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  34th Annual Blessing of the Fleet will be April 25th, craft show applications available

  The Town of Mount Pleasant Blessing of the Fleet & Seafood Festival craft show applications are now available. The 34th annual festival will be April 25 Read More »

• Boat of the Week from the Athearn Marine Agency: 56.8′ Steel Stern Trawler, CAT 3406, extensive electronic package

        Specifications and information here  14:00 Read More »

• It’s Thanksgiving in St.Johns for these Sailors, a Community Outpouring! – Ship has arrived in heaven

  A couple of weeks ago, a news conference was held at the Fish, Food and Allied Workers (FFAW) office to let people know the crew members Read More »
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  Deadliest Catch’s F/V Aleutian Ballad comeback from 60ft ‘rogue wave’ capsize

  The Aleutian Ballad is one of Deadliest Catch’s most memorable fishing vessels. Deadliest Catch’s F/V Aleutian Ballad was captained by Jerry ‘Corky’ Tilley. The Washington born Read More »

• For Immediate Release: Press Conference – January 19, 2015 AT 1 PM – LOCATION: THE FISHING VESSEL ‘PROVIDENCE’, COMMERCIAL DOCK

  CAPTAIN REED, ONE ON THE MOST RESPECTED FISHEMEN IN SHINNECOCK, IS FACING A CRIMINAL RECORD, POSSIBLE JAIL AND THE LOSS OF THE ABILITY TO PROVIDE FOR Read More »

• Keith Sullivan says FFAW will not allow 45 years of progress be torn apart by upstart FISH-NL

  The president of Newfoundland and Labrador’s fisheries union says a breakaway group of harvesters could hurt, rather than help, their cause. Keith Sullivan of the Fish, Food Read More »
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  Defining a Moderate Livelihood: Part 2

  Bruce Wildsmith wonders what the Marshall decision really meant to the Department of Fisheries and Ocean when it was handed down by the Supreme Court of Read More »

• Elver season falls short of statewide quota – Feds suspect significant illegal activity, though.

  ELLSWORTH, Maine — The 2014 elver fishing season is expected to come to a close Saturday, without the statewide catch quota being reached, according to state Read More »

• Christopher Brown: Plan to exploit oceans scares fishermen

  The Rhode Island fishing community is dealing with its own Pebble Mine, at least metaphorically. Huge tracts of ocean have been offered for lease by the Read More »
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  A Small Fish and an Uncollected Fee Add Up to Big-Government Challenge at the Supreme Court

  The case could undercut the power of federal regulators on major issues including air pollution and securities fraud. It also exemplifies the way many of the Read More »
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  N.B. First Nation seeking access to fishery has international implications

  Another Indigenous fishery is in the works in the Maritimes — and this one has international implications. Fishing rights are one of the big prizes for Read More »
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  New ice plant at terminal, Community Ice

  After the F/V Evolution took on eight tons of flake ice last Friday, Oct. 16, Ed Backus, general manager of Community Ice, walked out the gangway Read More »

• Increasing utilization of the province’s cod and yellowtail resource, OCI opens expanded processing facility in Fortune

  “The provincial government’s agreement with Ocean Choice International reflects our commitment to maximizing economic benefits from our fish resources, and ensuring the well-being of residents in Read More »
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  Harry Graham Goes Fishing

  Harry Graham was a local surfer and fisherman. I only briefly got to know him near the end of his life. We did a page together Read More »

• Bertie Armstrong: ending EU fisheries policy a good decision

  From the article: Of course, the European Union, and the much-derided Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) are at the very heart of that, which is why so Read More »

• Mexican shark fisherman survives 13 months on fish, birds and turtles – washes ashore on the remote Marshall Islands

  WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — It’s a story that almost defies belief: A man leaves Mexico in December 2012 for a day of shark fishing and Read More »

• Clamping down on illicit plundering of food and natural resources could curb Africa’s food shortages

  The extensive subsidies rich nations, including those in the European Union, dole out have helped extend global overfishing, according to the panel. Around $27-billion in cheap Read More »

• New South Wales Fishers aren’t hooked by latest govt catch share plan

  Fishers claim a “preview” share trading period is the New South Wales Government’s attempt to avoid admitting it does not understand its own commercial fishing law Read More »
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  Good Times

  Remember when things were great? Plenty of fish. Plenty of fishing vessels. Money was made, and jobs! Remember when every fishing port did good? Boothbay, Portland, Read More »
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  UPDATED: Afloat, and Away! Trawler ends up on the rocks on north Cornwall coast near Padstow

  Dramatic pictures show a £1 million trawler left high and dry when it washed up on the Cornish coast today (September 5). The Cornish registered fishing Read More »

• Could N.J. defy summer flounder cuts?

  It didn’t take long after the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission voted to slash summer flounder harvest quotas for the rumblings of anglers calling for New Jersey to defy Read More »
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  The Blue Economy: A lawyer and Blue Colonialism.

  Nathalie Ros is a lawyer, professor at the University of Tours she is Vice-President and Secretary General of the International Association for the Law of the Read More »
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  Hundreds Of Maine Lobstermen Protest Federal Regulations At Stonington Unity Rally

  Hundreds of lobstermen and their allies turned out for a unity rally in Stonington Sunday. They were protesting a federal proposal to cut by half the Read More »

• Cold-Water Safety Workshop for Commercial Fishermen in Santa Cruz – March 26-27

  The Alaska Marine Safety Education Association is offering an 18-hour cold water safety and drill conductor workshop this week. The workshop will be held Thursday and Read More »
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  Bristol Bay Native Corporation to acquire two giants of Alaska’s Pacific cod fishery

  Clipper Seafoods and Blue North Fisheries are freezer longline catchers, two giants of the Pacific cod industry. Clipper has six hook and line vessels, and after Read More »