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  ‘We Were Blindsided:’ Crab Fishing Closure Could Mean Millions in Losses

  At the April 9 Humboldt County Board of Supervisors meeting, the security check-in station resembled a metropolitan airport with a long line of people stretched out Read More »
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  Fisherman’s friend: Blue lobster caught for second time is released into the sea

  What do you call a once in a lifetime experience when it happens for a second time? Perhaps Bangor fisherman Stuart Brown is the man to Read More »
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  BilloTheWisp – The Obscene Profitability of Wind Power

  Due to the pandemic and the virtual shutdown of the national economy the day-ahead wholesale price of electricity has plummeted. But one group of producers has Read More »

• Abandoned 90-foot fishing boat finally has an owner

  The two-year quest to determine the owner of the Columbia came to an end when Doug Wood, of Bremen, presented the bill of sale to the Read More »

• Ocean blob brings tropical fish to B.C. coast

  Something unusual is happening off the coast of British Columbia. Fish species normally found in the warm waters of the tropics are finding their way north — and Read More »
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  Bristol Bay – Why the two main forecasts have a 5 million-fish difference

  This year, 44.6 million sockeye salmon will return to Bristol Bay – if you trust the University of Washington forecast. But the University of Washington forecast Read More »

• Fishermen, regulators disagree over cause of Brunswick fish kill

  As a massive vacuum truck from Clean Harbors traveled along the shoreline near Simpsons Point midweek to clean up rotting pogies, local fishermen were battling what Read More »

• Lower Columbia gillnetters want more fishing; say experimental seine fishing a failure

  Commercial gillnetters Thursday, Sept. 10, called for the two-state Columbia River Compact to cease the experimental seine fishery on the Columbia River downstream of Bonneville Dam, Read More »

• McCrory set stage for latest threat to shrimping

  The North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission appears poised to pass a new regulation that many critics say will drastically impact, perhaps even shut down, North Carolina’s Read More »
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  Kittery woman, owner of Southern Maine Crabs, creates seafood niche

  Twenty-three-year-old Jillian Robillard is the owner and founder of Southern Maine Crabs, a processing facility based out of Kittery that specializes in Jonah crabs and lobsters. Read More »
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  Port Saunders fisherman defiant over remarks he made about the FFAW

  Despite threats of a lawsuit and a demand for an apology, fish harvester Conway Caines remains defiant in his criticism of FFAW-Unifor. In September, Caines made Read More »

• Researchers explore fishing-related injuries and prevention strategies

  Handling frozen fish caused nearly half of all injuries aboard commercial freezer-trawlers and about a quarter of the injuries on freezer-longliner vessels operating off the coast Read More »
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  The Cromer crab is a Norfolk staple – but does it have feelings?

  According to a report by the London School of Economics, there is strong scientific evidence to suggest crabs do feel and that they should be treated Read More »
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  A new day of fishing to help children with cancer

  Once again this year, a day like no other took place Saturday off the coast of Nanaimo, mobilizing fishermen, truckers and volunteers to raise funds for Read More »
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  Maine Passes Law to Help Sick Lobstermen Keep Licenses

  A new law in Maine is designed to help lobster fishermen who develop major illnesses keep their licenses active. The bill allows lobstermen who get a Read More »
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  D-Day: June 6, 1944

  Inside General Eisenhower’s Sleepless Night Ahead of the D-Day Invasion – >click to read< On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied soliders arrived on the beaches of Read More »

• From the Deckboss

  A leadership change at Icicle, Can hatcheries help?, Larger salmon haul expected this year. Read more here, and as always, read the comments! Read More »

• Does this sound familiar?

  According to the industry body, the document adopted ignores the social and economic status of fishing. “It keeps backing an unbalanced, rigid and unrealistic fishery management, Read More »
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  ‘The Lobster Trap’

  You’d never know it to meet McCarthy, an unassuming, soft-spoken man who goes to work in a T-shirt and waterproof oilskins but he is, at 32, Read More »

• New Maryland director of fisheries named

  David Blazer, deputy director of harbor development for the Maryland Port Administration, takes over Sept. 21 as director of fisheries, DNR announced Wednesday.The announcement comes more Read More »
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  Northern cod numbers may have moved out of critical zone, says federal scientist

  Captain Alex Saunders has more experience fishing northern cod than most fishermen. At 81 years old, the fishing captain has fished for cod off the Labrador Read More »
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  Coast Guard and Royal Bahamas Defense Force seize more than 12,000 lbs. of IUU Fishing catch off Bahamas

  Watchstanders from the Coast Guard’s Operation Bahamas and Turks and Caicos operation center coordinated with RBDF crews to board two commercial fishing vessels, El Ship and Read More »

• “Super-sized 11-million-pound commercial fish factory” protested

  Water-quality advocates with San Diego Coastkeeper announced this week that the group is petitioning the federal Environmental Protection Agency to deny a discharge permit for the Read More »

• Sweden not giving up fight over lobster import ban

  Sweden isn’t giving up on a long-running battle with the U.S. and Canada over lobsters that have turned up in Swedish waters. Officials with Sweden told Read More »
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  Mid-Atlantic Council Flirts With Overfishing

  The relationship between the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) and overfishing goes back a long way. In 1999, the Council adopted a summer flounder quota that Read More »