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• Save LBI Stays Course Despite Trump’s Promise to Kill Offshore Wind

  While President-elect Donald Trump is expected to make sweeping changes to the national energy policy, including doing away with offshore wind on Day 1 of his Read More »

• Fall lobster season off to a windy start on P.E.I.

  Because of the windy forecast Fisheries and Oceans Canada didn’t make the final decision to go ahead with setting day until Thursday night. The Prince Edward Island Fishermen’s Read More »

• SLO County fishing industry in peril, judge to consider injunction

  Fishermen from Morro Bay and Port San Luis are seeking a preliminary injunction to stop wind energy companies from surveying the ocean floor. Local fishermen report Read More »

• Tensions reach boiling point over net-free fishing zones

  Tensions have reached boiling point in some fishing grounds along the Queensland coast, with one industry representative alleging guns have been drawn between commercial operators. “The Read More »

• Shelton Barlow – Atlantic Marine Industries Hall of Fame – 2014 Mariner of the Year

  All of his work with and for fishermen earned Barlow entry this year into the Atlantic Marine Industries Hall of Fame as 2014 mariner of the Read More »

• DFO ends in stalemate – 800 fishermen protested at DFO offices Thursday – Video

  A meeting about lobster prices between P.E.I. fishermen and the seafood processors association ended in a stalemate Thursday afternoon, just a few hours after about 800 Read More »
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  MLA Withdraws from TRT April 2019 Agreement Due to “serious data flaws”

  On August 30, the Maine Lobstermen’s Association (MLA) sent a letter to Chris Oliver, head of NOAA Fisheries, withdrawing support for the April 2019 Take Reduction Read More »
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  FFAW — Frigging fishermen and Alienating Workers

  Good morning NL, all ships at sea, and inshore fish harvesters far and wide. Just so you know, the FFAW-Unifor’s sole right as your union is Read More »
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  Atlantic Herring: Council Votes to Send Draft Amendment 8 Out to Public Hearing With No Preferred Alternatives

  The New England Fishery Management Council today voted to send Draft Amendment 8 to the Atlantic Herring Fishery Management Plan out to public hearing without selecting Read More »
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  Consumers are buying direct! Cornish fishermen see boom in domestic demand post-Brexit

  Fishermen and fishmongers in Cornwall are picking up home trade following Brexit with lobsters, spider crabs and pollock all seeing a huge uplift in sales. The fishing Read More »

• Boaters advised to secure vessels, gear – High wind forecast for northern Florida, Georgia

  Strong cold front will push into the area, bringing gusty north winds between 15 to 25 mph with gusts 25 to 35 mph over land late Read More »

• Wind farms vs wildlife – The shocking environmental cost of renewable energy

  Wind farms are devastating populations of rare birds and bats across the world, driving some to the point of extinction. Most environmentalists just don’t want to Read More »

• Hunter prawn fishermen wait on Williamtown RAAF Senate inquiry on contamination

  HUNTER prawn fishermen have been left on the breadline a few weeks from Christmas as a Senate inquiry into the Williamtown RAAF base contamination scandal kicks Read More »
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  “Paper Captain” – Coast Guard cites fishing boat for illegal foreign captain

  The U.S. Coast Guard said Friday it found a foreign worker acting as the captain of an American-flagged commercial fishing vessel in federal waters off Hawaii. Read More »

• CETA Relevance to NL Inshore/Coastal Communities – Winston Fiander

  Newfoundland and Labrador are blessed with some 40,000 kilometers of coastline which has hundreds of communities situated adjacent to some of the richest fishing grounds in Read More »
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  Bay of Fundy fishery has whale of a problem

  I’ve worked for the Grand Manan Fishermen’s Association for 25 years. It’s been a good career; there’s always something new in the fishery. I’ve gotten to Read More »

• UNH launches marine science and ocean engineering school

  This school acknowledges the contributions that faculty here have made to the marine world and provides a better platform to attract students, federal funding and donors Read More »
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  North Atlantic Right Whale: How to kill a species with Fake News, from National Geographic of all places!

  “Fishing without vertical lines is what is going to save this species.“ says CT Harry of the IFAW who work hand in hand with NOAA. A Read More »

• Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 44’x17′ Novi Gillnetter, 405HP Cummins QSL Diesel

  To review specifications, information, with photos, >click here<, To see all the boats in this series >click here< 12:07 Read More »

• Hawaii’s longline fleet hits Bigeye tuna quota early

  The longline fleet, nearly all of which is based in Honolulu, will now have to travel farther to fish for bigeye, a factor that could lead Read More »
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  Hurricane Ian makes landfall, causes ‘catastrophic storm surge, winds and flooding’ in southwest Florida

  Hurricane Ian weakened slightly again late Wednesday afternoon but remained a dangerous Category 4 storm with top winds of 140 mph. The storm. which previously produced Read More »

• Lawmakers ask NEFMC to update closed areas and allow access while protecting habitat

  Mr. John K. Bullard Regional Administrator National Marine Fisheries Service 55 Great Republic Drive Gloucester, MA 01930 Mr. C. M. “Rip” Cunningham Chairman New England Fishery Read More »

• Fisheries official pleads not guilty to obstructing justice – Peter Andrews will go on trial in March 2014 on obstruction charge

  Robichaud has denied allegations that he pressured staff at the fisheries department not to prosecute his brother under the Aquaculture Act. He also said he has never Read More »
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  Updated: Coast Guard searches for the Master of a 32-foot sunken fishing vessel off Florence

  North Bend, Ore. The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for the master of a 32-foot fishing vessel that sank Saturday morning approximately 35 miles offshore Florence. Read More »

• Lawmakers sink Passamaquoddy bid to exempt tribal fishermen from individual elver catch quotas

  Due to concerns about the impact on the population of American eels from Maine’s elver fishery — the only such fishery on the East Coast that Read More »