Rhode Island Seafood Scene: Make room calamari, crabs are moving in
Another ocean-dwelling species, crab, has scuttled into a prominent position in the Rhode Island seafood scene, providing a welcome boost for beleaguered southern New England lobstermen. Read More »
Maine Lobster Boat Racing: NASCAR meets tractor pulls
To Patrick Hanley, it was the extra salt that did it. A 19-year-old lobsterman from Bass Harbor, Hanley ran about 6½ knots faster during the lobster Read More »
Dear Senator Warren
Dear Senator Warren , As a retired commercial fisherman, and your constituent, I am trying to help those fishermen that still exist. I want to out Read More »
North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for April 28, 2017
Click here to read the Weekly Update, to read all the updates, Click here 12:20 Read More »
Hurricane Irma holding steady as Category 3 storm in Atlantic
Hurricane Irma was holding steady Friday morning (Sept. 1) as a Category 3 storm in the Atlantic, forecasters with the National Hurricane Centersaid. It’s unclear what Read More »
Lower prices mark the end of spring lobster season
Lobster fishers were reflecting on what many have seen as a good spring season. “This season is pretty well on par with last season,” said Jake Read More »
Many Factors Will Affect 2013 Wild Salmon Prices
Fishermen’s News– About this time every year, the big question on the minds of commercial harvesters is what price per pound they will get for their Read More »
WWF alarmism raises even green eyebrows
If there was a performance bonus for most-improved propaganda, surely the spin doctors at the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) deserve the accolade. They issue The Read More »
No surprises in search and rescue critique, locals say – Auditor general’s report shines light on existing concerns, say politicians, fishermen
CBCNews – In St. John’s, Stephen Ryan said he’s fully aware of the problems with search and rescue. He lost his father and uncle when their Read More »
Capelin count: DFO spending $2.4M to study fishery ‘linchpin’
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is spending more time and money on understanding why capelin stocks haven’t recovered. “Capelin are a linchpin;that’s the simplest I Read More »
Massachusetts Marine Fisheries Institute Releases Summary of “Incorporating Environmental Change in Assessments and Management” Workshop
The meeting was held May 7-8 at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth School for Marine Science and Technology. continued Read More »
Final action set for trawl fleet king salmon bycatch limit – The council meets June 5 to 11 in Juneau. Crab, cod decisions due
As fisheries managers throughout Alaska prepare for low king salmon returns, federal regulators are considering new limits on king bycatch in the Gulf of Alaska. The Read More »
Opinion: Revitalizing waterfront is still up to sectors and Carlos Rafael
Carlos Rafael misreported his groundfish catch, and in its piece, “Time for NOAA to let Sector IX fish again,” the times is misreporting facts. First, NOAA Read More »
As It Was in 1928: Coastal Newspaper Editor Opposes Killing Sea Lions
On July 24, 1928, the editor of Port Orford News, George Sorenson, called for the end to wanton hunting of sea lions. The misguided carnage had Read More »
Biden Admin Approves New Jersey’s First Offshore Wind Project Amid Growing Local Pushback
The Atlantic Shores South project, given a green light by the U.S.Department of the Interiorlast week,calls for installing 200 towering wind turbines less than nine miles Read More »
Honoring a legacy: Commemorative tote honors Maine fishermen who died at sea
When Hayley Brown’s father Captain Joe Nickerson died at sea, she said she was in shock. And while the pain of losing her father is still Read More »
It’s oh-fish-ial! The 35th annual Blessing of the Fleet and Seafood Festival is returning this weekend. The festival has one purpose: To celebrate Mount Pleasant’s localfishingandshrimpingindustry.Held Read More »
Canadian boat builder plans to expand to Eastport, creating 50 jobs
EASTPORT, Maine — A long-established Canadian boat-building firm is expanding its operations to the Washington County community of Eastportlater this year, a project expected to create Read More »
‘This is my life’- 71 years a fisherman and counting
Moving away from the wheel, Alcide Arsenault draws in a chest full of salt air. “This is what I like,” he says.His hands are thrust wide Read More »
Watch House Natural Resources Committee Magnuson-Stevens 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 »
Plans weighed to bolster striped bass population – stock is not overfished and overfishing is not occurring
Fewer striped bass would be fished from local waters as soon as next year under a series of options being considered by federal fisheries regulators that Read More »
John Bullard – GARFO Administrator of NOAA Fisheries – YOU”RE ON THE PRICE IS RIGHT!! COME ON DOWN!!!
Published on Feb 17, 2014 “There’s room for everyone, if we plan.” John Bullard, Northeast Regional GARFO Administrator of NOAA Fisheries NMFSVIDEO Ocean Frontiers website: http://ocean-frontiers.org/ Read More »
NEA Statement on the Death of National Heritage Fellow Ralph W. Stanley
It is with great sadness that the National Endowment for the Arts acknowledges the passing of Master BoatbuilderRalph W. Stanley, recipient of a 1999 NEA National Read More »
Trawl fleet continuing to fish for Pacific cod, first committee hearing to advance Dr. Roland Maw, lively and contentious!
The boats fishing for Pacific cod with pots in the central Gulf of Alaska federal season finally wrapped up their 17.9 million pound quota Monday, a Read More »
The unusual, mysterious American eel
I recently watched a man fishing in the Arkansas River at Little Rock who caught an American eel. When he set the hook, the angler was Read More »
