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• Green Crabs & climate change pose threat to Maine shellfish- It’s bigger than Maine. Its from Mass to the Canadian Maritimes FERTILIZER!

  One of Maine’s oldest commercial fisheries is in trouble, and the reason appears to be a very aggressive and very hungry predator. “Everything’s disappearing,” says Abden Read More »

• Shark Tournament Is Opportunity To Study Poorly Understood Predators

  Three biologists attended the shark tournament this weekend, each studying sharks from a different angle. continued@vineyardgazette Read More »

• Federal trial starts for five fishermen accused of multi-year scheme

  The jury trial of five people charged with a multi-year scheme to sell unreported Atlantic herring and falsify fishing records began Thursday, March 7. The trial Read More »

• Flounder Fishery Management Plan draws fire at NC Marine Fisheries Commission hearing

   Fishermen, recreational and commercial, along with environmentalists, scientists, seafood dealers and others spoke both for and against a proposed southern flounder supplement Wednesday. Around 160 people signed Read More »

• How Norway and Russia Made A Cod Fishery Live and Thrive

  The prime cod fishing grounds of North America have been depleted or wiped out by overfishing and poor management. But in Arctic waters, Norway and Russia Read More »

• Coalition files intent to sue federal agencies to stop whale-killing Virginia wind project 

  The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) and The Heartland Institute today announced that they were filing with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and Read More »
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  Nunavut’s Baffin Fisheries signs deal for new trawler

  Baffin Fisheries, the largest shrimp harvester in Canada’s North, plans to add another vessel to its existing fleet of four. That intent was announced June 16 Read More »

• Abbott’s Harbour wharf blocked off without notice to fishermen

  For Pubnico-area lobster fisherman Jaron d’Entremont, the Abbott’s Harbour wharf has been his home port since he began his fishing career six years ago. “One day Read More »

• Yurok Tribe finds deadly disease in Klamath River salmon

  Dan Bacher: The Klamath River salmon fishery, an integral part of the culture, religion and livelihoods of the Yurok, Hoopa Valley and Karuk Tribes of Northern Read More »
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  Get revved up! It’s lobster boat racing season!

  There’s gonna be a lot of wake goin’ on this weekend with the start of the 34th lobster boat racing season Saturday, June 15 at 10 Read More »

• Water Temps & Fish Forum

  Not being a scientist, I’m not sure what it means (not that a scientist necessarily would), but a quick check of data collected over the past Read More »
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  $63.5K to help reshape Gloucester’s fish industry

  When the Gloucester Fishing Community Preservation Fund was established in 2007, the Gloucester fleet already had transitioned away from its sizeable offshore groundfish fleet to a Read More »

• N.E. Fishery Management Council Meeting – Plymouth, MA, September 29-October 1, 2015, Listen Live

  Read the Agenda here  Register to attend the meeting via webinar here 12:04 Read More »
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  CO2 Not A Threat To Oceans

  For the past three decades, the public has been taught by the news media and the folks who make a living composing mathematical equations they claim Read More »

• Bountiful haddock fishing in Nova Scotia – Haddock boom could sustain industry for six to seven years

  LOWER WEST PUBNICO, N.S.The Poseidon Princess steamed through the storm toward the southwest shore of Nova Scotia at eight knots, bringing home 39,000 kilograms of haddock Read More »
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  Fishermen volunteer to become 2nd right whale rescue team

  Ferron is one of three crab fishermen who volunteered to form a new rescue team based in Shippagan. He, Martin Noël and Rémi Guignard have been Read More »
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  U.S. Department of Commerce Announces Availability of $1.5 Billion in CARES Act Funds to Aid Communities Impacted by the Coronavirus Pandemic

  U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross today announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is now accepting applications from eligible grantees for Coronavirus Aid, Relief, Read More »
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  Light shows to honor Gloucester fishermen’s wives

  Twenty years ago on the morning of Aug. 5, Angela Sanfilippo, president of the Gloucester Fishermen’s Wives Association, was attending to the final details of the Read More »

• The Newfoundland cod moratorium is over — but the risk remains

  After more than 30 years, the federal government has announced it’s lifting the moratorium that shut down commercial cod fishing in Newfoundland and Labrador in the 1990s. Read More »

• Fisheries committees to discuss possible trawling closures to protect submerged aquatic vegetation

  Three advisory committees of the N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission will meet in April to discuss a proposal to protect submerged aquatic vegetation through shrimp trawl area Read More »
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  “He was Hell on Wheels, that boy” – ‘Wicked Tuna’ fisherman Nick ‘Duffy’ Fudge mourned

  The death of “Wicked Tuna” cast member Nicholas “Duffy” Fudge at age 28 is being mourned in the Seacoast and beyond, and his family on Monday Read More »
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  Dismayed Reaction To Whitefish Scrappage Application Offers

  There has been a disappointed reaction from a number of fishing vessel owners to terms offered under the Government’s latest whitefish decommissioning scheme. “We haven’t surveyed members Read More »
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  Exploiting Irish Fishermen – Documentary ‘lifts the lid on decades of unfairness’

  Irish fishing communities have commissioned their own documentary to highlight the crisis in coastal communities which they say has been caused by decades of unfair EU Read More »

• Must Read – Fears for our fishery, Father Ed Brophy, St. Alban’s

  Fellow Newfoundlanders, according to the news, a large Newfoundland fish company called Quin-Sea is about to be taken over by an even larger company from Denmark. Read More »

• Silver Bay Seafoods expands into squid with deal to buy California plant

  The Sitka-based company’s managing director Rob Zuanich told the newspaper the company has closed on a deal to buy a 4.6 acre lot in Ventura, California. Read More »