitration proceeding over his firing in Read More »

• Sounding off on Magnuson

  GLOUCESTER — The final word fell to Gloucester fisherman Paul Vitale, the last speaker of the day at the fisheries listening session,, “How many businesses could Read More »
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  Cornish fishermen betrayed by Boris’ Brexit deal – What Changes for French Fishermen?

  The Cornish Fish Producers’ Organisation shares its reaction to the UK’s Brexit trade deal. On Tuesday 29th December members of the Cornish Fish Producers’ Organisation (CFPO) Read More »

• OLE Undercover: Anchorage man feels the sting! $15,000 dollars worth.

  Sidney Bouschor of Anchorage, Alaska, was assessed a $30,300 civil penalty by the NOAA Office of General Counsel’s Enforcement Section on November 26, 2012, for operating Read More »
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  ‘Not doomsday’: Commercial fishers say crayfish season looks promising

  “A glimmer of light” is how Otago-based commercial fisherman Chris Cooper describes the state of the rock lobster industry — one of the first sectors to Read More »

• Biloxi Boats blessed for safe and bountiful season in 85th Blessing of the Fleet

  BILOXI, MS (WLOX) –  Shrimping season in Mississippi waters is just around the corner and to prepare for any fishing season fishermen take part in the Read More »

• Holy Smoke! Elver prices rise to around $1,900 per pound

  Expectations for the volume of elvers that will be caught in Maine this spring may be low but, based on prices that dealers are offering fishermen, Read More »

• Great Lakes Commercial fish netters getting more for less

  It’s no secret that I do not like commercial fishing. I don’t like it in the oceans where the greed of commercial netters and long-liners have Read More »

• Retired Lobsterman Arnold “Joe” Alvin Nickerson III of Kennebunkport, Me. has passed away

  Arnold “Joe” Alvin Nickerson III peacefully passed away on December 25, 2024, at the Maine Veterans Home in Scarborough. He was a loving father who cherished Read More »
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  Long-Awaited Cordova South Harbor Project Is Finally Underway

  “We’ve been needing it for a long time; the harbor that is being replaced was being built in 1981 when I first came here and was Read More »
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  Offshore Windmills Will Generate High Costs and Unsafe Conditions

  A new wave of commenters now seems to have adopted the Kennedy family objection to an offshore wind farm that was proposed about 30 years ago Read More »

• Fish Wars Australia – Tension flaring on commercial fishing and sustainability

  TENSION between commercial and recreational fishing groups has again been in the spotlight with the release of a fishing population report. The commercial fishing industry says Read More »
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  Benjamin Franklin Was the First to Chart the Gulf Stream

  Benjamin Franklin is known for shaping the Constitution, writing letters as a woman, chowing down on native foods and hosting an anatomy school in his home. Read More »
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  All about freshness: Local seafood rushed to markets near and far

  As the crew of the Jenna Lynn II offloaded its catch earlier this month at the Town Dock, Eddie Gambardella watched as six of his employees Read More »
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  New Brunswick: 4 rescued from sinking herring boat off Miscou

  Herring fisherman Steven Hughes was the first person to arrive at the scene. He said he and his crew were alerted around 05:00 that a boat Read More »

• Athearn Marine Agency Weekend Special – 49’2″ X 22’6″ Millennium Marine Lobster Boat, 1000HP Cat C-18 – Loaded!

  Price Reduced! To review specifications, information, and 37 photos of this vessel, watch the video, >click here<, To see all the boats listed here with the Read More »

• Ottawa opens door to fish farm expansion, and applications flood in

  OTTAWA — The Harper government has quietly opened the door to a major expansion of B.C.’s controversial fish farm sector despite warnings by the 2012 Cohen Read More »

• Do you know where your fish comes from? It’s probably not Hawaiʻi

  Fish is a significant part of Hawaiʻi’s food culture, and residents eat up to three times more of it per capita than the rest of the Read More »

• 4 rescued after boat runs ashore in the North Bay

  First responders rescued four crewmembers of a fishing boat that washed ashore near Bodega Bay Friday night. The boat ran around south of Salmon Creek Beach, according Read More »

• Trade Deals: Maine Lobster industry fears lost sales from ramped-up Canadian exports

  A new trade deal looming between Canada and the European Union is setting off alarm bells in the Maine lobster industry. The deal between Canada and Read More »

• On Tilghman Island, law-breaking watermen defended

  On a midwinter afternoon, William “Billy” J. Lednum steered the Kristin Marie into the Knapps Narrows, This was the 42-year-old waterman’s last trip before heading to Read More »