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  Save the Gulf of Maine – The Maine Reset, Ep.3: This is an Experiment

  In this episode, interviews with two brilliant people that you won’t want to miss regarding offshore wind development in Maine. Carla Guenther PhD brings an oceanography Read More »
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  Claims that seals are endangering the livelihoods of local fishermen

  The seals are not native to this area but have bred and formed a substantial colony beneath the cliffs at Fairlight, where they are often sighted. Read More »

• Lobster buyer gets his license yanked

  A hearing examiner has upheld the one-year suspension of the license of a lobster buyer accused of failing to report a portion of the purchases made Read More »
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  North Carolina: Local seafood markets still seeing good business amid Coronavirus

  Fresh seafood seems to be in high demand, given grocery stores are running out of stock of other meats such as chicken and ground beef, It’s Read More »

• Judge hears evidence against the licensed yacht captain that allegedly killed commercial rod and reel fisherman Walter Krupinski

  During a six-hour trial at the Rhode Island Traffic Tribunal Monday, witnesses and investigators recounted the September 2015 fatal boat collision between a 60-foot yacht and Read More »
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  It will benefit the powerful’: row over Brixham fish market levelling up plan

  Critics claim the plans for the Devon harbour town of Brixham, which is expected to land a record-breaking £50m worth of fish this year, will lead to Read More »

• Derelict Shrimp Boat finally removed from St. Andrews Bay

  On April 10th, 2022 a shrimp boat named Phi Long Hai caught fire. Coast Guard officials determined the boat’s ignition sparked the fire. The 50-foot boat Read More »
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  After a record-breaking year for Atlantic snow crab, facing huge price cuts is ‘worse than the moratorium,’

  “It’s going to be worse than the moratorium.” That’s Jason Sullivan’s gut feeling about the upcoming 2023 snow crab fishing season. He has no doubt that Read More »

• Former Alaska Fish Board appointee Roland Maw charged with PFD fraud

  Gov. Bill Walker’s controversial one-time appointee to the Alaska Board of Fisheries was charged Wednesday with 17 counts of theft and unsworn falsification over his applications for Read More »

• Always Top Quality! Your Seafreeze Ltd. Preferred Price List for March 9th, 2016 Has Arrived!

  Contact our sales team today @ 401 295 2585 or 800 732 273 Click here for the complete price list from Seafreeze Ltd. We are Direct to the Read More »

• Commercial Crab Harvesters Plead Guilty to Fishing in U.S. Waters

  Two commercial crab harvesters from Delta, British Columbia, have been fined a total of $27,000 and banned from participating in the Boundary Bay commercial crab fishing Read More »

• Journalists get schooled about fishing industry

  HARKERS ISLAND — Eddie and Allison Willis, a Harkers Island commercial fisherman and his wife, have seen several issues come up in the seafood industry in Read More »
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  Surprising Blue Crab Population Develops In Maine

  Up in the Gulf of Maine, outside the crabs’ historic range, these creatures are a source of surprise. But over the past few years, it has Read More »
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  Benefit to support Orr’s Island lobsterman

  Orr’s Island lobsterman Mark Wilson suffered a stroke recently while at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He received immediate care but remains hospitalized at Mass General. Read More »

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• Alaska Editorial: Mind the gaps

  This week in Anchorage, the state brought in experts to identify the gaps in the draft plan. They received some useful comments. Reviewers urged that more Read More »
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  Gloucester’s annual Overdose Vigil grows and glows on waterfront

  Down on Stacy Boulevard, over by the Blynman Bridge flagpole, they gathered again and lit their luminaries as the last of the evening’s light left the Read More »
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  Coast Guard medevacs ill fisherman off Atlantic City, NJ

  The Coast Guard medevaced a fisherman, who reportedly suffered from a respiratory issue Thursday, approximately 60 miles east of Atlantic City, New Jersey. Watchstanders at Coast Read More »

• “Deadliest Catch” Vessel Aleutian Ballad, From a Colorful Past to Industrial Tourism

  The Aleutian Ballad was a crab boat for 23 years before it was converted into an industrial tourism ship. The crabber was shown on the Discovery Read More »
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  The real Sea Wolf: Russians try to tame ‘Sea Wolf’ Captain Alexander MacLean (Part 2)

  After being caught almost red-handed poaching seals from a Russian island, Captain MacLean was summoned, along with most of his crew, to appear aboard the Russian Read More »

• Management Measures for Atlantic Sea Scallop Fishery Finalized Today

  NOAA Fisheries NMFS today approved final management measures for the scallop  fishery for the 2013 fishing year. With support from the scallop  industry, to protect young Read More »

• Commercial Dungeness crab season delayed

  Pre-season testing shows Dungeness crabs are too low in meat yield in some ocean areas, delaying Oregon’s commercial season until at least Dec. 16.  Targeted to Read More »

• 2015 mullet season catch is down drastically

  Like a lot of Floridians weary of warm weather, the local fishing industry is praying for a little cool. But for the people who catch them, Read More »

• Silver Bay Seafoods recruits in American Somoa for Alaska Fish Processing Jobs

  The demand for jobs was evident Saturday when about 300 people responded to a company from Alaska’s call for workers. Silver Bay Seafoods is looking to Read More »
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  Wrangell fisherman dies at sea near Nemo Point

  A veteran fisherman from Wrangell has been found dead aboard his fishing boat 12 miles south of town. Authorities ID’d the deceased as 53-year-old Randall Ferdinand, Read More »