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• Tignish fisherman continues fight with DFO over crab licence

  Tignish lobster fisherman Henry Doucette says he wants justice — and compensation — for DFO denying him a lucrative career as a snow crab fisherman. Doucette Read More »

• Tri Marine reports drop in purse seiners calling into port

  Tri Marine International says it has seen a dramatic decrease in the number of purse seiners calling into American Samoa since the high seas were closed Read More »
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  Meet the salmon scientist at the center of the Pebble fight

  Beneath the steady static of rain on a tin roof, University of Washington aquatic ecologist Daniel Schindler made some soup. On a clear day, he’d be Read More »

• Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 43′ Fiberglass Scalloper with Ma. CAP, CAT 3406, 12 KW Northern Lights

  Specifications, information and 6 photos >click here< To see all the boats in this series, >Click here<12:50 Read More »
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  The Luck of the Irish! – Fisherman catches rare one-in-100 million albino lobster off the west of Ireland coast

  A ONE-in-100 million white albino lobster has been donated to an Irish aquarium after it was saved from the chef’s cooking pot by a fisherman in Read More »

• Sea scallop surveys under scrutiny during upcoming NOAA conference

  Three intensive days of meetings to evaluate ways of have been scheduled for mid-March in New Bedford, NOAA Fisheries NMFS announced. Among those participating will be Read More »
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  Rick Crane’s lobster holding tank gives him more control over selling and holding lobsters

  A fisherman and business owner in Cox’s Cove, on Newfoundland’s west coast, has built his own lobster holding tank — one that can hold 48,000 pounds Read More »

• FFAW admits error in handling Calvin Tobin death benefit

  The Fish, Food and Allied Workers union has admitted it made a mistake in relaying false information to the family of a dead fisherman. The union was Read More »

• Industrializing the Ocean – Floating Wind Plan Could Finally Crack California’s Offshore Market

  A Seattle startup has proposed what could be the world’s largest floating offshore wind farm on a site 33 miles northwest of Morro Bay, anchoring in Read More »

• ‘Simply catastrophic’: California salmon season to be restricted or shut down — again

  California’s fishing industry is bracing for another bad year as federal managers Monday announced plans to heavily restrict or prohibit salmon fishing again, after cancelling the Read More »

• Elected panels are too quiet NC offshore oil drilling and seismic testing

  In unanimously approving a resolution to oppose offshore oil drilling and seismic testing earlier this month, the Wilmington City Council joined about 60 other local governments Read More »
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  NOAA/NMFS seeks input on proposed sea lion removal at Willamette Falls

  NOAA Fisheries is seeking public input on an application from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) to remove, by lethal means if necessary, California Read More »

• Seafish reacts to report on fishing impact on English Channel ecosystem

  Claims that cod and haddock are ‘fast running out’, for example, directly contradict established data from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Read More »
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  Maine elver fisherman dealing with lower eel prices during the coronavirus crisis

  Elvers were often worth less than $200 per pound until 2011, when international sources of the eels dried up and the Maine price jumped to nearly Read More »

• Court of Appeals rejects gillnet lawsuit – may go to Oregon Supreme Court.

  A lawsuit challenging changes to the  lower Columbia River gillnet policy was rejected Wednesday morning by the Oregon Court of Appeals. Steve Fick, owner of Fishhawk Fisheries, Read More »
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  The Last Commercial Fisherman

  Phil McAdam has fished sardines in Port Phillip Bay for 45 years, but this week he netted his final catch. McAdam, who runs Vancouver Bait Supply Read More »
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  Latest Garmin Fantom Series Boosts Its Market-Leading Power for Solid-State Marine Radars

  The new Fantom 254/256 series uses Garmin’s signature MotionScope™ technology to detect and highlight moving targets in different colors, helping users avoid potential collisions, find flocks Read More »

• Maryland Department of Natural Resources responds to watermen lawsuit

  The Maryland Department of Natural Resources has responded to a lawsuit filed against it on Oct. 18, alleging that menhaden limits were set illegally after not following Read More »
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  Illegal trawling trial concludes after 10-month hiatus

  Fishing company Amaltal has maintained its position that a vessel found trawling in an unauthorised area was the fault of the skipper and not the company. Read More »
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  PEI fishermen to integrate ‘weak rope’ in 2023

  Gear adjustments regarding the North Atlantic Right Whale for the 2021 fishing season are consistent with last year. Rope markings on fishing gear, first implemented in Read More »
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  For Whales and Crabbers, Finding Balance Is Getting Harder

  In Dick Ogg’s 25 years of commercial fishing, he’s had a few close encounters with whales—mostly while pulling Dungeness crab pots off the ocean floor. “I’ve Read More »

• Fatal accident inquiry determination highlights crew’s brave rescue attempts

  The crew of a local fishing boat did “all that they could” to try to recover a colleague as soon as possible from the sea after Read More »
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  No lobstering until right whales leave Cape Cod Bay

  For the past three years there has been a ban on setting lobster traps and pots in the bay from Feb. 1 through the end of Read More »
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  Plain Stupid: The Only Thing Dumber Than Wind Power Is Offshore Wind Power

  Wind power comes with a staggering price tag, taking these things out to sea sends those costs into orbit: intermittent offshore wind power is six times Read More »
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  Pacific neighbours failed on Friday to strike a deal to protect tuna

  Pacific island states and countries failed on Friday to strike a deal to protect shrinking supplies of tuna and adopt cutbacks following a regional conference, officials Read More »