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• Whale Entanglements Up on the West Coast, Fishermen take the Lead!

  A record number of whales are becoming ensnared in fishing gear, including a killer whale that died last week north of Fort Bragg, according to federal Read More »

• Photo Essay: Portrait of two fishing cultures along the Kenya-Ethiopia border

  The Dassanach people in southern Ethiopia and Kenya, and the Turkana of Kenya, live and draw fish from different points of a shared border along Lake Read More »

• Report: Fatigue, fog were factors in 2012 vessel crash that killed Port Angeles man

  The 40-foot Maverick, homeported in LaPush, and 90-foot Viking Storm, out of Vancouver, B.C., collided in heavy fog 35 miles west of LaPush at about 4:30 Read More »

• No life like it for Main-a-Dieu fisherman

  Cory Lahey spends nine months of the year fishing Mira Bay for either rock crab, snow crab, lobster or scallops, so the 38-year-old can be forgiven Read More »
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  A new fish processor is buoying King Cove’s fishermen. But,,

  King Cove has long been a company town. For decades, its fishermen were frustrated by Peter Pan Seafoods, Inc., the private company that runs King Cove’s Read More »
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  Wooden boat lover chief of volunteers keeping historic boat-building alive in Deltaville

  One of the best things about the Deltaville Maritime Museum on the Middle Peninsula is the way it quite literally keeps the region’s boat-building history alive. Read More »
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  DMR issues draft decision approving controversial Mere Point Oyster Co. lease

  Despite opposition from a group of neighbors and commercial fishermen who object that the lease would interfere with fishing and recreation in the bay, the Department Read More »

• New hearing date for indicted “Codfather” Carlos Rafael, sheriff’s deputy

  The next scheduled court date for indicted fishing magnate Carlos Rafael is a June 22 status conference in Boston, and a trial would have to begin Read More »

• Alaska – Compass: Commercial, charter fishermen target trawl fleet’s bycatch

  Commercial and sport fishing interests in Alaska are no strangers to allocation battles over the resources that fuel our businesses and ways of life. It’s a Read More »

• California’s new no-fishing zones appear to be working, scientists say

  “So far, so good,” said Mark Carr, a professor of marine biology at UC Santa Cruz. “There have been economic losses to fishermen,” said Zeke Grader, Read More »

• Coast Guard medevacs fisherman near Cape Cod

  Search and rescue crews from Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod, Massachusetts, medically evacuated a man from a fishing boat 110 miles east of Cape Cod, Read More »

• Strong harvests, more oversight marked 2016 groundfish fisheries

  Last year was a good year overall for groundfish fisheries in the region. With a few standout harvests and favorable proposals with the Board of Fisheries, managers are Read More »
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  Fishing group’s lawsuit challenges fed review of offshore wind project

  A second group has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the government’s approval of the offshore wind project that is expected to generate cleaner electricity for more Read More »
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  Grand Bank Fire Department called to a fishing vessel fire

  The Southern Gazette has learned that members of the Grand Bank Volunteer Fire Department are currently working to extinguish a fire onboard a fishing vessel docked Read More »

• The Flame Get’s Higher – Sovereignty battle brewing over elver eel dispute between Passamaquoddy, Maine state government

  ELLSWORTH, Maine — Passamaquoddy leaders are decrying what one official called an “extreme show of force” by Marine Patrol, which last night confiscated three elver nets Read More »
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  Opinion: Canada failed the N.L. fishery by Harvey Jarvis

  The 2023 crash in the price of snow crab and the 1992 moratorium on northern cod have been talked about as the two major catastrophic events Read More »

• Changes Urged in Reauthorization of Magnuson-Stevens Act

  A University of Washington fisheries scientist says reauthorization of a major piece of fisheries legislation is a good time to focus on sustainable jobs, recreational opportunity Read More »

• UPDATED: Fishermen denied request to stop at-sea monitor costs

  A judge has denied a request from East Coast fishermen to stop the federal government’s plan to hand them the cost of at-sea monitoring. Fishermen of Read More »

• Salmon Sperm Could Help Us Recycle Rare Earth Elements

  It’s time to scrape that salmon semen off your plate, because it’s got a much better use than tickling your taste buds (yes, fish sperm is Read More »
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  The anti-windfarm ‘odd couple’ joining forces to fight the renewable energy projects Australia’s already failing to build

  Deep in coal country, a lifelong environmentalist and one-time Greens candidate is feeling the applause. It’s Thursday night at a Gladstone pub and Steven Nowakowski has Read More »
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  Paragraph Boat’s Loss Poses Questions – Just over a year after its delivery, Norwegian longliner F/V Fay sank

  Built at Stadyard, F/V Fay was typical for new larger Norwegian coastal fishing vessels, with a 20.99 metre overall length and a 10 metre beam. Such Read More »

• MREP bridging trust gaps between fishermen, scientists and regulators

  In most coastal areas of the United States where fishing is a significant part of the economy, it’s taken for granted that fishermen and regulators don’t Read More »
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  Firefighters respond to boat fire at Port Dock 7

  The Newport Fire Department responded to a report of a boat fire on Yaquina Bay at around 1:45 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 10. The boat, identified Read More »
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  Back in the Saddle

  Former county commissioner Terry Thompson emerged from his first commercial fishing expedition since his stroke four months ago with a heavy haul of ling cod destined Read More »
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  Atlantic Herring: Council Votes to Send Draft Amendment 8 Out to Public Hearing With No Preferred Alternatives

  The New England Fishery Management Council today voted to send Draft Amendment 8 to the Atlantic Herring Fishery Management Plan out to public hearing without selecting Read More »