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• Lobster prices up in New England as season off to slow start

  Prices are high because — the season picks up after the bulk of lobsters shed shells and reach legal harvesting size, and lobstermen said that hasn’t Read More »
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  Survey of world’s unprovoked shark attacks singles out South Carolina

  South Carolina was singled out in a worldwide survey of unprovoked shark attacks because it doubled its numbers in 2017. The Florida Museum of Natural History Read More »

• UPDATED: Search for missing fishermen continues today

  Five divers are on their way to scour the water for crew members of a fishing vessel that went missing near Canterbury in a storm yesterday. Read More »
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  How Nantucket Came to Be the Whaling Capital of the World

  Today Nantucket Island is a fashionable summer resort: a place of T-shirt shops and trendy boutiques. It’s also a place of picture-perfect beaches where even at Read More »

• Red’s Best Seafood owner accused of violations

  Jared Auerbach faces two charges of untagged striped bass, two charges of untagged shellfish, undersize conch and a public access ramp violation, according to Massachusetts Environmental Read More »

• Maine to host public hearings about fish habitat plan – Tonight 6PM, Brewer – Tomorrow 6PM, Portland

  Maine will host two public hearings this week about a long-anticipated fishery management plan for New England waters. The New England Fishery Management Council is working Read More »
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  Chinese tabloid blasts Canada over lobster dispute

  Communist Party media in China rebuked and threatened Nova Scotia lobster shippers this week for expressing concerns over new roadblocks to getting products into China. The Read More »

• Ocean Exploration: The drug for rich people. “There’s no doubt discovering things is an absolute drug in some ways.” Oil and Gas, anyone?

  Wealthy backers support scientific efforts to explore deep seas –A small but growing number of wealthy patrons, enamored of the possibilities of undersea exploration, are donating Read More »

• Fishermen hope legislation benefits industry. Charlston Huckster wearing a cheap rug strokes’ em with Pew Lotion!

  Locals in the fishing industry, including Baumann, hope the research could lead to further regulatory change to the Magnuson-Stevens Act which sets catch limits designed to Read More »

• Drug testing a touchy issue on New Bedford’s waterfront

  Local scallop captain Rick Lynch, 44, gave a compelling interview last October to Don Cuddy, program director for the New Bedford-based Center for Sustainable Fisheries. Cuddy Read More »
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  Pictou Landing reports peaceful season of moderate livelihood lobster fishery

  Generations of Craig Francis’s family have fished the waters between Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, so being a part of Pictou Landing First Nation’s moderate Read More »
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  Zinke tells greens he’ll make ‘grand pivot’ to conservation

  Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke yesterday huddled with more than two dozen conservation group leaders, including some of his staunchest critics, in his latest bid to generate Read More »
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  Deepwater Wind Offers Offshore Information, Fishermen Want Compensation

  The Providence-based company recently announced a program to inform fishermen of where and when construction and other work occurs at the site of three wind facilities Read More »

• Laine Welch: From sockeye to basketballs, the notable fishing news of 2013

  Alaska’s seafood industry worked hard again in 2013 to ramp up its message to policymakers, most of whom still tend to overlook the industry’s economic significance Read More »
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  Fishermen rally in Coos Bay against offshore wind farm

  Fishermen along Oregon’s coast traveled great distances to get to Coos Bay Tuesday. They’re hoping to bring awareness to their beloved industry in the face of Read More »
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  Coronavirus: Fishermen cannot land their catch in France

  The problem is not that boats are not able to land their catches, the issue is that restaurants in France, Italy and Spain have closed down, Read More »
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  Poor salmon runs result in low harvests, disaster request

  Poor salmon returns across the Gulf of Alaska are putting commercial fishing catches far behind the average and prompting a request for a disaster declaration. Commercial Read More »
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  A “very black day for Britain” – Yorkshire’s last distant-water fishery has been scuppered

  The failure to land a deal allowing the UK to fish in Norwegian sub-Arctic waters means the crew of the £52m Kirkella, which lands into Hull, Read More »

• Tuna Gets Snagged in Food Safety Tug-of-War – “clearly out of step with mainstream published peer-reviewed science.”

  Consumer alert: Pregnant women should avoid eating tuna, including tuna salad sandwiches, sushi, and grilled tuna steaks, a new study from Consumer Reports says. “We’re particularly Read More »

• This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – Alaska shellfish growers talk acid oceans, blue mussels and more. That’s up next –

  Alaska shellfish growers will gather in Ketchikan later this month to update the state of that industry.  There are 69 shellfish farm sites in Alaska; 28 Read More »

• Peoria processing facility suggested as means to battle Asian carp

  Perhaps the private sector can succeed where the government has failed. That seemed to be the theme following a summit-type meeting on Asian carp held at Read More »

• Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 79.8′ Steel Lobster Boat, Cat 3412, Auxiliarys, Reduced Price

  Specifications, information and 15 photos >click here< To see all the boats in this series, >click here< 13:38 Read More »
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  Fisherman Lance Eric Norby bought a boat sight unseen and named it PNEUMA. “can’t” was not in his vocabulary

  Lance Eric Norby entered God’s kingdom on July 1st, 2021, doing what he loved most, in hopes that soon he would be living his dream of Read More »

• Over 1-Million Sockeye Harvested in Bristol Bay on Sunday

  The daily harvest of sockeye in the massive Bristol Bay commercial fishery topped 1-million fish on Sunday. Through Sunday the total catch Bay-wide is over 3.2-million Read More »

• Opinion: The race to catch the last fish in the sea – WILL we ever get our fisheries management better than half right?

  I guess it was as a result of being asked to write the Keep Australian Fishing report that I continue to keep a weather eye on Read More »