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• Closure – Body of sunken El Jefe boat captain recovered

  The body of the captain of a fishing boat that sank earlier this week in the Ambrose Channel was recovered Friday afternoon, authorities said. A private Read More »
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  Portuguese fishermen helped launch Georgia shrimp industry

  Wild Georgia Shrimp had it pretty good around here until the likes of John Martin and Joe Santos arrived on our shores following World War I. Read More »

• Down to Earth: Seals, sharks and sustainability

  From the late 1800s through the 1960s, Maine and Massachusetts had a bounty on  seals to keep the fishing grounds seal-free. They were hunted until there Read More »
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  Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 68′ Steel Longliner, Cummins KT19, two 30-kw gensets, Federal Permits

  Specifications, information and 23 photos >click here< To see all the boats in this series, >click here<12:47 Read More »
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  The Untold Truth Of Bumble Bee Tuna

  If you’re curious about the history of this thoroughly American product, grab your life vests and Dramamine pills, and set sail with us to discover the Read More »
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  Chum, Chinook returns fall short across Yukon, Western Alaska

  Poor chum and coho returns led to some of the lowest commercial harvests in decades across much of Western Alaska and biologists are unsure why far Read More »

• Adak, Norton Sound net new crab fishery regulations and more – Molly Dischner

  Alaska’s Board of Fisheries took steps toward creating more crab fishing opportunity in Norton Sound and near Adak this week. Read more here  BOF approves Kuskokwim Read More »

• Allegedly inoxicated fisherman hoisted from sinking F/V Charlie & Carol off Ilwaco, Wash. coast Sunday morning – video

  Coast Guard Sector Columbia River in Astoria received a call from the only man aboard the 36-foot fishing vessel Charlie & Carol at approximately 11:30 p.m., Read More »

• DFO poised to shake up fishery for tiny eels in ‘devastating’ blow to licence holders

  The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans is poised to impose a major shakeup on the lucrative but problem-plagued Maritime fishery for juvenile eels, stripping most Read More »

• Red snapper season dates finalized

  Last week NOAA Fisheries published a rule implementing an increase to the commercial and recreational quotas for red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico through 2017. Read More »

• You’re Young and Want to Make It Fishing? Good Luck

  Duncan Cameron is a fisherman, like his dad and his dad’s dad before him. They count themselves among the scores of families who have made their Read More »
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  Cawthron boss told he should have expressed himself better

  Cawthron Institute chief executive Volker Kuntzsch was expressing his personal opinion when he told an industry symposium that New Zealand had no future without fishing, the Read More »
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  Marine monument designation of Canyons & Seamounts: Gov. Baker says it undermines Mass. fishermen

  “The Baker-Polito Administration is deeply disappointed by the federal government’s unilateral decision to undermine the Commonwealth’s commercial and recreational fishermen with this designation,” Baker spokesman Brendan Read More »

• Cape Cod Fishermen Seek Buffer From Mid Water Trawlers

  On Aug. 17, the Herring Oversight Committee of the New England Fisheries Management Council voted to send the council two options for establishing a buffer zone Read More »

• Winners and losers – but no real surprises on 2025 UK fishing TACs

  The UK minister with responsibility for fisheries, food security minster Daniel Zeichner, greeted the 2025 TAC agreement with the EU in what is now time-honoured style: Read More »
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  DEP officials hear opposition to salmon farm – “I am still shocked that we are talking about it”

  The Maine Department of Environmental Protection’s will and capacity to adequately appraise American Aquafarms’ proposed plan to discharge a combined 4.1 billion gallons of diluted wastewater Read More »
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  Video: Coast Guard medevacs crewman from fishing vessel 46 miles offshore Cameron, Louisiana

  The Coast Guard medevaced a 60-year-old man from a fishing vessel 46 miles offshore Cameron, Louisiana, Sunday morning. Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston command center watchstanders received Read More »
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  Empty nets and light wallets as fall shrimp season disappoints in South Carolina

  The fall white shrimp season has been a painful one for South Carolina’s diminished fleet of trawlers, with many people wondering what’s become of all the Read More »
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  F/V Lady Kathy comes up for air after 20 years

  Local fishing vessel, the Lady Kathy, was hauled out of the Charleston Marina on Monday for the first time in over 20 years for maintenance. Owner of Read More »

• F/V Misty Blue Missing – 2 Rescued, Coast Guard searching for 2 crew members

  The U.S. Coast Guard Northeast is searching for two crewmen who were aboard a vessel in distress 10 miles off the coast of Nantucket on Monday. Read More »

• Philip Boudreau ‘murder for lobster trial’ resumes with key witness “He’s going to get a scare this time.”

  Craig Landry told the court that on the morning of June 1, they were setting traps near Mackerel Cove when they saw an object about a Read More »
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  The Gig Harbor fishing fleet had a bonanza season in Alaska this year

  “This has been our best season in six years,” said Matt Munkres, who skippers the Gig Harbor-based Julien, a 54-foot purse seiner. “And we got good prices, Read More »
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  The 40 year old fishing boat feeding a town in regional Victoria

  The 15-member strong Apollo Bay Fishermen’s Co-op has invested nearly $500,000 in a small, 40-year-old fishing boat to fish along the coast every few days and provide Read More »
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  Veteran Nushagak drifter, greenhorn daughter have best season ever

  Longtime Bristol Bay fisherman Hector Sanchez of f/v El Nayar hauled in more salmon than ever this year, and it was his daughter Toni Sanchez’s first Read More »

• Lake Pontchartrain basin commercial fishermen report crippling shrimp and crab shortage – Video

  “What caused Lake Pontchartrain basin to not produce like it normally has, I think it is a combination of reasons,” said Patrick. “The closing of the Read More »