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  Commercial fishermen talk offshore wind concerns

  Offshore wind energy is one step closer to becoming a reality on the Central Coast, and with it, hundreds of potential jobs and renewable energy generation Read More »

• Fishing Industry Remains Concerned with Offshore Wind Power

  East End residents will soon be another step closer to wind power and away from fossil fuel; but local commercial fishermen are raising objections. And East Enders Read More »
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  Walmart Exposed for Selling Dolphin-Deadly Tuna in Costa Rica

  Investigations by the nonprofit International Marine Mammal Project (IMMP) have revealed that, in its Costa Rican locations, Walmart has been selling its own brand of canned Read More »
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  CDFW to close the commercial Dungeness Crab fishery in response to Humpback Whale entanglements

  California Department of Fish and Wildlife Director Charlton H. Bonham has assessed entanglement risk under the Risk Assessment Mitigation Program and announced the closure of the Read More »

• Conservation groups want to halt sardine fishing

  GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) – Concerned that the sardine industry is collapsing, conservation groups are calling on federal fisheries managers to halt West Coast commercial fishing Read More »

• WPRFMC Press Release, October 16, 2014 – Fishers Forum on Hawai`i Yellowfin and North Pacific Striped Marlin Management

  HONOLULU (16 October 2014) The public is invited to attend the Fishers Forum on Hawai`i yellowfin tuna and North Pacific striped marlin and view a sneak Read More »

• A Good Interview With Dave Carraro of ‘Wicked Tuna’ – which premieres Sunday, Feb. 15 at 9 p.m

  Dave Carraro is a common presence on National Geographic Channel’s Wicked Tuna, the popular reality series that documents the wildly competitive tuna fishing industry out of Read More »
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  “It has to be tested” – Massachusetts Lobsterman to test ropeless buoy equipment

  Sonar technology used is Australia for southern rock lobster commercial fishing will be tested in July, possibly in Cape Cod Bay, as a method to better Read More »

• FISH-NL urges provincial government to establish Fishery Stress Line similar to one for western farmers 

  The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH-NL) is calling on the provincial government to establish a Fishery Stress Line to help inshore Read More »

• Long Island lobstermen oppose closures, question how regulators are making their decisions.

  Long Island lobstermen, already straining under the weight of a seasonal closure of the Long Island Sound and sharply reduced lobster populations, face the potential for Read More »

• VIDEO – Russian Fishermen Catches Giant Squid

  There are far too many mysteries that lurks in the deep blue ocean. Among these mysteries are stories of creatures found in the ocean. Ranging from Read More »
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  Conceived in a boat, born on the river: Mullet fishing is in Lonnie Head’s blood

  At 79 and a fourth-generation Old Homosassa fisherman, Lonnie Head knows the waters of the canals and rivers and the gulf by heart. Still strong as Read More »
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  Documents Reveal ‘Catastrophic Impact’ Right Whale Protections Could Have On Lobster Industry

  Newly released documents by Maine’s Department of Resources are providing a glimpse of what federal action to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales could look like Read More »

• In St. John’s 150 years ago, a giant squid had its picture taken. That photo would ignite the world’s imagination

  Before one remarkable moment in downtown St. John’s a century and a half ago, the giant squid lived only in the tall tales of sailors and Read More »
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  Joe Lewis Jr., of Broad Creek, has passed away, service to be on Friday

  Joe E. “Big Boy” Lewis Jr., 65, of Broad Creek, passed away on Saturday, May 22, 2021, at his home. A gathering of family and friends Read More »
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  Long Beach council tells Hochul it is ‘fervently opposed’ to wind project

  The City of Long Beach is “fervently opposed” to the Empire Wind 2 project that proposes a high-voltage power line through its streets and turbines visible Read More »

• California bans commercial crab fishing due to excessive radiation in seafood? Really?

  In November of last year, California state officials placed an indefinite hold on the commercial crab season, in order to protect public health. The reason given Read More »

• Coast Guard Cutter Seneca medevac’s 48-year-old male off the F/V Pontus 30 miles East of Nantucket

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• Fish farm fight continues – The Friends of Port Mouton are back on task after the restocking of the fish pens in Port Mouton Bay.

  Ruth and Ron Loucks presented a slideshow on some of the affects the farm is having on the bay.  The slideshow showed photographs of pink coloured waste leading Read More »

• Shrimp Task Force discusses penalties for fishing out of season

  State officials and district attorneys continue to hammer out stricter penalties for shrimpers. At its meeting today in Houma, the Louisiana Shrimp Task Force continued discussions Read More »

• Washington Fish and Wildlife seize nearly 700 illegal crab pots

  The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) and tribal police seized 674 illegal crab pots from the waters off Blaine. Twelve WDFW agents and four Read More »
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  Watching Wind And Solar Fail To Power The World Economy

  You don’t have to be any kind of a genius to figure out that wind and solar generation are never going to supplant fossil fuels in Read More »
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  Relief and disappointment: Bristol Bay reacts to Army Corps of Engineers Pebble permit denial

  Pebble Mine has been stopped, likely for good. The debate around the mine has consumed Bristol Bay for more than a decade. Now the people who Read More »

• Listen – Todays Oversight Hearing on the Implications of President Obama’s National Ocean Policy

    Following unsuccessful efforts to pass major national ocean policy legislation during three successive Congresses under both Democrat and Republican majorities, the Obama Administration initiated the Read More »

• Japan’s Diet committee urges gov’t to keep whaling

  A fishery committee of the Japanese Lower House on Wednesday adopted a resolution, urging the government to continue whaling in the Antarctic and consider”every possibly option”to Read More »