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• Appeals Court Puts Oregon’s Gill Net Fishing Rules on Hold – For Now

  In last November’s election, Oregon voters overwhelmingly rejected Measure 81, which would have banned commercial non-tribal gill net fishing on Oregon’s “inland waters” and allowed the Read More »
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  Small locator device could save fishermen stranded at sea

  Commercial fishing ranks among the most dangerous professions, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Between 2000 and 2013, more than 660 American Read More »

• DFO crackdown in northern B.C. – “They’re screwing us.”

  Commercial fishermen on B.C.’s North Coast are upset by what they’re calling an unprecedented and unfair Fisheries and Oceans Canada crackdown. Chris Peterson, a skipper who Read More »

• Fire rips through Nautical Seafoods Ltd. seafood processing plant in – the community’s only year-round employer

  Firefighters appeared to be in a losing battle to save an Annapolis County seafood processing plant late Monday afternoon. continued@chronicleherald Read More »
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  GA Among States to Receive Part of $20 Million in Fishery Disaster Funding

  The U.S. Department of Commerce allocated $20 million to help tribes, communities, fishermen, and businesses affected by commercial fishery failures that occurred in Georgia, California, Oregon, Read More »

• The Virginia Institute of Marine Science is researching the American eel in order to better understand what affects its numbers and to better manage the fishery.

  Every spring when baby eels drift into the Chesapeake Bay from the Atlantic, then swim like mad up tributary rivers and creeks toward fresh water, Troy Read More »

• Brexit – Many in British Fishing Port Want E.U. Out of Their Waters

  Brixham, England — Mike Walker, a retired fisherman here, sums up what many in this southern English port town think of the European Union. Britain’s membership Read More »
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  Boat fire sends smoke billowing over Portland

  A fire at the Portland Fish Pier sent smoke billowing over part of the city Tuesday. The fire was reported around 9:30 a.m. Officials said people were Read More »

• Fishers suffering from seal boom, Senate committee hears in Newfoundland and Labrador

  The Canadian sealing and fishing industries have been left to sink or swim while booming seal populations on the Atlantic Canada coast deplete fish stocks and Read More »

• Jersey fishing community’s fight for revival after storm

  Members of a Jersey fishing community have told of their path to recovery after the “worst weather conditions in 25 years” wreaked havoc on their bay. Read More »

• Fish and Game Commission Suspends and Terminates Fishing Privileges for Two Southern California Commercial Lobster Fishermen

  During its Oct. 12 meeting, the California Fish and Game Commission adopted recommendations from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) to revoke the commercial Read More »
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  Listing the Bearded Seal as Threatened: A Disturbing Victory for Untestable Hypotheses and Flawed Models.

  The Center for Biological Diversity also petitioned to list thriving populations of Bearded Seals as threatened or endangered by melting sea ice. In response to their Read More »

• NovaScotia: Fishing is good, business is rough

  BAYFIELD — Brendan Doyle has a few hundred square yards of bottom to call his own. For nine years, every dollar he’s hauled aboard the Dethadol, Read More »
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  Deadliest Catch: The Crab Industry Is Struggling – Will Mandy take over F/V Northwestern if Sig retires?

  “Deadliest Catch” has been hinting this could possibly be the very last King Crab season. Episode 1 already shows the captains joining forces to find and Read More »
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  Federal regulators put an end to turbulent season in northern Gulf of Maine scallop fishery

  Federal authorities are closing the scallop fishery in the northern Gulf of Maine at 12:01 a.m. Thursday after a contentious three-week season that pitted the interests Read More »

• and in Fisherynation Sports this morning, Team Canada Gets Sochi GOLD!

  The Canadian men’s hockey team took gold on the final day of the 2014 Olympics, defeating Sweden 3-0 in the gold medal game at the Bolshoy Read More »

• North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for April 25, 2016

  Click here to read the Weekly Update, to read all the updates, Click here 22:45 Read More »

• Expanding Sandbar at West Point Harbour creating a potentially dangerous situation

  Fishermen in West Point are calling on the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to help with a long-term solution to keep sandbars from forming in their harbor. Read More »

• Fish processor says contract breach cost it millions

  D’Eon Fisheries Ltd. of West Pubnico alleged in Nova Scotia Supreme Court documents filed Wednesday that defendants Scotia Harvest Seafoods Inc. of Digby and Marro Management Inc. of Read More »

• Lobster poacher gets more probation in the largest poaching case in Keys history

  A federal judge extended the probation Monday of a former commercial lobster fisherman who was banned from fishing and served more than two years in federal Read More »

• DFO concerned by deaths of 5 endangered North Atlantic Right whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence

  Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) is working with marine mammal experts, scientists, and fishery officers from across Atlantic Canada to determine what has caused the recent Read More »
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  Boat owner responds to Port of Astoria lawsuit

  A boat owner being sued by the Port of Astoria for abandoning his vessel shot back recently,,,,The Port sued Nick Mathias, a California resident and owner Read More »

• Trinidad crab tests to determine commercial opener

  The long-awaited opener of the commercial crab season on the North Coast now hinges on six crabs collected just south of Trinidad Head. If the crabs Read More »

• Undercurrent News erects a Paywall

  Deciding to make our content paid-for has not been an easy decision — even harder was deciding how to price ourselves. continued  Adios! Read More »

• Lobster boat a total loss after fire off of Damon’s Point

  MARSHFIELD Ma – A lobster boat fully engulfed in flames broke from its mooring on the North  River late Sunday night, requiring a strategic attack by Marshfield Read More »