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  Mills Wants PETA Ad Slamming Seafood Gone from Portland Jetport

  In a letter sent to the director of the Portland International Jetport, Maine Governor Janet Mills says she would like an ad created by animal rights Read More »

• HUMBOLDT HISTORY: The Salmon Canneries of the Lower Eel River and the Death of a Fishery

  Eel River salmon have been the Humboldt Bay Region’s premier fish from time immemorial. Salmon was a major staple of the aboriginal Wiyot Indians’ diet, and Read More »
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  Drop in herring a mystery in Maine as bait price booms

  Scientists and fishermen are trying to figure out why Maine’s Atlantic herring catch — the largest in the nation — has fallen from 103.5 million pounds Read More »

• VIDEO: Dredging the Oregon Inlet

  The U.S. army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington District, started recently dredging operations at the Oregon Inlet in order to remove the shoaling that has been obstructing Read More »
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  Size of fishing fleet cut as Isle of Man king scallop season opens

  Fewer boats will take to Manx waters for the start of the Isle of Man king scallop season as part of efforts to protect the fishery’s Read More »
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  Capsizing and loss of life – Fishing vessel Caledonian Marine Investigation Report M15P0286

  On 05 September 2015, at approximately 1530 Pacific Daylight Time, the fishing vessel Caledonian capsized 20 nautical miles west of Nootka Sound, British Columbia. At the time, the Read More »
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  The farm bill’s untold story: What did Congress do for fish sticks?

  The farm bill that Congress passed last week will be known for many things. It increases subsidies for farmers and legalizes industrial hemp. But for Alaska, Read More »
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  Keliher gives fishermen homework on whale rules

  “Feel free to yell at me,” Patrick Keliher, commissioner of the Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR), told a packed gym at the Trenton Elementary School Read More »
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  Coast Guard medevacs a crewmember from a fishing vessel near Manasquan, New Jersey

  The Coast Guard medevaced a fisherman Monday morning approximately 46 miles east of Manasquan. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay received a call from the Read More »

• Financing Will Be Key to Next Generation Fleet

  I am here to testify today on the necessity of rebuilding the aging North Pacific catcher processor fleet. While my testimony is particular in some respect Read More »
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  CARES Act Applications Now Available for Maryland Fishing Industry – Deadline to Apply is Feb. 28, 2021

  The Maryland Department of Natural Resources announces that applications remain available through February 28, 2021 for economic relief funds for the commercial seafood industry through the Read More »

• Queenslanders wish to retain their right to buy fresh local caught seafood and oppose any fishing closures.

  MORE than 5000 people have signed petitions calling on parliament to block legislation to implement three net-free zones off Cairns, Mackay and the Capricorn Coast. Labor Read More »
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  Sitka Assembly considers helping Southeast trollers in legal fight that could shut down the fishery

  The Seattle-based environmental group Wild Fish Conservancy wants to stop the Southeast troll fisheries, which they say harm an endangered population of orcas. And in December, Read More »

• Seabrook, New Hampshire honors fishermen lost at sea

  The first days of October had been warm in 1851, and seas were calm in the Gulf of St. Lawrence as much of the New England Read More »
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  Teen commercial fisherman hooked on a career on the water

  While many other young people are leaving coastal communities for careers elsewhere, Wyatt Casper decided to cast his lot as a commercial fisherman at home in Read More »

• Deepwater canyons off northeast US coast harbour coral hotspots

  More than 70 deepwater canyons, ranging in depth from 100m to more than 3,500m, exist along the Northeast US continental shelf and slope. Few are well studied. Read More »
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  Fighting the tide

  After three years of work, a University of Alaska Fairbanks study of the state’s commercial fishing industry has reached one conclusion nobody in the 49th state Read More »
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  Namibia’s ‘firstborn’ fishing vessel christened

  NAMIBIA’S first brand new purpose-built fishing vessel, the ‘Oshiveli’ (which means ‘firstborn’ in Oshiwambo), was officially named by fisheries minister Bernhard Esau at Walvis Bay yesterday. Read More »
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  Maine Woman Proving Women Can Fish Even Facing a 35-Foot Rogue Wave

  Brittany Finch had no idea what she was getting into. Brittany moved to Maine from Pennsylvania about a year ago. She lives in the Ellsworth area Read More »
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  Following weather delay lobster fishery will get underway on Saturday, Dec. 1

  The lobster fishery in southwestern Nova Scotia and along the province’s south shore will open on Saturday. Under ideal weather conditions the season would have begun Read More »
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  Rep. Patrick Kearney sponsoring three bills for Massachusetts’ fishing industry

  State Rep. Patrick Kearney is sponsoring three bills aimed at helping the state’s commercial fishing and lobster industries. Kearney testified in support of the three bills, Read More »
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  Commercial salmon season starts in Crescent City

  Commercial salmon fishermen in Crescent City began their season on Saturday with a quota of 20 chinook per day and a monthly quota of 2,500, according Read More »

• GDT Editorial: Warren right to note need for fishing aid beyond ‘loans’

  While our federal lawmakers join the push for offering federal Small Business Administrations loans to Gloucester’s and other fishermen (see news story, Page 1), it’s encouraging Read More »

• Higgins, Nehls Introduce the Save Our Shrimpers Act

  Congressmen Clay Higgins (R-LA) and Troy Nehls (R-TX) introduced the Save Our Shrimpers Act of 2024, which would prohibit federal funds from being made available to International Read More »
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  After spending days aground in Sitka, a sea lion returns to the water – with help from humans

  An improvised rescue mission involving a front-end loader and tranquilizer darts returned a desperate and dehydrated sea lion that spent four days meandering around Sitka to Read More »