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  Illinois to Michigan: Put your money where the carp is

  Gov. Bruce Rauner said today that Illinois is happy to accept $8 million from the State of Michigan to put toward the fight to keep Asian Read More »

• “We don’t want this money.” Fund approved to help Columbia River gillnetters adapt to (forced) change

  “We don’t want this money. I don’t want this money,” said gillnetter Chris Cameron. “We’re in a time when people are trying to make a living. Read More »

• Inlet Fish Producers sold to North Pacific Seafoods, a subsidiary of the Japanese trading house Marubeni

  Two Cook Inlet processing facilities will be added to a growing list of salmon production businesses owned by the Seattle-based North Pacific Seafoods. The acquisition, announced Read More »

• Fishermen Join Fight for Herring Trawler Rules

  The marine ecosystem around Cape Cod is built on the backs of Atlantic herring. These baitfish school in massive numbers, providing food for marine mammals, seabirds, Read More »

• Make sure fish counts are right

  The federal government owes it to the people, businesses and natural resources it oversees to get it right when it comes to questions of science. The Read More »
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  Winter Blue Crab season starts

  Fresh blue claw crab is available for retail purchase at the Belford Seafood Cooperative in Middletown. The commercial dredge season for blue claw crab started Thursday and the first Read More »
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  Is Brexit about to rewrite the rules for fishing on the English Channel?

  French fishermen are anxious to avoid a Brexit that could shut them out of British territorial waters, while in British ports, trawlermen hope such moves could Read More »
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  On This Day April 8,1950: Eight fishermen drown in sight of Lightship Pollock Rip

  On this day in 1950, a fishing boat with eight men aboard sank with no survivors off Chatham after its crew struggled for hours to remain Read More »
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  Update: Coast Guard, agencies continue search for person in the water in Mobile Bay, additional details

  The Coast Guard and local agencies are continuing their search for a person in the water in Mobile Bay, Alabama, Friday. Of the three mariners reportedly Read More »

• The Unforgiving Sea by Laurent d’Entremont

  The mighty sea has always been unforgiving, and this was sadly brought home recently, when five young men from the Woods Harbour and Cape Island area Read More »
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  Four are charged with illegal commercial fishing in Dog Fish Bay.

  The state has filed charges against four commercial fishermen accused of illegal harvesting salmon in a bay south of Homer. Alaska Wildlife Troopers wrote in a dispatch Read More »
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  Opinion: Fisheries act is a chance to build trust

  There’s a little something for everyone to hate in the House’s proposed renewal of the Magnuson-Stevens Act. Commercial fishermen feel it gives too much to recreational Read More »

• Etched in Stone – Oceana and Greenpeace think Best Available Science circa 1990 shouldn’t change! Stellar Sea Lion

  Hundreds of endangered Steller sea lions may die from loss of prey and habitat if the federal government allows more industrial fishing in the Aleutian Islands, Read More »
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  Bill C—228: Federal NDP MP proposes bill requiring fish farming be done in closed containment

  Bill C—228, a bill that would require fish farming to be carried out in closed containment facilities, is on the table in the House of Commons Read More »

• Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologist Doug Pengilly interprets crab catch numbers

  Last week the Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced catch limits for the state’s crab fisheries. On Monday, a Fish and Game biologist explained how Read More »

• North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for Nov. 16, 2015

  Click here to read the Weekly Update, to read all the updates, Click here 10:03 Read More »
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  CDFW Announces Closure Of Commercial Dungeness Crab Fishery Off Central California To Protect Humpback Whales

  California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) Director Charlton H. Bonham has assessed entanglement risk under the Risk Assessment Mitigation Program (RAMP) and announced a fishery Read More »

• Maine lobstermen made more money in 2023 despite catching fewest lobster in 15 years

  Maine lobstermen raked in $464.4 million at the docks last year, rebounding from the worst year the fishery had seen in a decade, according to an annual Read More »

• NCFA Weekly Update

  Weekly Update for 9.26.2014 as pdf   09:52 Read More »

• Final action scheduled for charter-commercial halibut split North Pacific Fishery Management Council

  By MOLLY DISCHNER  Morris News Service – Alaska   Alaska Journal of Commerce Final action scheduled for charter-commercial halibut split MOLLY DISCHNER  Morris News Service – Read More »

• Silver Bay Seafoods and Peter Pan Seafoods Announce Valdez Acquisition and 2024 Operational Plan

  Silver Bay Seafoods and Peter Pan Seafoods announced today that the agreement for Silver Bay to acquire Peter Pan’s Valdez facility has been finalized and that Read More »
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  Net migration: Young commercial fishermen ship out of Cook Inlet

  The Cook Inlet salmon fishery was once an economic engine for Kenai. But the fishing there is no longer lucrative. Many fishermen with deep ties to Read More »

• Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission Considers Menhaden Regulation Changes

  Life is about to possibly get easier for menhaden fisherman in Maryland. Menhaden, a popular bait fish, are regulated by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, or Read More »
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  OC residents worry offshore wind farm will destroy coastline without easing climate change

  “When I first heard about it, in my imagination, it was just going to be one or two, similar to what they have off Block Island Read More »

• It’s time to talk crab season projections – NPFMC to meet to approve catch limits, discuss management plan

  The North Pacific Fishery Management Council will meet in Anchorage from Oct. 5-11 to overview crab season projections, hear further discussions of halibut management, and decide Read More »