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  New England: Public Scoping Meetings for Modifications to Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan

  We will be conducting eight scoping meetings this month in anticipation of preparing a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for modifications to the Atlantic Large Whale Take Read More »
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  Birth of the Eagle: How a Nazi training ship found its way to the Coast Guard Academy

  The three-masted vessel that appeared in the harbor the morning of July 12, 1946, looked like something out of New London’s past, but it belonged to Read More »

• Army Corps to begin killing birds at Columbia River dam

  CLARKSTON, Wash. (AP) – The Army Corps of Engineers this spring will begin killing birds at some Snake and Columbia river dams to help protect juvenile Read More »
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  Max Strahan driven by “duty” to have stricter measures adopted

  To many federal and state fisheries managers, and to most people in the lobster industry, the name Max Strahan conjures images of a fanatic determined to Read More »

• Interview: John Bullard shut down cod fishing in the region for at least six months. It’s not making him any friends.

  You served three terms as mayor of New Bedford, which made you one of the chief advocates for one of the biggest fishing ports in the Read More »
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  Mass. Division of Marine Fisheries has enacted two right whale emergency regulations

  The Division of Marine Fisheries has enacted two emergency regulations to protect vulnerable aggregations of endangered northern right whales in Cape Cod Bay. These regulations, effective Read More »

• MD lawmakers call hearing on DNR crab manager’s firing

  Maryland lawmakers have scheduled a special hearing to investigate the Hogan administration’s firing of the state’s longtime manager of the blue crab fishery. The House Environment Read More »

• American Seafoods struggles with high debt, low fish prices, has ratings agencies warning it may soon default on its massive debt.

  American Seafoods Group, whose fleet of big, blue-and-white catcher-processor ships harvests more fish than any other U.S. company, may soon default on some of its massive Read More »
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  Wind farms creating ‘death zone’ at sea says ex-Greenpeace boss

  Drilling foundations for offshore wind turbines and sound pulses used to prepare for the 900-foot towers may be creating a “death zone” for whales, a former Read More »
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  F/V Scandies Rose: NTSB board meeting set to determine probable cause of deadly sinking

  The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a virtual public board meeting later this month to determine the probable cause for the 2019 New Year’s Eve Read More »

• Gov. Mills to lead trip to Norway and Denmark to talk offshore wind

  Gov. Janet Mills and a group of state officials will travel to Norway and Denmark next week to learn more about offshore wind development in those Read More »

• Australia Seeks to Extend Commercial Fishing in Protected Waters

  Australia plans to allow fishing across 80 percent of its protected maritime sanctuaries, the government said on Friday in a proposal that would vastly extend commercial Read More »

• Baseball mourns Miami Marlins ace Jose Fernandez – Killed with two others in boating tragedy

  Jose Fernandez escaped from Cuba by boat on his fourth try as a teenager, and when his mother fell into the Yucatan Channel during the journey, Read More »
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  Energy Insecurity: Biden’s Policies Leave Americans Vulnerable to Unreliable Wind & Solar

  With the magnitude of the renewable energy-driven disaster playing out in Europe hard to ignore, it seems incredible that American Green New Deal Democrats remain fixated Read More »
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  Ice and weather causing problems for Northern Peninsula crab fishers

  In a normal season fish harvester Ronald Patey of Englee would have caught his crab quota by now. However, bad weather and ice are causing problems Read More »

• Expert To Examine Case of Arklow Vessel Which Developed Serious Stability Issues

  The European Ombudsman may be asked to examine the case of the Mary Kate, the fishing vessel which developed serious stability issues after it was bought by Read More »

• The Plot Thickens!! Missing F/V Paloma Captain Timothy Lybrand Is A Wanted Man

  A seemingly-straightforward tale of a salmon boat that run aground on Ocean Beach has gotten a little more complicated, as news of an outstanding arrest warrant Read More »

• StarKist says it cant do anything about fish prices for the American Samoa longline fleet

   StarKist has told the American Samoa longline fleet that while they understand the reasons local boats are not out fishing, they too are facing difficulties in trying Read More »

• ‘Woefully inadequate’: N.S. announces $2,500 grant for fishers impacted by wildfires

  More than two months after the Shelburne County wildfire, local fishers are still facing uncertainty around what gear they will have ready in time for lobster season. The loss of one Read More »

• Coast Seafoods Company gone by August?

  After farming shellfish in Humboldt Bay since the 1950s, the largest shellfish producer in the state Coast Seafoods Company could be gone by next month following Read More »

• Coast Guard medevacs fisherman near Cold Bay, Alaska

  A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk rescue helicopter crew forward deployed in Cold Bay, medevaced a man from the fishing vessel American Dynasty approximately Read More »

• Fishermen’s Premium Atlantic Lobster Inc to finance lobster processing plant in Nova Scotia

  Fishermen’s Premium Atlantic Lobster company said millions of pounds of Nova Scotia lobster are exported to processing plants in New Brunswick every year and estimates a Read More »

• Government of Canada is consulting on New Proposed Marine Protected Area

  Canada is taking action to protect marine biodiversity, ecosystem function and special natural features by proposing St. Anns Bank in Nova Scotia as a Marine Protected Read More »
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  Made In Macduff

  Adam Tait and his sons Adam and Jonathan went back to Macduff Shipyards for a new F/V Jacqueline Anne, replacing a trawler delivered by the same Read More »
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  Otterskin sewing workshops promote ‘sustainable cottage industry’ in coastal Alaska

  A series of workshops in communities around Southeast Alaska aims to expand the practice of traditional Alaska Native skin-sewing with seal and sea otter fur.,,, In the Read More »