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  Frustration grows as captain still missing, boat still submerged in Okanagan Lake

  It’s been more than three days and there is still no sign of Travis Van Hill, whose shrimp boat capsized on Okanagan Lake during a storm Read More »

• Alaska halibut fishermen granted quota increase

  Fishermen in Alaska will have access to slightly more halibut this year than last. The International Pacific Halibut Commission voted Friday in Vancouver, British Columbia, for Read More »

• Dumping Night in Digby: LFA 35 fishermen enjoy warm and calm start to lobster season

  Fishermen were allowed to leave the Digby wharf at 12:01 a.m. on Oct. 14 and, thanks to a light southerly breeze of 25 kilometres an hour, Read More »
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  Cape Breton snow crab season short but lucrative

  Glen Burns doesn’t bother kicking himself over it too much anymore. “I was never much of a gambler,” said Burns. “You won’t see me at the Read More »

• BOEM plans on industrializing 300,000 acres of ocean bottom off North Carolina Coast

  As part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan to create American jobs, develop domestic clean energy resources and cut carbon pollution, Secretary of the Interior Sally Read More »

• U.S. Coast Guard, Canada partner to curb illegal fishing in the Pacific Ocean (SitNews)

  (SitNews) – The U.S. Coast Guard and the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans recently conducted joint patrols of the high seas under Operation Drift Net Read More »
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  Crab fisherman files cease-and-desist against fiber-optic surveyors

  The world’s longest fiber-optic cable may be coming to Eureka, but crab fishermen say ships associated with the project have disrupted what’s left of this year’s Read More »
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  Port aux Basques declares state of emergency as Hurricane Fiona destroys multiple homes, floods streets

  A social media post by former provincial cabinet minister Steve Kent claiming one person had been swept out to sea in Port aux Basques because of Read More »
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  Federal fishries disaster funds granted To NC Fishing Industry

  North Carolina will receive $7.7 million in federal fisheries disaster assistance to help the State’s fishing industry recover from Hurricane Florence. An assessment from the National Read More »

• ‘They’re not relevant’: Fisheries union boss says Ryan Cleary desperate for a headline

  It’s been nine months since a bare knuckles battle began over the right to represent inshore harvesters in Newfoundland and Labrador, and both sides say they want Read More »
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  Efforts to plug oil leak in British WWII tanker torpedoed by U-boat off US coast

  A team has been working to stop oil leaking from a British tanker sunk off the US coast during World War Two. The Coimbra was carrying Read More »
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  One in four crew members injured on fishing boats

  A Neilsen survey commissioned by Maritime New Zealand and WorkSafe found 28 percent of crew members – or more than one in four workers – have Read More »

• Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council Recommends First-Ever Cap on River Herring and Shad Catch

  Last week the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council approved a 236 metric ton (MT) cap on incidental catch of river herring and shad in the U.S. Atlantic Read More »

• VIMS study: Dead zones bad for bay-bottom fishes, too

  Now researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, or VIMS, have completed an exhaustive 10-year study that they say provides the first quantitative evidence of Read More »

• Fisherman recounts rescue of Portland man who fell from Casco Bay ferry

  Rick Garland had just finished a day of dragging for periwinkles outside Portland Harbor on Tuesday and turned his fishing boat, the Christina & Caelyn, back Read More »
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  Confined Space: Dangerous Gas Buildup in Fish Holds

  Four crewmembers onboard a commercial fishing vessel noticed an unusual odor coming from the fish hold while conducting shrimping operations. While under the assumption that the Read More »
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  NOAA/NMFS – Reducing the Sub-Annual Catch Limits for Atlantic Herring Management Areas 1A, 1B, 2, and 3

  These reductions go into effect today (August 22, 2018), and are based on the most recent stock assessment, which shows that the herring stock is in Read More »
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  5 things to know about Canadian Tire’s new acquisition, Helly Hansen

  Canadian Tire Corp. announced Thursday its plans to acquire Norwegian outdoor apparel brand Helly Hansen in a $985-million deal. Here are five things to know about Read More »

• U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she won’t see a former aide-turned-lobbyist in her office for the time being.

  A former fisheries aide to Murkowski, Arne Fuglvog, has started work as a lobbyist for commercial fishing interests after serving time in prison for falsifying his Read More »
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  ‘This injustice must be reversed’: N.B. lobster Class B fisherman, family make plea for rule change

  Michel Arseneau’s family would say his relationship with the ocean is a love story. He has been a fisherman for as long as his granddaughter, Maryse Read More »

• Delaware NREC issues shellfish aquaculture regulations – Permits could be issued as early as this fall

  In anticipation of the moment when the state will begin accepting applications for shellfish aquaculture permits, Steve Friend started getting ready. He’s began building oyster and Read More »
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  Police chief rescues crew from grounded fishing vessel

  Juneau Police Chief Ed Mercer on Friday was out on his boat when he saw something that didn’t look familiar within an area he had been Read More »

• FISH-NL – Which Side Are You On?

  Click the image to play the video! 14:18 Read More »
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  Capelin stocks aren’t climbing, could the fishery really face a moratorium in Newfoundland and Labrador?

  The capelin stock in Newfoundland and Labrador has not had any sustained growth for 30 years, and the chances of a quick rebound are poor. Fran Read More »
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  Canadian firm’s steelhead trout farm plan under the microscope after salmon escapes

  Last month, a net pen used for fish farming and operated by Cooke Aquaculture Pacific began to dip below the surface off Bainbridge Island. A hole Read More »