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• N.S. First Nation wins tax exemption on fishing income

  The Canadian Press – ESKASONI, N.S.  A Nova Scotia First Nation says a move by the Canada Revenue  Agency to exempt tax on income earned from fisheries signals Read More »

• Mississippi Department of Marine Resources opening more waters for shrimping on Monday

  BILOXI, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources will open additional waters for shrimping on Monday, Sept. 29, according to a news release. Beginning at Read More »
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  ‘It’s the best time of year’: P.E.I. 2023 lobster fishing season opens on south shore April 26

  The 2023 spring lobster fishing season opens this week along P.E.I.’s south shore, and excitement is building for what could be one of the nicest setting Read More »

• Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 39′ BHM Tuna/Towing, 750HP, 6 Cylinder Iveco, Phasor – 8 KW Genset

  Specifications, and information and 11 photos of the vessel, click here  To see all the boats in this series, Click here  13:58 Read More »
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  No more kicking ‘the rock down the road,’ on Indigenous fishery

  A member of the parliamentary committee looking at Indigenous rights to a moderate livelihood fishery, says it is past time for government to deal with the Read More »

• New Miramichi Bay Conservation Areas worry fishermen

  The federal government has named two new marine conservation areas to protect important fish and their habitat, but some Nova Scotia fishermen say they’ve already lost Read More »

• FFAW President Meeting with Federal Fisheries Minister – proposed cuts to the shrimp quota

  FFAW President Earle McCurdy will meet with federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea next week to discuss the northern shrimp fishery. McCurdy attended a special meeting of Read More »

• Seattle Fish Co. in Denver, new partnership with Open Ocean Trading

  To that end, Open Ocean is connecting Seattle Fish with supply from fishermen in the Sector 10 fishing area in New England. The pricing on Yellowtail Read More »

• High-Ranking Alaskans Call on U.S. State Department to Intervene with Canada over British Columbia Mine Threats

  A broad coalition of Alaskans, including the state’s bipartisan congressional delegation and some of its largest commercial fishing organizations, urges U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Read More »
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  Canned climate official was right, consumers suffer the most

  Remember David Ismay? He was the state’s $130,000 a year climate change czar, a mini-John Kerry who was forced to resign after he was inadvertently caught Read More »

• California delays opening of crab season amid toxic scare

  The California Fish and Game Commission voted Thursday to delay opening of the crab-fishing season as officials scramble to deal with a coastal algae bloom that’s Read More »

• Great White Sharks Are Back – Has a marine mammal conservation program become too successful?

  Gordon Waring, a seal specialist at the NOAA, cautions that marine biologists don’t actually know how seals interact with fisheries, and so far there is no sign that Read More »

• Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak medevacs fisherman from F/V Ruth M near Cordova, Alaska

  The helicopter crew, forward-deployed to Cordova for the summer season, was conducting a routine patrol when Coast Guard Sector Anchorage command center watchstanders received the medevac Read More »
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  Alaska’s Don Young, longest serving congressman, dies at 88

  Don Young, a blunt-speaking Republican and longest-serving member of Alaska’s congressional delegation, has died. He was 88. His office announced Young’s death in a statement Friday Read More »

• Quality more important than quantity in cod fishing, says FFAW

  Researchers with the Fish, Food and Allied Workers Union (FFAW) are working with fish harvesters to determine how to ensure cod caught in Newfoundland and Labrador Read More »

• Oysters continue to struggle post-spill

  More than three years after the Gulf oil spill, the state’s oyster industry is continuing to struggle. Oyster grounds in some of the state’s most productive Read More »
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  Fishing Vessel L’Ecume II: Sunken trawler’s condition ‘worse than expected’

  The operation to bring the vessel to shore was mobilised on Sunday, but has faced “unsafe” sea conditions. A specialist dive team and support crew with Read More »
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  Changing to batten lobster pots found to improve catch efficiency, meaning less days at sea

  South Australia’s southern rock lobster fishers have not been using the best pots, according to the results of a five-year study testing different designs, with the Read More »

• Warmer Gulf of Maine clobbering the cod

  Desperate measures have been taken, cod quotas have been slashed again and again, and yet fish numbers continue to slide. Now, a new study by the Read More »

• NPFMC revamps observer program after first annual report

  NOME — The North Pacific Fishery Management Council took action to address issues with the revised marine observer program June 5, including getting rid of the Read More »
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  Minister should continue proportionate quota sharing approach with northern shrimp

  An anticipated decrease in northern shrimp quotas in key shrimp fishing areas off Newfoundland and Labrador this year should result in the same proportionate quota sharing Read More »
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  Labrador Shrimp Company Partnership Brings 70 EPIRBS to Harvesters

  Seventy commercial fishing enterprises in southern Labrador between L’Anse au Clair and Cartwright will receive an EPIRB. This is made possible through a living memorial to Read More »

• Daily Astorian Editorial: Marine areas: Protection or fishing limitation?

  Fishermen tend to be a bit like old-fashioned gold prospectors – they resent any limitations on where they can practice their trade, even if they have Read More »

• Merkley, Wyden, Schrader, DeFazio, Blumenauer and Bonamici Ask Coast Guard to Keep Newport Air Facility Open

  In a letter to Admiral Paul Zukunft, Commandant of the Coast Guard, the Oregon lawmakers stressed the safety implications of closing the facility, writing that the Read More »

• How In Trouble Are Bluefin Tuna, Really? Controversial Study Makes Waves with Enviro’s

  A group of scientists is now making the case that Atlantic bluefin may be more resilient to fishing than commonly thought — and perhaps better able Read More »