New Jersey bans the catch and sale of river herring after failing to provide adequate data
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New Jersey has shut down its river herring fishery partly
because it does not have the personnel or the funding to collect
the data it needs.
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Redrawn district complicates Keating’s bid for reelection
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PLYMOUTH - US Representative William R. Keating says he couldn’t be
happier with his new congressional district, which in last year’s
redistricting lost Quincy and six surrounding towns. The 9th Congressional District of Massachusetts now includes New
Bedford, America's most profitable fishing port, and eight other south coast communities.
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More dolphins wash ashore in New England
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BOSTON — Whether they got lost, sick or swam astray chasing food, 77 dolphins that beached on Cape Cod in recent weeks have died, the second time in three months New England has seen a mass of marine mammal deaths.
Now, scientists are trying to figure out why.
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US sets first catch limits in Caribbean fish
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—The U.S. government is imposing limits on the number of fish that commercial and recreational fishermen can catch in the waters it controls in the Caribbean, saying previous types of restrictions haven't protected dwindling populations of dozens of species.
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Cape fishermen cry foul on quotas
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HYANNIS — Cape and Islands fishermen told federal regulators Thursday that they needed greater protections to survive in a fishery where bigger boats with access to cash and fish quotas were outcompeting them on their traditional inshore fishing grounds.
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