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  Coronavirus: Fishing coalition seeks $4B in federal aid to cover lost restaurant sales

  Commercial fishing industry members say they’re trying to stay afloat while the demand for fish dwindles as restaurants are reduced to take-out only amidst the coronavirus Read More »
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  Wind turbines are neither clean nor green and they provide zero global energy

  The Global Wind Energy Council recently released its latest report, excitedly boasting that ‘the proliferation of wind energy into the global power market continues at a Read More »

• Alaska Bering Sea Crabbers Welcome Representation on NPFMC

  In a significant development for the Alaska Bering Sea crab industry, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce has announced the appointment of Jamie Goen, a dedicated advocate Read More »

• Mud crabbers of King Ash Bay endure harsh lifestyle, extreme weather to catch sought-after seafood

  Crocodiles and sharks are just everyday work hazards for Josh Taylor and the other fishermen who battle some of the harshest conditions in Australia to catch Read More »
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  PEIFA puzzled over prices: association says P.E.I. price is 25 cents behind New Brunswick’s

  The Prince Edward Island Fishermen’s Association is describing it as “puzzling” that the price P.E.I. fall lobster fishermen are receiving for their catch is trending 25 Read More »
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  A Christmas Eve Tale – Loss of ring nearly cost his life. He found it in the belly of a codfish, arrived in Gloucester to marry his Mollie

  With a headline sounding like a poem or song, this memorable Gloucester Christmas eve tale by Tom Herbert was published in the Boston Globe in 1893 Read More »
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  ‘Never-ending battle’ for creel fisherman as Jenni Minto MSP seeks support after ban

  A creel fisherman based at the Clyde continues to feel ignored and neglected as an MSP has asked the Scottish Government to consider “all options” to Read More »
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  If you are tired of the morning commute and office life, watch this salmon troller working and start packing. 

  Almost everyone who has ever fished has wanted to make money fishing. Some of these people become guides, some fish tournaments, but a special breed become Read More »
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  West Coast Fishermen cautiously optimistic for strong salmon season

  After three difficult years when Chinook salmon population numbers were down and fishing opportunities were limited, commercial fishermen are hoping that the upcoming season will be Read More »
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  Historic Great Lakes fishing tug Palmer dismantled at former Azarian Marina

  A crew from Vassh Excavating and Grading began work Friday to dismantle the historic Palmer, a 90-year-old commercial fishing boat. The Great Lakes fishing tug was Read More »

• Scary sea stories for Halloween – This is Fish Radio. I’m Stephanie Mangini

  Once again it’s Halloween. Kodiak fishermen shared some of their real life scary stories with Fish Radio. more@fishradio 15:31 Read More »
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  Southeast Dungeness crab fishermen will have full season in 2018

  Southeast Alaska’s Dungeness crab fishery had a strong first week and will not have a shortened season like last year. The summer season for most of Read More »
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  Coast Guard notes communications dead zones in Southeast

  The U.S. Coast Guard has released a list of communications towers in Alaska that may not be receiving VHF radio broadcasts and is warning mariners to Read More »
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  ‘The season where hope comes back:’ Praying for a good catch on Lake Erie

  George Gibbons understands that saying a prayer over his fishing nets may not guarantee a good catch or keep him and his fellow commercial fishermen safe Read More »

• Project draws energy from old fishing gear

  Through a program called Fishing for Energy, the gear is collected in Gloucester and Rockport and trucked to Covanta’s Waste-to-Energy facility in Haverhill, where most of Read More »
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  A peaceful protest by commercial fishermen turned confrontational in Nova Scotia

  There was yelling and cursing between Indigenous and non-Indigenous fishermen, but there were no injuries. The commercial fishermen are protesting what they claim is an illegal Read More »
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  Shrimper Steve, the Spot Prawn King

  Before the mid-2000s, when the first Spot Prawn Festival took place in Vancouver and The 100-Mile Diet was published, nearly all of B.C.’s spot prawns were sent Read More »

• MSC Introduces New Bilingual Ecolabel for Canadian Market

  CANADA – The Marine Stewardship Council has launched a new, bilingual French-English ecolabel in response to requests from MSC partners in Canada who want to further Read More »

• Fish potentially worth millions of pounds found off Cornwall – but fishermen will not be able to touch them

  A shoal of bluefin tuna potentially worth millions of pounds has appeared off the coast of Cornwall – but local fishermen will not be able to Read More »

• Provincial fees could hurt Port Saunders fisherman’s business

  Eugene Caines, a commercial fisherman from Port Saunders, hopes to continue operating a cod grow-out site. However, fees being imposed by the province, may shut him Read More »
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  Letter: More awareness needed of fish farms

  To the editor: I went to the screening of “Lobster Wars” that occurred at the Cape Ann Museum on June 4. In the panel discussion after Read More »

• A Lecture by Robert Finch – Newfoundland’s Vanished Fishery Sounds a Cautionary Note

  For the past dozen years or so my wife Kathy and I have spent a part of each summer in Squid Tickle, continued@waci Read More »
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  Stuck in a Dead End: Jersey fishermen give away lobsters after France bans them from selling in French ports

  Fishermen at St Helier Port, which was blockaded by French rivals this week, said they had been left in a vicious cycle due to the dispute. Read More »

• Keith Sullivan set the tone early at FFAW shrimp rally Thursday, railing against “that bullshit policy, LIFO”

  Fishermen’s union president Keith Sullivan set the tone early at a shrimp rally Thursday, railing against “that bullshit policy, LIFO” — last in, first out — Read More »
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  Mysterious South Carolina fish with humanlike teeth stumps the internet

  The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources on Wednesday asked its social media followers to identify a fish with “humanlike incisors.” he department posted a riddle to Read More »