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• International Pacific Halibut Commission sets crushingly low quota for halibut in area 4E

  Because of an adjustment in the catch limits by the International Pacific Halibut Commission, the Coastal Villages Region Fund’s allowable catch will be reduced by almost Read More »
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  U.S. Coast Guard Works to Make BSAI Crab Fishery Catch Less Deadly in 2021

  Within the commercial crab fishing fleet of Alaska’s Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) sail some of the most widely admired and respected fishermen on earth. Read More »
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  Bill’s changes would allow industrial-scale oyster farming in N.C.

  Should oyster farming in North Carolina be a cottage industry or marine industrial operations owned by nonresident corporations? That is the question facing legislators working on Read More »
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  Avangrid Pursuing Huge Offshore & Onshore Wind Projects In US

  Avangrid Renewables is pursuing two new wind projects, one off the coast of Massachusetts and another in the heart of New Mexico. It is working with Read More »

• Fishing panel delays call on catch limits GDT- My Commentary.

  NOAA’s New England Fishery Management Council has deferred at least until November recommending deep reductions in next year’s allowable catch of most groundfish, a move that Read More »

• University of Alaska Fairbanks new polar ocean research vessel “Sikuliaq” won’t get to Alaska until 2015

  A new polar ocean research vessel to be operated by the University of Alaska Fairbanks will remain on the Great Lakes this winter because of construction Read More »
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  ‘Paris has the Olympics, Menemsha has scallop-shucking’

  Around 20 commercial fishing vessels pulled up to the docks stern in. They were supposed to be in by 2 pm but most of them were Read More »

• Temporary closure of a fishery can help whales and fishermen, biologist says

  As right whale researchers shift their focus to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, they welcome a decision by the federal government to close a snow crab Read More »
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  North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for September 12, 2016

  Click here to read the Weekly Update, to read all the updates, Click here 13:54 Read More »

• ‘Plausible’ that Asian carp have reached Great Lakes – Laboratory analysis turned up positive hits for bighead or silver carp DNA in western Lake Erie

  CBC.ca – At least some Asian carp probably have found their way into the Great Lakes, according to a scientific report released Thursday. But there’s still Read More »

• P.E.I. Fishermen’s Association calls for more timely, better monitoring in wake of federal report

  Executive director Ian MacPherson said a recent report from the federal environment commissioner underlined the importance of doing more, and better science, especially as the crucial Read More »

• BOFFFFs (big, old, fat, fertile, female fish) sustain fisheries

  Recreational fishermen prize large trophy fish. Commercial fishing gear targets big fish. After all, larger fish feed the egos of humans as well as their bellies. Read More »

• Gov. signs West Hawaii fishery management rules

  Gov. Neil Abercrombie signed the West Hawaii Regional Fishery Management Area Rules, which are the result of 10 years of work by more than 500 community Read More »

• Race to find fishermen in freezing temperatures as boat capsizes near Ramsgate

  The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) confirmed it was searching for the missing crew members after the vessel overturned off the Kent coast on Tuesday night, Read More »

• Community ‘shocked’ over murder charges in man’s death – 3 men face 2nd-degree murder charges in presumed death of Phillip Boudreau

  A Cape Breton community is in shock following the presumed death of a Petit-de-Grat man and the subsequent murder charges placed against three others in the Read More »

• Coast Guard, good Samaritans rescue 4 people after fishing vessel capsized near Kodiak

  Coast Guard Sector Anchorage watchstanders received a report over VHF channel 16 at approximately 4:31p.m. from the crew of F/V Alaska Rose, a 46-foot fishing vessel, Read More »

• DAVID G. SELLARS ON THE WATERFRONT: Boat linked to former U.S. president gets a paint job in Port Angeles

  Platypus Marine Inc., the Port Angeles-based, full-service shipyard, yacht-repair facility and steel-boat manufacturer, recently launched Adamant, a 58-foot limit seiner that the company custom-built for a longtime Read More »

• Bluefin Tuna Get Busy Off North Carolina – Inside the $40 billion tuna industry

  In November 1981, a fleet of briefcase-toting lobbyists, scientists and political negotiators gathered in sunny Tenerife, Spain, to decide the fate of Atlantic bluefin tuna.  During Read More »
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  How towns are affected by reduced fishing fleets

  Over the years I have seen our fleet in Gloucester, Mass decline. As a former fisherman in the sixties we had about two hundred draggers, and Read More »
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  Sister recalls Shrimper Mike Pitts, killed in shrimp boat accident, started his career young

  For the first time, we’re getting a look into the life of Mike Pitts, one of two shrimpers that died when their boat capsized in the Read More »
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  Coast Guard, agencies rescue 4 fishermen near Dauphin Island, Alabama

  NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard, along with partner agencies, rescued four boaters after their vessel began to take on water near Dauphin Island, Alabama, Sunday. Read More »

• Cape Cod – Seal control measures suggested – 200,000 or more of them sitting on our shores

  With many fishermen complaining about the scourge of seals for decades and the recent phenomenon of great white sharks arriving to nosh on the blubbery – Read More »
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  Science Center for Marine Fisheries Releases Evaluation and Summary of Latest Atlantic Menhaden Assessments

  Dr. Steve Cadrin, Professor at the School for Marine Science and Technology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and past President of the American Institute of Read More »
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  Inland Fish Fight: Invasive Asian carp threaten Kansas and Missouri waterways

  Common carp, which resemble overgrown goldfish, were imported from Europe, where they were popular sportfish and table fare over 150 years ago. But bighead and silver Read More »
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  The City of Whittier declares a State of Emergency following a July dock fire

  The City of Whittier is declaring a State of Emergency following the dock fire back on July 7th. In the declaration from the city manager, it Read More »