Cameras on boats: Fisheries Minister Shane Jones rails against ‘state surveillance’ in call against footage becoming public
Privacy considerations lie at the heart of the Government’s decision whether to exempt footage captured by cameras on commercial fishing boats from the Official Information Act. Oceans and Fisheries ...
Major shake-up of fishing quota system on the way
The courts should deal with illegal fishing, not the "court of public opinion", Shane Jones says, as he announces proposed changes to the Quota Management System.
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Maryland launches pilot programs to incentivize fishing for invasive blue catfish
Maryland’s natural resources department is incentivizing commercial watermen and charter boat captains to capture blue ...
California loves Dungeness crab. But concerns over whale safety put industry in peril
California's Dungeness crab industry is under increasing regulation because of concerns over whales getting entangled in ...
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Commercial aims to put the New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center on the map. Watch it here.
New Bedford's Fishing Heritage Center is featured in a new commercial looking at America's most valuable fishing port. Watch it here.
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Tiger Poachers Are Relying On Fishing Boats To Smuggle Illegal Parts, And This Knowledge Could Help With Efforts To Save The Critically Endangered Cats
Teams of tiger poachers in Malaysia have been using commercial fishing boats that are part of a complex network of […] ...
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The $50 million question: Can California’s Dungeness crab fishery coexist with whale conservation efforts?
Generations of fishermen have fueled a vibrant Coastside community, but for an increasing number of fishermen, passion isn’t ...
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Trafficking crackdown: Officials inspect Phuket fishing boats
Phuket Vice Governor Ronnarong Thipsiri led a thorough inspection of several commercial fishing boats in Phuket.
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Bristol Bay data show widening gap in fishermen’s earnings
Last year’s lower-than-average Bristol Bay salmon harvest likely went a long way toward long-term polarization of the drift ...
Captain calls for halt to at-sea boarding after SA fisheries boat capsizes
The routine boarding of a fishing vessel in SA's Spencer Gulf went wrong last week and a seaman who witnessed the incident ...
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The last skipper in Ouzinkie: How Gulf of Alaska villages lost their Native fishing fleets
A system designed in the 1970s was supposed to make Alaska’s commercial fishing industry more sustainable and more profitable ...