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• Half-shell hopes – Oyster farms opening in Kake, Hoonah

  KAKE —Timber, construction and commercial fisheries are down, the cannery closed decades ago, and the salmon hatchery here is closing next month. The Organized Village of Read More »

• My Turn: Time to empower and employ the next generation of Alaska fishermen, by Rachel Donkersloot

  The lack of young Alaskans entering commercial fisheries is compounded by another troubling trend, the rise in nonresident permit ownership in some fisheries. Together these concerning Read More »

• Gov. Cuomo Sinks Proposed Gas Terminal Off Long Island

  Gov. Andrew Cuomo has rejected a proposal to build a liquefied natural gas terminal in the waters off New York and New Jersey, effectively killing the Read More »
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  Commerce Determinations Clear the Way for Alaska Fisheries to Receive Relief Funds

  U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Don Young, all R-Alaska, today welcomed determinations from the Department of Commerce that fishery disasters have occurred Read More »

• Coast Guard conducts medevac of Injured Fisherman near Cold Bay, Alaska

  KODIAK, Alaska — The Coast Guard medevaced a 23-year-old man with an injured hand from 120-foot crab fishing vessel approximately 75 miles north of Cold Bay, Thursday. Coast Read More »

• BULLARD, SHELLEY, and COD: or Fish Being and Nothingness – Featured Writer Dick Grachek

  “Returning Our New England Fisheries to Profitability”: “You’re doin’ a great job, Brownie” aka, Janie, Johnny, Petey.  You should be proud.  Mission Accomplished? In her resignation email Read More »

• The Reef’s Self-Serving Saviours

  Virtually every year for the past half-century news reports have bannered dire proclamations by “reef experts” on imminent “threats” to the Great Barrier Reef. This has Read More »
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  Cornish fishermen forced to re-name catch after Brexit to appeal to British customers

  Cornish fishermen have drawn up a detailed plan to sell more of their catch to UK customers as post-Brexit sales to the EU nose dive, and Read More »

• Asian carp in the St-Lawrence threatens Quebec’s fishing industry

  If you’ve seen the videos of boaters laughing uproariously as their motors startle giant Asian carp that leap high in the air and even into their boats, you might think it’s Read More »
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  “Networks”: A rare, real look at the lives of lobstermen

  “That funny looking water’s moving closer, Brooke,” Wallace says, motioning off in the nearby distance with his head as his hands work on the mooring. “That’s Read More »

• U.S. Coast Guard to honor Jonesport teen who drowned saving father in 1972

  JONESPORT, Maine — It’s been more than 40 years since Alvin Beal drowned on Oct. 17, 1972, at the age of 17 while rescuing his father Read More »
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  Save Right Whales from Radical Environmentalists Who Exploit Them

  Americans agree with protecting the endangered Northern Atlantic right whale. But true conservation efforts don’t necessitate displacing lobstermen and recreational anglers in the process. With fewer Read More »

• Victoria’s Secret: Dumping Raw Sewage Like It’s 1915

  When friends of mine recently got norovirus from eating foraged Gulf Island oysters, my first instinct was a strange one. I blamed Victoria. More specifically, I Read More »

• Antarctic Crabs May Be Native, Evidence Suggests

  July 4, 2013 — A new study has cast doubt on the claim that crabs may have disappeared from Antarctica only to return due to warming Read More »

• Congresswoman appeals the prohibition of American fisherman in National Marine Monuments

  Congresswoman Aumua Amata has stressed  to U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross the importance of removing the prohibition of American fisherman to fish in the Read More »
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  UK, French fishermen strike deal in ‘Scallop Wars’

  British and French fishermen reached an agreement on Wednesday in the so-called Scallop Wars over fishing in the Channel, following clashes at sea between rival boats. Read More »

• Bay Area crab fishermen prepare for Saturday’s long overdue season opener

  The crab pots were piled eight high along the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor dock Wednesday afternoon as Dungeness crab fisherman loaded boats in preparation for Read More »
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  Sunk Trawler Brought Back to Life

  Red Chamber Argentina (RCA) has just completed an important stage of its fleet renewal program and relaunched freezer trawler Promarsa I, which was entirely rebuilt after Read More »
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  Our water quality problems are a tangled mess, but they can be fixed

  What can we or local governments do about red tide? Another major outbreak could be disaster. But it could be necessary to forces us to address Read More »

• Ilwaco tuna fisherman Richard ‘Pat’ Patana – A man of the sea

  Richard “Pat” Patana is a man who seems comfortable with himself. A rangy man with a quick laugh, he’s been on the water, one way or Read More »

• An otter mess – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Defies Congress and the law, The Otter Project announced they will be filing papers to intervene

  “They’re seeing their commercial interests take precedent over everything else and I don’t believe that,” said Steve Shimek, executive director of The Otter Project. “I don’t believe Read More »
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  Vinnie Grimes Is Montauk’s Fishing Legend of the Year – 90-year-old started Blessing of the Fleet in 1955

  In 1951 when Vincent Grimes witnessed a ceremonial blessing of various boats while serving in the Navy at Port Hueneme in Southern California, it made a Read More »
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  Missing fisherman found off Nova Scotia coast – Fishing vessel was being towed by the Coast Guard

  A fisherman who went missing in the waters off Canso, N.S., has been found. The crew member had fallen off a life raft Sunday morning as Read More »

• 2010 BP oil spill still having an impact on commercial fishing

  Commercial catches for several varieties of seafood have decreased since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries officials said. Since Read More »

• Your Seafreeze Ltd. PRICE LIST for June 13, 2013 has arrived

      Click here for the complete price list. ”The only thing we treat our fish with is respect”! Read More »