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  Search expert applauds provincewide push to keep looking for missing N.L. fishermen

  A retired coast guard search and rescue coordinator says he’s impressed with the effort now going into the search for two fishers who went missing off Read More »

• Don’t bite on risky lure of ‘catch shares’

  I can’t think of a more appropriate saying to use than “a wolf in sheep’s clothing” to describe the reality of what the Seafood Harvesters of Read More »

• Organizers: Baltimore seafood business masks shocking labor abuses

  Phillips Seafood is a Baltimore-based company that trades on its historic connections to the Chesapeake Bay blue crab fishery. The signature dish at its restaurants is Read More »
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  Earth Day: Not a Single Environmental Prediction of the Last 50 Years Has Come True

  We should be thankful that the gloom-and-doom predictions made throughout the past several decades haven’t come true. Fear-mongering about explosive population growth, food crises and the Read More »
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  US shuts off Mexico shrimp imports

  Mexico said Friday it will try to regain U.S. certification for shrimp exports, after the country lost its registration because of inadequate protections for sea turtles. Read More »
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  MCIB Investigation: Trawl door in wrong position causes serious injury

  The Irish Marine Casualty Investigation Board published its reports regarding a serious injury onboard on the fishing vessel FV Marliona, while alongside Greencastle Harbour, Co Donegal, 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 »

• The surprising reason you might be seeing more jellyfish in the sea this summer

  Scientists have discovered that offshore wind farms and oil and gas platforms provide an ideal habitat in which the creatures can thrive. Until now, the rapid Read More »
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  Fishermen up in arms over plan to build windmills off Long Island coast

  It’s before dawn on a recent July morning at Lazy Point in Napeague Bay, LI, and there is a slight chill in the air as the Read More »

• Cousins Evan and Nick Densmore raised the masts of their 24-metre wooden schooner Katie Belle

  About 200 people gathered in Parrsboro, N.S., Saturday afternoon to celebrate the milestone of the mast raising on a schooner hand built by two cousins. Evan Read More »
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  U.S. Coast Guard, Japanese Coast Guard and U.S. Navy medevacs fisherman off Guam

  Members of the U.S. Coast Guard, Japan Coast Guard, and U.S. Navy rescued a mariner aboard a fishing vessel south of Guam. On Tuesday, June 7, Read More »

• Atlantic City: Local lobster business getting lonelier

  Goff remembers when here was booming. An abundance of high-rollers meant brisk business for the area’s lobster-mongers. “It was nothing for them to get 3-pound lobsters Read More »

• Nantucket Group Fighting Vineyard Wind Will Take Case To U.S. Supreme Court

  After its arguments against the Vineyard Wind project were rejected by a federal judge in April, the Nantucket group ACK 4 Whales will attempt to take Read More »

• Video: Has America lost control of its seafood?

  Despite having some of the longest coastlines of any country in the world, the United States imports 90% of the fish and seafood it eats.  Watch Read More »

• Offshore exploration and drilling back on table for Georgia

  The Trump administration announced earlier this month that it is moving forward on seismic surveys in the Atlantic Ocean, the first step toward offshore drilling in Read More »

• Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update, April 6, 2014

  “The Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance is dedicated to its mission of continuing to help create sustainable fisheries without putting licensed fishermen out of business.” Read the Read More »

• Maine’s lobster fishermen struggle with efforts to save right whales

  Willis Spear stands in the backyard of his Yarmouth, Maine home. Behind him are dozens of yellow and green lobster traps. Spear, 67, spends most of Read More »

• North Carolina Startup Kepley Biosystems synthetic lobster/crab bait could boost supplies of forage fish

  After winning a competition for a $750,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) phase II grant in early March, a North Carolina-based startup plans to commercialize its synthetic Read More »

• North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for March 20, 2015

  Click here -> Weekly Update for March 20, 2015 18:16 Read More »
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  How an invasive species or pig hide could solve Maine’s lobster bait crisis

  Gulf of Maine lobstermen are casting around far and wide for new kinds of bait now that federal regulators have cut herring quotas by 70 percent. Read More »
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  New agreement between Potlotek and DFO off to rocky start

  Craig Doucette had a lukewarm reaction to his first weekend fishing under a new arrangement,,, The experienced lobster fisher from Potlotek First Nation said fisheries officers Read More »

• MSA Reauthorization: Partisan bickering sinking fishing bill

  To catch a fish or save a fish: That is the question being debated in Washington.(its not that simple) It summarizes a heated argument going on Read More »
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  Teddy to bring ‘a nasty couple of days’ to P.E.I.

  Teddy likely won’t be a hurricane when it gets to P.E.I., but its impact is likely to be felt Tuesday into Wednesday. “It’s going to be Read More »
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  Hawaii’s commercial swordfish fleet shut down for rest of year

  Hawaii’s commercial swordfish fleet has been shut down for the rest of the year following a court order aimed at protecting endangered loggerhead sea turtles. The Read More »

• Can technological advances help acidifying seas?

  Many scientists are increasingly acknowledging that we can no longer afford to dismiss some gee-whiz technological fixes outright. We need to understand what, if any of Read More »