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• Bay of Fundy fishermen worried about fish stocks being destroyed by tidal turbine generators

  Four companies are planning on placing test turbines at the Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy. FORCE has a facility on land near Parrsboro that manages Read More »

• Alaska’s salmon season officially starts tomorrow, May 14!

  Alaska’s 2015 salmon season officially gets underway tomorrow, May 14th. Trollers in Southeast Alaska fish for king salmon nearly all year long, but the official start Read More »

• ‘Phenomenal’ shrimp season still playing out in the Lowcountry

  It’s the cold end of January and that means the end of commercial shrimping is..umm..maybe not even going to happen. It’s phenomenal, said Mel Bell, S.C. Department Read More »
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  Counting Fish – A Film by Don Cuddy

  New England groundfishermen are in trouble, with catch limits set so low that many boats remain tied to the dock. But the industry has little confidence Read More »
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  As Southern New England Lobster Decline, Fishermen Switch to Jonah Crab

  The lobster industry in southern New England has been on the decline for decades. As waters warm, some lobster fishermen are adapting by switching their catch Read More »

• Hang on to your oil booms! BP makes first major Gulf of Mexico oil discovery since Deepwater Horizon

  BP has reported a “significant oil discovery” in the Gulf of Mexico, its first major find since the deadly rig explosion that triggered the worst environmental disaster in Read More »

• Once-bountiful scallop fishery collapses as oil leak persists in Newfoundland bay

  The oil has been seeping for about three years — sometimes in drops, sometimes leaving large slicks — fouling a scenic area in western Newfoundland once known for its scallop Read More »
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  Quick action by Rockport fisherman saves lobstermans life

  A Rockland lobsterman said he thought he was going to die as he struggled Thursday to stay above water in Rockland Harbor. But the quick response by Read More »

• Johnson’s Mobile Fish Market – Featured project by David Johnson in North Carolina – Video

  An innovative fund raising project – Johnson’s Mobile Fish Market will be used to bring NC Local Fresh Seafood into inland communities where FRESH seafood is in Read More »
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  ‘A’ is for Algrie, end of a fishing era.

  A piece of fishing history left through the gaps this week on her way to be scrapped in Ghent, Belgium – the Algrie was the very first trawler Read More »
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  P.E.I. company adding seal meat to produce ‘Cadillac’ of baits

  Bait Masters started producing bait sausages in its $1.4-million facility in Nine Mile Creek in April 2021, using a mix of fish, fish oil and other Read More »

• Argos Helena Crew Hold Memorial at Sinking Site of Argos Georgia

  On Friday, 02 August, the vessel Argos Helena paid a poignant visit to the site where the Argos Georgia tragically sank on Monday, 22 July 2024. Read More »

• Jellyfish futures ring global ocean industry alarm bells

  Those pretty translucent blobs that the word “jellyfish” conveys? Who’d have thought? Few of us know the half of it. Closer to home, jellyfish can massively Read More »

• New video focuses on preventing falls overboard in lobster-fishing industry

  In an effort to prevent falls overboard among lobster-boat crews, scientific research organization IRSST has released a video featuring Canadian fishermen and deckhands sharing “tricks of Read More »

• Local shrimper Rocky Magwood not sure if the Coast Guard will take his boat, F/V Lady Eva – Fundraiser set

  MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCIV) — Rocky Magwood says he has to wade through federal red tape before he can get back on his boat and work Read More »

• Mid Atlantic Fishery Management Council Meeting in New Bern, NC February 9 – 11, 2016

  The public is invited to attend the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council’s February, 2016 meeting on Tuesday,  in New Bern, NC . Briefing Materials & Agenda Overview Agenda click here   Attend Read More »

• Penobscot East Resource Center Founder Robin Alden to step down as fisheries organization director

  Robin Alden, a one-time commissioner of the Department of Marine Resources under Governor John Mckernan and longtime editor and publisher of the regional trade publication Commercial Read More »
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  Search for missing fisherman ‘a needle in a haystack’ say P.E.I. RCMP

  RCMP and P.E.I. Ground Search and Rescue wrapped up its search for the day for Jordan Hicken late Thursday afternoon with no sign of the missing Read More »

• Despite Tumult, NOAA’s Lubchenco Would Like 4 More Years

  It’s been a tumultuous few years for marine biologist Jane Lubchenco, the head of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). She’s confronted an unprecedented Read More »

• Former NOAA Meteorologist tells of years of censorship to hide the effect of “natural cycles”

  David Dilley, NOAA Meteorologist, tells how for 15 years work on was pushed while work on natural cycles was actively suppressed. Grants connecting climate change to Read More »
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  Boris Johnson’s Brexit Deal Under Fire From British Fishermen, More

  Boris Johnson’s Brexit negotiations are being heavily criticised by UK fishermen who are faced with the possibility of going out of business, thanks to the terms Read More »

• SLO County activists oppose offshore wind projects. So they’re taking fight to national level

  There’s a new national group fighting offshore wind development, and you may recognize some of their members. Two San Luis Obispo County anti-offshore wind activists have Read More »
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  Maine: Scallop license lottery moves forward

  More scalloping or more scallopers? That’s the question the Department of Marine Resources is facing with a proposed rule that would establish a lottery system for Read More »
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  Fishing dispute could close Cape Breton moose hunt

  “Our people are angry,” said Rod Googoo, the chief of the Waycobah First Nation,,,  Googoo was among hundreds of Mi’kmaq who spent part of the weekend Read More »

• North Carolina Legislation would put a net ban referendum on November ballot

  Late last month, state Rep. Billy Richardson, D-Cumberland, told a room full of recreational fishermen in Wilmington he would push for a statewide referendum to ban Read More »