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  Should Massachusetts ban commercial striped bass fishing?

  YES – Rip Cunningham: Dover resident who fishes in the Plymouth area; active member, Stripers Forever; former editor, Salt Water Sportsman; former chairman, Massachusetts Marine Fisheries Advisory Read More »

• Coast Guard seizes two lanchas illegally fishing in U.S. waters

  SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas — Law enforcement crews from Coast Guard Station South Padre Island intercepted two Mexican lanchas fishing illegally in U.S. waters, Friday. Read Read More »
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  Friends of Adam Purington say he was polite, hard working

  Friends of Adam Purington describe him as polite, quiet and hard-working, a veteran who was a respectful guest at Thanksgiving dinner. But he died alone, in Read More »
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  Lobster Boat Skipper Sentenced for Manslaughter

  United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Christopher A. Hutchinson, 30, of Cushing, Maine was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge D. Brock Hornby Read More »
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  Wreck of a 190-year-old Massachusetts whaling ship Industry discovered in Gulf of Mexico

  Roughly 15 years before Herman Melville introduced the world to Moby Dick, a whaling ship from Massachusetts sank near the mouth of the Mississippi River. Not Read More »

• Atlantic sturgeon season approved as DFO ponders species status

  A small commercial fishery for Atlantic sturgeon in the St. John River will begin as usual next month, despite a looming federal decision on whether to list Read More »

• Haida Salmon Restoration Corporation says it has removed Russ George, Leader of B.C. ocean fertilization project

  The California businessman behind a controversial ocean fertilization project off B.C.’s west coast has been fired, but the group behind the project says it still supports Read More »

• Salmon Runs Boom, Go Bust Over Centuries – ScienceDaily

  Scientists in the past 20 years have recognized that salmon stocks vary not only year to year, but also on decades-long time cycles. One example is Read More »

• January storms leave many working waterfronts in Maine adrift

  Chris Hole watched in horror last month as the storm pummeled his family’s fishing business at Lookout Point in Harpswell. It was Jan. 13, and the Read More »

• Editorial: Time to pull plug on NOAA’s joke of observer program

  Speaking last week at a meeting of the New England Fishery Management Council, current NOAA regional administrator John Bullard announced that, because NOAA somehow didn’t include Read More »

• Real Cape Hippie – We Now Harvest The Blood Of Half A Million Horseshoe Crabs A Year

  Man I hope horseshoe crabs don’t watch Fox News. All of our bitching about how we are a socialist country now, how the government takes our Read More »

• Coast Guard rescues 3 fishermen forced to abandon ship off Big Island

  The three fishermen who were forced to abandon ship from a 41-foot fishing vessel off the coast of the Big Island were rescued Friday morning and Read More »
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  Shipping disasters: The Race Against Catastrophe

  In the last few days of 2018, as the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, Norway, lay cloaked in the long darkness of polar night, a shrimp trawler Read More »

• Use the $10 Million S-K money retrieved from the pilfering NOAA as a Fuel Subsidy for the little guy’s

  Boat owners, fishermen, net makers, icemen, fuel men, machine shop’s, welders, railway’s vessel supplier’s, electronic shop’s, are the ones that need this measly $10 million dollars, Read More »

• Gulf Nova Scotia Sustainable Fisheries Collaborative Research Society out to net individual N.S. fishermen

  “Particularly in the (Gulf of St. Lawrence) region, there’s a certain amount of animosity between some organizations,” said Patty King, who has been hired as a Read More »

• Shrimp Fishery Management Plan Advisory Committee to the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries will meet 1 p.m. Tuesday

  The meeting begins at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Crystal Coast Civic Center, 3505 Arendell St. Morehead City info Read More »

• Attn Gillnet Fishermen: Gulf of Maine Gillnet Fishery Closure to Protect Harbor Porpoise WILL NOT be implemente​d tomorrow!

  Today NOAA Fisheries NMFS announced revisions to the Harbor Porpoise Take Reduction Plan. Amendments include removal of the consequence closure strategy, including the Coastal Gulf of Maine, Read More »
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  Nova Scotia Commercial fishermen turn focus to alleged buyer in Mi’kmaw lobster dispute

  Commercial fishermen in southwestern Nova Scotia say they are taking a different approach on Monday in the dispute around the new self-regulated lobster fishery launched by Read More »

• Judge rules Cape Breton crab quota case should proceed to trial – trial is required to resolve the dispute

  A justice has denied a New Waterford’s man claim for a summary judgment on a disputed crab quota licence. Paul Fraser had petitioned the court to Read More »
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  The lobster wars are over. We won

  You may recall a few weeks ago when we discussed the coming Lobster Wars involving the United States, Canada and China. (There’s an odd combination for Read More »
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  Who’s really in the trap? How new right whale regs are hurting Maine’s lobster industry

  I was five years old, opening my family’s refrigerator door in search of a juice box, when a live lobster fell out and started thrashing around Read More »
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  Local crane service salvages damaged boat, Rough Rider III

  Art Henry Crane Service from Thomaston was on the scene of where Rough Rider III had smashed against the rocks on Spruce Head Island to handle Read More »

• POMs Virus devastating the Tasmanian oyster industry – facing financial ruin. Overnight.

  An outbreak of Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome is cutting a swathe through the Tasmanian oyster industry. Third generation oyster farmer Ben Cameron discovered he’d lost $1.5million Read More »

• Everyone here knows the five men who set out to do what generations before them have done. Faith is tangible by Phonse Jessome

  Woods Harbour – People who draw from the sea for a living know the sea sometimes takes back. Today the toll is more than many in Read More »
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  Amputations, broken bones among the injuries caused by winches on fishing boats

  For crews working on fishing boats in Alaska, danger lurks in a helpful and possibly innocent-looking device: the winch. Winches are hauling devices on which cables Read More »