Coast Guard Responds to Fishing Vessel in distress off South Carolina coast
The Coast Guard responded to a vessel taking on water Saturday, 48 miles southeast of Folly Beach, South Carolina. No injurieswere reported, and the vessel did Read More »
North Carolina Fisheries Association Weekly Update for January 31, 2023
Snapper Grouper Discard Mortality Reduction & Private Rec. Permitting (Amendments 35 & 46)/REMINDER: Southern Shrimp Alliance Needs Your Help/Legislative Update. The last year or so the Read More »
1 man dead, 1 survivor after lobster boat overturns in St. George’s Bay
One man is dead while another survived after a lobster boat overturned in St. George’s Bay on Newfoundland’s west coast on Friday morning. Bay St. George Read More »
Fishing in murky waters: the administration’s secretive oceans policies come under fire
The Obama administration is using its “phone and pen” method of governing by executive actionto push its agenda and extendits powers in a huge new area: Read More »
For shrimper severely burned in boat explosion, ‘angels’ provide a chance for life
Ryan Barcot has a guardian angel or two, maybe more. Badly burned in a shrimp boat explosion near Grand Isle, he clung to a life raft Read More »
Hurricane Dorian relief effort, thousands in need of help, at least 30 dead.
An international relief effort picked up across the Bahamas on Thursday after Hurricane Dorian, one of the most intense storms ever to hit the Caribbean, swept Read More »
N.S. lobster facility temporarily halts processing, blames lower catches
The Montreal-based owners of Riverside Lobster International at Meteghan, N.S., say the plant will not process lobster this fall and winter, citing lower catches in Maine Read More »
American Samoa: F/V Jackson T kicked out – The vessel which is based in Hawaii is here to pick up a fishing crew
A US fishing vessel was ordered to leave port yesterday because it did not give prior notice of its arrival as required. [emailprotected] Read More »
Gold Coast prawn prices ‘highest in 35 years’ ahead of Christmas according to seafood shops
Seafood lovers have been told to brace for an expensive festive season with Gold Coast prawn prices already at a 35-year high at some retailers. The Read More »
F/V Winona J: Catching up with ‘Deadliest Catch Dungeon Cove’ crew
Captain Mike Retherford Jr. says he’s never been afraid for his life fishing off theOregon Coast, but he’s witnessed some close calls in his lifetime of Read More »
BREAKING: FFAW AND ASP REACH AGREEMENT TO GET SNOW CRAB FISHERY STARTED
This evening, the Association of Seafood Producers (ASP) reached an agreement with the FFAW Snow Crab Bargaining Committee, ensuring the start of the 2024 snow crab Read More »
New Simrad Sy50 Fish-Finding Omni-Sonar Integrates Advanced Functionality In A Compact Package
A new compact fish-finding omni-sonar has joined Simrad’s market-leading product portfolio with the launch of the Simrad SY50. Designed with small coastal fishing vessels in mind, Read More »
OPINION: Ban seismic testing, offshore drilling of NJ coast
Summer is in full swing at the Jersey Shore. Over the next couple of months and into the fall, millions of visitors will head “down the Read More »
Senators Warren and Markey calls for review of Canada’s protections of endangered right whales
Two U.S. senators from Massachusetts, including presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, are calling for an investigation of Canada’s regulatory measures to protect the North Atlantic right whale.,,,Their Read More »
Searchers find second ship from doomed expedition
The second of two British explorer ships that vanished in the Arctic nearly 170 years ago during a storied expedition to find the fabled Northwest Passage Read More »
And then they came for the lobstermen… Phil Shannon
Originally posted September 1, 2012 According to the “NOAA Fisheries Implementation Plan of the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries” 2012 document, the New England Read More »
2023 was another bad year for chinook, fall chum salmon, Yukon River Panel hears
Alaska and Yukon representatives met in Whitehorse last week to discuss the 2023 chinook and fall chum salmon runs on the Yukon River, which once again Read More »
New Seine Skiff Based on Tug Boat Design
In June, 2014, Seattle-based Snow Boat Company delivered a new 24-foot by 13-foot seine skiff to King Cove, Alaska for the area M salmon fishery. The Read More »
Foreign fishermen settle human trafficking suit
Two Indonesian fishermen who say they were enslaved on an American fishing boat have settled their lawsuit against the vessel’s owner seven years after escaping and Read More »
Coast Guard chopper plucks sick fisherman from F/V Sao Paulo
The boat’s crew called Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England at approximately 3:50 p.m., and the helicopter had the fisherman off the boat by 6 p.m., Read More »
‘Without us, you don’t have Louisiana:’ Struggling shrimpers warn lawmakers industry is on brink of collapse
For longtime shrimp boat captain Kip Marquize, it’s a race against time. “We are the heart of Louisiana. Without us, you don’t have Louisiana,” Marquize said Read More »
Young Rye NH fisherman reels in National Geographic viewers
THE National Geographic show “Wicked Tuna” are already making plans to visit Rye Harbor this summer to spend a day at sea with one of the Read More »
Video – Louisiana anglers want control of red-snapper fishery, survey shows
This year for the first time, NOAA Fisheries separated the recreational charter fleet from private-boat anglers, offering federally licensed guides a 44-day red snapper season. That Read More »
Meet the women behind the nets – Net Mending Through the eye of a needle
Joan Songer’s fingers tug at the twine, and she reels in a net as green and salty as the tide. This is where she loves it Read More »
Wally Ericson – A Truely Interesting Guy. A former dredger recalls shaping the Pinellas coast
Before Wally Ericson made a career from boatbuilding and fishing, which took him as far north as Canada and as far south as Nicaragua, and before Read More »
