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  US-China tariff battle takes a toll on some Alaska seafood processors, according to survey

  Seafood processing businesses in Alaska are feeling the hurt from the U.S.-China tariff battle, according to the results of a survey from the Alaska Seafood Marketing Read More »
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  Hendrika Jacoba GY-127 – The Latest in Stellendam Yard’s Trawler/ Seiner Series

  Klaas van den Berg and his family have taken delivery of the new Hendrika Jacoba GY-127, the latest in an ongoing series of fly-shooter/twin-riggers coming from Read More »

• Lobster yachts: Working boats recast as pleasure craft

  “Lobster boat” conjures up images of hardy boats and even hardier crews wrangling traps on a roiling sea. However on many of today’s so-called “lobster boats,” Read More »
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  10 ‘Unprecedented:’ Another right whale carcass washes up on Newfoundland shore

  Another North Atlantic right whale carcass has washed up on the west coast of Newfoundland. Four right whale carcasses have now been identified on the west Read More »
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  Salmon disease was present but Northern Harvest denies it was a factor in die-off

  The aquaculture company at the centre of a massive fish die-off on Newfoundland’s south coast is on the defensive again after a revelation Tuesday that disease Read More »
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  California’s Commercial Crabbing Season to End Three Months Early

  Center for Biological Diversity Press Release: SAN FRANCISCO— Californians will be pleased to know that Dungeness crab will be caught off the coast with greater care Read More »

• Alaska Board of Fisheries leaves dipnetters alone, preserves 24-hour fishing

  After nearly a full day of board deliberations on 25 proposed regulatory changes, the Cook Inlet personal-use fishery remains largely unchanged in the midst of a Read More »

• Vandalism to lights and buoys endangers mariners in Pacific Northwest

  The Coast Guard is asking for the public’s help to put a stop to the vandalism of aids to navigation throughout the Pacific Northwest. Several navigational Read More »

• UNO awarded $232,500 grant to design device that protects sea turtles from being captured in small shrimping nets

  The University of New Orleans has been awarded a $232,500 grant to design a device that protects sea turtles from being captured in small shrimping nets. Read More »

• Crews Attempt to Lift Sunken Tender F/V Lone Star from the Igushik River

  All of the fuel has been removed from the sunken tender Lone Star.  The focus now shifts to lifting the vessel from the bottom of the Read More »

• Commercial crabbers concerned about Center for Biological Diversity’s coral petition

  “We’re terrified of the petition,” Linda Kozak, a fisheries consultant in Kodiak, told the Fisherman. “This could be another sea lion issue where just to be Read More »
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  A Fundraiser has been Established for stabbing victim Maximus Julian

  Max Julian was in his last semester at the University of Rhode Island for business, and was about to graduate with high honors. His family has Read More »
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  South Atlantic Fishery Management Council meeting in Fort Lauderdale, June 10-15, 2018

  The public is invited to attend the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council to be held at the Bahia Mar Doubletree by Hilton, 801 Seabreeze Boulevard. Fort Read More »

• Minister MacKinley in ‘hiding’ while lobster fishery flounders, says PC Opposition

  Fisheries Minister Ron MacKinley is a “failure” for his complete absence on the rapidly expanding crisis in the lobster fishery, which saw boat quotas established and Read More »
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  July 27, 1981: Oil drilling begins on Georges Bank – ”It’s only a matter of time before the fishermen get used to having us out here.”

  On this day in 1981, the New York Times reported on the start of drilling for oil in Georges Bank. It was not to be, however, Read More »
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  Aim High! Turning an elderly trawler into a purse seiner

  After an eight-month rebuild, working to plans developed by Coprexma, former trawler Commodore, has become a purse seiner launched at the end of July in Le Read More »
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  Crab fleet gearing up for season

  Crab fishermen began setting their pots today in preparation for opening day of the 2019 commercial Dungeness season. Following a delay of about six weeks due Read More »

• Fishermen in the North look forward to leaving EU

  In Portavogie on the Ards peninsula a new flag is flying proudly among the British union and Red Hand of Ulster flags fluttering from the lamp Read More »

• Passmaquoddys, state reach tentative agreement on elver licenses

  AUGUSTA, Maine — State officials and representatives of the Passamaquoddy Tribe have reached a tentative agreement on how the tribe will distribute elver licenses and manage Read More »
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  12 hours on a fishing trawler in Iceland.

  It was about 5:30 am when we boarded the fishing trawler. The slick deck of the boat was barely visible under the dim sodium vapor lamps Read More »
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  Hallelujah, time for halibut, with a nice recipe, too!

  My husband fishes with Captain Joe Brewer aboard the boat Hey Jude II. A traditional lobster boat, this fishing vessel is rigged with lines and hooks Read More »
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  Alliance Rubber Company announces the launch of the Seafood Banding Machine for lobster and oysters

  The Seafood Banding Machine was created to decrease the pain associated with manual banding, but these machines also increase efficiency and lower overhead costs in oyster Read More »
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  Ottawa stalls on restarting controversial contest for Arctic surf clam licence

  The federal government has stalled on a plan to break one company’s monopoly on a lucrative Atlantic fishery by awarding part of the quota to an Read More »

• Ottawa distances itself from N.S. senator on fishery – Conservative Senator Stephen Greene wrote of “immoral” fleet separation policy

  CBCNews – Federal Fisheries Minister Keith Ashfield has reaffirmed so-called fleet separation, distancing the federal government from a letter written by a Nova Scotia Conservative Senator Read More »

• Bureau of Reclamation to reconsider Trinity-Klamath releases for salmon

  Following several meetings with North Coast tribes and government officials, the federal agency that oversees water in Northern California’s Klamath Basin is taking another look at Read More »