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• Suicide by job: Farmers, lumberjacks, fisherman top list

  Farmers, lumberjacks and fishermen kill themselves most often, according to a large new study of workers in the U.S. that showed enormous differences of suicide rates Read More »
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  Minister reaffirms DFO’s authority to regulate Mi’kmaw fishery, while also addressing other issues

  Joyce Murray reaffirmed the federal government has the authority to regulate M’ikmaw moderate livelihood fishing as she made her first visit to Atlantic Canada this week Read More »
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  California Wetfish Producers Association: Sardine Fishery Collapse Latest Fake News

  This Sunday, April 8, the Pacific Fishery Management Council is meeting in Portland to debate the fate of the West Coast sardine fishery, after the 2018 Read More »
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  Private search for fishing vessel that disappeared with three men aboard to start this week

  The Nicola Faith failed to return to port at Conwy on 27 January. A search for Ross Ballantine, 39, Alan Minard, 20, and skipper Carl McGrath, Read More »
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  Three New Species Of Warm-Blooded Fish Discovered

  Scientists have found three more species of a fish that – despite what we are taught at school – are fully warm-blooded. The species in question Read More »
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  As the press ignores the real issues, Lobster fisher’s pro-Trump speech sets off political spat

  A Maine lobster fisher spoke in favor of President Donald Trump’s trade policies during the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, earning a rebuke from the state’s Read More »

• NOAA Responds to Massachusetts legislators on cod, haddock, and yellowtail flounder: the answer is still no

  Many legal observers, Members of Congress and elected officials disagree with that interpretation. Saving Seafood requested the legal opinion of the General Counsel under the Freedom Read More »

• Independance Day, July 4, 2023

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• Two well-known marine survival companies become one as LRSE of Tiverton, RI, buys Landrigan Corporation of Boston

  Jim O’Connor got his start in the life raft and survival equipment business in 1978 working for Landrigan Corporation of Boston and on Sept. 1, he Read More »

• Sitka tribe asks state regulators to shut down commercial herring fishery

  Sitka Tribe of Alaska is asking state fishing regulators to end the current commercial harvest of herring near the Southeast community, saying too many of the Read More »

• Coho tangle-net fishing coming to lower Columbia

  The Columbia River Compact on Thursday approved eight days of fishing downstream of Warrior Rock on Sauvie Island with 3.75-inch-mesh nets and recovery boxes. The nets Read More »

• Bigelow Lab in the summer found a record-low growth rate for plankton, a crucial food source.

  In recent years, the researchers have measured a fivefold decline in the growth rate of phytoplankton, an indication of lower levels of the critical single-celled plants Read More »

• Coast Guard assists disabled grounded fishing vessel in Prince William Sound

  Crews from the Coast Guard Cutter Mustang and a Station Valdez 45-foot Response Boat-Medium assisted the crew of a fishing vessel that ran aground Thursday morning Read More »

• Proposed regulations irk lobstermen

  Bay State lobstermen fear that a new proposal — meant to save lobsters in warming southern New England waters — could hurt business by barring them Read More »
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  Ocean perch stock rebuilt, could lead to more commercial fishing opportunities in 2019

  Federal restrictions designed to protect Pacific ocean perch from overfishing have worked well enough for the Pacific Fishery Management Council to consider the fishery “rebuilt,” meaning Read More »

• CCA takes stand against Gulf red snapper Reef Fish Amendment 40

  If Amendment 40 passes, 75 percent of the entire Gulf red snapper fishery will likely be privately held for private profit. Sector Separation proposes to separate Read More »

• Getting HOT! Passamaquoddies say governor made threats over elvers – to shut down the entire fishery, allegedly threatened to call in the National Guard!

  Gov. Paul LePage threatened retaliation against Maine’s Passamaquoddy Tribe if it continues to issue elver-fishing licenses beyond the authorized state limit, a tribal council spokesman said Read More »

• Oil Dispersant Used After Deepwater Horizon Spill May Cause Lung Damage

  It turns out that an oil-dispersal agent that was used to help control the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may contribute to Read More »
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  Louis A. Spencer of South Dartmouth Ma., Commercial Fisherman, Businessman, Innovator, has passed away

  Born in New Bedford, the son of the late Louis and Ruth (Bernard) Spencer, he lived most of his life in Dartmouth and on the waterfront Read More »
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  OFFSHORE WIND OPPONENTS NEED A MASS PROTEST IN WASHINGTON DC – BY JIM LOVGREN

  In 2010 and 2012 fishermen held two different successful protests in Washington DC with thousands of fishermen travelling from around the country to attend. Both commercial Read More »

• Bristol Bay fishermen petition the State to intervene regarding sockeye salmon prices.

  An online petition that went live Nov. 3 had more than 821 signatures from fishermen and other supporters as of Nov. 10, asking the State of Read More »

• Fish consumers – Share In Our Harvest – New Hampshire Community Seafood (NHCS) – become a member or consumer-stockholder!

  Our Story We are your local New Hampshire fishermen.  We’ve been fishing the waters off your coast for the last 400 years.  We helped build the economy Read More »

• Time to discard top-down regulation of Scotland’s fishing

  Brussels is not working for any but the bureaucrats, argues Simon Collins At a time when the health of our seas has become a serious and Read More »

• Scientists find a crab party deep in the ocean

  A year ago, researchers in two small submarines were exploring a seamount — an underwater, flat-topped mountain — off the Pacific coast of Panama when they Read More »

• Rescue at sea

  On Monday 442 Transport and Rescue Squadron was involved in a rescue mission on the west side of Vancouver Island. 442 Squadron was tasked by Joint Read More »