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  The Offshore Wind Farmers are Winning! Benefits Package Totals $29 Million for East Hampton Town

  The Town of East Hampton and the town trustees will share a community benefits package worth almost $29 million in exchange for easements allowing Orsted U.S Read More »

• Kits Coast Guard Station will be reopened says Fisheries Minister

  It’s official, the Kits Coast Guard Station will be reopened. Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, Hunter Tootoo, made the announcement at a press Read More »
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  North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for June 8, 2018

  >Click here to read the Weekly Update<, to read all the updates >Click here<, for older updates listed as NCFA <click here>09:14 Read More »
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  UPDATED: Harrowing details of fatal Seacor Power capsizing – ‘All hell broke loose’

  The captain of a vessel that was near the Seacor Power when it capsized in the Gulf of Mexico in April, leaving 13 men dead, said Read More »
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  New Factory Trawlers for the Canadian North

  Last year saw the delivery of Ocean Choice International’s Calvert and an order placed for a new Polar Code standard trawler for Clearwater Seafoods and Ocean Prawns in Denmark, currently Read More »

• Bristol Bay Fisheries Report’s for July 4th, and 5th, 2014

  Listen to The Bristol Bay Fisheries Report for July 4th, and Bristol Bay Fisheries Report for July 5, 2014 with Mike Mason, KDLG 22:02 Read More »

• New England Fishery Management Council meeting in Newport, RI., December 4 thru 6 2018

  The New England Fishery Management Council will be meeting at Hotel Viking, Newport, RI, December 4, 2018 – December 6, 2018. To read the final agenda, >click here< Read More »
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  Fishermen lost off St. Lawrence remembered as ‘the finest kind of people’

  Family and friends of three fishermen whose bodies were recovered off the coast of St. Lawrence, and one still missing at sea, are remembering them as Read More »

• Coast Guard medevacs skipper from fishing boat in the Gulf

  The Coast Guard medevacked a 29-year-old man Friday from a 72-foot commercial fishing vessel 23 miles southwest of Sanibel. At 4:30 a.m. watch standers from Sector Read More »
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  A life-long fisherman – Lawrence “Larry” Edward Goodell Sr., 71, of Aberdeen, Washington, has passed away

  Larry was raised within a commercial fishing family where the Columbia River provided a way of life that sustained Larry and his family for generations. Larry’s Read More »

• What to do with an icon: Boston PR firm hired to retool branding for Maine lobster

  “We’ve got a great story to tell,” adds David Cousens, a fisherman and president of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association. “We’re poor at telling it, but we Read More »

• Hawaii fishermen say development is hurting reefs

  Hawaii fishermen asked policymakers to address how runoff caused by land development harms reefs, fisheries and oceans when they consider how to cope with the effects Read More »

• Voracious protected seals starting to overrun waters off New England

  But what is the cost? Nils Stolpe, a Florida-based fishing industry journalist and advocate, calculated that since each seal consumed 5 percent of its body weight Read More »

• Vineyard Wind 1 Fisheries Compensation Program Application Deadline Approaching

  This notice is a reminder to commercial fishermen that the eligibility period to apply for the Vineyard Wind 1 Fisheries Compensatory Mitigation Program ends on June Read More »
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  New Brunswick: Fire significantly damages lobster fishery on Grand Manan

  Mayor Bonnie Morse said the Special K Fisheries caught fire early in the day on Monday, adding it appears everyone inside made it out of the Read More »
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  A disastrous tsunami’s lethal legacy in Newfoundland

  On Nov. 18, 1929, fisherman Patrick Rennie watched from higher ground in Lord’s Cove, Nfld., as a barrelling tsunami washed over his home, his wife and Read More »
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  N.S. fishermen rescued by coast guard land safely in St. John’s

  Seven Nova Scotia fishermen say they’re happy to be back on solid ground in St. John’s after their boat took on water and they had to Read More »
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  Longtime Fort Myers Beach shrimping operation dissolving after disputes between owners

  As the Fort Myers Beach shrimping industry claws its way back after Ian, one of the last remaining companies on the historic waterfront is not returning, Read More »
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  Going On Tour! Chesapeake Bay Buyboat History Comes to Life with 17th Annual Rendezvous

  Skipjacks get all the glory, but there’s another hero of the Bay’s historic seafood industry worth celebrating: the buyboat. The era of Chesapeake Bay motor-powered buyboats Read More »

• Scat may contain clues to marine mammals’ Southern California deaths

  Lowry, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration biologist, hoped the pungent material contained answers to why at least 2,250 dehydrated and underweight sea lions started showing Read More »

• Jig pollock test fishery opens next week – This is Fish Radio. I’m Stephanie Mangini. A big Opportunity for a smaller fishing fleet.

  Jig fishermen around Kodiak will be targeting two ground fish species this season, when the state water pacific cod fishery opens this week. Jiggers are now  Read More »

• Let’s hope Alaska revenue solution isn’t too hard on ‘the other guy’

  I keep hoping that the motto of the famous Anchorage bar Chilkoot Charlie’s, “We cheat the other guy and pass the savings on to you,” can work Read More »

• Gloucester Fisheries Commission opposes limited access to the historically open-access whiting fishery

  A mere two days after the NEFMC received its first look at the proposals being generated by its whiting advisory panel and whiting committee, Gloucester commission Read More »
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  I am a Fisherman! WTF are you? Not a fisherperson, or a fisher!

  Chloe-Louise Chesswas, 29, prefers to be known as a fisherman and says the politically correct alternative will never catch on. Chloe-Louise is believed to be one Read More »

• University of Washington – Ocean acidification center another example of state leading the nation

  Washington’s governor and state legislators in the last session created a hub at the University of Washington to coordinate research and monitoring of ocean acidification and Read More »