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• Appeal filed asking the court to overturn U.S. District Court Judge Joseph LaPlante’s July 29 at-sea monitor decision

  A fisherman is appealing a federal judge’s decision to allow the government to continue forcing fishermen to pay for at-sea monitors. Hampton fisherman, David Goethel, filed Read More »

• Southeast AK pink salmon catch for 2014 to be “average”

  The Southeast Alaska pink salmon harvest in 2014 is predicted to be in the average range, with a point  estimate of 22 million fish (80% confidence Read More »
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  Being Ready: Samaritan’s Purse delivers 30-bed field hospital to Bristol Bay Borough

  Samaritan’s Purse sent emergency field hospitals to Italy and New York this spring. Both places were badly hit by coronavirus. On Monday, the organization flew one to the Read More »
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  Cape Breton – Lobster prices drop for area fishermen

  Cape Breton fishermen might be feeling the pinch of a recent drop in the price of lobster. The season for clawed crustaceans opened May 15 in Read More »

• N.S. lobster facility temporarily halts processing, blames lower catches

  The Montreal-based owners of Riverside Lobster International at Meteghan, N.S., say the plant will not process lobster this fall and winter, citing lower catches in Maine Read More »
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  Impact of offshore wind on fisheries unknown

  Fishing is an integral part of the blue economy, but the planned offshore wind development will affect over 100,000 acres of ocean currently used by fishermen Read More »

• The P.E.I. Fishermen’s Association is hoping to see an increase in the price of lobster

  The P.E.I. Fishermen’s Association is hoping to see an increase in the price of lobster in the last few weeks of the spring lobster season. Currently Read More »
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  Baja shrimp fishermen defy rules designed to save vaquita

  Fishermen are defying rules designed to protect the critically endangered vaquita marina porpoise as the new shrimp season begins in the upper Gulf of California. The Read More »

• A lobsterman’s safety training kicks in

  It was an unseasonably warm morning on Friday, Nov. 6, 2015, when Sam Allen set out alone from Ipswich Bay on his 28-foot lobster boat, the Read More »

• Maine Voices: Dredging of Searsport Harbor would be economic folly – Rocky Allen, Maine Lobstering Union

  Sen. Susan Collins has observed: “In parts of Maine, the environment is our economy.” No place epitomizes that principle more than Penobscot Bay. The members of Read More »
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  100% fishing monitoring is unnecessary, David Goethel

  I would like to correct some misconceptions and rebut some of the statements made by Ms. Johanna Thomas in her Aug. 2, 2019 opinion, Monitoring will Read More »
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  Ottawa announces closure of Atlantic mackerel, bait fisheries to restore stocks

  Fishers on the East Coast are expressing their disappointment with Ottawa after DFO closed the Atlantic mackerel and commercial bait fisheries, citing concerns that dwindling stocks Read More »

• 2 arrested in assault of ‘Deadliest Catch’ star Jake Harris

  Authorities in Washington state said Tuesday that two people accused of beating one of the stars of the TV series “Deadliest Catch” over the weekend were Read More »

• Storms Hammer Fishing Industry

  Fishing opportunities have been reduced by major storms, according to one of the leading Irish fish producer organisations. “Eleven major storms since January first,” says Aodh Read More »

• This is Laine Welch. I’m Laine Welch – Commercial fishing stomps sport fishing economically.

  A breakdown of the annual report called ‘Fisheries Economics of the US’ shows once and for all that in terms of value, jobs, sales and income, Read More »
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  Fleet catches a quarter of herring quota in non-competitive fishery

  The Sitka sac roe herring fishery stood down on Tuesday (03-27-18), as the Alaska Department of Fish & Game carried out aerial surveys of Sitka Sound. Read More »

• Former fisherman Paul Ciaramitaro pays homage to disappearing industry – Of wooden boats and iron men

  Paul Ciaramitaro grew up working on the Gloucester waterfront, in a family where money was hard to come by. His hard-knock life has been marked at Read More »
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  Oh, Give Me a Home Where the Wild Cod Roam

  It took a week for Björn Björnsson to train 20 wild cod. In a compelling demonstration of classical conditioning, the aquaculture researcher at Iceland’s Marine and Read More »
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  Harvey Jarvis – Ignore cod sentinel data at our peril

  Twenty-three years ago, I helped lead a team that designed and implemented the cod sentinel inshore survey on Northern Cod (Southern Avalon, North East Coast and Read More »
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  Maine lobsterman to address Republican National Convention

  Eighth-generation lobsterman Jason Joyce of Swan’s Island will address the Republican National Convention on Tuesday as President Donald Trump prioritizes Maine and its most iconic industry Read More »
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  Belfast Conflict Waves A ‘Red Flag’ For Dutch Firm Looking To Add A Third Fish Farm In Maine

  The Dutch entrepreneur who would like to build a land-based yellowtail fish farm somewhere in Maine said that the relentless opposition that some have shown to Read More »
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  Canadian lobster to China hits another roadblock, demand a signed declaration live lobster is Coronavirus free

  Canadian businesses that export lobster to China have run into another border roadblock. On Friday, Chinese importers started demanding a signed declaration that Canadian live and Read More »
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  Coast Guard rescues 6 fishermen and an observer from a fishing vessel on fire off Oahu

  Six crew and an NOAA observer are safe following a Coast Guard rescue eight miles off Ko’Olina, Tuesday. A Coast Guard Station Honolulu 45-foot Response-Boat Medium crew Read More »

• U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Urges Creation of Vast Marine Reserve in Antarctica

  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called for establishing the world’s largest protected marine area in Antarctica and urged stronger global safeguards for oceans. continue Read More »
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  U.S. Coast Guard to hold virtual formal hearing for loss of F/V Scandies Rose

  The U.S. Coast Guard is scheduled to conduct a formal hearing starting Monday February 22 in Edmonds Wash., to consider evidence related to the sinking of Read More »