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• Just now! Lobster boats drift waiting to buy bait in Gloucester harbor.

   With herring fishery in area 1A closed fresh bait and tempers are getting a little short. At least one of these boats was turned away due to Read More »

• Oregon hunting, angling and commercial fishing fees will go up dramatically to feed a ravenous bureaucracy

  Beginning in January 2016 and continuing over the next 5 years hunting, angling and commercial fishing fees will go up dramatically. A consulting firm hired by Read More »

• Survivor From Lost Fishing Boat Saved After Coast Guard Ended Search

  This week, the U.S. Coast Guard ended searches for two commercial fishing vessels that each disappeared without a trace, one in Washington and another in Georgia. Read More »
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  Investigation underway: French vessel boarded, inspected, and brought to Plymouth Harbour

  Britain’s fishing watchdog has confirmed its staff boarded a French fishing vessel a few miles off the Devon and Cornwall coast before bringing it into Plymouth’s Read More »

• Traditional Fishery News in 2013 from The Coaster

  The Coaster included a number of stories related to the province’s traditional fishery in 2013. The following is a summary of some of those items covered Read More »
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  Wastewater Treatment Plants: Cocktail of drugs taint bonefish in Biscayne Bay and Keys, study finds.

  A cocktail of prescription drugs, from blood pressure medications to opioids, has found its way into the flesh of South Florida’s population of bonefish, one of Read More »
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  Fisherman Anthony Coffey’s funeral Fund – Please help if you can

  A shrimping trip turned tragic after a Pasco County boat sunk in the Gulf of Mexico, claiming the life of 29-year-old Anthony Coffey. His cousin, William Read More »
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  Waters off Scotian Shelf are cooling while scientists wonder if decade-long warming trend is over

  In recent years, warming temperatures have grabbed headlines, with record highs being set throughout the region. Recently, on the Scotian shelf, it has moved in the Read More »

• Some fishermen just should not drink alcohol. “you’re a danger to yourself, to your family and the community” when you are drunk, so get sober.”

  American Samoa – Associate Justice John Ward yesterday asked the attorney representing the government to see if ASG has a policy on handling cases relating to Read More »

• Seafarers UK: Maritime industry to supply free safety devices

  SEAFISH has welcomed the news that the UK maritime industry bodies’ have pledged more than £150,000 in additional funding to provide more commercial fishermen with free Read More »
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  Storm Doors and Zenith Trawl – a Perfect Match

  When Whitehills skipper David Lovie took delivery in 2020 of the 34-metre trawler Endeavour V, he opted for a pair of Vónin’s Storm trawl doors. “The Storm Read More »
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  Crew of American Seafoods vessel tests negative for Coronavirus in Unalaska

  The crew of the F/V Ocean Rover, an American Seafoods vessel that arrived in Unalaska late Sunday afternoon for summer pollock season, have tested negative for Read More »
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  PFMC plans transition for non-Indian commercial Area 2A halibut fishery; new season-setting process begins

  The Pacific Fishery Management Council is requesting public comment on structuring the West Coast Area 2A non-Indian directed commercial halibut fishery for the upcoming year. The Read More »
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  Maine fishing regulators are closing the state’s richest scallop fishing grounds

  The state is closing Cobscook, Whiting and Dennys bays for the rest of the fishing season starting Sunday to help conserve the scallop population, the Maine Read More »

• The PEI Fishermen’s Association to convene the 2015 US-Canada Lobster Science Symposium in Charlottetown, November 3 – 6, 2015

  The four themes of the 2015 symposium will progress through increasing levels of organisation and complexity beginning with  the Individual Lobster, moving to the dynamics of Read More »

• Did Alaska Fish Board appointee really discover an endangered species?

  Kenai Peninsula fisherman Roland Maw, Alaska Gov. Bill Walker’s controversial appointee to the Alaska Board of Fisheries, claims in his resume to have been responsible for a significant Read More »

• Louisiana shrimper profits to suffer from light catch

  “It doesn’t matter if shrimp is $10 a pound. If you don’t catch enough, it’s going to equal zero,” said Darrin Martin, who trawls and owns Read More »

• NOAA to announce annual U.S. fishing economic data, species information in press teleconference Tuesday, May 9, 2017, at 2:00 p.m

  On Tuesday, NOAA Fisheries will announce findings from two new reports that measure the nation’s economic impact in commercial and recreational fishing, and the progress made Read More »
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  BP Canada restarts drilling off Nova Scotia after spill

  BP Canada has been given the go-ahead to restart drilling at its offshore exploratory well, a month after a loose connection spilled thousands of litres of Read More »
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  Shetland fishing industry ‘flung by the wayside’ for offshore wind farms

  Addressing a session during the parliamentary Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum policy conference, Shetland Fishermen’s Association (SFA) executive officer Daniel Lawson said his industry had “big Read More »

• Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 60’x18’x9′ Astor Longliner, Cummins KT 1150

  To review specifications, information, and 15 photos’, >click here< To see all the boats in this series, >click here< 06:46 Read More »
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  F/V Northguider: High Arctic Salvage Operation for Grounded Trawler Resumes

  On December 28, 2018, the trawler Northguider grounded in the Hinlopenstretet, the strait between Spitsbergen and Nordauslandet in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. Her crew put Read More »
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  Coast Guard continues search for crew of Maine based fishing boat that sank off Massachusetts

  The Coast Guard said it is looking for four people in the water after the 82-foot vessel sank at about 1 a.m. Officials said a helicopter Read More »

• Proposed new rules for lobstering up for vote amid decline in southern New England

  Scientists have said populations of lobsters off of Connecticut, Rhode Island and southern Massachusetts have declined as waters have warmed. A board of the Atlantic States Read More »

• Norh Carolina: Blessing of the Fleet pays tribute to commercial fishing families

  The sun glistened on the rippling waters of Beaufort Inlet, creating a picture-perfect day Sunday for the 26th annual Blessing of the Fleet ceremony, held at Read More »