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  More dead crabs and lobsters along North East coast

  The government is investigating after new reports of dead crabs and lobsters along the North East coast. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) Read More »
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  Fed Right whale plan could mean lobster industry changes – a reinvention of the fishery as we know it

  Federal officials recently released plans,,, But it’s the risk reduction target, an aggressive 98 percent, that Maine Department of Marine Resources officials said means only one Read More »
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  Cape Cod fishermen have high hopes for halibut

  On the U.S. side of the border Atlantic halibut are listed under the Endangered Species Act and fishermen are limited to one fish per trip. Less Read More »

• Canada tangles up fisheries talks to score foreign-policy point

  This situation began to change about five years ago when many governments and international agencies, began to recognize that small-scale fisheries are not a problem to Read More »
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  PFDs That Work – Personal Flotation Devices Prevent Fishermen Deaths

  Researchers from the NIOSH Alaska Pacific Office asked commercial fishermen from 4 gear groups (crabbers, trawlers, longliners, gillnetters) to rate the comfort and acceptability of six Read More »

• Six-hour purse seine chum fishery to open in Amalga Harbor

  Thursday is the opening of the purse seine season at Amalga Harbor in Juneau. Commercial fishermen will be able to catch chum, released from the DIPAC hatchery. Read More »

• Dead fish symptom of ailing bayous Low oxygen in Dickinson Bayou

  SAN LEON – Powering his small boat across Dickinson Bay, Steve Hoyland Sr. worries about fish kills near the mouth of Dickinson Bayou every summer for Read More »
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  Whale Slaughter Sees 500,000 Americans Demand End to Offshore Wind Power Onslaught

  Half-a-million Americans are furious at the offshore wind industry for killing the last members of endangered whale species in droves with absolute impunity, thanks to the government-backed licenses Read More »
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  Off Washington state’s coast, Dungeness crabbers get early start to season, haul in bounty

  Some 60 vessels in Washington’s oceangoing crab fleet worked through a stormy December to bring in more than 4.69 million pounds of Dungeness in a strong Read More »
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  LI fishermen see ‘tough’ days ahead as NYC restaurants back in lockdown

  With New York City restaurants back in lockdown, Long Island fishermen once again face the loss of one of the biggest markets for their fish as Read More »

• Rolls-Royce Secures another Trawler Contract

  Norwegian shipbuilder Kleven has announced a contract for a fishing vessel to be designed and equipped by Rolls-Royce. The vessel which is a stern trawler has Read More »
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  South Carolina’s shrimp harvest to open June 1

  Commercial shrimp trawling is set to open in all legal South Carolina waterways on Thursday morning. Harvesting season typically opens in full by mid-to-late May after Read More »

• Lifelong Harpswell Neck fisherman remembered as cribbage competitor, neighborhood mentor

  Sheldon Morse Sr. died Dec. 5, two weeks shy of his 86th birthday. He lived his whole life on the land where he grew up on Read More »

• NE Region Notices

  NOAA Fisheries wants to remind monkfish, Atlantic sea scallop and multispecies (groundfish) fishing vessels that a vessel can obtain Good Samaritan DAS credit if assisting the Read More »
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  Japan wants to dump contaminated water from the nuclear plant. Fishermen fear the worst.

  The devastating earthquake and tsunami that swept through northern Japan in March 2011 took a lot from Tatsuo Niitsuma, a commercial fisherman in this coastal city Read More »

• Scientists plan climate engineering experiment in ocean off Cape Cod

  Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are seeking a federal permit to experiment in the waters off Cape Cod and see if tweaking the ocean’s chemistry Read More »
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  The Next “Big Thing”? Researchers Propose Ecuador-Costa Rica Swimway To Protect Marine Life

  A group of scientists, marine ecosystem protectors and government officials from several countries throughout the Americas are working together to create the “Galapagos-Cocos Swimway.” The swimway will Read More »
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  Alabama: Shrimpers having tough spring season

  The COVID-19 global pandemic has caused the price of shrimp paid to fishermen to plummet, causing many to stay home. Those who are on the water Read More »
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  German vessel’s skipper lands in court on fishing charges

  The skipper of a German-registered fishing trawler is due to appear at Cork Circuit Criminal Court this week to face 25 charges of breaches of fishing Read More »
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  No California salmon: Fishery to be shut down this year

  Last year, California’s commercial and recreational fishing fleet, from the Central Coast to the Oregon border, landed about 300,000 salmon. But this year, Davis and other Read More »
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  Fishermen in the north-east Atlantic: living at the pace of the trawl catch

  Huge factory trawlers plough the various fisheries, depending on the product sought, to supply major distribution outlets. This large-scale commercial fishing, also known as industrial fishing, Read More »

• Remapping of federal waters off New England moving forward – Some groups of fisherman will gain and others will lose

  Not only do conservationists and fishermen disagree, Bachman said, but some groups of fishermen stand to benefit while other groups could suffer, depending on the gear Read More »

• Georgia’s commercial fishing fleet is hoping for a better season this year, and they just might get it

  Following a year many regard as one of the worst shrimp harvests in recent times, those in the seafood industry say the 2014 catch is already Read More »

• Oyster Collapse Gulf of Mexico along Florida’s Big Bend and Panhandle.

  State officials have determined there has been an oyster collapse in the Gulf of Mexico along Florida’s Big Bend and Panhandle. They also say that nothing Read More »

• Approval of GM salmon eggs will be challenged in Canadian court

  The Ecology Action Centre and Living Oceans Society have partnered together in challenging Environment Canada’s decision to approve genetically modified Atlantic salmon eggs. The case will Read More »