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  Salmon harvesting jobs lost in 2018 fisheries

  A new report on seafood jobs in Alaska notes that fishery harvest employment declined by 4.9 percent in 2018, erasing most of the gains seen a Read More »
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  StripedBassHole: The old GDT Blog, and Opening our Eyes to Global Issues

  It’s interesting how blind we can become to the World around us. News in general be it written, Radio, Television, Internet, you name it. Has a Read More »

• Encouraging results from inshore fish survey

  Survey catches of cod in the inshore waters around Shetland last year were at their best for five years, fishing leaders say. The record squid catch Read More »

• New Bedford fishing boat finds body near Provincetown

  New Bedford fishermen found a human body as they pulled in their nets early Thursday off Provincetown. The gender of the body found in the fishing Read More »

• Give ’em the chair! Lobster stunner pitched for more humane killing

  “I can’t really comment whether we’re doing it because we think the lobster feel or don’t feel pain,” said Spinney. “It’s really a market decision.” And Read More »
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  “Looking Back”: The Keep Fishermen Fishing Rally

  Measured by any meaningful criteria the Keep Fishermen Fishing rally held on the steps of the Capitol on March 21 was a stunning success. It was Read More »
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  Voices of Alaska: A call to fishermen

  Things are getting sideways out there in the ocean. Nearly every fishermen who’s motored in recent years along the Peninsula coast and around to Bristol Bay Read More »

• FISH-NL SLAMS FFAW for stonewalling on membership list

  The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH-NL) is slamming the Fish, Food and Allied Workers union (FFAW) for trying to prevent the Read More »

• Cape Breton fish processor seeks new products from waste

  A fish processor is spending $3 million and teaming up with researchers at Cape Breton University to turn its waste into new products. Kennedy Group of Read More »
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  Lobstermen tell regulators: Give us fewer buoy lines, but let us fish them how we want

  Brian Tripp, a Sedgwick lobsterman, urged Maine to adopt a buoy line tagging system to help reduce the number of lines that link a fisherman’s buoys Read More »

• The California Department of Water Resources reveals its $25b Delta plan — but questions remain

  A new future for the troubled Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta was laid out for public review Monday in 34,000 pages of analysis associated with two giant water Read More »
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  F/V Sea Angels: Grounded fishing vessel near Browns Inlet, refloated and towed off the beach

  The Coast Guard received a report of the fishing vessel Sea Angels being towed off the beach by the fishing vessel Lady Deborah during high tide Read More »
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  We import 92% of the seafood our nation consumes. Has the time come?

  Many  years ago I often wondered what would have happened if the entire nations commercial fishermen went on strike. And I mean all aspects of the Read More »

• Long Island Commercial Fishing Association wants assurances fishing won’t be limited by protection zone

  Three Long Island lawmakers have introduced a bill that would create a marine mammal and sea turtle protection zone around Plum Island and two other environmentally Read More »
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  NOAA Fisheries reports on early pandemic impact on fisheries

  NOAA Fisheries Friday, January 15 released a report on the economic impact on the seafood catch and recreational fishing nationwide and here in Alaska through last summer.,, Read More »
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  Atlantic Canada makes strides to decarbonize commercial marine vessels

  Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, with federal government support, are currently investigating opportunities to electrify certain classes of vessels in an effort to help decarbonize Read More »

• Rick Baumann writes, Is seismic testing, drilling for oil necessary?

  From the letter:  i.e. – our commercial fishermen have been and are being heavily regulated right now by the Precautionary Principle because conservative lawmakers won’t fund Read More »

• New Jersey hits pause on an offshore wind farm that can’t find turbine blades

  New Jersey hit the pause button Wednesday on an offshore wind energy project that is having a hard time finding someone to manufacture blades for its Read More »

• Prepping for salmon: Truncated season a response to drought, conservation efforts

  Instead of a typical flurry of commercial fishermen prepping for the start of salmon season next weekend, the docks at Pillar Point Harbor have been relatively Read More »

• Fish harvesters raise industry concerns at Fish-NL meeting in Marystown

  Harvesters from around the Burin Peninsula had an opportunity to raise their concerns about the Fish, Food and Allied Workers (FFAW-Unifor) union during a series of Read More »
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  DFO report says Gulf of St. Lawrence herring that spawn in the spring in deep trouble

  The grim projection was shared earlier this month by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, just days before the spring herring fishery is set to open Read More »

• Rare 7-foot fish washed ashore on Oregon’s coast garners worldwide attention

  A massive, rare fish thought to only live in temperate waters in the southern hemisphere has washed up on Oregon’s northern coast, drawing crowds of curious Read More »
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  It’s always easier to spot the lobsters from heaven – Tribute to Jim Waddell, Peter Prybot and Bob Morris

  One recent Gloucester Daily times obituary might have slipped by you without noticing. Jim Waddell, 72, of Rockport, passed in September. It was the second time Read More »

• A record herring run at Stony Brook

  The question is, is the bounce due to the reworked (in fall 2010) culvert under  Route 6A, which is now 18-feet wide instead of 4 feet, Read More »
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  Price offered for Maine’s baby eels hits record high

  Strong demand for baby eels from Maine, spurred by poor winter harvests elsewhere around the globe, has driven prices in the opening days of the state’s Read More »