New Bedford and Dutch Harbor-Unalaska Remain Top Fishing Ports
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New Bedford, Massachusetts, remained the nation's top port in terms of value of the catch for the ninth year in a row, primarily due to sea scallops, with a total value of landings of $241.3 million in 2008. Commercial landings at Dutch Harbor-Unalaska, Alaska were 612.7 million pounds of fish and shellfish in 2008, mostly pollock, making it the country's top port for the amount of fish landed in terms of weight for the 20th consecutive year.
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Maine fishermen banking future on permits
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Much of the fish population along Maine's coast has disappeared. Efforts are now under way to ensure the same thing doesn't happen to the state's fishermen.
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Economy still means low prices for fishermen
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Local commercial groundfishermen and vessel owners have fish prices on
their minds, besides the upcoming fisheries management of Amendment 16.
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Program aims to preserve Maine fishing communities
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Conservation groups and state officials say initiatives to purchase
commercial fishing rights and distribute them to local fishermen will
help preserve Maine's fishing communities.
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Fishing catch shares suddenly become hot 'commodities'
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Two months before the Environmental Defense Fund achieved a political
policy triumph with the vote last week to transform the New England
groundfishery from a commonly held resource into negotiable
commodities, a bullish EDF executive was urging institutional investors
to buy these catch shares.
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