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  Did New Bedford police tell a fisherman to take down his ‘anti-windmill’ flag?

  According to local scalloper Russell Isabel, captain of the F/V Prowess, the Prowess started showing signs of an engine problem in the area of the New Read More »

• It’s Lights! Camera, data for NOAA video program

  “There’s a large number of these reef fish species from Florida to Cape Hatteras,” Dr. Bacheler said. “They’re mostly associated with hard bottom habitat.”http://www.carolinacoastonline.com/news_times/news/article_2e3ed33e-2a87-11e2-83a1-001a4bcf887a.html Read More »

• Eat Local, Eat Weird? The Secretive Monkeyface Eel Is Both.

  Kirk Lombard paused to watch a skinny, middle-aged man in a beat-up wetsuit hop around the rocks with a bamboo stick. The man slid the stick Read More »

• Buddhists fined almost £30,000 – for releasing foreign lobsters bought in Greenwich into the sea.

  Ni Li and Zhixiong Li were among 100 Buddhists who released the crustaceans into the Channel as part of a religious ceremony – despite them being Read More »

• Appeal challenges federal court decision of Cape Wind’s NSTAR contract

  In an appeal of a federal court decision which dismissed a multi-party challenge of Cape Wind’s high priced contract with NSTAR, Laurence Tribe, an expert in Read More »

• US tuna boats seek level playing field

  Going into next week’s meeting of the organization called the Western and Central Pacific fisheries Commission, aka Tuna Commission, the body which regulates the fishing of Read More »

• Senate confirms Penny Pritzker to head Commerce Department

   In a nearly unanimous vote, the Senate on Tuesday confirmed billionaire hotel and real-estate magnate Penny Pritzker Penny Pritzker to become the next commerce secretary . continued@washingtonpost Read More »

• Fisheries Minister George Eustice announces new protections for lobster stocks

  New protections to improve the long-term sustainability of England’s shellfish industry and support the next generation of fishermen have been announced by Fisheries Minister George Eustice. Read More »

• WA’s scallop quota doubled after stock recovery

  The quota for WA’s commercial scallop fishery has almost doubled this season, due to a recovery of stocks after a marine heatwave in 2010/11. Fishermen will Read More »

• This weeks NOAA/NMFS Notices

  We will be posting the notices we receive, when we receive them, on a daily basis, and aggregate them in one weekly post. Here we go. Commercial Read More »
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  Offshore windfarms – some of the important actors

  While I might have missed some of it, I haven’t seen much discussion of “who’s on first” vis-à-vis offshore windfarm development. Considering this, and considering that their Read More »
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  Dec. 7 start now being eyed as weather keeps delaying LFA 34 opening

  After a very lengthy conference call on Friday afternoon, Dec. 4, it’s still a no-go for the opening of the LFA 34 commercial lobster fishery off Read More »
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  North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for April 17 2020

  Legislative updates, Bill updates, Calendar, >Click here to read the Weekly Update<, to read all the updates >click here<, for older updates listed as NCFA >click Read More »

• Fishing industry group says it’s looking for ways to prevent Atlantic right whale entanglements

  The fishing industry says it’s looking for a solution to help prevent North Atlantic right whales from enduring painful, and sometimes deadly, entanglements with fishing gear. Read More »
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  Cutting-edge hybrid boat built by a P.E.I. company goes to its new home in New Brunswick

  The vessel and the green technology were developed by P.E.I. engineering company Aspin Kemp & Associates.  The lobster boat is called Hybrid One. Company CEO Jason Read More »
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  Documents Reveal ‘Catastrophic Impact’ Right Whale Protections Could Have On Lobster Industry

  Newly released documents by Maine’s Department of Resources are providing a glimpse of what federal action to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales could look like Read More »
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  Membertou First Nation Chief Paul leaves Assembly of Mi’kmaq Chiefs in split over moderate livelihood

  Chief Terry Paul has stepped down from the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Chiefs due to a disagreement over how moderate livelihood negotiations are being conducted. 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 »

• 31st annual N.C. Seafood Festival – It’s all about seafood

  Rides are up, tents pitched and flags hung high. Now it’s time to cook up some seafood. With preparation work done, the waterfront will soon be Read More »
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  Crackpot Alert! Replace Lobsterman Statue With Lobster Crushing a Trap, PETA Urges Mayor

  “Lobsters feel pain and fear, and since they can’t go into shock to escape pain, they suffer greatly when they’re dragged out of their watery homes Read More »

• Crew member on F/V Odin dies of unknown causes

  A crew member on the fishing vessel Odin was found dead Saturday morning. Wrangell Search and Rescue responded to the scene after the Coast Guard was Read More »
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  The understandable anger of British fishermen

  When the fisheries-rich countries of the North Atlantic applied to join the EEC in the early 1970s, it was an opportunity for ministers in Brussels that Read More »

• Hundreds Gather Today in Boston to Demand Federal Action on New England Groundfish Disaster

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• Louisiana’s fishermen are aging, but 1 New Orleans chef has a solution

  A New Orleans chef has partnered with a Chalmette community college to create a new program to train the next generation of deckhands. Louisiana is the Read More »

• State floats new plan for fishing disaster money in New Bedford on Friday

  The state Division of Marine Fisheries listened to those who wanted a wider distribution of $6.7 million in federal fisheries disaster money. At a meeting of Read More »