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  FFAW Calling on DFO to Cease Plans with Weak-Rope Policy

  The FFAW is once again calling on DFO to immediately cease its plans to implement a weak-rope policy for harvesters in Newfoundland and Labrador. The policy Read More »

• Bristol Bay Fishermen Talk About Their Season

  The 2013 Bristol Bay sockeye salmon season is just about in the books. It was a historic year featuring the earliest run on record and a Read More »
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  The great US offshore wind-power boom has begun to falter

  Plans for massive offshore wind farms that President Joe Biden hopes will power as many as 10 million American homes by 2030 are starting to wobble. Read More »

• Prosecutor reviewing sex-abuse allegations against ‘Deadliest Catch’ star Sig Hansen

  Snohomish County prosecutors are re-examining allegations that celebrity crab-boat captain Sig Hansen sexually abused his toddler daughter nearly three decades ago, after the now 28-year-old woman Read More »
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  Fishing company and skipper on trial for alleged unlawful trawling in Tasman Sea

  Fishing company Amaltal and a skipper of its vessel the Apollo are on trial for allegedly trawling in an unauthorised area of the Tasman Sea. Amaltal, Read More »

• Heroic father relives rescue of Northumberland fishermen

  A heroic father and son helped rescue two fishermen whose boat had sunk off the coast of Amble, pulling one from the sea and alerting crews Read More »

• Fish panel holds off on limit cuts – “I say if you’re going to take 1 damn percent (more), shut the whole God damn thing down!”

  New England fishing regulators Thursday delayed voting on a series of significant cuts to fishermen’s 2013 allowable catch in groundfishing stocks after repeated and emotional warnings Read More »

• Scientists divided over threat to Pacific Northwest salmon – infectious salmon anemia, or ISA.

  adn.com – There is no doubt that the disease can wreak havoc. First described in Norway in the mid-1980s, it has flared on fish farms from Read More »

• DFO POACHER PATROL: DFO blitz nabs Maple Ridge poachers – “I’m using every Fishery officer I have right now,”

  A Maple Ridge resident had his boat seized for illegally fishing salmon over the weekend. It was the second boat belonging to a local offender the Read More »
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  Changing climate boosts Maine lobster industry — for now

  Maine’s lobster industry has found itself in something of a climate change sweet spot. The state’s coastal waters are still cold enough for lobster to thrive, but Read More »

• More news about F/V Jessica Heather – Video – Hot Dog Vendor Sets Up Shop

  “Amazing!” said Sandy Stottlemyar.  “Lots of pictures!”  “I feel bad for the boat captain, but it was fun to watch,” said Suzanne Zak of Doylestown, Pa.  Read More »
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  How warming ocean temperatures wiped out Maine’s shrimp industry

  Since 2014 fishing for northern shrimp has been banned in the United States. The stock in our area has decreased to the point where they are Read More »

• Alaska’s white hat turns a little grey – Editorial comment, by John Sackton, publisher of Seafoodnews.com

   Ouch. The allegations that American Seafoods used flow scales that understated the weight of its pollock catch on multiple vessels in 2011 is a black-eye for Read More »

• The Fisheries Broadcast with John Furlong

  Monday June  3, 2013 – Genetically modified salmon,  engineered to grow faster, Friday May 31, 2013 – More reaction to the issue of the CETA talks, Read More »
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  FFAW, N.L. government team up in push back against lobster, snow crab being labeled foods to avoid

  Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program which runs what it calls a science-based seafood recommendation list to inform consumers, chefs, and business professionals, placed all Canadian Read More »

• Nantucket Commercial Scalloping Season Opens; Fisherman Getting $12 Per Pound

  Nantucket’s commercial scalloping season opened Friday morning with roughly 20 boats returning to the water as temperatures hovered in the 60s. But how was the scalloping Read More »
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  Video: Coast Guard, Navy conduct medevac of injured fisherman off Hawaii

  The Coast Guard and Navy conducted a medevac of an injured mariner 431 miles off Hilo, Big Island, Thursday.,,, At 9:30 a.m., Tuesday, Joint Rescue Coordination Center Read More »

• TALLAHASSEE, Fla. US Supreme Court Agrees to Take Up Water Wars Case

  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Today, Governor Rick Scott announced that the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take up Florida’s lawsuit regarding Georgia’s overconsumption of waters that Read More »

• Angry Newfoundland fishery workers in formed picket line Tuesday to protest the latest cuts to inshore shrimp quotas.

  Earlier this month, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans announced a 9,000-tonne cut from the inshore fishery for northern shrimp quotas, while only 1,000 was cut Read More »

• Marine Sanctuary’s. The Focus is Eliminating Fishing, but only for Humans!

  The team gathered information from two data sets — satellite and geolocation animal tracking data, and a database of 24 conditions caused by humans that put Read More »
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  Annual Maine Fishermen’s Forum underway

  Hundreds of fishermen and their families gathered at the Samoset Resort for the annual Maine Fishermen’s Forum. They host gear suppliers, scientists, vendors that sell the Read More »
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  Russian head of NAFO has stepped down; country must be expelled/fish quotas transferred to Ukraine

  Seaward Enterprises Association of Newfoundland and Labrador (SEA-NL) says it’s not enough that the Russian president and chair of the international organization that manages fish stock Read More »
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  Spanish mackerel catch quota reduction ‘catastrophic’ for north Queensland fishers, industry says

  New quotas that will dramatically reduce the number of Spanish mackerel commercial fishers can catch will “devastate” the industry, according to north Queensland fishers. The Queensland Read More »

• Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 50′ Steel Stern Dragger, CAT C-18, Northern Lights 20 KW, Permits Available

  Specifications, information and 3 photos click here To see all the boats in this series, Click here Vessel underwent approximately $ 100,000 in upgrades at the Derektor Shipyard Read More »

• Scallop Actions: NEFMC September 25 – 27, 2012 in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

  ,,,,,,,,,,quota for the U.S. and Canada to share for Georges Bank yellowtail, leaving the U.S. share in the low 200’s—an amount considered insufficient by the scallop Read More »