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  F/V Mary B II captain tested positive for amphetamine, methamphetamine

  Coast Guard investigators revealed that the captain of the doomed fishing vessel Mary B II tested positive for methamphetamines and alcohol. Captain Stephen Biernacki registered 0.17 Read More »

• Defense Department logs in against wind turbine project

  The long-anticipated response from the Department of Defense on the proposed Eastern Shore wind turbine project was released Thursday and it is so strongly negative against Read More »

• ‘It was two years of absolute torment’ – Immigration charges dismissed against two Irish fishermen who hired Filipino sailors

  Pat O’Mahony and Leonard Hyde had insisted to Cork District Court they understood the UK agency they hired would ensure full compliance with all Irish visa, Read More »

• PUTNAM: Harder to catch fish, bring home the bacon in New England

  You don’t have to be an economist to see that the fishing industry is a big deal, particularly in New England. The actions of NMFS and Read More »

• Workers begin salvaging a fishing boat that wrecked in Saturday’s storm

  The F/V Tara Lynn II will never float again. On Saturday, the ferocious storm battering the state’s coast drove the 50-foot fishing vessel onto the rocks at Read More »
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  PFMC Recommends Commercial Chinook Fishery Closure in Northern California

  The Pacific Fishery Management Council has recommended closing the commercial chinook fishery between the Oregon border and the Fort Bragg area due to low fall salmon Read More »
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  Southern portion of Oregon’s commercial Dungeness crab fishery opens

  Commercial Dungeness crab fishing opens Feb. 4 on the remaining southern portion of Oregon’s coastline from Cape Arago (just south of Charleston) to the California border. Read More »

• Bodega Bay Crab Fishermen still in Limbo – Crab disaster will headline Thursday’s Fisheries Hearing

  Jim Kelly reports from the coast that crab were tested clean a couple of weeks ago which was followed up by a dirty test. Spots up Read More »
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  Feds say few commercial fishing trips are monitored

  Federal officials revealed Wednesday that most of the New England fishing cooperatives that catch cod, haddock, flounder and other groundfish failed to meet the minimum standards Read More »

• Fugitive Farmed Atlantic salmon ‘heading to every river in Puget Sound’

  The Lummi Nation is marshaling a mop-up of thousands of fugitive Atlantic salmon in the tribe’s territorial waters, and the Swinomish chairman has called for a Read More »

• Obama Administration Approves Resumption of California Offshore Fracking

  Claiming that fracking poses “no significant impact” to the environment, Obama administration officials on May 27 finalized their plans to allow oil companies to resume offshore Read More »

• Will lobstermen/fishermen wear PFDs?

  Think of the Maine lobsterman, and a few iconic images come to mind: a rugged boat with a wire trap on the rail; gloved hands holding Read More »

• Fisheries board member cited for violating fishery closure

  A member of the Alaska Board of Fisheries was cited by wildlife troopers in the commercial fishing hotbed of Dillingham last week for continuing to fish in an area Read More »

• Unconstitutional? Carlos Rafael argues against vessel forfeiture, poses new buyer for fleet

  New Bedford, Massachusetts-based fishing magnate Carlos “Codfather” Rafael has challenged the government’s proposal to seize his fleet of 13 groundfish vessels, arguing that the act is Read More »

• Alaska Salmon Harvest Nears 5 Million Fish

  Commercial harvests of Alaska’s wild salmon have expanded statewide, with total deliveries nearing 5 million fish, including nearly 3 million sockeyes. Preliminary harvest figures compiled by Read More »

• Nine Mile Creek fishermen say harbour needs deeper dredging

  Fishermen in a small harbour on the south shore of P.E.I. say they’re worried about their boats getting damaged and possibly even running aground. Giles Clinton has Read More »
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  Wicked Tuna draws out tourists 

  Henry and Cheryl Klemmer of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, traveled nearly 1,200 miles to Gloucester this week with a dream of meeting a “Wicked Tuna” captain. They didn’t Read More »

• Oyster poaching continues on bay despite enforcement efforts

  Waterman Edward “Bruce” Lowery lost his Maryland license to harvest oysters five years ago, after racking up more than three dozen violations. He was convicted of Read More »
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  Rhode Island Commercial Fishermen asked for input on future of industry

  Insight and input from commercial fishing professionals is being sought after for a draft document outlining strategies for the industry’s future. The comment period will last Read More »

• Wrecking the Sea Bed with Offshore Wind (Part 4)

  Potentially, for the 213 turbines plus three substations a met mast and other assorted sea bed scrapings, the amount of displaced spoil comes in at well Read More »
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  30 years after oil spill, he will never forget or forgive

  Bob Day is 75 now. A fisherman for much of his life, he grew up on Alaska’s Prince William Sound. He will never, ever forget or Read More »

• F/V Paloma beached and breaking up on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach

  A 40-50 foot fishing boat was leaking fuel and spreading debris along San Francisco’s Ocean Beach early Monday after it beached in swallow water and was Read More »

• Bristol Bay 2015 season summary: 3rd-largest run ever

  The Department of Fish and Game released a summary of the Bristol Bay 2015 fishing season, now noting a total inshore run of 58 million sockeye Read More »

• Commercial fisherman guilty in man’s sea cucumber diving death

  Jurors found Joshua J. Wodyga guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of Levi Adams, 32, in a trial that ended on Friday in Ketchikan Read More »
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  Atlantic menhaden not overharvested, fisheries commission concludes

  An updated menhaden population assessment that takes into account the ecological role of the species as a popular food for other fish deems the coastwide stock Read More »