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  N.B. baby rides ‘rare’ gigantic lobster on lucky Canada Day catch

  “Some kids get to ride a pony, not my grand nephew Ace,” said proud uncle Ed McHugh who shared pictures of his 12-pound nephew Ace on Read More »

• Editorial: Markey, Warren right to stress core issues on fishery

  In posing their questions to Sullivan, Warren and Markey targeted the issues at the very core of the current dispute over the latest NOAA regulatory actions. Read More »

• Montauk Fisherman on Trial for Conspiracy, Fraud Related to Fish Selling Scheme

  A Montauk commercial fisherman is standing trial in federal court in Islip on felony charges of fraud and conspiracy related to the sale of what the Read More »

• Poll: Majority of Marylanders Support 1-Year Crab Moratorium

  After a record high number of crabs caught in 2012, the past two years have been a completely opposite story.  With watermen putting all their effort Read More »
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  It’s business as usual! Commercially Caught Wild American Shrimp From Gulf of Mexico Remain Safe to Eat

  For the commercial wild-caught shrimp industry in the Gulf of Mexico, it’s business as usual. In spite of reports coming out of the Gulf of Mexico Read More »
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  Coronavirus: Pop-up seafood market at Jersey Shore helps fishermen hurt by restaurant closures

  A pop-up wholesale seafood market is helping to keep the fishing industry afloat in an Ocean County municipality. Point Pleasant Beach’s Shore Fresh Seafood Market is Read More »
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  A Seafood Institution Is for Sale

  Stuart’s Seafood Market in Amagansett has changed hands only a few times since Stuart Vorpahl Sr. established a fish packing business on the Oak Lane property Read More »
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  Big, bold venture – the new Crystal Sea has begun fishing from Newlyn.

  There’s no doubt that for the last 20 years the average age of boats brought to the port has significantly decreased as private individuals and company Read More »
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  Crab fishery stalemate creating fear and uncertainty in Newfoundland fishing towns

  The days of mounting fear and unease in Humber Arm South, N.L., feel like 1992, when the federal government ended the province’s cod fishery after stocks had Read More »
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  Mark the Shark, Miami’s Most Famed Deep-Sea Hunter, Fends Off Critics

  “Got ’em on!” Mark “the Shark” Quartiano roars while his first mate stabs a shark with a gaff and hauls it out of the placid Atlantic Read More »
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  Don Cuddy: At the fish auction, you need a translator

  A sow jig hake, a lemon sole Georges or a pee wee channel anyone? Now that is some real New Bedford fish auction talk. Allow me Read More »
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  Debut novel set in Bristol Bay delivers generations of women’s storytelling

  Mia Heavener, now living in Anchorage, grew up fishing in Bristol Bay, where she absorbed stories her mother and other women told between tides and over Read More »

• Fishing crisis’ collateral damage – Fishing crisis devastating crews, families, too

  They don’t know what to do. It’s as simple as that. The rumble they hear, louder by the moment, is their world collapsing around them and Read More »
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  Why Deadliest Catch’s Johnathan Hillstrand didn’t actually retire

  At the end of Deadliest Catch season 13, Time Bandit captain Johnathan Hillstrand retired after 37 years of crab fishing. His boat isn’t one of those Read More »
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  Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 45′ MDI Lobster boat, CAT 3406C, Price Reduced!

  Specifications, information and 4 photo’s click here To see all the boats in this series, Click here 13:05 Read More »

• Coast Guard searching for a missing fisherman south of Montauk, NY

  The Coast Guard is searching for a man that went missing from a fishing vessel 30 miles south of Montauk, New York, Monday afternoon. Missing is a 55-year Read More »
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  UPDATED: ‘Three large blade pieces.’ Vineyard Wind wind turbine blade snaps. Search underway

  A blade on one of the Vineyard Wind 1 offshore turbines was damaged over the weekend, prompting an investigation by the blade’s manufacturer. In a statement released Read More »

• Updated: Reclamation reverses course on water for Klamath River

  Water release from Trinity Reservoir will begin Saturday, Aug. 23, at 7 a.m.; Public urged to take safety precautions on or near the river while flows Read More »
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  SEA-NL up and running as ‘distinct voice’ of skippers, licensed inshore owner-operators

  Seaward Enterprises Association of Newfoundland and Labrador (SEA-NL) elected its first executive during a founding convention earlier this month, and the Board’s first order of business Read More »
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  Warmer Northumberland Strait not good news for lobster fishery

  As climate change warms the waters around Prince Edward Island, it could bring a new threat of disease to lobsters. University of Maine researcher Richard Wahle Read More »

• Halibut-tracking test hopes to prove quota increase needed

  Michael MacDonald with the Prince Edward Island Fishermen’s Association says they’re trying to make a case to Fisheries and Oceans Canada that fishermen should be allowed Read More »

• Descendant of salvaged Maine boat’s namesake wants to save it

  After seven months of being submerged off the coast of Harpswell, the historic fishing boat Jacob Pike has finally been raised by the U.S. Coast Guard. But Read More »

• Fraser sockeye shun U.S. waters, fill B.C. nets

  A quirk of nature has handed B.C. commercial fishermen a huge catch of sockeye salmon this summer, while leaving their American counterparts almost empty handed. Commercial Read More »
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  Alaskan fisherman turned ‘mad scientist’ now distills his popular rum on a MS Coast farm

  Eli Underhill and his wife, Amy, left the wilderness and frigid temperatures for warm and sunny South Mississippi a few years ago, where he traded catching Read More »
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  10 billion snow crabs disappeared from the Bering Sea. Scientists and fishermen are working together to understand why

  The snow crabs’ population in the Bering Sea off the western coast of Alaska has fluctuated for decades. An increase in young crabs back in 2018 Read More »