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• The New England Fishery Management Coucil will meet in Mystic CT. April 18 thru 20, 2017

  The New England Fishery Management Council will be meeting in Mystic CT at the Hilton Hotel. To read the final agenda, click here  Register click here to listen live via Read More »

• Are these Gulf shrimp? Audubon program aims to hook you on local seafood

  “National Seafood Month is very much about educating people about Gulf of Mexico seafood and why it’s important to support Gulf of Mexico seafood,” said John Read More »
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  Family will carry on Captain Ben’s legacy

  Ben Nguyen, known as Captain Ben, died unexpectedly three weeks ago at the age of 49. His family was faced with the shock of his loss Read More »
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  Hull Maritime gets £250,000 from Foyle Foundation for Arctic Corsair visitor attraction

  The grant has come from The Foyle Foundation, a leading UK supporter of learning and the arts, and will help towards developing the new centre at Read More »
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  Reminder: Scoping Meeting for the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan on Tuesday, 4:30 PM

  We will be conducting a virtual scoping meeting to collect public input on modifications to the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan to reduce the risk of death and serious Read More »

• Government invests half-million dollars in seal meat

  The Canadian and Newfoundland and Labrador governments are putting $498,000 into a pilot project to develop value-added seal meat products. Gail Shea, the federal fisheries minister, Read More »

• EPA’s Gina McCarthy should be fired for Western waterway mess

  Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy’s career of administrative neglect, malfeasance and outright incompetence has been capped by her Agency unleashing one of the worst Read More »

• Tampering with our Future – Genetically engineered fish, the FDA and labeling GE/GMO foods, By Anne Mosness

  The thought of experimenting with animals to create new life forms that can be patented, produced in commercial feedlots, and marketed without labeling makes most people Read More »

• Can the ‘butterfly effect’ inform fisheries management?

  Dr. Les Kaufman, a marine ecologist at Boston University, has been deploying his considerable talents in the service of fisheries science and management for over three Read More »
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  UPDATED: Five fishermen rescued from sinking vessel

  Five men were rescued from the fishing vessel Ocean Way around ten miles east of Whalsay on Friday morning before it sank less than one minute Read More »
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  Tasmania: Seafood, rock lobster industry receives state government relief package

  Hundreds of struggling fishers, who have been hard hit in recent months, have received a much-needed cash relief. The state government announced a fee relief package Read More »

• Drug testing a touchy issue on New Bedford’s waterfront

  Local scallop captain Rick Lynch, 44, gave a compelling interview last October to Don Cuddy, program director for the New Bedford-based Center for Sustainable Fisheries. Cuddy Read More »
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  Deadly success?

  Twenty-eight years ago, the state of Alaska banned fish farming in favor of salmon ranching. The idea was simple: Catch a bunch of fish, squeeze out Read More »
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  1 dead, another presumed dead after fishing boat capsizes off Cape Breton

  Four crew members from the Tyhawk fishing vessel were rescued from the water Saturday evening and taken to hospital. But one, identified by community members as Read More »
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  Sector IX vessels make a move to lease quota

  Fifty-five vessels have left Sector IX, but they still can’t fish.  However, they can lease their groundfish quota. The 55, including four Carlos Rafael vessels subject Read More »
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  ‘Our Logo, Our Story’ – Gloucester debuts new logo for 400th-anniversary celebration

  Gloucester Celebration Corporation, the official organizers of Gloucester, Massachusetts’ 400th-anniversary celebration, has selected the winner of the Gloucester400 Logo Design Contest. Originally submitted anonymously for consideration, Read More »
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  “A Good Diehl for Fishing” – Warren’s Senate Republican challenger Diehl unveils plan to help fleet

  Geoff Diehl, the Republican challenger to incumbent U. S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, would retain Carlos Rafael’s forfeited groundfish permits in New Bedford and would push to Read More »

• Prospects unclear in ‘crab country’; state committee to discuss delay’s impacts

  Being the sole proprietor of his commercial fishing operation for the last three years, Eureka resident Bob Borck said one of the important skills of the Read More »
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  ‘Aggravation’ expected when part of lobster fishing area closes

  Chris Wall is among those being asked by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to remove all their gear from a portion of lobster fishing area Read More »

• Ray Hilborn Responds to the opportunistic attack of Greenpeace

  I would like to thank Greenpeace for offering this opportunity to advertise our research and its results. Greenpeace is unable to attack the science I and my Read More »
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  ‘I will miss it. There’s no doubt about that’: Caribou Fisherman’s Wharf Harbour Manager retires after 36 years

  Fifty years-ago, the Caribou Fisherman’s wharf would receive routine visits from Bayview boys riding over on their bicycles. “I was just fascinated with coming to the Read More »

• Gloucester taking part in seafood expo

  Gloucester will play an active role in the Seafood Expo North America, which will be held Sunday through Tuesday at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. Read More »

• American Samoan Fishermen get help from DMWR

  Fishermen of alia vessels and small motorized boats are now getting help from the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources to pay for their fuel when Read More »
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  UPDATE: Fuel from sunken vessel closes fishing in Nushagak District

  The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced the closure of the Nushagak District to all commercial fishing as of 1:00 p.m. Thursday after fuel from Read More »
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  What caused the F/V Destination to sink? Coast Guard to release findings on Sunday

  The Coast Guard on Sunday will release results of its investigation into why, without a mayday call, the Seattle-based Destination sank in 2017 in Alaska’s deadliest Read More »