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• The ENGO’s are gearing up for MSA Reautorization: Despite gains, more challenges ahead for U.S. fisheries

  Washington Post – Fish stocks off the U.S. coasts, restored to health over the past four decades by cooperation among competing interests and careful management, are Read More »
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  “I don’t think they understand that we’re being mislabeled. We are sustainable.”

  The Monterey Bay Aquarium in California has a Seafood Watch program that rates U.S. and Canadian fisheries on their sustainability. The watchdog group just red listed Read More »
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  The 85th Brunswick Blessing of the Fleet set for Saturday

  Blessing the shrimp boat fleet annually is more than just a reason to host a festival. It’s a time-honored tradition brought to Brunswick by Portuguese immigrants. Read More »
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  A shrimper crashed his boat. Police said they found him with drugs and ready to fight

  Ron Ray Anderson, 39, of Merritt Island, ignored officers’ commands and charged at them with a fist, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s Read More »

• Portsmouth: New England Fishery Management Council Meeting – January 28-30, 2014

  Full council Meeting at the Sheraton Harborside Hotel, 250 Market Street, Portsmouth, NH 03801 – NEFMC January Council Meeting Webinar Registration here    Meeting Agenda here 13:38 Read More »

• Six-hour purse seine chum fishery to open in Amalga Harbor

  Thursday is the opening of the purse seine season at Amalga Harbor in Juneau. Commercial fishermen will be able to catch chum, released from the DIPAC hatchery. Read More »
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  The Fleet fights back: Fishermen unite to curb shrimp dumping

  Mount Pleasant’s Economic Development Committee met on Nov. 6 and voted in favor of the proposed economic disaster declaration from the South Carolina Shrimper’s Association and Read More »
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  Sen. Pete Micciche proposes setnet buyback bill

  Sen. Pete Micciche (R-Soldotna) is having another go at getting a bill through the legislature that would reduce the number of commercial east side setnetters in Read More »

• First federally permitted offshore mussel aquaculture project on east coast soon to get underway

  The first shellfish aquaculture project permitted in federal waters off the U.S. east coast is expected to begin operating next spring.  Scientists and fishermen are partnering Read More »
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  New Hampshire fishermen worried about new guidelines to protect right whales

  New Hampshire fishermen are raising concerns about additional restrictions they’ll be facing in order to protect the critically endangered right whale. The president of the New Read More »
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  Vessel monitoring technology partnership makes tracking more accurate

  Accurate vessel monitoring is now easier with a technology offering that combines monitoring with a transponder. exactEarth’s exactTrax small vessel monitoring technology is now incorporated into Read More »

• The Bunker Resurgence: The Good News Beyond Recent Fish Kills

  According to Megan Ware, Fishery Management Plan Coordinator of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission in Arlington, Virginia, “Results of the 2015 stock assessment indicate that Read More »

• Brunswick shellfish harvesters work to remove ‘vicious clam predator’

  Brunswick Marine Resources says shellfish harvesters took to the Brunswick clam flats Sunday to remove a “vicious clam predator that’s been wreaking havoc” in Maine’s intertidal Read More »
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  We can’t survive more cuts to Alaska king-salmon quota

  Alaska salmon fisherfolk have been giving up a disproportionate portion of their harvest — over 50 percent, at least — to rebuild damaged stocks elsewhere. A few Read More »

• Toxic Dust Threatens California Salmon Population, Lawmaker Seeks Solution

  For the first time in more than three decades of fishing for salmon near Bodega Bay, Dick Ogg will motor his white and navy boat, Karen Read More »
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  North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for September 8, 2017

  Click here to read the Weekly Update, to read all the updates, Click here for older updates click here 16:07 Read More »

• ’Tis the season for flying Christmas crustaceans – Airport gears up for lobster season

  Holiday shipments of live lobster begin this weekend at Halifax Stanfield International Airport and will continue for about a month. Several carriers have cargo jets slated Read More »

• Federal Fisheries Frustration

  This is Fish Radio. I’m Stephanie Mangini. Federal Fisheries Frustration. Hear more after this…@alaskafishradio  15:12 Read More »
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  Local waterman offers crabbing, fishing trips

  Although it’s been several years since he last taught at Cambridge-South Dorchester High School, local waterman Fred Pomeroy has never left the classroom. Today, Captain Fred, Read More »
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  Fish Trawler With Over 80 People On Board Has Caught Fire In Sea Of Okhotsk

  A fish trawler with over 80 people on board has caught fire in Russia’s Sea of Okhotsk, there is no threat of sinking, according to preliminary information, a spokesman for the regional Read More »

• Snow crab price talks have broken off, FFAW says

  Protest leader John Efford Jr. grabbed a megaphone Thursday to told the crowd that negotiations for a new crab price-setting formula had broken off ahead of Read More »
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  VMS a ‘perfect storm’ of red tape for small-scale fishermen in England

  Vessel monitoring systems are an essential tool towards fully documented fisheries. Across the UK, the devolved nations worked in harmony over the past 20 years to Read More »

• Starkist CEO hits back at Bumble Bee ‘buy American’ comments

  Frank Pogue, vice president of marketing and corporate affairs for Starkist, hit back at comments from Bumble Bee Foods CEO, Chris Lischewski, over rules on who can supply Read More »

• Family and friends gathered at a Cape Breton church on Friday to say their goodbyes to Philip Boudreau

  Petit-de-Grat says goodbye to missing fisherman Philip Boudreau, the man presumed dead after his overturned boat was found floating in the Petit-de-Grat harbour earlier this summer. “Philip was Read More »

• Do you have what it takes to be a Bering Sea Fisherman? The BSVS.ME Website will set you straight!

  LIFE OF A WARRIOR Wonder what it is like on a fishing boat in the Bering Sea? Here you will find information on the profession of Read More »