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  Pacific Fishery Management Council meeting in Spokane, Washington, June 7-13, 2018

  The Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) and its advisory bodies will meet June 7-13, 2018 in Spokane, Washington to address issues related to groundfish, coastal pelagic Read More »

• Scientists, Fishing Fleet Team Up To Save Cod — By Listening

  In the ocean off of Massachusetts, an unlikely alliance of scientists and fishermen is on a quest. They’re looking for mating codfish. The goal is not Read More »
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  In praise of a Newfoundland and Labrador fisheries advocate

  I write regarding a letter from Gus Etchegary of the Fishery Community Alliance published in your paper on Feb. 22, 2021 (“A fish-damned tale”). I can Read More »
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  Fisheries management at ‘rock bottom’, N.L. group says

  The Fishery Community Alliance is claiming fish that is landed and exported from a number of ports in Newfoundland and Labrador with cold storage facilities is Read More »
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  Coronavirus: Shellfish industry calls for government support – Fishermen face bleak year as pandemic bites

  The East Yorkshire coast is home to the UK’s largest crab and lobster fishing industry, with about 80% of the catch exported. Fishing has been suspended Read More »

• Two N.C. fishermen behind bars -Found with more than 16 times the legal possession limit of red drum

  When the Marine Patrol officers inspected the contents of the truck, they found 113 red drum weighing 657 pounds, including 14 fish that were greater than Read More »
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  Berkeley Marina’s last full-time salmon fisherman is quitting the commercial fishing business after 25 years.

  The Hudsons’ boat, the 40-foot Cash Flo II, is the only remaining full-time commercial salmon fishing operation berthed at the marina. Their business has no middlemen: Read More »

• U.S. Customs and Border Patrol wins one against American fish-shipping companies for violating antiquated Jones Act

  Two seafood shipping companies have settled a lawsuit challenging penalties and fines levied by U.S. Customs and Border Protection for violating the Jones Act, a more Read More »
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  Breakable lines, remote control traps: Maine lobstermen grapple with an onslaught of new rules

  Last week federal officials announced they aim to deploy high-tech fishing gear on as many as 100 lobster and crab boats in New England. It’s the Read More »
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  Murrells Inlet fishing community celebrates life of pioneer who passed unexpectedly

  The fishing village of Murrells Inlet recently lost a true pioneer with the death of Phil Conklin, a fisherman extraordinaire and longtime owner of Seven Seas Read More »

• Dick Grachek responds to “Cod stocks on south coast of Newfoundland ‘OK but not great’

  From the above linked article posted on Fishery Nation.com: “The spawning stock is now between the ages for four and seven years, which [lead researcher Rick] Read More »

• Blue power: Will ocean waves be California’s new source of clean energy?

  The world’s oceans may be vast, but they are getting crowded. Coastal areas are congested with cargo ships, international commercial fishing fleets, naval vessels, oil rigs Read More »

• Watch House Natural Resources Committee Magnuson-S​tevens Act Hearing LIVE 10:00 am ET – 3/13/2013

  Watch the hearing live (10:00 AM ET) PANEL I *         Bob Jones, Executive Director, Southeastern Fisheries Association *         Read More »

• Khong Yai fishermen threaten to idle boats

  The fisheries association in Trat’s Khlong Yai district has threatened to stop work on July 1, the deadline set by the government for all fishing boats Read More »
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  Enviros sue Trump Administration for Failing to Protect Endangered West Coast Orcas

  Conservation groups sued the Trump administration today for ignoring a legal petition to protect critically endangered Southern Resident killer whales in the heart of their Salish Read More »
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  Green Gold Rush: What happened to Maine’s once-robust sea urchin industry?

  In the United States’ easternmost city, you’ll find Paul Cox and his crew working early on the water. In late winter, they’re after a spikey, green, Read More »

• Unalaskans Question Funding for Arctic Research – are we going to be reassured that our existing science in the Bering Sea and the North Pacific is going to be there for the future?

  Right now, the studies are coming out of two different pots: NOAA covers fishery surveys in the Bering Sea. They couldn’t afford to do the Arctic Read More »
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  The man who destroyed the West Coast rock lobster

  It took only 14 years for Cape Town businessman Arnold Bengis to decimate one of South Africa’s most treasured marine species. Now he is being made to Read More »
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  For Acadian fisherman, early Mi’kmaq fishery in N.S. bay can ‘never’ be respected

  As he stands calmly splicing anchor rope, Roger LeBlanc describes the anxiety, anger and suspicion over a Mi’kmaq lobster fishery that is coursing through his small Read More »

• Norway: Protection zone’s unexpected consequences hit local fishermen

  Norway’s Directorate of Fisheries is being urged to issue a dispensation allowing commercial fishermen to fish for wrasse and crab inside a newly created conservation area Read More »
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  Recovered: Sunken fishing trawler Dianne to be lifted on to land

  A fishing trawler in which six men died last year will be lifted on to land four months after it sank off the Queensland coast. The Read More »

• High-Ranking Alaskans Call on U.S. State Department to Intervene with Canada over British Columbia Mine Threats

  A broad coalition of Alaskans, including the state’s bipartisan congressional delegation and some of its largest commercial fishing organizations, urges U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Read More »

• Canadian Coast Guard saves lives every day-

  There was a full house at the latest luncheon meeting of the Rotary Club of St. John’s, to hear from John Butler, assistant commissioner with the Read More »

• Drastic groundfishing cuts approved by fishery management agency

  UPDATE… 6:27 PM Wed. New England Fisheries Management Council recommends cutting Cod fishing limits in the Gulf of Maine by 77% and in George’s Bank by Read More »

• New Hampshire’s U.S. Rep. Frank Guinta calls for NOAA to stop at-sea monitoring or pay for it

  U.S. Rep. Frank Guinta’s bill would exempt fishermen from having to “comply with the independent, third-party monitoring program” required by the NOAA unless the federal fisheries Read More »