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  F/V Kodiak Enterprise: Crews removing water, chemicals from Tacoma fishing boat before investigating cause of fire

  Crews extinguished the last of the fires Friday but investigators who will look for the cause still aren’t able to set foot on the boat. Officials Read More »
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  F/V Dianne: Experts work through the wet to get answers

  Investigations into the sinking of MV Dianne are continuing today at the Bundaberg Port Marina site. Firefighters were at the scene early yesterday morning to assess Read More »
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  Speed on the water!: The Charlie Begin Memorial Lobster Boat Races

  The official start to Maine’s lobster boat racing season happens every year in Boothbay Harbor over Father’s Day weekend. This year, that date is Saturday, June Read More »

• OPINION: The comfort of being apolitical

  AS the marine and commercial fishing industries continue to be ruthlessly dismantled by politicians and international environmental groups, for little else but political gain, can we Read More »
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  Tasmania: Seafood, rock lobster industry receives state government relief package

  Hundreds of struggling fishers, who have been hard hit in recent months, have received a much-needed cash relief. The state government announced a fee relief package Read More »
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  Fishermen, residents voice concerns about proposed Morro Bay offshore wind farm

  An area of ocean 20 miles from the Cambria shoreline and about 35 miles northeast of Morro Bay could become home to nearly 400 square miles Read More »

• Lawmakers sink Passamaquoddy bid to exempt tribal fishermen from individual elver catch quotas

  Due to concerns about the impact on the population of American eels from Maine’s elver fishery — the only such fishery on the East Coast that Read More »

• Two Hialeah men arrested on charges of poaching 468 lobsters

  Two Hialeah men have been popped on charges of poaching 468 Florida spiny lobsters out of season, more than half of them undersized. continued @ MiamiHerald.com Read More »
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  Valley shrimping companies looking for a way out

  Rio Grande Valley shrimpers say they’re ready to sell off their fleets. For years, they’ve faced big losses, and they’re still waiting for help. At the Read More »

• British Columbia: American skipper arrested Monday on suspicion of impaired operation of a vessel after his fishing boat ran aground near Kelsey Bay

  The 58-foot American F/V Arline was heading south when it ran aground and the two remaining crew members apparently tried to abandon ship. Conditions may have been Read More »

• Alaskan Coastal legislators support halibut bycatch cuts

  The Alaska legislature’s coastal representatives sent a letter to the North Pacific Fishery Management Council expressing support for 50 percent halibut bycatch cap reductions for the groundfish Read More »

• Murkowski Hires New Fisheries, Economics Policy Experts

  WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Lisa Murkowski today announced the hiring of Jay Sterne to advise her as she shapes effective federal fisheries policies for the nation Read More »
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  British Columbia: Mount Polley mine disaster 5 years later; emotions, accountability unresolved

  People are swimming and fishing in Quesnel Lake five years after the largest environmental mining disaster in Canadian history, but residents of Likely, B.C., are still Read More »

• City of Gloucester lands fish processing plant, 225 jobs

  An Illinois-based seafood processor and wholesaler is moving into Gloucester to operate a processing plant in the Blackburn Industrial Park — a move that is expected Read More »

• “Corrupt” goings on? Fishery council decision endangers scallop stock

  Outdoor writer Bill Biswanger received a letter from Jason Colby, who is a charter-boat captain and sits on the board of directors for non-commercial fishermen here Read More »

• Two well-known marine survival companies become one as LRSE of Tiverton, RI, buys Landrigan Corporation of Boston

  Jim O’Connor got his start in the life raft and survival equipment business in 1978 working for Landrigan Corporation of Boston and on Sept. 1, he Read More »

• DMC researchers test technique to determine lobster’s age

  Research professor Rick Wahle and graduate student Carl Huntsberger are testing a technique at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center to determine the age of Read More »
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  ‘We tried it your way, it didn’t work’: First Nation calls on Ottawa to end fisheries dispute

  Catching and selling lobster during the fall season is how some Mi’kmaw fishermen of Potlotek First Nation make a living. Craig Doucette and a few others Read More »
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  Trade: Why new lobster markets are needed to protect 450 jobs in our region after Brexit

  New markets for the lucrative £35m lobster fishing industry in Holderness are to be investigated to help protect 450 jobs after Brexit. The local lobster fishery Read More »

• TSB says more needs to be done to ensure safety of commercial fishermen – Maritime Fishermen’s Union responds

  The Maritime Fishermen’s Union is responding to criticism from the Transportation Safety Board that there are still too many fatal fishing accidents every year in Canada. Read More »

• Tuna caught near California still have traces of Fukushima radiation

  Almost two years after a natural disaster ravaged a Japanese nuclear plant, Bluefin tuna that test positive for radiation poisoning continue to be caught off the Read More »

• Congressman John Tierney releases statement on Magnuson-Stevens Act hearing

  “Without a doubt, today’s parameters are not working,” continue Read More »
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  California Commercial Dungeness Crab Update

  The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) just completed the most recent marine life entanglement risk assessment under the Risk Assessment Mitigation Program (RAMP). Recent Read More »

• Concern over Greenland fishery plans

  Greenland’s recent announcement that it will open a commercial fishery has triggered concerns in North American countries where salmon populations are declining. Every winter, salmon in Read More »

• Cash catch: Loan program launched for local fisherman – wickedlocal.com

  BREWSTER —The Community Development Partnership has been working to provide affordable  housing and to help small businesses get started and keep going for years, but  now it’s Read More »