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  F/V Misty Blue: Bodies of missing fishermen found and recovered

  The bodies of the two missing fisherman from the Misty Blue have been found by state police divers, a department spokesman announced this evening. “Our divers Read More »

• The “Proposed Permit Buy Back” – Disaster Relief That Eliminates More Jobs.

  OH HELL NO. 12:31 Read More »
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  National Fish & Seafood ceases operations

  National Fish & Seafood, the East Gloucester seafood processor which has been stung by a slew of criminal prosecutions involving its upper management and the bankruptcy Read More »
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  Athearn Marine Agency Boat of the Week: 49ft.x27ft. Crab/Lobster vessel, 6 Cylinder Cat C-18

  Specifications, information and 30 photo’s click here To see all the boats in this series, Click here 12:05 Read More »

• 4 men charged in $1M Canada Day lobster heist

  Four men have been charged in the theft of $1 million worth of lobster in northern New Brunswick company on Canada Day, say RCMP. Police believe Read More »
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  NOAA scientist: Offshore wind projects will likely affect viability of fishery surveys

  At a special session of the New England Fisheries Management Council covering offshore wind, Wendy Gabriel, of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center, outlined a wide number Read More »

• Live coverage of the unregulated fishing community

    Watch live during daylight hours   Read More »

• Pacific Seafood CEO: ‘We’re going to make sure we keep this team together’ – “We now have all of our fishermen rescheduled. We have them all moving and they’re all fishing.”

  WARRENTON, Ore. — Workers at the Warrenton seafood plant that burned down this week will be back on the job by June 15. NNCN.com  With a Read More »

• CLF and CLF Ventures: or we get rich by litigating the hostile takeover and trading away of public resources for corporate exploitation while claiming to save the planet. Dick Grachek

  The Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) and their “strategy-consulting arm” CLF Ventures apparently have become fisheries Policy Makers, Litigators, Fishing Quota Fund Administrators, and the authors of a Read More »

• The definitive words on mercury in fish (or, if it seems like the public is dumbing down…

  that’s perhaps because it is).  I highly recommend that you invest 28 minutes in watching Fish, mercury & nutrition: the net effects. You can get to Read More »

• Listen to the Bristol Bay Fisheries Report July 1, 2016

  Tonight a Ugashik set-netter tells us he’ll fish despite some stormy weather this weekend, Area Manager Paul Salomone updates on Egegik and Ugashik numbers, and we Read More »

• Commercial fishing vessel and recreation boat collide – Coast Guard assists 4 boaters near Port Canaveral

  The Coast Guard assisted four boaters Sunday after a commercial fishing vessel and recreation boat collided 2 miles east of Port Canaveral. Coast Guard Sector Jacksonville Command Read More »

• Undersea cable project raising concerns for fishermen – “If we don’t do it in the near term, we would have to put a proposal out where we haven’t investigated all the risks,”

  SEABROOK — Local fishermen are watching ongoing conversations between Gloucester-based fishermen and an engineering firm set to do an underwater Sonar survey from Revere to Seabrook, Read More »

• Locals Tow Burning Fishing Vessel Away from Port Saunders Wharf to Limit Damage

  A Port Saunders fishing vessel was gutted by fire this week, but quick action from first responders and bystanders helped limit the damage to other vessels. Read More »
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  50 years and counting: Silver Cloud II WK 80

  George Carter was born and bred in the Caithness village of Lybster, by the harbour, and he fished straight out of school, getting his skipper’s ticket Read More »
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  Hurricane Ida: 50% of this year’s shrimp and oyster harvest may be lost

  Fishing communities across Southeast Louisiana are down for the count after Ida. In Lafitte alone, some estimate more than 100 boats are knocked out of commission. Read More »
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  ‘Gorgeous fish’: Steveston fishery workers haul in sockeye salmon bounty

  Trung Nguyen, selling sockeye off his boat at the Steveston Pier for $8 a pound, has been waiting four years for this moment. Nguyen and other Read More »

• Furey says changes to cod catch are an ‘affront’ to N.L. in letter to federal fisheries minister

  In a letter to Diane Lebouthillier, dated July 3, Furey says the provincial government is concerned about the changes, announced June 26. “Changes that provide increased Read More »

• US downgrades Thailand to lowest ranking in human trafficking index for ‘systematic failure’ to prosecute slavers

  In January this year the Thai embassy in Washington signed a $400,000-plus deal with leading US law firm Holland & Knight. The money was for lobbying Read More »

• Why Aren’t Environmental Groups Divesting from Fossil Fuels? Some of big green’s most powerful players still invest in energy companies.

  THEY ARE STEALING OUR OCEAN. FOR PROFIT!!!  SOME BUYING FISH QUOTA!!Why do some of the largest environmental organizations still invest in fossil fuels? As outlined in Read More »
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  Future-Proofed Trawler for Hvide Sande

  Taking delivery of a new trawler capable of alternating shrimping and targeting flatfish, Hvide Sande fisherman Torben Johansen remains optimisti, but he has few kind words Read More »

• Editorial: Fish and Wildlife must continue gillnetting on the Columbia

  It was good to see at last week’s Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Commission meeting in Salem that Lower Columbia River commercial fishermen still have Read More »

• NOAA gets low grades among fed workplaces – Patent and Trademark office #1 – The difference between destruction and production?

  A NOAA spokesman declined to comment on the survey results, instead issuing a statement that did not address the apparent increasing dissatisfaction among the agency’s employees Read More »
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  President Donald J Trump:“We are reopening the Northeast Canyons to commercial fishing”, Threatens New EU, China Tariffs Over Maine Lobster

  President Trump on Friday announced that he will reopen the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument off the coast of Massachusetts for commercial fishing. “We’re Read More »
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  Potential coral protection rules could have big impact on Downeast lobstermen

  The New England Fishery Management Council has put rules to protect deep sea corals on the fast track, rules that will have a major impact on Read More »