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  “The Plight of the Right Whale” – What’s causing right whale decline?

  There is no argument that the North Atlantic Right Whale is in dire straits. Dr. Mark Baumgartner, a biologist from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, gave Read More »

• Now Here’s an Eel Story! Maine Wardens, take note!

  Eel Removed From Man After Getting Stuck- Although this type of eel is known as an invasive species in parts of the United States, this isn’t Read More »

• Tale of red tape and green crab, the Vikings of the crab world.

  Russell Nickerson has been fishing for more than 50 years. The 67-year-old is credited with spearheading the green crab fishing industry, selling the crustaceans as lobster Read More »
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  High-Stakes Hunt for Crab: ‘Deadliest Catch’ Returns for Milestone Season 15

  Discovery’s Deadliest Catch welcomes you to Dutch Harbor, Alaska, for its 15th season on Tuesday, April 9. New to the fleet is the cutthroat, no-nonsense Captain Read More »

• ‘The Mortal Sea’: Overfishing not a new problem

  The closing of the Gulf of Maine cod fishery two weeks ago was no surprise to Jeffery Bolster, a University of New Hampshire history professor. Bolster Read More »

• Catfish on Craigslist: Man’s arrest protects public health, DNR says

  A Grand Rapids man was recently arrested for attempting to sell 14 catfish caught in the Kalamazoo River to undercover members of the Wildlife Resources Protection Read More »
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  Kings of the wild frontier

  In 2013, I sat in a courtroom in Bethel, Alaska, and watched the trial of 23 Yup’ik fishermen, accused of flouting a ban on the fishing Read More »
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  Left-over inventory and inflation could take a bite out of N.L. snow crab prices this year

  Trevor Jones has been in the fishing business long enough to know you can’t predict the success of any year until the last pot is hauled Read More »

• Hawaii Bigeye Tuna Industry Reels Two Months after Reaching Its Quotas

  HONOLULU (08 Oct. 2015) For the past two months, since early August, about a quarter of the 145 active vessels in the have been prohibited from Read More »

• Hidden crisis: Louisiana’s shrimping industry is quickly disappearing

  In and around Southeast Louisiana, many of us like to think we know what shrimp that is wild caught and comes from the Gulf of Mexico Read More »
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  Hardworking crabbers deserve support and encouragement

  A look back at several years of news about the Columbia River Dungeness crab industry highlights trends and problems that need a better-coordinated response.,, This season is Read More »

• The crab kings

  Near the end of 1991, the residents of Bugøynes, then a village of about 300 people in Norway’s Arctic north, ran an ad in the national newspaper Dagbladet, begging Read More »
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  Save the Gulf of Maine – The Maine Reset Part 2, Fait Accompli?

  First, we look at a basic chronology of the interplay between the State of Maine, the University of Maine, and private entities RWE Renewables and Diamond Read More »
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  20-Pound Lobster Found In Luggage At Logan

  In a classic case of “only in New England,” one traveler apparently wanted to leave Boston with more than just some memories and a Wicked Pissah Read More »

• Ocean Salmon Season Will Open April 4 by Dan Bacher

  The recreational salmon fishing season is slated to begin in the Fort Bragg, San Francisco and Monterey South regions of the California coast on Saturday, April Read More »
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  S.O.S. Howie Carr, New Bedford Needs You – “we need to get a message to Trump.”

  Richard Canastra a member of the Massachusetts Governor’s Seaport Advisory Council, the New Bedford Economic Development Council, and the New Bedford Council on Commercial Fishing tells Read More »
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  Fisherman charged with use of illegal traps

  A commercial fisherman is facing charges after officers from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) discovered more than 500 closed season crab traps in Read More »
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  Tilghman Island Blessing of the Fleet: Watermen, first responders honored for life-saving rescue

  The watermen’s fleet has officially been blessed, along with five men who rescued a waterman earlier this year and saved his life after falling overboard into Read More »
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  Radar Revitalized

  Solid-state drive (SSD) technology has made electronics faster, from smartphones to marine electronics. SSDs boot up almost instantly and have a minimal load period because they Read More »
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  Extremely rare white lobster turns up in Bantry Bay

  The whole country may have spent the past month basking in sunshine and getting as red as the proverbial lobster but for west Cork fisherman Donagh Read More »

• Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update, December 21, 2014

  The Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance is dedicated to its mission of continuing to help create sustainable fisheries without putting licensed fishermen out of business.” Read the Read More »
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  Gloucester: Open Door, fishing vessel win food security grants

  The Open Door and a Gloucester fishing company will share in $5.9 million in state grants to help ensure a secure food supply chain for Massachusetts Read More »
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  Fisherman finds huge megalodon tooth in oysters pulled from Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay

  Another ancient shark tooth has been found along Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay, only this time it’s even bigger. The 5.5-inch megalodon tooth came out of the bay Read More »

• Dogfish Neck? Cape Skate? Pollock Peninsula? – Cape fishermen anticipated cod collapse

  Can this still be Cape Cod without the cod? There still is cod, and they’re still being caught, but the stocks have collapsed and that was Read More »

• HALIBUT FEST: celebrating Homer’s big flatfish

  Homer and halibut go hand in hand. After all, anyone can see from the top of Baycrest hill that Homer is the “Halibut Fishing Capital of Read More »