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  Irish fishermen face double Brexit whammy as EU funding deadline looms

  Irish fishing businesses face a double whammy this year of having less fish to catch and being unable to draw down EU Brexit funding in time. Read More »
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  Lobster Fishermen in Mexico’s Yucatán Organize to Protect Their Catch

  For the last four months, fishermen in the community of Río Lagartos, Yucatán, have operated as a vigilante group to protect lobster populations on local fishing Read More »

• Two N.H. Fish and Game officers presented with Life Saving Award

  Two New Hampshire Fish and Game officers were presented with the Fish and Game’s Life Saving Award for their courageous actions rescuing two fishermen from a Read More »

• David Cameron vetoes Rockall fishing agreement between Scotland and Ireland

  Foreign Secretary David Cameron has vetoed an agreement between Scotland and Ireland to allow Irish fishermen access to the rich fishing grounds around Rockall. Ownership of Read More »

• Two watermen plead guilty in striped bass poaching case

  Two Tilghman Island watermen pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court to illegally taking 185,925 pounds of striped bass from the Chesapeake Bay. Michael D. Hayden, Read More »

• Daniel N. Russell says ASMI “sustainable fishing” is not the only issue for certification of seafood.

  The problem is that “sustainable fishing” is not the only issue for certification of seafood. Steven Mufson reported (Oct. 3, Washington Post) that six single-shell tanks Read More »

• “Menhaden are Overfished” Reports were Premature

  WASHINGTON (Saving Seafood) — 13 March 2013 — On February 20, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) concluded that there is insufficient  evidence to support Read More »

• Northern Shrimp are on the ASFMC agenda, Will YOU be allowed to fish under Amendment 3?

  The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s Northern Shrimp Section will meet Wednesday, Nov. 5, in Portland to consider approval of the Public Information Document (PID) for Read More »

• National Marine Fisheries Service expanding dolphin-safe tuna certification requirements

  When the World Trade Organization found last year that U.S. labeling requirements for dolphin-safe tuna put Mexican tuna fishermen at a trade disadvantage, marine advocates worried Read More »

• Last Hope: Coast Guard Alaska Search and Rescue

  Every year boats from Washington state head to Alaska for one of the most dangerous jobs known to man: commercial fishing. Those crews often face hurricane-force Read More »
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  Council recognizes the 90th annual “Blessing of the Fleet” as crews prepare to head to Alaska

  Our region enjoys some of the best seafood in the world, much brought to our shores from crews preparing to go to Alaska for the summer Read More »

• Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council meeting in Biloxi, MS, October 17 – 21, 2016

  The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will meet at the IP Casino & Resort, 850 Bayview Avenue, Biloxi, MS. 39530 Ballroom B, October 17- 20, Read More »

• Newfoundland/Labrador – Stakes are big in shrimp fishery

  The little northern shrimp gets picked on a lot in what is called Northern Shrimp Fishing Area 6 off the province’s northeast coast. The bullies include Read More »
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  California chinook returns a ‘game-changer’ – California’s chinook may explain why Southern Resident Killer Whales haven’t shown up in BC

  Last week, when southern resident killer whales failed to show up in B.C. coastal waters by the end of June, as they usually do, it caused Read More »

• UPDATED: CF/V Cape Dorset crew rescued, vessel sank off Burin Peninsula – No injuries reported for all 19 crew members

  The fishing crew aboard the Cape Dorset is safe after the vessel sank off the Burin Peninsula Saturday morning. A distress call was sent out from the Read More »
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  BOEM requires transit corridors for offshore wind energy areas

  The federal Bureau of Offshore Energy Management is requiring offshore wind energy developers to set aside vessel transit corridors, amid intense discussions with the commercial fishing Read More »
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  Goodbye F/V Santiego, Hello F/V Diamond Lil

  It’s always sad when an old lady of the sea is shipped off to far away waters especially when they’ve been a permanent sight in Port Read More »

• Fishermen Oppose, but New York Bureaucrats are determined to build a wind farm off the coast of Long Island

  New York State is mounting a broad effort to reduce the cost of building a wind farm off the coast of Long Island, an ambitious push Read More »

• Taking the Helm of an American Tradition

  Southern New England Fishery News did an interview with Kip Files, the Captain appointed by Mystic Seaport to be Master of the Charles W Morgan’s 38th voyage Read More »

• State to San Diego fishermen: Drop dead

  Over 100 people gathered in Pacific Beach on March 20, for the release of data from a five-year, $4 million study of the state’s South Coast Read More »

• New Zealand: Dead fish ‘leakage’ not dumping, company says

  One of New Zealand’s largest fishing companies has defended its loss of  into the Tasman Sea off Auckland this week saying there was only a “leakage” Read More »

• NROC Comment on the Draft Ocean Planning Goals by Dr Damon E. Cummings, Ph.D. Ocean Engineering, Gloucester, MA,

  6/27/2013 – I found your comment form far too restrictive for what I wish to say and therefore have written this memo.,,, and so begins an Read More »

• High-tech data will help guide fishing nets in South Jersey

  LOWER TOWNSHIP – The next time Lund’s Fisheries wants to land a particular species of fish while avoiding other species they aren’t supposed to catch, a Read More »
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  Photos: Remembering the Exxon Valdez oil spill 30 years later

  It was just after midnight on March 24, 1989, when an Exxon Shipping Co. tanker ran aground outside the town of Valdez, Alaska, spewing millions of Read More »
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  Bloody effluent still spewing from B.C. fish processing plant, photographer finds

  A photographer on Vancouver Island is again raising concerns about the practice of dumping effluent containing fish blood from fish processing plants. Tavish Campbell says little Read More »