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Climate plan must include fishermen’s knowledge
A developing U.S. Ocean Climate Action Plan needs to draw on fishermen’s ecological knowledge, and protect the seafood industry’s role in coastal culture, economic and food security.
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Young Fishermen Are Struggling to Stay Afloat
Lucas Raymond has been working as a deckhand on a boat that catches monkfish, pollock, hake, and occasional cod out of New Hampshire’s Rye Harbor for the last decade.
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Senators Seek Disaster Declaration
Last month Bristol Bay king crab and Bering Sea snow crab season were cancelled after low population counts during the summer.
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Illegal bottom trawling common inside Mediterranean
The Mediterranean Sea isn’t the source of plenty it once was. It now contains some of the most ecologically degraded marine areas in the world, and has been the site of dead zones and fish stock collapses in recent tim
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Maine's leaders welcome pause on whale protection
Maine’s leaders are welcoming a court-imposed two year delay of federal whale protection rules that are expected to impact the state's lucrative lobster industry.
White House ocean climate plan must include fishermen’s ecological knowledge, advocates say
Whales Off California Coast Delay Commercial Crab Season
How NOAA Prepares for Entanglements During Whale Season in Hawaiʻi
ICCAT agrees to measures for Atlantic bluefin, mako sharks
AquaBounty’s GE salmon back under FDA assessment
Peltola, 1st Alaska Native in Congress, Wins Full Term
Young Fishermen Are Struggling to Stay Afloat
Western Pacific Scientists to Discuss NWHI Fishing Regulations and Longline Fishery Interaction Studies Next Week
FDA issues a final rule on food traceability, list includes most seafood
California Market Squid Fishery Begins MSC Assessment
CALIFORNIA: Dungeness crab season delayed due to concerns for whale safety and meat quality
Senators Seek Disaster Declaration After Crab Season Cancelled
Illegal bottom trawling widespread inside Mediterranean marine protected areas
College of the Holy Cross Launches the “John P. Connelly ’84 Student Stipend Fund” in honor of late National Fisheries Institute President and CEO
- White House ocean climate plan must include fishermen’s ecological knowledge, advocates say
- Peltola, 1st Alaska Native in Congress, Wins Full Term
- Control of US Congress remains in the balance as election results filter in
Washington
- CALIFORNIA: Dungeness crab season delayed due to concerns for whale safety and meat quality
- MAINE: Maine’s leaders welcome pause on whale protection rules
- OREGON: Crab quality delays season open
State & Local
- Op-ed: Fishermen are conservationists at heart, but we need federal investments to ensure healthy oceans
- Commentary: Our nation’s fisheries face a common enemy: climate change
- Commentary: For Seafood Watch, facts apparently don’t matter
Opinion
- Whole Foods to ‘pause’ sales of Maine lobster after sustainable label downgrades
- Looming railroad strike, barge back-up straining US supply chains
- Inflation harming US seafood sales, but sales decline improves
Economic Impact
- Whales Off California Coast Delay Commercial Crab Season
- FDA issues a final rule on food traceability, list includes most seafood
- Senators Seek Disaster Declaration After Crab Season Cancelled
Fisheries Management
- Canadian operation uncovers illegal fishing in North Pacific
- Fighting Labor Abuses in the Seafood Sector
- AI may help authorities track ‘ghost’ fishing boats
Enforcement
- ICCAT agrees to measures for Atlantic bluefin, mako sharks
- Illegal bottom trawling widespread inside Mediterranean marine protected areas
- Cooke Inc. acquires Tassal Group Limited
International Trade
- How NOAA Prepares for Entanglements During Whale Season in Hawaiʻi
- California Market Squid Fishery Begins MSC Assessment
- Meet SharkGuard, a tiny electric field that protects sharks from fishing nets
Conservation & Environment
- Mills, Maine delegation relieved by judge’s decision to delay stricter lobstering rules
- Judge rules two-year extension before lobster industry regulation changes
- Biden administration wins reprieve in fixing Endangered Species Act flaws
Legal
- Western Pacific Scientists to Discuss NWHI Fishing Regulations and Longline Fishery Interaction Studies Next Week
- States Schedule Public Hearings on Atlantic Striped Bass Draft Addendum I
- Comment Period Extended for Atlantic Surfclam and Ocean Quahog Species Separation Requirements Amendment
