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  North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for December 26, 2016

  Click here to read the Weekly Update, to read all the updates, Click here 15:14 Read More »

• Southwestern Nova Scotia: Lobster season opening set for Friday morning

  UPDATED: Unless there is a drastic change over the next couple of days, the opening of the lobster fishing season off southwestern Nova Scotia is set Read More »
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  A Fundraiser for the Nickerson Family – Assistance for family of fallen Maine Captain

  Arnold Nickerson IV, known by most as Joe Nickerson tragically passed away when his fishing vessel the Hayley Ann capsized on January 23, 2020. Joe was Read More »

• Conch remains on the menu, no harvesting

  National Marine Fisheries Service will not list queen conch on the endangered species list, but harvest of it in United States waters will remain prohibited. In March Read More »
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  Autopsy Report: Deadliest Catch’s Nick McGlashan ‘overdosed from a toxic mix of meth, cocaine and fentanyl’

  Part of the report, filed by Investigator Krista Hammonds for Nashville’s Center for Forensic Medicine, says “this 33 year old male was found unresponsive in the Read More »

• Blue Dog Bar & Grill opens in Matlacha

  “Our logo of Blue Dog has the white boots (locally called ‘Pine Island Reeboks’) that ‘Blue’ wears.  This is a nod to the rich past and Read More »

• Maine’s massive “floating wind” folly — my report

  Below is my Executive Summary, followed by the latest bad news on this ongoing silly saga. This report examines several fundamental aspects of the State of Read More »

• New Jersey’s Congressmen push for fishing industry disaster relief

  “New Jersey’s fishing industry is one of the drivers of our regional economy and a staple in coastal communities,” the congressmen wrote. “The fishing industry impacts Read More »
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  Lack of Trust muddies the water in UK fishing industry, (it muddies all waters, not just in the UK)

  A survey of UK fishermen has revealed low levels of trust in key government organisations and scientists. The authors of the study say it is an Read More »
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  Humpy invasion

  While West Coast Americans – Alaskans among them – worry and fret about farmed Atlantic salmon escaping to invade the Pacific Ocean despite decades of failed Read More »
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  Atlantic Canada snow crab sales slowed to a crawl in 2022 according to latest export data

  In 2021 crab fishing crews landed just over 39,000 metric tonnes. With an average price of $7.36 per pound the landed value that season was $623 Read More »
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  Due to high fuel costs, shortage of fresh fish anticipated in Andalucia

  As Manuel Fernandez, president of the Andalucian Federation of Fishermen’s Guilds pointed out, there has been no agreement to stop the fleet in the region, but Read More »

• Seal product ban upheld on ‘ethical’ grounds – ‘Public moral concerns’ cited

  The WTO, while finding that the EU’s so-called Seal Regime had violated international trade agreements, also determined that the ban was valid because of a controversial public Read More »
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  Port of Port Townsend: Marine trades plan for reopening in Phase 2

  When the governor first announced his “Stay Home, Stay Healthy” order, boat builders in Port Townsend put down their sanders, chisels and saws and headed home. Read More »
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  Fishing Company under Fire for Keeping Coronavirus Infected Crew at Sea for Three Weeks

  Despite crew members developing flu-like symptoms one by one, Júlíus Geirmundsson didn’t return to harbour until it needed to refuel last Sunday, after three weeks at Read More »

• NOAA Expands Critical Habitat for Endangered North Atlantic Right Whales

  Using new information not previously available, NMFS (read the Fed Reg) is expanding critical habitat for endangered North Atlantic right whales to cover its northeast feeding areas Read More »

• Coast Guard medically evacuates ailing F/V Raiders crewmember 50 miles south of Moriches, N.Y., today

  NEW YORK – The Coast Guard medically evacuated an ailing crewmember from the fishing vessel Raiders 50 miles south of Moriches, N.Y., today. A communications watchstander Read More »
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  North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for February 26, 2021

  Legislative updates, Bill updates, Calendar, >Click here to read the Weekly Update<, to read all the updates >click here<, for older updates listed as NCFA >click here<23:01 Read More »
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  An early start to a late setting day for P.E.I.’s lobster fishermen

  The lobster boats are off and heading to a staging area outside the North Rustico harbour on the North Shore of Prince Edward Island Friday morning, Read More »
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  Fishing company eyes up Timaru workforce to crew new vessel

  Competition for South Canterbury’s fishing expertise looks set to intensify, with national firm Sealord looking to Timaru to help staff its soon-to-be launched $70 million factory Read More »

• Maine Scallop Advisory Council Looks to Keep Rotational Management

  Scallop Advisory Council members believe they have found a possible solution to the shortage of plentiful harvests across Maine. Department of Marine Resources Commissioner Patrick Keliher Read More »
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  Eel of Fortune

  Against a backdrop of competing cultural and commercial interests, Canadian regulators will soon spin the wheel on the future of the little-understood American eel. Lighting the hissing Read More »

• Pew, Packard Foundations named in huge document leak called the “Panama Papers”

  An unprecedented leak of more than 11 million documents, called the “Panama Papers“, has revealed the hidden financial dealings of some of the world’s wealthiest people, Read More »
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  Undersea Power Cables – Electromagnetic fields have complex and possibly harmful effects on the valuable brown crab.

  Over the past 10 years, Scotland has installed thousands of offshore wind turbines in the North Sea and is starting to deploy marine energy devices that Read More »

• Cod Found Once Again in Cold Ocean Waters off New York Harbor

  Over the last several years, one fish in particular has been making a slow, but steady comeback in the offshore environment of the northwestern North Atlantic. Read More »