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  President Trump to make decision on monuments by April 16

  President Donald Trump has until April 16th to either follow his Interior secretary’s recommendations to relax fishing restrictions in marine monuments key for American Samoa and Read More »
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  Alaska pollock trawlers are feeling pressure over salmon bycatch, so this reporter went to see for himself

  Bering Sea factory trawlers scoop up tens of thousands of pollock at a time, and pressure is intensifying to avoid catching salmon as populations of chum and Read More »
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  Fishermen Urge Regulators to Establish 50-Mile Buffer Zone for Herring Trawlers

  Local fishermen and elected officials from across Cape Cod strongly urged fishery managers Tuesday to impose a strict 50 mile buffer zone for mid-water herring trawlers. Read More »

• On a Survey, Somewhere in the Gulf of Maine,,,

  800 lbs of cod for a 20 minute tow. Plus 2 bushel of yellowtail and    1 1/2 bushel of blackbacks. Pretty amazing- but there are Read More »
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  Fishermen seek greater understanding of wind farm impacts

  Projects already in the pipeline could wreak havoc with key spawning and nursery grounds for important fish stocks, they warned today. According to Shetland Fishermen’s Association Read More »
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  Two New York companies and owners plead guilty to seafood sales fraud

  In a plea agreement with the government, Roy Tuccillo Sr, and his son, Roy Tuccillo Jr and two of their food processing and distribution companies, Anchor Read More »

• Fisherfolk: Conservation Refugees Reloaded – Environmental Marine Biology Blog

  Conservationsists love the word SCIENCE. Brockington and Igoe point out that generally organisations claim this word when they are striving to acquire power and prestige and Read More »

• North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for June 6, 2016

  Click here to read the Weekly Update, to read all the updates, Click here 16:26 Read More »

• P.E.I. company dips into new lobster products, extending work at Tignish plant

  A seafood processing company in Tignish, P.E.I., has just launched a lobster dip, the first of several new products that will mean more work at the Read More »

• Louisiana Seafood: Shrimp, crab catch mixed post BP oil spill, river diversions

  While the oyster harvest east of the Mississippi River has dropped precipitously in the years since the BP oil spill and an influx of fresh water Read More »
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  Fishermen worry Northern Pulp treatment plan will create ‘dead zone’

  Northern Pulp met with some of its toughest critics Monday as it opened public consultations on a new effluent treatment facility for the Pictou County pulp Read More »
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  Vessels fly flags at half-mast for Vitale – In loving memory of Gloucester Fisherman Nicolo Vitale

  We didn’t know Nicolo Vitale personally, though we suspect that our paths at least crossed a few dozen times and we probably would have recognized him Read More »
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  Big Turnout for the Fluke for Luke Fishing Tournament on the Vineyard!

  Outside the Portuguese-American Club in Oak Bluffs, a plaque rested on the counter of a makeshift weigh station. In the center of the plaque was the Read More »
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  After Hurricane Ida: Louisiana’s struggling seafood industry is teetering

  The Category 4 hurricane that struck Louisiana late last month fractured some parts of the industry even worse than 2005’s Katrina, which cost seafood businesses more Read More »
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  Larsen sees results of legislation at Dakota Creek

  It was a little over a year ago that Dakota Creek Industries received a long-awaited congressional waiver to a provision in a federal law that grounded Read More »

• Lottsa bag slashing he-ah. Elver fishermen flocking to the Penobscot River

  “There’s a lot of bag-cutting and stealing on this river,”. “[Some people] are just hostile,” Tibbetts said. “Everybody seems to own a piece of river and Read More »

• NJ Fishing Pros Warn Offshore Wind Killing Ocean Life: ‘Never Seen Anything Remotely Like This’ in Half a Century

  New Jersey is in the process of approving two major offshore wind projects: the Ocean Wind I and II initiatives owned by the Danish “green” energy Read More »
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  Southeast purse seiners to hold another permit buyback vote

  Southeast Alaska purse seine fishermen are preparing to vote on another permit buyback, with an eye toward making the fishery more viable in an era of Read More »
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  Ostego Bay Foundation Working Waterfront Tour returns

  The shrimping industry has been a staple of the economy on Fort Myers Beach and San Carlos Island for decades, bringing in hefty hauls of the Read More »

• EXCLUSIVE: Man busted for trying to sell shark fins

  It’s been almost two years since Hawaii’s shark fin ban went into effect. Friday afternoon, enforcement officers busted a man for trying to sell shark fins Read More »

• Scotland Western Isles – Investigation following the worst local fishing tragedy in 50 years

  A major investigation is underway after a crab boat sank off the Western Isles in what has been described as the worst local fishing tragedy for half Read More »
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  Fishing Dragger Struck and Sunk by recreational boat in dense fog near Montauk Inlet

  Coast Guard Sector Long Island Sound received a report of a collision about a quarter-mile from the inlet at about 6:30 a.m. The commercial fishing vessel Read More »

• Territorial Dispute in Maine’s Lobster Industry

  On July 9, 2009, Chris Young was shot in the neck with a .22 caliber pistol. Surprisingly, in a nation plagued by urban violence, this story Read More »
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  US Embargo Hits Mexican Shrimp Industry Hard

  The United States has suspended certification of wild-caught Mexican shrimp, preventing producers from export part of their production to the USA. Already financially weakened Mexican shrimp Read More »

• Highway Funds Illegally used for Floating Wind Factories

  The Biden Administration is illegally redirecting hundreds of millions of dollars in highway grant money to fund construction of floating wind manufacturing facilities. The funding mechanism Read More »