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• Former Fairbanksan John Winther helped lead modern Alaska fishing industry- Died Oct. 15 in Mesa, Ariz.,Fighting cancer

  The employees at the Alaska Ship & Drydock facility in Ketchikan gathered  for a moment of silence recently in honor of a former Fairbanksan who was a Read More »
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  Kiwi longliners meet at Falklands; San Aotea on Thursday leaves for New Zealand

  A 25-day slog across the frigid Southern Ocean is finally over for a New Zealand Sanford fishing vessel on a mercy mission to help the crew Read More »

• How a Supreme Court case involving herring fishermen affects the Little Sisters of the Poor

  A Supreme Court case being argued this week could have significant implications for a decade-long religious liberty battle fought by the Little Sisters of the Poor. Read More »

• Coast Guard crews tow disabled fishing boat to Point Judith, RI

  Coast Guard crews towed a 52-foot disabled fishing boat safely to port in Point Judith, Rhode Island, Saturday morning. Coast Guard Sector Long Island Sound command Read More »

• Shea extols trade agreement with EU at P.E.I. oyster conference

  WOODSTOCK – Federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea told an oyster conference Friday  that Canada has some of the most rigorous standards in the world to ensure Read More »

• Storied Tacoma shipyard in foreclosure

  At nearly 90 years old, one of Tacoma’s last major shipyards may be closing down for good next month. J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp. faces a foreclosure Read More »
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  A PETITION – Demand Charlton H. Bonham be replaced as Director of the CDFW

  The Director has failed the fishermen for years. Crabbers alone have experienced 5 closures in 5 years. Charlton Bonham is trading our harvest rights for his Read More »
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  Sardine fisherman hopes changing consumer attitudes will get his catch on dinner plates

  David Gray wants his fish on dinner plates. The Esperance commercial angler has spent years catching and selling sardines nationwide for bait. But a growing interest Read More »
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  Feds Tap 300,000 Square Miles of Pacific for Humpback Whales

  The proposed rule is the result of a settlement with the National Marine Fisheries Service, who were sued last year for not following through on a Read More »
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  “Oiled: A Fisherman’s Journey”

  Derrell Short, a former fisherman, has released his memoir, covering everything from the Exxon Valdez oil spill to his adventures at sea in Kodiak Island, Alaska. Read More »

• 100-year-old mystery solved: Adult eel observed for the first time in the Sargasso Sea

  After more than a century of speculation, researchers have finally proved that American eels really do migrate to the Sargasso Sea to reproduce. A team supervised Read More »
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  In response to the Biden Administration’s shoddy wind farm approval

  The House of Representatives today passed an amendment offered by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) requiring a comprehensive, independent investigation into the sufficiency of the environmental approval process for 3,400 offshore Read More »

• Changes proposed to Calif. twin tunnel project

  The height of pumping plants would also be reduced and the tunnels’ length would  be shortened from 35 miles to 30 miles. The tunnels would carry Read More »
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  Dennis Gaff – ‘Proud to be a Cromer fisherman’

  Tributes have been paid to a stalwart of Cromer’s fishing scene, who has died at the age of 90. When Dennis Gaff, who was born in the Read More »

• What are the clams economic impact on Greenwich?

  In his denim overalls and Simms fly fishing cap, Ed Stilwagen is where he can be found most days, checking in on his clamming boats and Read More »

• North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for September 28, 2015

  Click here to read the Weekly Update, to read all the updates, Click here 09:34 Read More »

• Washington to negotiate on Columbia River salmon reforms

  With time running short to adopt 2017 fishing seasons, the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission on Friday delegated authority to director Jim Unsworth to negotiate the Read More »

• Updated Reports Available on Fishery and Port Impacts Associated with Offshore Wind Development Along the U.S. Atlantic Coast

  NOAA Fisheries updated and expanded existing analyses and reports to help the public better understand the impacts of offshore wind development on commercial and recreational fisheries Read More »
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  UK’s undersea communications cables ‘uniquely vulnerable’ to sabotage – report

  Terrorists using deep-sea grappling hooks attached to fishing trawlers could intercept the UK’s network of undersea communications cables, a report has warned. It said they remained Read More »
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  Fishermen call on Macron to halt Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm, threaten “unprecedented confrontations”

  French fishermen have called on President Emmanuel Macron to cancel the 496MW Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm, threatening “unprecedented confrontations” if their demands are not met. The Read More »

• Fishermen watch, wait, work, while Alaska Legislature in limbo

  An Alaska government shutdown is a fisheries shutdown. Commercial, sport, gillnet, dipnetters and subsistence fishing would all be impacted in devastating ways if a fiscal year Read More »
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  Breaking news: Scottish Government backs down over HPMAs

  Mairi McAllan, Scotland’s Net Zero Secretary, announced today that both the timetable – with implementation due to take place by 2026 – and scope, covering 10% Read More »
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  ‘Definitely the most difficult rescue I have been on’ recalls a rescuer of F/V Atlantic Destiny crew

  Daniel Domonkos will always remember the moment he and his SAR tech crew first laid eyes on the ill-fated F/V Atlantic Destiny a year ago. Seeing Read More »
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  Do seals affect your commercial fishing activity?

  Seals eat approx 7% of their body weight when they eat – say 24lbs. Unfortunately, seals don’t necessarily eat the whole fish that they pick from Read More »

• WGBH Interview of Northeast Regional Administrator John Bullard and Northeast Fisheries Science Center’s Bill Karp By Heather Goldstone

  Since the introduction of catch shares management for the New England groundfishery (cod, haddock, flounder, and several other species) in 2010, the fleet has shrunk to Read More »