NORTH CAROLINA: Sustainable fisheries plates available
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You don’t have to take to the water to show your support of fisheries research. Motorists can now order a specialty North Carolina license place for the vehicle to support sustainable fisheries research.
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Massachusetts lawmakers schedule hearing on fish mislabeling
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The state Legislature’s Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure has scheduled a public hearing next week to address fish mislabeling in Massachusetts.
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Gloucester Fishing Community Preservation Fund shared $2 million with Boston and South Shore to comply with Massachusetts state environmental agency requirements
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The Gloucester Fishing Community Preservation Fund — the permit bank funded with $12 million to mitigate the siting of liquified natural gas terminals in fish-rich waters just off this city's shores — has granted about $2 million in cash and permits to two other permit banks associated with fishing business sectors in Boston and the South Shore.
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MAINE: Down East petition to open scallop fishing areas likely won’t sway closure decision
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EASTPORT, Maine — A petition that surfaced this week throughout Washington County asking the Maine Department of Marine Resources to reconsider last week’s decision to immediately close much of Cobscook Bay to scallop fishing is an exercise in futility, according to DMR Acting Commissioner Pat Keliher.
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MARYLAND: New tools aim to thwart striped bass poaching
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OFF KENT ISLAND —— Officers have returned to the scene of the crime, where last year they pulled up miles of illegal nets filled with 12.6 tons of striped bass from the frigid waters off Kent Island.
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