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  More Than $35 Million for Maine’s Lobster Industry Advanced by Senator Collins in Funding Bill

  U.S. Senator Susan Collins, Vice Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced that she advanced more than $35 million and key language to support Maine’s lobster Read More »
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  Engine shortage slows pace of boatbuilding

  Seated behind the desk in his office, boatbuilder Stewart Workman seemed pretty relaxed for a businessman with a big problem that seems to be growing worse.,, Over Read More »
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  Crab start delayed again

  The commercial Dungeness crab season has been delayed again along the entire Pacific coast north of Point Arena, California until at least Dec. 31 after tests Read More »
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  Frank Teague, Storyteller, Trucker, Commercial Fisherman, has passed away in Bend, Oregon

  “It is with deepest sorrow that we announce the passing of Edward Franklin Teague, beloved father, grandfather and great grandfather who passed away in Bend, Oregon, Read More »

• Can I repossess a boat without a recorded preferred ship mortgage?

  Q: I loaned $62,000 to a boat owner and required him to sign a security agreement in the form of a Preferred Ship Mortgage. The collateral Read More »

• Maine DMR closes two more areas to scallop fishermen

  An emergency rulemaking by the Department of Marine Resource will close the Machias Bay Limited Access Area and the Sheepscot River, effective Saturday. The action is the Read More »

• Bristol Bay fisherman lands fishery’s 2 billionth salmon

  A fisherman last week landed the 2 billionth salmon to be caught in Bristol Bay’s 133-year commercial fishing history, according to harvest statistics by the Alaska Read More »

• Lawmaker: Trump Can Undo Obama’s National Monument Decrees

  A top House Republican urged President-elect Donald Trump to rescind the Obama administration’s decisions to put millions of acres of land and ocean under stricter federal Read More »
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  Sen Bruce Tarr champions expanded in-state lobster processing, proposal backed by Senate

  The state Senate has approved a measure authored by Gloucester Sen. Bruce Tarr, and championed by a bi-partisan coalition of state senators, that will reform state Read More »

• Maine: Slow start to elver season means high price for baby eels

  Maine’s baby eel season is off to a slow start, causing prices to balloon back to historic levels as fishermen wait for waterways to finish thawing. Read More »

• Fisheries Off West Coast States: NOAA/NMFS Proposed Rule 09/13/2013 Open for Comment

  Fisheries Off West Coast States; Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan; Commercial Groundfish Fishery Management Measures; Rockfish Conservation Area Boundaries for Vessels Using Bottom Trawl Gear national register Read More »

• Elver fishermen unite as tribes agree to new rules

  Last year, Maine fishermen harvested elvers worth more than $11.4 million from the state’s streams and rivers. That made the fishery for the tiny, translucent juvenile Read More »
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  State opens lobster season following protest

  Lobstermen protesting the state’s restrictions on fishing and speed limits in Cape Cod Bay received a reprieve Friday, when the restrictions were lifted.The Provincetown Center for Read More »
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  Electric companies seek proposals for round of wind energy

  The three electric distribution companies in Massachusetts have together issued a request for a second round of offshore wind energy, as the winner of the first Read More »
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  SEA-NL calls on new federal Fisheries and Oceans minister to investigate allegations ‘pirate’ draggers destroying Grand Banks

  “Canada may have the toughest fishery enforcement within its own waters, but as long as it’s a free-for-all once migratory stocks swim over the imaginary line Read More »
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  BP & Equinor Demand 54% Hike In Offshore Wind Power Price Increases

  BP PlcBP and partner Equinor ASA EQNR are demanding a 54% hike in electricity prices produced at three offshore wind farms in the United States, per Read More »
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  Trump administration replaces Obama-era ocean policy

  The Trump administration has revoked an environmental and economic management program for the United States’ coastal ecosystems and replaced it with a program that the president Read More »

• States edge closer to regional fund for fishermen hurt by offshore wind projects

  A New York state energy agency, in collaboration with Massachusetts and nine other East Coast states, took a concrete step Thursday toward establishing that fund. The Read More »
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  Caught: New Zealand Company faces losing $20m trawler fishing in a protected zone

  Sanford Ltd, and two employees, skipper/master Grant Walker and first mate William Lash, used trawl nets on several occasions in a Benthic Protection Area (BPA) in Read More »

• The world famous Kenai River king salmon are facing a major crisis

  There appear to be several reasons for the low returns: poor ocean survival, catches by the high-seas trawlers, setnet catches in Cook Inlet and marginal productivity. Read More »

• Steve, they’re lookin’ for ya.

  BDN. , Maine — A 37-year-old fisherman is wanted for failing to pay state income taxes over the past eight years. Judge Patricia Worth issued an Read More »
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  Biggest Crab Boat in the World: Facts You Might Not Know

  Crab fishing is a dangerous industry popularized by the hit TV reality show The Deadliest Catch. You might be wondering which boat is the biggest crab Read More »
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  Humpback whale washes up in Virginia Beach, aquarium officials conduct necropsy

  A humpback whale washed up near the Lynnhaven Fishing Pier on Sunday, the first in the area since National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fisheries declared an Read More »
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  The costs of depredation: Underwater Cameras Tackle Tough Questions for Fishery

  Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) are working with local fishermen on Cape Cod to understand exactly Read More »

• Not all king crab at festival is from Alaska’s well-managed fishery

  Mike Erickson, president of Alaska Glacier Seafood Co., said by phone from Juneau that in years past, his company has been a major supplier. “But our Read More »