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  Coast Guard rescues 5 fishermen from sinking vessel near Grays Harbor, Wash.

  The Coast Guard rescued five fishermen from the 56-foot commercial fishing vessel Taplow which began taking on water 19 miles south west of Grays Harbor, Friday. Read More »

• Grindavík’s Harbor Sees First Trawler Return Since October

  The first trawler to dock in the town of Grindavík since October 24, when the town was evacuated due to a powerful swarm of earthquakes, arrived Read More »

• Stealing from Fishermen – Two NRP busts lead to fishery charges

  According to NRP, an Elkridge man was criminally charged on Monday, Nov. 2, with eight counts of poaching after he was caught stealing crabs from watermen’s Read More »
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  Kitzhaber’s Columbia River Reform – Gill-net issue still tangled

  The Joint State Columbia River Salmon Policy Review Committee met for the first time on Jan. 17 at the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife headquarters Read More »

• Summer chum symposium Thursday 9 a.m.-3 p.m.in Shelton,Wa.

  The symposium will be 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at Mason County Public Works, 100 Public  Works Drive in Shelton. For reservations, call 360-394-0046 or email [email protected].  more Read More »
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  Whitby’s trawlermen urge the government to stand firm in the ongoing Brexit fishing rights negotiations

  Richard Brewer has fished out of Whitby for decades. In the last 22 years he has had his son by his side, also called Richard. During Read More »

• ‘Wicked Tuna’ will be filmed out of Ilwaco? Sorry Charley. There’s only one “Wicked Tuna”!

  Albacore tuna news: ‘Wicked Tuna’ will be filmed out of Ilwaco. There’s only one Wicked Tuna, and its out of Gloucester! The Tuna Club in Ilwaco Read More »
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  Fall fishery finally gets underway

  On calm waters on a beautiful August morning, the fall lobster season in LFA 25 finally opened on Sunday following several delays due to weather conditions. Read More »

• Is Fukushima Radiation Causing the Epidemic of Dead and Starving Sea Lions In California?

  At island rookeries off the Southern California coast, 45 percent of the pups born in June have died, said Sharon Melin, a wildlife biologist for the Read More »

• To Preserve it’s Heritage, Panacea could be the largest city in Wakulla

  There are more boats than cars in Panacea. The oyster shells lining many of the roads are a nod to the coastal history of the small Read More »

• A Night Among The Stars

  Ballard Elks Lodge #827 click here  18:24 Read More »
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  The Terrifying Conditions That Forced Sig Hansen to Kick His Daughter Off the Boat

  It takes a lot for a captain of a crab fishing boat in Discovery Channel’s “Deadliest Catch” to take their boat into harbor because of the conditions Read More »

• Alaska Board of Fisheries spurns Central Peninsula – stigma that this area is dangerous to board members

  By the time the Alaska Board of Fisheries holds its next meeting on Upper Cook Inlet fisheries, it will have been nearly 20 years since its Read More »

• It’s another fine FishyFriday in Newlyn.

  Last few hours for the netting fleet before they leave their berths to take ice and head away for the next tide… with fine weather comes Read More »
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  Gas pipeline would ‘rip up the clam beds’ in N.J. for New Yorkers’ sake, foes say

  Richard Isaksen has been clamming and crabbing in Raritan Bay and fishing lower New York Bay for 50 of his 63 years. It’s a hard life, Read More »
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  The U.S. “wind belt” – Map Shows ‘Low-Impact’ Locations for Wind Power

  Wind energy developers both onshore and offshore face numerous challenges. Concerns about noise from wind turbines, disruption of visual aesthetics, and danger to wildlife have led Read More »

• James “Whitey” Bulger, guilty of killing Gloucester fisherman John McIntyre, other counts

  Among the 11 the jury found him guilty of was that John McIntyre, a mechanic and fisherman who had been on the Gloucester-based swordfishing vessel Valhalla, when Read More »

• F/V Miss Ally – RCMP, Department of National Defence (DND) and the Canadian Coast Guard: update as of noon local time

  This morning at 8:30 a.m. local time, in support of the RCMP, a remotely operated vehicle underwater (ROV) from HMCS Glace Bay entered the water and Read More »
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  Commercial horse seining on the Columbia River

  These days, the rotting pilings that sit in the middle of the Columbia River don’t seem like much at first glance. But they are the remnants Read More »

• ASMFC Spring Meeting – May 4-7, 2015 Alexandria, Virginia

  Board/Section meeting proceedings will be broadcast daily via webinar beginning at 12:45 PM on May 4th, continuing daily until the conclusion of the meeting (expected to Read More »
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  2 West Coast commercial fishing vessel mishaps included in NTBS Safer Seas Digest 2016

  The National Transportation Safety Board cited two mishaps involving vessels around Ventura Harbor among 27 marine-related boating accidents as part of its Safer Seas Digest 2016. Read More »

• After falling to historic lows, Alaska commercial fishing deaths on the rise

  After a recent historic year of no recorded deaths in Alaska’s commercial fishing industry, fatalities in the sector known for its dangers have once again spiked. Read More »

• 2019 shrimp season is worst Pass Christian seafood dealer has seen in more than 40 years

  Jeremy Forte’s family seafood business has never seen a shrimp season as bad as this year. Not only are they seeing the affects of the Bonnet Read More »

• Not so fast on Atlantic marine monument – By Jon Williams

  An ongoing campaign led by large, well-funded environmental organizations is urging President Obama to use the 1906 Antiquities Act to designate parts of the Atlantic Ocean—such Read More »

• Investment company Brimstone adds offshore fishing deal to its food basket

  EMPOWERMENT investment company Brimstone, which has in recent years shown a growing appetite for food investments, has landed an offshore fishing deal. On Thursday, Brimstone’s 58% Read More »