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  Trial of four Mi’kmaw fishermen accused of illegal fishing begins next month in Nova Scotia

  The trial of four Mi’kmaw fishermen accused of illegal fishing in September 2019 will begin next month in Nova Scotia provincial court. Ashton Joseph Bernard, 31, Read More »

• Salmon counters at Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River are seeing the biggest chinook run since 1938, but environmentalists still worry.

  A record fall run of chinook salmon is heading up the Columbia River — more than any year since the Bonneville Lock and Dam was built Read More »

• Benefits of fish farms in Gulf debated

  Fish farming is contentious, with fishermen and environmentalists warning that new rules supporting it could harm the marine environment and put fishermen out of work. Federal Read More »

• Local Employers Push Back Against Proposed Labor Agreement for Humboldt Offshore Wind Terminal Project

  Union members largely support the PLA, whereas the companies argue that it does not provide fair and equal opportunity for all construction and trade workers.  What Read More »
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  Fishermen up in arms over plan to build windmills off Long Island coast

  It’s before dawn on a recent July morning at Lazy Point in Napeague Bay, LI, and there is a slight chill in the air as the Read More »
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  NPFMC decision puts Cook Inlet commercial salmon fishery in jeopardy

  Final action by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council on commercial salmon fishing in Cook Inlet threatens to exclude drift gillnet harvesters from fishing in the Read More »
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  Opinion: The seafood trade deficit is a diversionary tactic

  Lately, politicians, bureaucrats and journalists have begun lamenting the fact that the United States runs a seafood trade deficit. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross. The booming Read More »
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  Keys commercial fisherman takes off rather than face inspection

  Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers Daniel Jones and Alex Piekenbrock were conducting vessel inspections at the Vaca Key Marina in Marathon last Thursday. They Read More »
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  Bay of Fundy fishery has whale of a problem

  I’ve worked for the Grand Manan Fishermen’s Association for 25 years. It’s been a good career; there’s always something new in the fishery. I’ve gotten to Read More »
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  F/V Hard Merchandise, F/V Wicked Pissah fight to the finish of “Wicked Tuna” Season 10

  One of the most challenging seasons ever experienced by the “Wicked Tuna” captains drew to a close Sunday, with Wicked Pissah, captained by Gloucester-based fisherman Paul Read More »
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  Nantucket group protests draft authorization for Vineyard Wind

  ACK Residents Against Turbines, a group of more than 100 citizens, claims that federal regulators favor offshore wind over commercial fishing and intend to allow serious Read More »

• Seafood fraud cases plummet as NOAA cuts investigators

  In a sprawling warehouse five miles inland from the port of Newark, N.J.,  Scott Doyle was dwarfed by the metal shipping container that had just arrived Read More »
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  The Conservation Law Foundation petition’s NOAA to prohibit Atlantic cod fishing

  The petition, filed with NOAA regional offices in Gloucester and with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross in Washington, invokes the first article of the Magnuson Read More »

• New Longliner “Northern Leader” to Begin Fishing in August

  One of the world’s biggest and most environmentally friendly cod longliners has begun its journey to Alaska. The 184 foot Northern Leader has left the shipyard, Read More »

• Owner of fishing trawler which sank off West Cork coast disputes finding of official investigation

  The owner of a fishing trawler which sank off the West Cork coast has disputed the findings of an official investigation into the incident which concluded Read More »

• Video release: Coast Guard, good Samaritans rescue 46 mariners 690 miles west of Dutch Harbor, Alaska

  Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak aircrews, along with good Samaritans, rescue 46 crew members from life rafts after they abandoned ship approximately 690 miles west of Read More »

• Catch Shares – BJ Brown Summed Up What Was Going To Happen In The Fishing Industry In Gloucester 4 Years Ago

  This was filmed in 2010 and it’s only gotten worse. What he predicted back in 2010 is about 10 times worse 4 years later. As I Read More »

• For Immediate Release – Hawaii Seafood Council: Hawaii Fishing Industry takes action to protect foreign crew from labor abuse

  For Immediate Release Hawaii Seafood Council 1130 N Nimitz Hwy, Suite A263 Honolulu, Hawaii 96817 – Hawaii Longline Fishing Industry takes immediate action to assess and Read More »

• This bubble is not different. It will pop. Geoduck production to expand in Canada. (DFO) has released its draft geoduck management plan

  Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) has released its draft geoduck management plan, the first step to opening up vast areas of tidelands for the harvest Read More »
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  San Pedro fisherman pulls up a mammoth relic from the past

  Talk about an epic haul. It was a beautiful fall day in mid-November when San Pedro fishing boat skipper Vince “Enzo” Lauro and his five-man crew Read More »
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  Bryson Fitch Fishermen Protection Act: Bill introduced to keep fishermen safe honors missing Washington man

  “Fishing is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world,” said Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a Democratic congresswoman for Washington’s 3rd district. “This bill will Read More »
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  FFAW elects Greg Pretty as new union president

  The Fish, Food and Allied Workers Union (FFAW) has a new president. In a secret ballot Thursday at the Comfort Inn in St. John’s, Greg Pretty Read More »
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  Century-old fishing boat set to be scrapped at Port of Garibaldi

  Built in 1915, the Amak likely has a sea of stories to tell. Unfortunately, the ship’s tale is ending in a disheveled state sitting tilted to Read More »
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  Coast Guard crews rescues 2 from sinking fishing vessel near Fishers Island

  Crewmembers from Coast Guard Station New London rescued two people after they abandoned their sinking fishing vessel near Fishers Island, New York, Sunday morning. At approximately Read More »

• Peter Anthony, Nordic Fisheries — Size of closures not as important as effectiveness

  New England’s historic fisheries are too important to our communities, to our economies and to our cultural heritage to allow special interest politics to stand in Read More »