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  Expert questions BP’s drilling plans for offshore Nova Scotia

  An engineering expert and former oil industry consultant has raised the alarm on BP Canada Energy Group’s plans to drill off Nova Scotia. “Given BP’s current Read More »

• Crab prices spike to $9 a pound in advance of Chinese New Year

  As the Dungeness crab season reached the end of its peak this month, commercial crab fishermen saw a massive increase in what processors paid per pound. Read More »
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  Sign This Petition – MAKE COMMERCIAL FISHING GREAT AGAIN

  1-Millions of jobs depend on reforming the Magnuson-Stevenson Act by passing HR 200. 2-Repeal Marine Monuments on our fishing grounds. 3-Say NO to wind turbines on Read More »

• Slave labor could help local shrimpers and fisherman to raise awareness about local seafood

  A report last week shed stunning light on work conditions on fishing boats half way around the world and opened a door for local shrimpers and Read More »

• Fish and Game upheaval reveals shift in California wildlife policy

  The sudden resignation of the most adamant defender of hunting and fishing on the California Fish and Game Commission could put the finishing touches on a Read More »

• Proposed National Marine Sanctuary nominated off California coast

  The formal documents were submitted this week to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for consideration on Monday. The stretch of coast affected includes both San Read More »
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  Stormy horizons – Salmon farms

  Good news for Alaska commercial fishermen: Salmon last year ranked as the favorite fish at Japanese conveyor-belt sushi restaurants for the sixth year in a row, Read More »
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  Scottish Governments “senseless” ban on Firth of Clyde ‘ruining generations of business’

  Furious fishermen have accused the Scottish Government of devastating their historic Firth of Clyde industry with a “senseless” ban. Boats in the area support more than 600 jobs, many Read More »

• Nantucket: Concerns Over Small Mesh Trawling for Squid Surface at DMF Hearing

  New regulations for squid, conch and striped bass fisheries were among the topics of a wide-ranging public hearing Wednesday at the Katharine Cornell Theatre. About 20 Read More »
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  25 Years ago Today – The Northern Cod Moratorium

  Sunday, July 2, marks a quarter of a century since then federal fisheries minster John Crosbie announced what was planned to be a two-year moratorium on Read More »

• My Turn: Banking on Alaska’s fishing future

  Many people our age have written wills. Have you? It’s a good idea, of course, because wills preserve family harmony while planning for ways our youth Read More »
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  Submerged Rock Led to Fishing Vessel Grounding

  A captain’s decision to navigate close to shore in an area with uncharted rocks led to the grounding and capsizing of a fishing vessel in Alaska Read More »
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  New Federal Report: Offshore Wind Farm Construction Can Harm Whales, Birds, Fisheries

  The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) on Monday released a new report that said whales, dolphins, birds and more can indeed be harmed — Read More »
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  43rd Maine Fishermen’s Forum opens on Thursday

  The weathermen may be predicting snow for the weekend but Maine fishermen, or at least the Maine Fishermen’s Forum, say that spring is nearly upon us. Read More »
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  Going nuclear: Alaska is a big target for small reactors

  Representatives from Westinghouse’s nuclear division have been traveling to Alaska in recent months and talking with key decision-makers in the state about their eVinci micro-reactor, which Read More »
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  Long Island: Controversial Larvicide Remains in Mosquito Control Plan

  The Suffolk County Legislature approved a 2018 vector control plan on Tuesday that includes use of methoprene, a mosquito larvicide, but also acknowledges a pilot program Read More »

• Insuring fishing boats in the Maritimes

  Fishing and fishing vessels – these are things that are synonymous with the Maritimes. And where there’s industry, there is risk. And where there’s risk, there Read More »

• Pew threatens to get Pacific bluefin tuna banned from international trading

  An international body that monitors fisheries in most of the Pacific Ocean ended a meeting in Japan on Thursday without agreement on fresh measures to protect Read More »

• People are pulling out their fire grates and steamer pans – Be safe when eating oysters

  Oyster season begins Oct. 15, bringing back for the ‘R’ months a taste treat reputed also to be an aphrodisiac. “People are pulling out their fire Read More »
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  Painter Susan Tobey White captures a ‘day in the life’ of female lobstermen

  First, it’s important to get it straight. She’s not called a ‘lobsterwoman’ if the person lobster fishing is female; the correct term, no matter what the Read More »

• “The Seattle Seahawks are Super Bowl Champions

  Congratulations to our North West Fishermen Friends! Enjoy the Hell outta this!  22:06 Read More »

• Canada Q&A – Without massive government subsidies, can the salmon farming industry survive?

  Can the salmon farming industry survive without massive government subsidies,” writes Marike Finlay-de Monch in Port Dufferin, Nova Scotia, “and does a forensic economic analysis show that Read More »
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  How a diverse band of locals won Beaufort County’s biggest environmental battle

  “It’s Official! Plans Announced,” screamed a banner headline in The Beaufort Gazette of Oct. 2, 1969. BASF, the international chemical giant based in Germany, announced it Read More »
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  Nova Scotia’s Billion-Dollar Lobster Wars

  At the River Café, the Michelin-recommended restaurant on the Brooklyn waterfront where the term “free-range chicken” was coined, the lobster is served butter-poached next to a Read More »
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  Varied New Jersey Fishing Businesses May Apply for Grant for 35 Percent Loss in 2020

  Since the pandemic began, fishing revenue in New Jersey is down about 35 percent, according to the N.J. Department of Environmental Protection. Viking Village commercial dock Read More »