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• After 32 years of family ownership, Point Loma’s commercial fishing marina drifts toward a port takeover

  Tom Driscoll’s commercial fishing wharf at the north eastern tip of America’s Cup Harbor in Point Loma is falling apart. The marina’s four, fixed piers — Read More »

• Coast Guard cutter involved in collision with fishing vessel off Puerto Rico

  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The Coast Guard is investigating a collision Tuesday between the Coast Guard Cutter Key Largo and the 42-foot commercial fishing vessel, Read More »

• Letter: A ‘fish bill,’ like Farm Bill needed for industry

  I agree with both Sens. Warren and Markey that the federal government, not fishermen, should pay for NOAA’s at-sea and dockside observers. We need, first of Read More »

• Cat to deploy methanol dual-fuel 3500E marine engines in 2026

  Caterpillar Marine reports that it has made significant advances in the development of its methanol dual-fuel Cat 3500E marine engines. Under a memorandum of understanding (MOU) Read More »

• Southend clam fishery trial results ‘very encouraging’

  Early results of a “game-changing” clam fishery trial in Southend have been hailed as “very encouraging” as bosses aim to help nurture the high-value seafood. The Read More »
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  Key leadership changes afoot for United Fisherman of Alaska

  Leadership changes are afoot for the United Fisherman of Alaska (UFA) this month, with a number of key seats being passed down following a standard election Read More »
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  Facing the Wind – A fisherman’s take on offshore wind

  Local fishermen are on the verge of forever losing local fishing grounds to wind power as California trades one renewable resource (seafood) for another (electricity). The Read More »
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  A “culture of acceptance”? Fishing fatalities prompt warning amid revelation working on boats more dangerous than mining

  The owner of the largest fleet in Australia’s most valuable prawn fishery has called on industry to tackle its safety problems amid revelations fishing is about Read More »

• Seattle Times Editorial: Vigilance required at Alaska’s Bristol Bay

  A major partner in the proposed Pebble mine project in Alaska has withdrawn, but do not assume the giant mine is dead or Bristol Bay is Read More »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 »
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  A miraculous turn of events – Michael Moore and Driessen agree! Wind, solar and biofuel energy are devastating Planet Earth

  Never in my wildest dreams did I envision a day when I’d agree with anything filmmaker Michael Moore said – much less that he would agree Read More »

• Banking on Wealth? by Menakhem-Ben Yami

  Current trends in Western fisheries economics, as exemplified by the position of the World Bank, religiously promote free markets for fishing rights During the last decade, Read More »

• F/V Lone Star recovery efforts begin to pay off – “The Lone Star is currently being pumped out and floating,,,”

  “The Lone Star is currently being pumped out and floating, and they’re going to move it away from its current location Monday night at high tide Read More »

• EU pressure on illegal fishing threatens more than 8,000 Thai fishing boats

  More than 8,000 trawlers in 22 provinces are likely to lose their commercial fishing licences after checks revealed the registration numbers did not match the vessels, Read More »
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  Crackpottery? A Ropeless Future for Lobster Fishing, they say!

  The object thrown overboard was not in fact a trap but a ropeless fishing system deployed in a demonstration for passengers on the boat, including a Read More »

• ‘Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks’, ‘Port Protection’ & ‘Yukon River Run’ to Premiere in July on NatGeo

  Following the premiere of Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks comes a new series, Port Protection. The remote, fog-shrouded community of Port Protection is tucked into the northwest corner Read More »

• New England lobstermen threaten to sue feds over planned Massachusetts fishing closure

  NOAA is looking to permanently add a wedge between state and federal waters to an existing closure that stretches roughly 9,000 square miles off the Massachusetts Read More »

• “Hero of the Seas” – Robin Alden wins more accolades

  Robin Alden, Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries’ executive director, has been recognized as a “Hero of the Seas,” as a winner of the international Peter Benchley Read More »

• Better dynamics with switch to SYM7

  Skippers David Gatt and Barry Reid of Scottish trawler Audacious are satisfied with the switch to a Scantrol SYM 7, away from the original winch control system Read More »

• National Marine Fisheries Service proposes rules to protect bluefin tuna

  Under the proposal, the NMFS would sharply cut back the number of bluefin tuna that individual fishing vessels are allowed to capture accidentally, setting a quota for Read More »
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  New Brunswick: Dispute over baby eels worth $4,900 a kilogram heads back court

  Canada’s most valuable fishery per kilogram will be back before the courts in Saint John next week in a case that pits a longtime commercial licence Read More »
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  Avangrid Pursuing Huge Offshore & Onshore Wind Projects In US

  Avangrid Renewables is pursuing two new wind projects, one off the coast of Massachusetts and another in the heart of New Mexico. It is working with Read More »

• UN Ocean Conference Aims for Paris Climate-Like Accord for Ocean Health

  The first ever UN Ocean Conference came to a close on 9 June with a “Call For Action”, where over 1,300 voluntary commitments were made to Read More »
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  Maine lobster fisherman reveals why the crustaceans she catches taste ‘sweeter, ‘better’

  The daughter of a lobster fisherman from Maine describes herself as being “born into it.”  Sadie Samuels left the Pine Tree State and headed to college Read More »
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  Commercial Fishing Captain Malvin Kvilhaug of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, has passed away

  Malvin Kvilhaug, 83, of Fairhaven passed away peacefully on May 26, 2022 after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. He was at home surrounded by his Read More »