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  Managing A Lucrative Resource In The Face Of Climate Change

  Conservationists and commercial fishing industry leaders came together on the need to restructure the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to adequately consider climate impacts during Read More »

• 5 British Columbia Salmon Runs That Were Awesome This Year

  The media loves a bad news story. All summer and fall, you probably saw headlines like “‘Grim’ Fraser River salmon runs even worse than forecast” and Read More »

• Letter: Fisherfolk should get behind new union by Oswan Tucker, Reef’s Harbour

  Now is the time to finish what we started last year, which was to get rid of the FFAW. The Fish, Food and Allied Workers union Read More »

• Brexit: Prominent Fisherman Calls On Geldof To Apologise

  A leading fisherman has demanded Bob Geldof apologise for his Remain campaign flotilla stunt which was “disrespectful to hard working communities”. Skipper Jimmy Buchan added he’d Read More »
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  New SMAST camera can help assess cod stocks in Gulf of Maine

  Researchers from UMass Dartmouth say they have successfully tested an underwater video-survey system that they hope will provide an accurate method to assess Atlantic cod stocks. Read More »

• DFO find’s non native shrimp along the shores of Newfoundland’s west coast.

  For the second time this year, DFO scientists have discovered a new species in the province’s coastal waters. Baltic shrimp have now found a permanent home Read More »
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  Atlantic Herring: Council Conducts “Debrief” on MSE Process for ABC Control Rule; Tell Us How You Think it Went!

  The New England Fishery Management Council is seeking public comment on the Management Strategy Evaluation (MSE) process that was used to develop and analyze alternatives for Read More »
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  Copper River Seafoods not buying Cook Inlet salmon amid declining harvests

  Another seafood processor is moving out of Kenai this salmon season. Copper River Seafoods is ending its run in the old Snug Harbor Seafood plant, leaving Read More »

• Shell Canada Ltd to deploy seismic survey ships to survey deepwater sites off Nova Scotia’s southwestern shore.

  Starting next week, Shell will begin exploring about 12,200 square kilometres of an area known as the Shelburne Basin. The 3-D seismic survey program is to Read More »

• URI, Greenfins Developing Techniques for Tuna – the first effort in the United States to breed tuna in a land-based aquaculture facility

  Swimming around and around in a 20,000 gallon tank at the University of Rhode Island’s Bay Campus are several large yellowfin tuna captured last fall about Read More »

• Changes Urged in Reauthorization of Magnuson-Stevens Act

  A University of Washington fisheries scientist says reauthorization of a major piece of fisheries legislation is a good time to focus on sustainable jobs, recreational opportunity Read More »

• Many tanner crab areas closed; quotas reduced

  By Cristy Fry –  The bairdi tanner crab season in Kodiak and along the Alaska Peninsula continues its quota yo-yo this year with quotas either down Read More »
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  Speakers list released for today’s event to mark 30th anniversary of northern cod moratorium

  The speakers list for the event scheduled for this afternoon to mark the 30th anniversary of the announced shutdown of Newfoundland and Labrador’s most iconic fishery Read More »

• CG medevacs injured F/V Sea Angels fisherman Clint Owens, 41, of Townsend, Ga.

  Someone aboard the 105-foot fishing vessel Sea Angels, homeported in Beaufort, N.C., used a VHF-FM marine radio to notify Coast Guard Sector Jacksonville, Fla., watchstanders at Read More »
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  Herring fishermen get money after decline of fish, quota cuts

  Fishermen in Maine’s historic herring fishing business will receive money from the federal government to help cope with a decline in the fish’s population that has Read More »

• Biloxi Man Cited for Illegal Shrimping Violation in Breton Sound

  Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) Enforcement agents cited a Biloxi man on Nov. 7 for allegedly shrimping in state waters with illegal turtle exclusion Read More »

• NOAA At-sea monitoring suspended (for now) – To start again March 1, when boats must pay costs

  NOAA Fisheries exhausted its budgeted money for at-sea monitoring of Northeast fishing sector groundfish boats on Feb. 16 and has suspended all required monitoring until the Read More »

• Senator Murkowski Grills acting Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank on Observer Policy

  Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski questioned acting Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank on several ocean policy issues facing Alaskan coastal communities during a Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations Read More »
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  What really killed the whales? Environmental groups in New Jersey are squaring off.

  Following the discovery of a 30-foot humpback whale that washed ashore in Atlantic City earlier this month, several groups including Clean Ocean Action wrote to President Read More »

• Nova Scotia company ships live crab worldwide

  Frozen snow crab harvested off the coast of Nova Scotia has fed the masses for decades, but shipping the product live has long been thought impossible Read More »

• Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 40′ Novi Scalloper/Permits, John Deere Diesel

  To review specifications, information, and 4 photos’, >click here< To see all the boats in this series, >click here< 06: 05 Read More »

• Leading Alaska legislators propose task force to help rescue a seafood industry ‘in a tailspin’

  Russian fish flooding global markets and other economic forces beyond the state’s border have created dire conditions for Alaska’s seafood industry. Now key legislators are seeking Read More »

• Spotted in Maine! Pot Warp ‘n All! Those Maine fishermen sure don’t pull punches.

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• Hurricane Francine bears down on Louisiana: Here’s when and where to expect landfall

  Hurricane Francine is bearing down on Louisiana with an expected landfall Wednesday afternoon packing winds of up to 100 mph as a potential Category 2 hurricane. Read More »

• American Samoa sets up fisheries task force

  The Government of American Samoa has set up a fisheries task force to track developments posing a threat to its canneries. The task force is charged with Read More »