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• South Atlantic Fishery Management Council SSC Meeting: October 22-24, 2013

  The scientific advisors to the South Atlantic Council meet this week to talk about blueline tilefish, Spanish mackerel, snowy grouper, and other issues. You can listen in Read More »

• Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update APRIL 14, 2013

  “The Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance is dedicated to its mission of continuing to help create sustainable fisheries without putting licensed fishermen out of business.” Read the Read More »
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  No California salmon: Fishery to be shut down this year

  Last year, California’s commercial and recreational fishing fleet, from the Central Coast to the Oregon border, landed about 300,000 salmon. But this year, Davis and other Read More »

• Stock Assessment Review Committee Meeting To Review the Gulf of Maine Haddock and the Sea Scallop

  The public portion of the Stock Assessment Review Committee Meeting will be held from July 15 through July 17, 2014.. The meeting will be held in Read More »

• It’s always over fishing, though! Flame retardants in consumer products are linked to health and cognitive problems

  They can also escape during production or when treated products are recycled or disposed of in landfills or incinerators. Once released, they can build up in Read More »

• Four issues facing Louisiana shrimpers this season

  After perhaps the most turbulent decade in recent memory for Louisiana’s seafood industry, Lance Nacio has not lost the eternal optimism that pervades shrimpers row each Read More »
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  Santa Barbara oil spill $230M class action settlement

  Plains All American Pipeline agreed to pay $230 million to resolve claims its negligence caused a 2015 oil spill near Santa Barbara, California. The settlement benefits Read More »

• Gang Green expects the NMFS to fix Global Warming to save the coral, and they agree to it!!

  September 13 – In a settlement filed in federal court today, the National Marine Fisheries Service committed to developing a recovery plan for elkhorn and staghorn  corals Read More »

• Maryland Watermen’s Microloan Program Assists “Generational Watermen”

  The Maryland Agricultural and Resource-Based Industry Development Corporation (MARBIDCO) is once again offering its Maryland Watermen’s Microloan Program to assist “generational watermen” with the purchase of needed Read More »

• Canadian scallop quota valued at $200M sells to 3 Nova Scotia companies

  In a blockbuster seafood deal, St. John’s-based Ocean Choice International (OCI) has sold its Canadian offshore scallop quota, worth an estimated $200 million, to three Nova Read More »

• Fishing technique known as trawling can sometimes be productive

  High-intensity raking of the seabed, called trawling, is a very effective fishing method that can inflict significant collateral damage on sea life. However, it can sometimes Read More »
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  Tanya Tagaq: Anti-sealing movement is ‘the bad guy’

  The anti-sealing movement targets the wrong people, says Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq. Tagaq, delivering a keynote speech Sunday at the Inuit Studies Conference at Memorial University, Read More »
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  Shellfish industry accuses conservation group of ‘smear campaign’ against scallop fishery

  Shetlands inshore shellfish industry and local marine scientists have strongly condemned what they describe as a “series of false allegations” from a conservation organisation about the Read More »
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  The people are Opposed to Offshore Wind in Cape May, N.J. – Anti Offshore Wind Farm protestors gather

  They could not all go in to the meeting of the Cape May County Commissioners on Tuesday afternoon, but opponents of a planned offshore wind farm Read More »

• Coast Guard renews maritime warning: Vessels need lookouts

  The Daily Astorian – This reminder is based on the fact that some vessel operators, including commercial fishermen, engage in the practice of working all day, Read More »

• Guest View: Tide begins turning fishermen’s way By Elizabeth Warren

  For the past two years, I have made many visits to Massachusetts fishing communities in New Bedford, Gloucester and the South Shore to hear about the Read More »

• Carteret County board blasts MFC “draconian measures,” in resolution

  Carteret County will join supporters of the commercial shrimp fishing trade, voicing opposition to the N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission’s decision to pursue tougher restrictions for shrimp Read More »

• Protecting a Home Where the Puffer Fish Roam in Biscayne National Park

  BISCAYNE NATIONAL PARK, Fla. — For 15 years, officials, environmentalists, fishermen and boaters have struggled to put together a plan to protect one of South Florida’s Read More »

• U.S. EDA Invests $500,000 to Re-capitalize Commercial Fishing-Focused Revolving Loan Fund for Southern Maine

  The U.S. Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) today announced a $500,000 grant to Coastal Enterprises, Inc., of Wiscasset, Maine, to re-capitalize a commercial fisheries Revolving Read More »

• FFAW President Greg Pretty not seeking re-election, will retire

  Fish, Food and Allied Workers (FFAW) union president Greg Pretty is retiring after more than 40 years with Newfoundland and Labrador’s largest private sector union. Pretty Read More »

• Are you a survivor like John Aldridge?

  July 24, 2013 – John Aldridge, a crewmember of the 44-foot lobster vessel Anna Mary was last seen aboard the boat during his watch relief at 9 p.m., Read More »
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  2 Accused Of Stealing, Killing Maine Dog, Possibly As Revenge – The People are Pissed!

  Two men in Maine who are accused of kidnapping and killing a 6-year-old pug mix named Franky whose owner thinks his dog’s death may have been Read More »

• Sitka’s Herring Population is Stronger than Ever

  by Jake Ingman – Last week, Andy Rauwolf sent a letter to Sitnews full of panic and misinformation.  The first of many things that need to Read More »

• Tradex 3 Minute Market Update

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  Big Bar Landslide: 99% of early Stuart sockeye, 89% of early Fraser River chinook salmon runs were lost

  The officials with Fisheries and Oceans Canada told a Commons committee that 99 per cent of early Stuart and 89 per cent of early chinook salmon Read More »