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• Maine bills aim to boost lobster industry

  One bill calls for sharply increasing surcharges on lobster fishing, wholesale seafood and other lobster-related licenses, the other, which will draw strong opposition from lobstermen, would Read More »

• BREAKING: F/V Captain Gavin runs aground of Point Pleasant Beach

  The Coast Guard responded to a call for help from the 77-foot Captain Gavin about a mile south of the Manasquan Inlet at 5:15 a.m. Wednesday. Read More »

• New quota system to start for trawl harvests of cod in Bering Sea and Aleutians

  Commercial fishermen netting Pacific cod from the Bering Sea and Aleutians region will be working under new individual limits starting next year designed to ease pressure Read More »
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  Alaska fishing communities would take hit under Dunleavy proposal to end fish tax revenue-sharing

  Gov. Mike Dunleavy proposed legislation this week that would keep commercial fish tax revenue that has for years been shared with Alaska fishing communities in the Read More »

• Georgia asks the U.S. Supreme Court to stay out of the latest legal battle in its 24-year fight over water rights with neighboring Florida.

  Georgia filed its response last week to Florida’s request for the high court to intervene in deciding how they share water that flows across the state Read More »
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  Planes can’t find entangled whale in search Wednesday

  Planes and boats searched the Gulf of St. Lawrence on Wednesday, looking for a young North Atlantic right whale entangled in rope and other gear.  An Read More »

• Kyle & Mallaig lifeboats launched to trawler hard aground at Kylerhea narrows

  Kyle lifeboat Spirit of Fred. Olsen launched into a snowstorm at 5:48pm, and made best speed towards the vessel, arriving on scene at 6:00pm. On arrival the Read More »
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  Pioneering decarbonisation

  Following his initial experience of the Pilothy project, a feasibility study into converting trawler Anita Conti to run on hydrogen, Loctudy trawler operator Julien Le Brun went Read More »
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  Coast Guard locates 8 people in life raft over 400 miles north of Hawaii

  A Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules aircrew from Air Station Barbers Point located a life raft with eight people aboard from the fishing vessel Princess Hawaii over Read More »

• Spring test set for Gulf salmon excluders – “It’s an evolution,”

  “Think about a salmon stream,” Gauvin said. “Think about a rock in a salmon  stream. A salmon noses up behind that and uses it as a way Read More »

• Champlain Seafood blames lack of lobsters for permanent closure of Meteghan, N.S., processing plant

  A lobster processing plant in Meteghan, N.S., is shutting down permanently saying there are “not enough lobsters to sustain current processing capacity.” In a news release Read More »

• Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 70′ Steel Stern Dragger, Permits, 600HP Lugger Diesel

  To review specifications, information, and 9 photos’,>click here<, To see all the boats in this series, >click here< 07:50 Read More »

• Your Seafreeze Ltd. PREFERRED PRICE LIST for August 26, 2013 Has Arrived!

   PRICE LIST for this week… Chum Salmon Fillet, Squid Tube, Smelt, Frozen At Sea Haddock Fillet and more! Call Ken Loud – 1 401 295 2585 Read More »
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  Conflicting statements create confusion over future of old Ayr fishing boat

  The MVF Watchful has been sitting on an old slipway in Ayr’s South Harbour for around two decades. Previous attempts to have the vessel restored have Read More »
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  Big turnout for Winter Harbor lobster boat races

  Blessed by near perfect weather, 88 boats signed up to power up the course between the Schoodic Peninsula and Grindstone Neck in a slate of 29 Read More »
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  Shipwrecked ‘ghost boat’ looms on SLO County coast. Where did it come from?

  Rumors circulate about how the so-called “ghost boat” came to rest off the coast of Estero Bluffs, with some claiming that its owner fell asleep at Read More »

• Minister Highlights Benefits to Fisheries of Canada-EU Trade Agreement

  CANADA – Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, followed the recent announcement of a new Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with the European Union with Read More »

• One of Three Defendants in Waldoboro Lobster Boat Arson Case Pleads Guilty

  One of three men charged with arson for allegedly burning a Waldoboro boathouse containing a 36-foot lobster boat in 2012 pleaded guilty in Lincoln County Superior Read More »

• Community Supported Fisheries processing plant planned for False Creek

  Shaun and Sonia Strobel founded Skipper Otto’s Community Supported Fishery in 2008 as a way for Otto Strobel — Shaun’s father — to keep fishing independently at a Read More »

• Editorial: Fishing limits may be inexact, but reflect a real problem (the problem is, some people lap this crap up!)

  But Coakley’s decision also has more destructive potential — both in unfairly reinforcing perceptions of the federal government as an enemy of fishermen and, if she Read More »

• Chamberlain and Rothschild Apply for Patent – METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING FISH CATCHES

  Abstract: The present disclosure is directed towards determining, at sea, the respective weights of fish species that are part of a fish catch. By way of Read More »
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  Whale that washed up on Jersey Shore beach had fractured skull, propellor wounds

  A deceased 30-foot humpback female whale that washed up on the beach in Seaside Park last week had propeller wounds and a fractured skull, according to preliminary Read More »
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  B.C. harvests 196,000 tonnes of fish a year. Most of it is exported and that’s a problem

  There are about 4,000 fish harvesters scattered across the province who harvested about 196,000 tonnes of wild seafood in 2018, worth $476 million, everything from salmon to Read More »
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  Some P.E.I. fishermen caught flak for catching lobsters on Sundays in 1989

  There was only so much lobster to go around, a fact fishermen in North Rustico, P.E.I. were well aware of. That’s part of what upset them Read More »

• Elyse Moore: ‘Flip dog’ in the shadhouse: Recalling the Connecticut River days when fish and rum ran freely

  SOUTH HADLEY — In 1733, the first recorded retail purchase of 30 Connecticut River shad for a penny apiece in Northampton launched a fisheries industry that Read More »