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  Bloc Québécois wants more squid fishing after feds cut herring quota

  Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet asked Fisheries and Oceans Canada on Sunday to allow squid fishing to compensate for the decrease in quotas for the fall Read More »

• Enviros Upset! Hawaii-based longline fishermen allowed to keep catching ahi

  Regulators have approved a deal allowing Hawaii fishermen to attribute up to 1,000 metric tons of bigeye tuna catch to Guam, said Mike Tosatto, National Marine Read More »

• Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 28′ Cape Dory Tuna/Pleasure, 200HP, 6 Cylinder Volvo

  Specifications, information and 19 photo’s  click here To see all the boats in this series, Click here 13:44 Read More »

• Dog presumed lost at sea from a commercial fishing boat reunited with family

  Luna, a 1½-year-old, blue-eyed German Shepherd, was presumed to have died after falling overboard from a commercial fishing boat near San Clemente Island on February 20, Read More »
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  Twenty-One Bad Things About Wind Energy — and Three Reasons Why

  Trying to pin down the arguments of wind promoters is a bit like trying to grab a greased balloon. Just when you think you’ve got a Read More »

• Commercial longline seasons to open March 11th, on time

  Commercial longliners in Alaska can go fishing on March 11 after all. The National Marine Fisheries Service announced Friday. March 3 that March 11th will be Read More »

• ‘This is our primary income’: Dungeness crab season delayed again

  In the latest blow to North Bay commercial fishing, the start of the California Dungeness crab season has once again been delayed. This time, until the Read More »

• Saint Helena seafood company recalls landing a role in ‘Forrest Gump,’ still has receipts

  In the fall of 1993, a film crew in search of shrimp pulled up to a seafood market on the island’s northeastern edge. They would need Read More »

• On BP oil spill anniversary, ex-NOAA director urges major changes in federal spill contingency plan

  Five years after the BP oil spill, the National Contingency Plan used by federal agencies to respond to major environmental threats still needs to be revamped to Read More »

• Cod was key to our survival – Earl Snelgrove, St. John’s

  I was born in the small fishing community of Grates Cove, Trinity Bay near Baccalieu Island in the later part of the 1920s and used to Read More »
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  Fishermen at Pillar Point hold fast for better days

  Captain Mike Burian, who fishes under the vessel, Prime Time out of Pillar Point Harbor, bought a boat last year when it sounded like a good Read More »

• Lobster buyer balks at wharf fee increase

  A lobster buyer based at the Seal Cove Wharf is asking the town to make major improvements at the wharf to justify the extra $600 he Read More »

• Austral Fisheries charged over electrocution death on prawn trawler

  One of Australia’s largest commercial fishing companies has been charged over the electrocution of a young man on a prawn trawler in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Read More »

• Alaska Seafood Industry Asks For Retaliatory Ban on Russian Imports

  It’s been two weeks since Russia banned imports of American food products into its country. Now, Alaska’s seafood industry is asking the U.S. government to strike back. Read Read More »
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  ‘They are serial killers’: How blue crabs are devastating the fishing industry in southern France

  For the last three years, the Canet-en-Roussillon lagoon, in southern France, has been under invasion from a blue crab which devours almost everything in its path. Read More »

• Waters off B.C. coast awash in plastic particles, says head of new ocean pollution program (with video)

  Based on 34 water samples taken between inshore waters and 1,200 kilometres due west of Victoria, the concentrations of microplastics — pieces typically the size of Read More »
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  Seiner’s new lease of life

  The wooden La Sardane was built in 1977, and after a few years fishing for its new skipper, it was clear that an overhaul would not be Read More »

• By-Catch Reduction is the Theme for Alaska’s Future Fisheries

  After watching video taken inside a trawl net in 2002, behavioral differences between pollock and salmon gave scientist an idea. John Gauvin works  closely  with the Read More »

• How Big Business Uses Big Government To Ruin Small Fishermen Like Me

  Ensnared in an international trade dispute between Vietnam and very large U.S. catfish farms are hundreds of small wild-caught catfish producers throughout the United States. As a Read More »
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  Lifelong trawler says success comes to those who love the craft

  Local trawler Blake Badeaux said he doesn’t know how much longer the local seafood industry will survive in southeast Louisiana due to tough prices and competition Read More »
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  Crooks in a Crab Pot

  Most people in the bays and estuaries of coastal South Jersey, including places such as Barnegat Bay, have concerns about someone stealing their crab pots or Read More »

• Scientific ‘buried treasure’ may yield data about shorelines’ future. (may, that could, might,,)

  Deep beneath the ocean floor off the New Jersey coast lie secrets that could help scientists predict how climate change might affect one of the most Read More »

• Governor Sean Parnell today nominated Simon Kinneen for NPFMC

  March 6, 2014, Juneau, Alaska – Governor Sean Parnell today nominated Simon Kinneen for consideration by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce for service on the North Read More »
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  U.S. Senate’s proposed $14 million funding increase to fight Asian carp not matched in House budget

  Last month, the Senate Committee on Appropriations approved a funding bill that included $25 million for Asian carp management, a $14 million increase from last year. Read More »

• Coast Guard Commercial Fishing Vessel Examiners – Voluntary dockside exams in Craig and Klawock Sept. 22 through 24

  Voluntary dockside exams are free. The Coast Guard has an online vessel-specific checklist generator at www.fishsafe.info.  Vessel operators can print out a list of all safety requirements.  Contact Read More »