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  Five rescued after fishing vessel Exploits Navigator sinks – Canadian Coast Guard credits EPIRB

  Early Thursday morning the Canadian Coast Guard Marine Communications and Traffic Services station in Port aux Basques received a distress call that the 40-foot fishing vessel Read More »

• Movement of marine life follows speed and direction of climate change

  The researchers report in the journal Science the first evidence that sea creatures consistently keep pace with “climate velocity,” or the speed and direction in which Read More »
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  Potting for cod in a Marlborough Sounds marine reserve

  A while back we talked to Tom, a ranger in Akaroa who was working with MPI and NIWA to survey the marine reserves on Banks Peninsula. Read More »

• Van Drew Holds Third Hearing on ‘Offshore Wind Industrialization’

  U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew (NJ-02), supported by U.S. Rep. Scott Perry (PA-10), held a field hearing in Brigantine on Tuesday, Aug. 13, to continue his public Read More »
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  Aim High! Turning an elderly trawler into a purse seiner

  After an eight-month rebuild, working to plans developed by Coprexma, former trawler Commodore, has become a purse seiner launched at the end of July in Le Read More »

• Protecting a Home Where the Puffer Fish Roam in Biscayne National Park

  BISCAYNE NATIONAL PARK, Fla. — For 15 years, officials, environmentalists, fishermen and boaters have struggled to put together a plan to protect one of South Florida’s Read More »

• Crews receive honors Friday for saving fishermen’s lives

  A special recognition ceremony Friday honored those involved in a rescue mission along Carteret County’s coast in mid-December of last year. According to U.S. Coast Guard Read More »
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  Coronavirus: EU fishing industry calls for urgent measures to secure fish supply

  The EU fishing sector has presented to European authorities the critical measures that have to be taken in order to overcome the operational, commercial, and safety Read More »
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  North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for May 5, 2017

  Click here to read the Weekly Update, to read all the updates, Click here 16:25 Read More »
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  Support HR-200 – Chinook Salmon ‘Overfished’? Not So Fast, Say Fishermen

  For fishery regulators, it is official: The Sacramento River’s fall-run Chinook salmon are “overfished.”,,, “Are you kidding me? They aren’t overfished!” exclaimed Half Moon Bay commercial fisher Read More »
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  Hurricane Maria Public Advisory 0800 AM EDT Update

  At 800 AM EDT, the center of Hurricane Maria was located near latitude 33.3 North, longitude 73.1 West. Maria is moving toward the north near 7 Read More »

• New chairman at the helm of the N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission: commercial fisherman Sammy Corbett

  The N.C. Fisheries Association, a nonprofit that supports the state’s seafood industry, is pleased with Mr. Corbett’s appointment. NCFA Executive Director Jerry Schill said Monday he Read More »

• Northwest shellfish industry dismayed at China’s partial ban of some shellfish exports

  The ban has brought the geoduck industry here to a virtual halt. Fish inspectors in China notified the U.S. Embassy on Dec. 3 that China was Read More »
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  Fishermen ask Harbor District to gut slip fees

  At a public meeting hosted by the San Mateo County Harbor District on Thursday, many fishermen and stakeholders at Pillar Point Harbor pleaded with staff not Read More »

• Corn Belt Pollution: Louisiana Shrimp And Oysters Pay The Price as EPA raises the ethanol mandate

  Nitrogen run-off from the nation’s booming Corn Belt is the single largest source of nutrient pollution in the Mississippi River basin, which drains a stunning 41 Read More »
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  FISH-NL calls on DFO to take direct control of scientific quota of redfish in the Gulf of St. Lawrence

  “The FFAW-Unifor should not be controlling science quotas,” says Boyd Lavers, an inshore harvester from Port Saunders on the Great Northern Peninsula, and Captain of FISH-NL’s Read More »

• Four posts from Fish Radio

  Sen. Murkowski asks for 60 day extend for input on undersea sounds/marine mammals – Listen @fishradio AK halibut = 19.7 million pounds; IPHC meeting round-up – Read More »

• B.C. coast to see historic cleanup of marine debris as Japanese tsunami money runs out

  A coordinated marine-debris cleanup described as the largest in Canadian history is underway all along B.C.’s west coast, from the remote wave-tossed beaches of Cape Scott and Read More »

• ‘Deadliest Catch’ Captain Admits He’s Afraid Of The Ocean And Can’t Swim

  The Hyena’s at TMZ mock the Skipper – Would you believe one of the “Deadliest Catch” stars is actually “afraid” of the ocean and is unable Read More »
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  Little red salmon

  The wolves of Southwest Alaska share something in common with the wolves of Denali, according to a new National Park Service-sponsored study, they love fish – Read More »

• Regulation prohibits fishing for first-pulse kings on lower Yukon River

  FAIRBANKS — There will be no question whether subsistence fishermen on the Yukon River will be able to fish for early-run king salmon this summer. In Read More »

• Sixteen Mainers Win a Chance to Enter Lucrative Elver Fishery

  The Maine Department of Marine Resources has awarded the right to apply for an elver license to sixteen Mainers who were among more than 4,500 who Read More »
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  Study finds U.S. regulations to protect killer whales near B.C. coast effective

  American regulations that limit vessel noise and traffic around endangered killer whales off the West Coast are working, a new study says. NOAA said in its Read More »

• Crew member on F/V Odin dies of unknown causes

  A crew member on the fishing vessel Odin was found dead Saturday morning. Wrangell Search and Rescue responded to the scene after the Coast Guard was Read More »
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  Roberto Gonzalez of Key West, Florida has passed away. He found and lived the American dream

  Born to his parents, Maria Paula Oliva and Pedro Gonzalez on the 31st day of March, 1933, in Quiebra Hacha, Cuba. At the tender age of Read More »