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  Update: WEATHER DELAY!!! Fishermen Helping Kids with Cancer to hold the Maple Ridge herring sale on Saturday!

  Update (November 29): Fishermen Helping Kids With Cancer (FHKWC) announced that due to inclement weather conditions, the sale has been postponed and rescheduled to December 7. Read More »
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  McNeill Fishing Ltd., not former president, charged with fishing violations

  A story in the Jan. 19 Observer incorrectly reported a recent conviction against McNeill Fishing Ltd. While the company pled guilty and paid $33,598 for some Read More »
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  Fishermen ask for more time to study wind impact

  Fishermen, fish processors and others warned on Thursday that fishing grounds will be lost with the construction of Vineyard Wind,,, “We have this huge area we’re going Read More »
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  Personal Locator Beacons Could Help Rescue Stranded Fishermen

  The small GPS devices, which cost a couple of hundred dollars, transmit an alert message using satellite frequencies to NOAA and the U.S. Coast Guard. The Read More »
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  FISH-NL calls on Labour Board to conduct vote – FFAW-Unifor’s membership numbers ‘misleading’

  Almost 16 months after FISH-NL presented an application for certification, the preliminary report of an investigator with the Labour Relations Board was released last week, with Read More »

• Long Island restaurant owner receives 23-pound, 95-year-old lobster

  A lobster that spent 95 years in the sea was a sight to behold when it was finally captured. The mammoth, 23-pound shellfish was finally captured Read More »

• Cape Cod scallop fleet cries foul

  Much of the best fishing terrain lies in and around the Great South Channel that separates Georges Bank from the mainland, and north in the Gulf Read More »
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  The “Silicon Valley of renewable energy”? – New London gets shorted in the wind deal

  There was enough hot air blowing around New London for the recent announcement about plans to spend $93 million for a new wind turbine assembly facility Read More »
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  Wind Farm Protesters March in Ocean City

  Opposition to the wind farm has been mounting following more than 30 whale deaths along the East Coast that critics have blamed on sonar mapping of Read More »

• FISH-NL recommends DFO immediately suspend extra cod to south coast inshore harvesters 

  “The priority must be to ensure all inshore harvesters have the opportunity to at least catch their basic IQs (Individual Quotas),” says Ryan Cleary, President of Read More »
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  NE Fishery Management Council welcomes aboard Jackie Odell

  The new face on the New England Fishery Management Council is no stranger to a group that advises on policy related to the region’s vital fisheries. Read More »
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  Senate passes bill with Jones Act waiver for Fishermen’s Finest vessel

  The U.S. Senate on Wednesday, 14 November, overwhelmingly passed a bill that included language giving Fishermen’s Finest a waiver it needs to use its USD 75 Read More »
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  Fishermen sail new boat into harbour four months after devastating sinking

  Less than four months after their livelihood sunk to the bottom of the sea, skipper Brett Jose and crew member Callum Hardwick sailed into Cadgwith on Read More »
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  Coast Guard search for missing fisherman off Seal and Sunset Beaches has been suspended

  A 35-year-old crew member of the Sea Queen II, a 100 foot commercial fishing vessel, went missing Saturday. The U.S. Coast Guard and other agencies were Read More »
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  50th Boat Docking Competition makes big splash in Crisfield

  “It’s a good ole down home fun Sunday afternoon, end of the summer activity,” Waterman Kevin Marshall said. In Crisfield, that tradition is known as the Read More »

• Fisherman John L. Yates convicted of violating Sarbanes-Oxley will be heard by the Supreme Court

  When Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002, in the wake of the Enron scandal, a key provision was aimed at making a federal crime the Read More »

• Rights of Spawning Salmon Could Trump Gold Miners’ Federal Guarantee

  Salmon spawning in America’s great Northwest is nothing but a brief, fleeting romance that is always followed by death. However, the annual rite of watery reproduction Read More »
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  Maine: Promising scallop aquaculture initiative gets $600K boost

  The Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research awarded a $300,000 grant to CEI to investigate the economic viability of a Japanese scallop production technique that has Read More »
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  Michael Orr and Justin Barisich are organizing this fundraiser to Help Raise the F/V Peruga

  The two worst dangers facing a commercial fisherman is sinking and fire. Tuesday January 7 George Barisich and Robert Campo Jr. were shrimping on the F/V Read More »

• Why was this NOT used in the Surprise Gulf of Maine Cod Assessment?

  Most models of fish population dynamics are based on fisheries-independent surveys, fixed over a particular area during a specific season, and rarely cover the entire range Read More »

• N.J. Recreational fishermen push for pots off state’s artificial reefs

  Recreational fishing clubs and divers threw their support behind special management zone status for 13 reef sites at the Mid-Atlantic Marine Fisheries Council public hearing held Wednesday in Read More »
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  Marshfield’s Ed Barrett named first fishing industry rep to Seaport Economic Council

  During his first week in office, State Rep. Patrick Kearney filed joint legislation with State Sen. Patrick O’Connor to add representation from the fishing industry to Read More »

• Big week for AK fish meetings: IPHC/halibut catches, BOF & NPFMC

  This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch.    Halibut catches – Board of Fish and the Council.  It’s a big week for fish meetings. More@fishradio  16:26 Read More »

• “Miracles Do Happen” – Family Of Missing Fisherman Holding Out Hope

  The family of Patrick Hoagland, the man who went overboard from the fishing vessel Gaston’s Legacy south of Nantucket last Saturday and remains missing, is still Read More »

• Shetland fishing industry celebrates with yearbook

  The full-colour A4 book is a comprehensive guide of the industry past and present and gives a confident outlook despite radical changes to fish landing regimes Read More »