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  Fish Safe NS Encouraging PFD Use Ahead of Dumping Day

  Executive Director Matthew Duffy says they’ve been on wharves from Tiverton, Digby County to Eastern Passage over the last few weeks. He says the biggest topic Read More »
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  Family fined $70,000 over black market rock lobster sales

  A family from the WA Midwest fishing community of Leeman has been ordered to pay more than $70,000 in fines and costs after selling 76 black Read More »
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  You should read this. Right whale extinction crisis gains momentum on Capitol Hill

  Leaders from industry, science and advocacy convened on Capitol Hill this week for a congressional briefing and panel discussion on the North Atlantic right whale extinction Read More »
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  Courts threaten to sink federal fishery monitoring

  NOAA suffered a major blow in February when a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Louisiana threw out a rule that Read More »
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  North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for January 5, 2018

  Click here to read the Weekly Update, to read all the updates Click here, for older updates listed as NCFA click here14:43 Read More »
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  F/V Miss Katie Briefly Threatened to Sink to the Bottom of the Woodley Island Marina

  While Woodley Island harbor staff were out doing their regular “dock walk” this morning, a daily check-up to make sure everything is as it should be, Read More »

• Rep Bill Cassidy and Sen. David Vitter – H.R. 1430, the Offshore Fairness Act of 2013.

  This legislation will give states in the Gulf of Mexico and the south Atlantic the option to expand their offshore jurisdiction up to 10 miles off Read More »
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  The Fishing Vessel of the Future

  Project Octopus, the brainchild of Walter van Harberden, naval architect and one of the directors of Padmos, is more than just a fishing vessel. It is Read More »
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  New Beijing coronavirus outbreak deals blow to China consumer confidence with seafood sales dropping 70%

  The new COVID-19 outbreak in Beijing has dealt a heavy blow to the nation‘s seafood sector, pushing sales down 60-70 percent compared with pre-pandemic levels, and Read More »
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  Save salmon; kill sea lions

  Another spring, another much anticipated migration of “Kings of the Columbia,” our Pacific Northwest’s most revered salmonoid, the chinook salmon. Or perhaps not. At one-time chinook Read More »

• Lobstermen battle for bragging rights in 52nd annual Winter Harbor boat race

  Boats lined up along both sides of the course to watch each wave of racers barrel down the stretch between Grindstone and Schoodic. The few landlocked Read More »

• Bycatch, enforcement on the menu at IPHC – Molly Dischner, Alaska Journal

  Harvesters at the International Pacific Halibut Commission’s annual meeting  returned to their discussion of bycatch today, ultimately passing motions that  ask the commission to take serious Read More »

• Big Green, Diversify or Die! (I thought it was about the Environment) It’s about employment!

  The newly launched Diverse Environmental Leaders National Speakers Bureau, or “DEL,” convened yesterday on the 98th birthday of the National Park Service to convey chiefly two Read More »

• Four offshore wind-power sites in Gulf of Maine auctioned for $22M

  Two energy companies have won leases for 327,096 acres of federal waters off Maine and Massachusetts and hope to install floating wind-power turbines there. On Tuesday, Read More »

• Center for Biological Diversity “tree huggers,” Endangered Species Act bid has PROP partnership concerned it – 4,000 year history of taking care of its coral

  The Pacific Islands Regional Ocean Partnership or PROP has great concerns over a proposed listing of 66 reef building corals under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Read More »
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  Fundraiser hopes to keep F/V Lady Bernice shrimp trawler working after Hurricane Matthew

  The Lady Bernice shrimp trawler was set free Monday after Hurricane Matthew wedged the 80-ton shrimp boat in the mud of Hilton Head Island’s Skull Creek. Read More »

• Will $2.9 million in grants actually help Mississippi fishermen?

  In 2023, it was declared that it was a federal fisheries disaster, making Mississippi fisheries eligible for assistance. “At this point, it’s more like a feel-good Read More »
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  Cooke Aquaculture Fish farm has 60 days to fix net pens outside Seattle, risks losing lease

  Just a week after the state Department of Fish and Wildlife approved shipment of 1 million more farmed Atlantic salmon to Cooke Aquaculture’s fish farm near Read More »
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  Pioneer Seafoods forced out of Redwood City port, leaving its future on the line

  The F/V Pioneer, a 76-foot-long seafaring trawler, has left its dock in Redwood City and relocated to Richmond after its permit was terminated by the Port Read More »
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  BC fishing industry’s ‘Christmas season’ – it’s time for spot prawns

  It’s time to fire up the barbie: Spot prawn season has arrived. “It’s the Christmas of the fishing season,” says Jennifer Gidora, operations manager at Finest Read More »

• John Oliver trashes bad science and worse media coverage of it

  Comedian John Oliver has done it again. His hour-long, commercial-free “Last Week Tonight” on HBO gives him the flexibility to present long-form pieces (and curse to his heart’s Read More »
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  U.S. identifies Gulf of Maine area for offshore wind development

  President Joe Biden’s administration on Tuesday said it had finalized an area of nearly 10 million acres in the Gulf of Maine for potential offshore wind Read More »

• About time! NC reopens some waters to large-mesh gill nets

  Officials with the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources say the waters will reopen shortly after 4 p.m. Sunday. The affected waters are located between Read More »

• Fishing vessel catches fire in Harbour Grace drydock

  Crews were still at the scene of a fire Monday at a shipyard in Harbour Grace, dealing with a blaze that broke out Sunday night on Read More »

• SNP fully scraps controversial fishing restrictions in final climbdown

  Scottish Government minister Màiri McAllan announced her party will no longer pursue divisive plans to restrict fishing in 10% of Scotland’s seas. The environmental policy aimed to protect Read More »