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• Shark Data Questioned At Hearing, “Amendment 5” to the Highly Migratory Species Fishery Management Plan.

  The goal of the limit, along with other measures NMFS is considering, is to protect dusky sharks, which continue to see an alleged population drop despite being Read More »

• The 2013 Arctic Science Conference – September 26th–28th in Kodiak, Alaska

  Fisheries and Watersheds: Food Security, Education and Sustainability Future concerns about Alaska’s marine resources, particularly the fisheries, revolve around the status of research and education and Read More »
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  Fisherman who lost four pals in trawler tragedy returns to water as lifeboatman

  A fisherman left devastated when four colleagues died in a trawler tragedy is returning to the sea as a lifeboatman. Tam Fyall, 59, is now deputy Read More »

• The untold truth of the Petit de Grat tragedy

  Several readers from Isle Madame share my distain for those who falsely depict lobster stealer  as a case of “murder for lobster.” Here’s a letter from one of them, a life-long Petit-de-Grat resident Read More »

• Feds to auction 122,000 acres in North Carolina for wind energy

  “Today’s announcement demonstrates how our collaborative efforts with Federal, state and local partners over the past eight years have built a foundation to harness the enormous Read More »

• Lean year for New England cod ahead as shutdown looms

  Catch limits set to take effect this week will take a bite out of an industry that dates back to America’s colonial past: New England cod. Read More »
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  Stunned Still: Offshore Wind Farm Power Cables Leave Crabs Mesmerized & Motionless

  Seabirds, whales and dolphins aren’t offshore wind’s only victims – crabs are being mesmerized by the electromagnetic fields produced by the power cables that connect turbines Read More »
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  Falling Asleep on Watch-Crew Fatigue Led to the Grounding and Loss of F/V Freyja

  The vessel was in the Bering Sea near Point Tebenkof, Unalaska Island, Alaska, when she grounded and remained stranded on the rocks. The four crewmembers abandoned Read More »

• Sharecroppers of the Sea – Alaska story hitting home in New England. Hard.

  Guys like Jared Bright vie for control of the industry’s lower rungs, the only rungs that seem to be left. Simply put, they’re renters. They don’t Read More »
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  Amid record-low chum runs, Board of Fish pares down limits on Area M’s June fishery

  The Yukon River’s chum salmon runs have returned at record lows over the last three years. At a recent meeting, the Alaska Board of Fisheries debated Read More »
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  LIFO shrimp fishing policy has lit a new fire under some harvesters and communities in Labrador

  People living south of Cartwright say part of the proposal would destroy their livlihood and undermine a processing plant in Charlottetown, Labrador. At issue is a recommendation by Read More »

• Nantucket Fisherman Finds a Digital Lifeline for His Fading Livelihood – Video

  For many years now, Willis Blount, the last offshore commercial fisherman still operating around Nantucket, once the center of the country’s whaling industry, has been having Read More »

• Prey, Predator Doesn’t Equal Cause, Effect

  On the surface it seems like a simple and straightforward equation: more seals equals more great white sharks. The connection, however, is likely far more complicated. Read More »

• WOODEN BOAT FESTIVAL — The historic schooner Adventuress ‘belle of ball’

  PORT TOWNSEND — The centennial celebration of the Adventuress has turned the historic schooner into a centerpiece of this year’s Wooden Boat Festival. One hundred is a Read More »
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  You can cook seal a lot of ways, and they’re actually delicious. Honest.

  Seal meat is hard to describe. It’s dark and marrowy, gamy and fishy all at once. While the fat in pork and beef is marbled and Read More »

• Some fishermen just should not drink alcohol. “you’re a danger to yourself, to your family and the community” when you are drunk, so get sober.”

  American Samoa – Associate Justice John Ward yesterday asked the attorney representing the government to see if ASG has a policy on handling cases relating to Read More »

• ‘Now I’m at half what I’d normally be at.’ Cod restriction’s rip the charter fleet

  It isn’t just the Northeast commercial groundfishing fleet that is struggling under the weight of the more restrictive federal fishing regulations that have completely taken cod Read More »

• Study finds birth control pill has negative effects on lake ecosystems

  The lead researcher of a new study is calling for improvements to some of Canada’s waste water treatment facilities after finding that introducing the birth control Read More »

• Ten-Year Review for Bering Sea/ Aleutian Islands Crab Ratz Management Program

  North Pacific Fishery Management Council June 2016 – EXECUTIVE SUMMARY   This document is a 10 year review of the Bering Sea/ Aleutian Islands (BSAI) Crab Rationalization Read More »
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  Trawler captain dumped fish to save ship

  A judge has stepped in to settle allegations of misreporting catch by a fishing company, after a trawler captain had to dump 30,000 kilograms of southern Read More »

• Crab season: ‘It’s strange for them to be so full at the first of the season’

  CHARLESTON, Ore. — With Dungeness crab season now in full swing, commercial fishermen are flooding Oregon’s coastal ports with thousand of pounds of crab. Scott Adams, Read More »
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  Still Love NY? NY’s Offshore Wind Obsession Means Vastly Higher Power Price

  Offshore wind is the renewable-energy industry’s shiny new toy. Led by New York, seven Atlantic-coast states have now imposed mandates to expand offshore wind use over Read More »
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  Drowned Fisherman’s Mom: ‘I Want To Know What Happened To My Son’

  Services have been set for the young commercial fisherman who died Monday off the coast of Montauk. Justin Charles Zinno, 26, of Narragansett, Rhode Island, passed Read More »
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  DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos says NY commercial fishermen ‘getting a raw deal’

  New York commercial fishermen are “getting a raw deal” in federal fisheries quotas, and the state will follow through on a lawsuit early next year if Read More »
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  Fish farm caused Atlantic salmon spill, state says, then tried to hide how bad it was

  Cooke Aquaculture Pacific vastly underrepresented the scope of a catastrophic Atlantic salmon net-pen spill at its Cypress Island farm last August and misled the public and Read More »