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• Pacific sardine population remains low, says National Marine Fisheries Service

  A study released Friday by the National Marine Fisheries Service puts the northern Pacific sardine population off the West Coast at perilously low levels for the Read More »

• The Magnuson-Stevens Act reauthorization road show hit Boston on Monday – hears pleas for fishing reforms

  “If folks in Washington are really looking for a path to help rebuild and sustain the fishery, they got the answers to that today,” said Massachusetts Read More »

• Three Lobster fishermen convicted of robbing lobster traps and possession of undersized lobsters sentenced

  Three fishermen convicted of robbing lobster traps and possession of undersized lobsters in June stemming from their September 2011 arrest were banned from commercial lobster fishing Read More »

• Atlantic Coastal Cooperative Statistics Program – “Tell Us What You Think About Electronic Reporting!”

  ACCSP is a cooperative state-federal program to design, implement and conduct marine fisheries statistics data collection programs and to integrate those data into a single data Read More »
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  End of cod moratorium touted after 32 years as Ottawa approves small increase in commercial catch

  Thirty-two years after the federal government announced a moratorium that shut down Newfoundland and Labrador’s cod industry, Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier said Wednesday that it is Read More »
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  Hunger Strike: Day 11 – Canadian Fisherman Richard Gillett taken from protest site in ambulance

  Richard Gillett, on a hunger strike in front of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans building in St. John’s, has been taken off site in an Read More »
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  High Court rules SFPA breached law withholding approval of new industry owned and operated conveyor/fish-weighing system

  The Sea Fisheries Protection Authority had argued it had not refused, but rather “deferred”, approval for the weighing system, known as a flowscales, last December after Read More »

• Weather ‘bomb’ slams New England, knocking out power to more than 1 million

  More than 1.3 million residents of the Northeast U.S. were in the dark on Monday morning after an unusually fierce coastal storm rapidly intensified and slammed Read More »

• Aquaculture review fast-tracked and expanded by federal government – Nova Scotia added to list

  The federal government has restarted a process to review how fish farms are regulated, and will now expand the scope of the review to include more Read More »

• Catch-and-release tuna fishery catches 20% of N.S. market

  Three years ago, the federal government began allowing catch-and-release bluefin tuna fishing. Canada has a quota of almost 500 tons for bluefin tuna. The recreational fishery Read More »
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  Assault trial stemming from Ecum Secum lobster dispute starts with surprise confession

  Someone beat up Blair Fleet in his own Ecum Secum yard over a lobster dispute last spring. But who did it is even less clear after Read More »

• Linda Bean buys Rockland building to meet demands of growing lobster business

  BDN – ROCKLAND, Maine — Linda Bean, who has become a major player in the lobster industry, has purchased an 11,000-square-foot building from a Canadian company that Read More »

• Shrimp Trade Action

  For several months, shrimpers, packers and dealers have been working on trade action which is a new anti-dumping investigation of frozen warm water shrimp from Ecuador, Read More »
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  How to make the most of Dungeness crab season on the Sonoma Coast

  Shawn Patterson, who fishes wild Pacific king salmon during its local season, has established Lisa Lu Fishery LLC and formed a partnership with Adam King. They Read More »

• Wellfleet shellfisherman charged with illegal sales to restaurants

  According to a report by Officer Daniel McGonagle contained in court documents, Paine sold oysters directly to The Whitman House and The Lost Dog Pub in Read More »

• Blessing and remembering Alaska’s commercial fishermen

  This weekend marks the 25th anniversary of Juneau’s Blessing of the Fleet. The annual tradition honors those who participate in one of the state’s largest industries. Read More »

• A Blast From the Past from Richard Gaines – Green ‘activists’ gaining control of fisheries – It’s only gotten worse!

  GLOUCESTER, Mass. —  Two fishermen were hanged in effigy at a protest by a crowd of 300 outside the regional office of the federal fisheries service Read More »

• Norwegian fishermen snagged U.S. nuclear-powered submarine

  “We had just emptied the nets and put them out again and was on our way back to shore at Sommarøya when we were called by Read More »

• Sea You Home Safe! Seafish is calling on the UK’s fishermen to think about their safety

  Seafish is calling on the UK’s fishermen to think about their safety after research revealed 46% of commercial fishermen consider their job to be dangerous but Read More »
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  Lifeboat crew return after 18-hour call

  Stephen Manson described the seas as “brutal” after the lifeboat was called out to aid the Danish trawler Westbank and her three-man crew. The 17m fishing Read More »
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  Significant Commercial Fisheries closures in BC – DFO to offer licence buyback to those ready to call it quits.

  Federal Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan today announced “an initial step towards longer-term reductions in fishing pressure on stocks of conservation concern with significant commercial salmon closures Read More »
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  Dolphin, porpoise found dead near Minas Basin turbine site

  A dolphin and a porpoise have been found dead along the shore of the Minas Passage since the installation of OpenHydro’s instream tidal turbine late last Read More »
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  U.S., China Reach Substantial ‘Phase One’ Trade Deal

  The U.S. and China agreed on the outlines of a partial trade accord Friday that President Donald Trump said he and China’s Xi Jinping could sign Read More »
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  Windfarm plans for Atlantic coast hit fishermen hard and threaten US food supply

  Tom Williams, a lifelong fisherman whose sons now captain the family’s two boats, doesn’t scare easily—not after the storms, regulations and economic ups and downs he’s Read More »
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  China has finally developed a taste for lobster—and it’s keeping Maine fishermen flush with cash

  Seafood is a classic luxury item in China. But until recently, people there weren’t big on lobster. The iconic, bright-red crustaceans were known as the “Boston Read More »