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• Senate hopeful Dan Winslow carves out fishing stand

  Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dan Winslow has zeroed in on two nagging statutory imperatives that, in their violation have frustrated the fishing industry — the requirement Read More »
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  P.E.I. lobster fishing industry looking at replacements for traditional bait

  A Tignish lobster fisherman says he would welcome new bait sources for the fishery “as long as it is environmentally-friendly.”  Kenneth LeClair,,, was commenting on news Read More »
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  Fishing regulators shoot down scallop leasing plan

  In a ballroom overlooking Gloucester Harbor, the council regulating New England’s fisheries rejected a controversial proposal on Tuesday to develop a leasing program in the region’s Read More »

• NMFS Announces Approval of Three New England Groundfish Rules for Fishing Year 2015 (May 1, 2015-April 30, 2016)

  Today, NOAA Fisheries announces three actions affecting the Northeast Multispecies fishery. These are the final rules implementing Framework Adjustment 53 to the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan and the Read More »

• Remembering the pilot boat ‘Can Do’

  GLOUCESTER — The Bible describes a time when the seas “mount up to the heaven” and then “go down again to the depths.” It was like Read More »

• Jacobs (fourth-generation waterman) unopposed in District 36 in the Maryland House of Delegates

  “For 20 years, I feel like Annapolis has really regulated the industry, really in a way that has been very detrimental to the industry,” Jacobs said. Read More »

• Professor Ray Hilborn has a message for Congress: Overfishing is over

  To his detractors, fisheries professor Ray Hilborn is an “overfishing denier,” a scientist who’s all too eager to accept money from industry groups to pay for Read More »
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  ACK Residents Against Turbines not aligned with fossil fuel money

  The Jan. 21 article by Doug Fraser, “Nuclear and Fossil Fuel Advocates, Wind Foes Among Backers of Right Whale Protection Suits,” misleads the public by attempting Read More »

• Hurricane Harvey: Port Aransas family weathers storm in shrimp boat

  The word of a hurricane didn’t stop one Port Aransas family from staying in town. But where they did stay may come as a surprise. John Read More »
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  Fishing quotas on black sea bass draw lawmakers’ ire

  New York lawmakers on Sunday pushed back against federal fishery quotas and regulations that reduce the amount of black sea bass fishermen can catch in the Read More »

• Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. Stands Up to Big Oil and Fights to Protect Atlantic Coast from Offshore Drilling. YES!

  “I oppose H.R. 2231, the Offshore Energy and Jobs Act. By requiring offshore oil and gas drilling in the Atlantic Ocean, this bill threatens New Jersey’s Read More »

• Herring, tuna fishing interests collide at sea

  The collision of fishing interests came Saturday night into Sunday morning, out along Jeffreys Ledge, ground zero for the extraordinarily hard bluefin tuna bite that unfolded Read More »

• NMFS Shoots Down Defenders of Wildlife petition to list Smooth Hammerhead Shark under Endangered Species Act

  We, NMFS, announce a 12-month finding on a petition to list the smooth hammerhead shark (Sphyrna zygaena) as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act Read More »
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  Fishermen protest chemical spraying in Lake Okeechobee

  “As far as people go, it’s polluting the water. As far as animals go, it’s killing off the wildlife,” said Jim Watt, a former animal dealer. Read More »

• Seattle Times Editorial: Vigilance required at Alaska’s Bristol Bay

  A major partner in the proposed Pebble mine project in Alaska has withdrawn, but do not assume the giant mine is dead or Bristol Bay is Read More »

• Unfavourable forecasts continue to keep P.E.I. lobster boats off water

  Wednesday was supposed to be trap setting day for the fall fishery, which operates in the Northumberland Strait along the south coast from North Cape to Read More »

• White spot threat: is fishing finished in Queensland?

  The Logan River white spot epidemic could destroy all mainland fishing in Queensland, including a big slice of the Cooloola Coast seafood and tourism economy, industry Read More »
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  ASP calls out alleged ‘intimidation’ of crab harvesters who want to fish for $2.20 per pound

  The 2023 snow crab season started with a promise between the fisheries union and the processors association to work together — something akin to the Hatfields Read More »

• HUGE CATCH off the coast of Gloucester!

  On April 28,2016, F/V CAPT NOVELLO  caught a huge American flag  38 ft. by 20 ft.. Looking  for  ANSWERS , WHO LOST IT ??  WHY/??  AND Read More »

• Time is running out to protect the Atlantic coast from Seismic Testing for oil exploration

  President Trump recently proclaimed that his administration is seeking “American energy dominance.” The reality is we’re already there. The United States produces more natural gas and Read More »

• Morro Bay officials oppose Dynegy wave parks – “they just ignored everything the fishermen said,”

  Morro Bay city councilmembers voiced unanimous opposition to two proposed wave-power-generation facilities off the coast.  “It looks to me, in the proposal … that they just Read More »

• Transportation Safety Board wants life-vests mandatory for commercial fishermen

  The federal government should look at the success of seatbelt laws when it considers a recommendation that would require commercial fishermen to wear a life-jacket at Read More »

• Minister defends LIFO decision, northern shrimp stocks under pressure linked to rebounding cod stock

  The federal fisheries minister stands by his recent decision to scrap the Last In, First Out policy and reduce the northern shrimp quota, while also indicating Read More »

• Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 50′ Fiberglass Day Scalloper, 425HP CAT 3406 Diesel

  Specifications, information and 33 photos click here  To see all the boats in this series, Click here 11:30 Read More »
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  Posing as a Commercial Fisherman, Agent used lobster to butter up fentanyl dealer

  Prosecutors said a Stoughton man sold fentanyl on several occasions to an undercover DEA agent who was posing as a commercial fisherman, offering lobsters to the Read More »