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  4th Annual Fish and Fleet Festival Returns to the Pillar Point Harbor on Sunday

  If you are a lover of seafood, here’s a chance to see the classic fishing boats and colorful crews that go out to the deep sea Read More »

• Location of Offshore Wind Zone Doesn’t ‘Pass the Pub Test’

  While industry is moving full steam ahead with plans for offshore wind development off Port Stephens, the local fishing community still hold grave concerns over the Read More »

• NTSB Report: Flooding and Non-Operational Alarms Led to Fishing Vessel Loss

  The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has concluded that the likely cause of the capsizing and sinking of the fishing vessel Hotspur near Nunez Rocks, Alaska, was Read More »

• Its Crazy! I’m getting Talking Fish Eco Shyster Peter Shelley Comments! Acknowledge Your Posts, Dude.

  Seems as though CLF Eco Shyster Peter Shelley is selective about what comments he puts up at his Talking Fish blog. He’s a real Cherry Picker! Read More »

• US Customs seizes bladders from endangered fish being shipped from Venezuela to China

  U.S. officials in Puerto Rico have seized a load of fish bladders taken from an endangered species and stuffed inside packages that were shipped from Venezuela Read More »
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  Tempers flare at Cape May cairn lighting to oppose offshore wind farms

  As the sun set Sunday night at the Cove, tensions rose at what was another strong showing for opponents to offshore wind farms. About 100 people Read More »

• Shrimp season in Mississippi to open on May 29

  Beginning at a tentative date of Wednesday at 6 a.m., shrimpers possessing the proper licensure or permits will be able to navigate state territorial waters in Read More »
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  Yantar Shipyard to build Russia’s largest freezer trawler. 396 feet long

  Kaliningrad, Russia based Baltic Shipyard Yantar (member of United Shipbuilding Corporation) says it has come to a final agreement with Fishing Collective Farm named after V. Read More »
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  Half Moon Bay fishermen optimistic about Dungeness crab season opening

  “I’m a little optimistic. Everyone thinks there is a little more this year than last year, and the weather the next handful of days look really Read More »
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  New Orkney state-of-the-art whitefish trawler arrives home

  Orkney’s brand new state-of-the-art whitefish trawler, Aalskere, arrived in Kirkwall for the first time this morning.  The partners in the new Aalskere are Iain Harcus, his Read More »

• Experts say BC salmon stocks not diminished by sea lice outbreak for now

  The price of salmon has shot up more than 15 per cent over the last three months, thanks to fish stocks being hit worldwide by an Read More »
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  Why California’s most productive salmon hatchery is millions of fish short

  California’s most productive salmon hatchery has 6 million fewer fish this year, another sign the state’s drought woes linger despite last winter’s record rainfall.  The federal Read More »

• D.B. Pleschner: Study: No correlation between forage fish, predator populations

  On April 9-10, the Pacific Fishery Management Council is meeting in Sacramento to deliberate on anchovy management and decide on 2017 harvest limits for sardine, two Read More »
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  Casco Bay Concert to Benefit Maine Lobstermen

  Third annual event off Chebeague Island will support Maine Lobstermen’s Association #SaveMaineLobstermen campaign – Local lobstermen, fishing families, and supporters will join forces off the shores Read More »
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  Gondan Delivers Stern Trawler to Prestfjord

  Spanish shipbuilder Gondan said it delivered the factory freezing stern trawler Sunderøy. It is one of the most advanced vessels of its kind, which will be Read More »

• Crab Legs worth fighting for! Two arrested when dispute over crab legs turns violent

  Seafood is quite the delicacy in some parts of the U.S., and some love it so much that they’re willing to fight and get arrested in Read More »
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  Shrimp boat runs aground along Holden Beach coast

  What started as a normal day on the job turned into a bit of nightmare for one shrimp boat captain. Big Earl, the shrimp boat, washed Read More »

• To the Editor: Gomez will fight for fishermen – Joseph M. Orlando, Esq. Gloucester

  It is ironic that as Gloucester prepares to celebrate St. Peter’s Fiesta, a four-day celebration of the patron saint of fishermen, we face an election that Read More »
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  Iceland’s Forgotten Fisherwomen

  In the mid-1700s, a seawoman in Iceland named Björg Einarsdóttir composed a poem teasing men on her boat for their weak rowing: Do row better my dear Read More »

• Carlos say’s No deal for scallop vessels after new season starts March 1st!

  The sale process of his 12 New Bedford, Massachusetts-based scallop vessels and licenses — with the prospective buyer believed to be Cooke Aquaculture — is not Read More »

• Can Taylor Swift help Canada’s seal meat industry, senate committee asks

  Canada’s top chefs should offer seal meat on their menus as part of the battle against Russian propaganda as well as celebrities who have spoken out Read More »
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  Skipper calls on governments to sort out Rockall fishing row

  The Donegal skipper of one of the first trawlers to return from disputed waters around Rockall has called on the Irish and Scottish governments to “sort Read More »

• Rhode Island: Investing in seafood industry pays off

  Monday’s shoreline Port of Galilee ribbon-cutting ceremony was a perfect example of how investing in infrastructure can make the cash register ring for Rhode Islanders. “This Read More »

• Scientists stunned! Sea snakes feared extinct found at Ningaloo Reef

  Two species of sea snakes, both listed as critically endangered and previously feared to be extinct, have been discovered living off the Western Australian coast . Researchers Read More »

• Dillingham Man Dies in Fall Aboard F/V Aleut Sisters – Third Alaska commercial-fishing fatality on Independence Day.

  A Dillingham man died after a fall aboard a fishing vessel in Chignik Lagoon Thursday. A Friday AST dispatch says troopers were informed of 25-year-old Joey Read More »