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• John Risley, seafood baron, lands $1B telecommunications deal

  Nova Scotia seafoood baron John Risley has landed his biggest deal yet — and it has nothing to do with scallops or lobster. On Thursday, Columbus Read More »

• Joshua James – Great rescuer helped harness sea

  It was 125 years ago this month that the shoreline of Hull became the scene of one of the most remarkable maritime rescues in history. Sadly, Read More »

• Our view: Adjust beach replenishment to minimize maritime dead zones

  Beach replenishment is an expensive and temporary method of maintaining barrier-island beaches. In the absence of alternatives — and many have been tried in vain — Read More »
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  Eskasoni lobster fisherman ‘saddened’ after boat vandalized

  Sceven (Seki) Anthony Bernard said he and other crew members of the April and Brothers found the 10-metre vessel underwater on Boxing Day. “I started noticing Read More »

• Kwik’Pak Fisheries Attain Alaska RFM Chain of Custody

  The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) has announced that Kwik’Pak Fisheries LLC. has successfully met the requirements of the FAO-Based Responsible Fisheries Management (RFM) Chain of Custody Certification. 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 »

• A Stinky Situation – Canadian village tries to sell dead whale on eBay

  A fishing village in easternmost Canada has tried to auction off on eBay a sperm whale carcass that washed up onto its shores. The town of Read More »
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  N.S. lobster fisherman’s buoy ends up in Massachusetts 5 years after another landed in Norway!

  On Wednesday, David Fanning spotted what he thought was a bright yellow beach ball washed ashore outside of his home. His wife walked down to the Read More »
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  Rio History: Stingrays and Giant Mantas of the Gulf of Mexico

  Yes, there are stingrays along the beaches of Padre Island …and yes, people do get stuck by them.  Stingrays are actually a specialized branch-off of early Read More »

• Scientists track drop in lobster numbers

  Marine scientists are not sure what is causing the decline in baby lobster settlements in their traditional near-shore, rocky habitats except they now seem to rule Read More »
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  Two dead whales found lodged under hull of Australian warship docked in San Diego

  The whales were discovered as the ship, HMAS Sydney, berthed at Naval Base San Diego, the Australian Royal Navy said in a statement. Experts say the Read More »

• Set Net Fishery’s Future in Superior Court Hands

  ANCHORAGE – The Alaska Fisheries Conservation Alliance made its case in Superior Court this afternoon, in hopes of overturning a decision that would ban commercial set Read More »

• NOAA concedes:sturgeon not endangered, after all

  Without a stock assessment and to howls of outrage by industry and questions about the justification of the action by the New England Fishery Management Council, Read More »
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  NPFMC ties limits on Bering Sea trawlers to halibut abundance

  The council that manages fishing in federal waters voted to link groundfish trawl fishing in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands to halibut abundance today. The Read More »
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  New Washington directive aims to help endangered orcas

  With the number of endangered Puget Sound orcas at a 30-year low, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Wednesday signed an executive order directing state agencies to Read More »

• The Environmental Movement Becomes a Bird-Killing Machine

  Self-proclaimed environmentalists lecture the rest of us about using less energy, even as the rich ones fly around in private jets. They will starve farmers of Read More »

• Film sheds light on years of controversy with Port and Fishermen at Fishermen’s Terminal

  West Seattle filmmaker and Antioch University instructor, B. J. Bullert (Ph.D), has made a second film that examines “the news” created during a period when the Read More »
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  Two missing fishermen found dead off the Maine coast

  The crew of another fishing boat recovered the bodies of two people, believed to have been crew members on the Hayley Ann, from the waters southeast Read More »

• Hugh blamed for new law that could devastate fishing industry in Plymouth – lunacy and madness

  Westcountry celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is being blamed for the new rules thanks to his televised Fish Fight campaign, which targets discards. At present fisherman have Read More »

• Industry Transformations

  I used to jump like an electricians apprentice getting his first jolt every time I’d get an email alert from certain places. I’d drop everything and Read More »
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  Sen. John Kennedy – Sea turtle regulations hindered search for Seacor mariners

  Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy criticized the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in a letter this week, claiming regulations for shrimpers caused an unnecessary hindrance in the Read More »

• FISH-NL: Fisheries and Oceans Minister Dominic LeBlanc missing boat on problems plaguing industry

  The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH-NL) is outraged with an attack by the federal Minister of Fisheries and Oceans on the Read More »

• Great Lakes fishery managers need insight on climate change impacts

  Great Lakes fishery managers worry that their operations may be harmed by invasive species, habitat loss  in the long run, according to a new study. Read Read More »

• Sitka processor sells ownership stake to Starkist

  Sitka-based Silver Bay Seafoods has sold a twelve percent stake to Dongwon, the Korean owners of Starkist Tuna. The news of the sale has been public Read More »

• Buying Out Maine’s Fishing Communities? by Ben Martens

  Fisheries represent a unique opportunity to think about our natural environment and how it interacts with society. Fish are the last of our wild food sources Read More »