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• Listen to The Alaska Fisheries Report

  Coming up on this Thanksgiving week show, 2014 forecasts are out for sockeye in Bristol Bay and pinks in Southeast, small boat fishermen work to expand Read More »

• UPDATED: Northeast Regional Planning Body Data Workshop – Day Two – Nov 16, 2017 in Exeter, NH

  RPB meeting continues at the Exeter Town Hall, in Exeter, NH, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. This meeting will include important updates from RPB members Read More »
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  US Navy Sounds Alarm Over Biden’s Offshore Wind Plans

  The US Navy and Pentagon are sounding alarms over Biden administration plans to advance offshore wind projects along the central Atlantic US coast, warning that almost Read More »

• “I am glad this auction has been canceled”: City of Brookings responds to BOEM wind energy plan delay

  In response to the auction being postponed Brookings mayor Isaac Hodges said, “I’m happy that even a pause shows that there’ll hopefully be a little bit Read More »

• ‘A lot of anxiety’: N.L. seafood industry will see big hit if Trump follows through with tariffs

  President-elect Donald Trump’s 25 per cent tariff threat is worrying people in Newfoundland and Labrador’s seafood industry. More than 60 per cent of the province’s seafood Read More »
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  Canada Has a New Fisheries Act. How Does It Stack Up?

  Canada has the longest coastline in the world, yet it has long been a lax outlier in fisheries management. But with an overhaul of the federal Read More »
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  Northern cod growth off NL stalled, latest science indicates

  Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) on Friday released it’s latest stock status assessment information on northern cod. “We continue to be concerned about the status Read More »

• Some Inconvenient Truths about California Squid Marketing: C W P A responds to Paul Greenberg’s “The long journey of local seafood to your plate”,

  On July 11 the Los Angeles Times carried an opinion editorial “The long journey of local seafood to your plate”, by author Paul Greenberg, who made Read More »

• No sign of abandoned trawler Alaska Juris in Bering Sea recovery effort

  A tug is searching an area of the Bering Sea for an abandoned fishing vessel, which was still afloat Tuesday after its crew of 46 abandoned ship, according Read More »
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  Crabbers battling on several fronts

  This is an announcement directed at the Washington Dungeness Crab Fishermen’s Association general membership. We have a meeting, Wednesday, Jan. 17, from 2 to 5 p.m. Read More »

• National Wildlife Federation says environmental effects of BP spill far from over

  Two weeks before the third anniversary of the BP Gulf oil spill, the National Wildlife Federation has issued a report declaring that the environmental effects are Read More »
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  Coronavirus closes a third Aleutian plant, stranding Bering Sea fishermen at the dock

  In the Aleutian port town of Unalaska, at least five local boats are stuck at the dock with nowhere to deliver their cod after the shutdown Read More »

• Something they are worried about across the pond. Should we be worried? Yes.

    Wind farm rush ‘may hit lobster and crab fishing’ Published on Wednesday 26 December 2012 06:00 THE drive for green energy could threaten the future of Read More »

• B.C. First Nation vows to stop herring roe fishery in its territory

  The Tla’amin First Nation has served notice that it will take action to halt any commercial herring roe fishery in its traditional territory. A band council Read More »

• “Thar’s gold in them thar gills!” Why this Peoria fish company wants to come to Pekin

  Many central Illinois residents see Asian carp as an invasive species and a hazard to public waterways. But a wholesale and retail fresh water fish processing Read More »

• Cod on rebound, haddock takes hit

  The codfish is on the rebound, and that means High Liner Foods CEO Henry Demone has never been more confident in the global supply of wild Read More »
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  Offshore wind won’t fish – There is no compatible mixing of wind turbines and fishing!

  The endangered species of the Maine fishing family is already dancing around the newly announced National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) restrictions to protect the right Read More »

• For Immediate Release: Press Conference – January 19, 2015 AT 1 PM – LOCATION: THE FISHING VESSEL ‘PROVIDENCE’, COMMERCIAL DOCK

  CAPTAIN REED, ONE ON THE MOST RESPECTED FISHEMEN IN SHINNECOCK, IS FACING A CRIMINAL RECORD, POSSIBLE JAIL AND THE LOSS OF THE ABILITY TO PROVIDE FOR Read More »
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  How to make the most of Dungeness crab season on the Sonoma Coast

  Shawn Patterson, who fishes wild Pacific king salmon during its local season, has established Lisa Lu Fishery LLC and formed a partnership with Adam King. They Read More »
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  Fishing industry rattled as white spot disease breaks barriers

  It was the outbreak they were expecting, but hoping would never come to pass. Concern and uncertainty seem to the prevailing moods amongst the Queensland commercial Read More »
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  Honor, Respect, Devotion to Duty: Crew of F/V Cape Ferret

  In November 2014, the crew of F/V Betty C awoke to find their vessel nearly engulfed in flames. After their attempts to extinguish the flames proved Read More »
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  Maine Fishermen slow offshore wind farm development – Keep Fighting

  Actions by Maine fishermen directly affected the process of offshore wind development in the Gulf of Maine with a bill signed into law on July 7 Read More »

• Tarzan, the last sponge-fishing sailboat, on its way to a long restoration

  The Tarzan, an old traditional Mediterranean rig and the last to have fished sponges under sail, is heading for Narbonne to be restored to her original Read More »
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  Islip Town plans to open up more shellfish beds in bay

  Islip Town’s program to lease acres of shellfish beds to private companies is on track to expand from 125 acres to more than 1,500 acres. The Read More »
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  Flawed rescue? – Franklin D. Roosevelt asked for plans for a low dam. Joe Biden wants windmills

  “The federal role in damming the Columbia tied in well with the New Deal belief that the government should stimulate economic recovery by putting people to Read More »