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  North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for February 14, 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 »

• •Locating cod spawning grounds is critical to rebuilding stocks, and ‘torpedoes’ are helping scientists to find them.

   Sitting half-submerged in the ocean east of Scituate, the canary-yellow glider with swept-back wings looked like little more than someone’s errant model plane. Appearances can be Read More »
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  Biloxi, Mississippi: The 91st annual Blessing of the Fleet is happening Sunday!

  After being pushed back a week due to bad weather, the 91st Blessing of the Shrimp Fleet takes place Sunday. The 91st Blessing of the Fleet Read More »

• Party for Socialism and Liberation: The pillaging of the Earth’s oceans written by Krzysztof Lesiak

  Corporations have over-exploited nearly 90 percent of natural oceanic fisheries. This article was published in the ‘How to Save the Environment: END CAPITALISM!’ Edition of Liberation. Read More »

• With the elver harvesting season on the line, some Mi’kmaw chiefs are scrambling for options

  Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier has said that due to violence, threats, widespread unauthorized harvesting and potential harm to elver stocks the season should be cancelled because it was “not possible to have a safe and Read More »

• Trump presidency may bring changes to U.S. fishing laws

  Previously unsuccessful efforts to reform the US’s main federal fishing law, the Magnuson-Stevens Act, are positioned to move ahead under a Donald Trump administration. New efforts Read More »

• NC fishermen and their advocates say local festivals should sell local seafood

  We post a lot of articles about local festivals, for the fishermen! If the fishermen are not being served, we will not promote those festivals. We Read More »
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  Fishermen’s fundraiser nets massive haul for kids with cancer

  A fundraising event by Fishermen Helping Kids with Cancer had brought in a record haul for charity this year, selling more than 100,000 lbs of herring Read More »
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  How a small change in scallop gear could make a big difference on P.E.I.

  Some Island scallop harvesters are adjusting the way they do their work this year, in the hopes that it’ll help make the fishery more sustainable. The Read More »
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  Vietnam Veteran, Commercial Fisherman Guadalupe G. Zamora has passed away

  Guadalupe G. Zamora, a TX native, and U.S. Army Vietnam Veteran, entered eternal rest on July 27th at the age of 78 at his residence in Read More »
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  Maine lobster group backs new speed limit on ships to protect whales

  A proposal to expand speed limits along the East Coast might have little impact on vessels off Maine and is not directly linked to two lawsuits Read More »

• ‘Unfair sharing’ of shrimp resources at centre of FFAW protest

  The  announced in the fall it would be cutting the inshore shrimp quota by 26 per cent, while the offshore quota would be cut by three per Read More »

• What’s killing off starfish along the entire West Coast? – Video

  Called Sea Star Wasting Syndrome, the outbreak hitting the coast from Alaska to Mexico was first reported from Olympic National Park in Washington last summer, and Read More »

• Report on U.S. Marine Sanctuary Oil Drilling Sent to White House, Not Released to Public

  U.S. Commerce Department Secretary Wilbur Ross sent a report to the White House on Wednesday containing recommendations on whether to change the boundaries of 11 marine Read More »
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  Where to, struggling small-scale fishers? – “Fishing communities are in crisis”

  Ousted from their homes in District 6 during the apartheid era, many of South Africa’s fishing families were re-located to places like Saldanha, Gansbaai and Kalk Read More »
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  New York’s fish tale is no exaggeration – fluke limits unfair and too low

  Wanna hear a fish story? Forget the tale of the 50-pound bluefish, or the yarn about the weeklong battle with a great white that got away. Read More »
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  Cruise ship arrives in port with massive whale carcass on bow

  A cruise ship reached an Alaska port with a surprise on its bow: the carcass of a humpback whale. The Grand Princess, a 290 metre ship Read More »

• Lawsuit over fisheries observers to reach Court of Appeals in March

  A New England fishermen’s group suing the federal government over the cost of at-sea monitoring is scheduled to present oral arguments before the federal Court of Read More »

• Aiden Penton’s story – Fogo Island fisherman has taken big risks to build his business

  Aiden Penton did not need written notes when he addressed the LIFO panel at Gander two weeks ago. The Fogo Island fisherman simply told his life Read More »

• Star of reality show ‘Wicked Tuna’ to be sentenced for fraud

  A man featured on the reality television show ‘‘Wicked Tuna’’ is scheduled to be sentenced in Vermont on charges he received government disability benefits while he Read More »
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  Ilwaco: Commercial tuna season starts strong

  The commercial albacore tuna season kicked off over the weekend with fisherman delivering their first catch of the 2020 season to local processors. Favorable weather and Read More »
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  US Labor Dept. to look at conditions affecting foreign workers on American fishing vessels in Hawaii

  Labor Department official said the agency is “deeply disturbed” by news reports about the long hours, low wages and inhumane living conditions suffered by up to 700 Read More »
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  Daniel Pauly’s Three Big Moves to Save the World’s Threatened Fisheries

  In the last 60 years, globalization has transformed largely sustainable, small-scale local fishing enterprises into something very different. Now “largely corporate-owned and controlled” fleets subsidized by Read More »
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  The Christmas Day trawler tragedy which killed 12 Hull men

  It rocked the city on a day which should have been among the happiest of the year. On Christmas Day, 1966, 12 crew of the St Read More »

• B.C. commercial fisherman fined $33K for harvesting catch in unique reefs

  The owner of a commercial halibut vessel in British Columbia received more than $33,000 in fines for fishing in a marine protected area containing glass sponge Read More »