Maine legislature asked to limit menhaden licenses
Regulators in the US state want to limit licenses because they feel too many fishermen are harvesting menhaden, and that has raised the possibility of overfishing
Oregon harvesters ‘on high alert’ against wind farm zones
'The map is changing everything and putting everybody on high alert. This is just taking it up a notch' -- Tim Novotny, spokesman, Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission
US Coast Guard cites vessel off Alaskan coast for catching halibut during offseason
The crew of the cutter Bailey Barco reported finding 18 halibut and one lingcod when they boarded the 38-foot vessel named Competition off the coast of Kodiak
NGOs raise concern over rapid growth of Antarctic krill industry
In 2020, vessels caught 450,000t of krill, the highest volume in a decade, leading to fears it could very soon reach and push to increase the 650,000t cap
Australian seafood body cheers findings of gov’t meat-labeling inquiry
Seafood Industry Australia has long held a position that there should be stricter regulation on the naming of alternative protein products
Iceland the focus of NRS’ planned $88m capex spend for 2022
NRS expects to phase out its use of triploid salmon, release the first big smolt from its new facility, and open a new Icelandic processing facility this year
First Nations get $9.18m grants in British Columbia
The funding came as part of Canada's Pacific Integrated Commercial Fisheries Initiative, fisheries and oceans minister Joyce Murray said.
Pakistani harvesters end blockade of Karachi port
This week's protest follows another in the port city of Gwadar in December, against trawling by Chinese fishing trawlers and vessels from Sindh
Maine lawmakers reject forming legal fund to fight right whale regs
The fund would have been designed to help the industry challenge rules and regulations intended to protect the North Atlantic right whale
Anti-Pebble Mine group launches $100k ad campaign to ‘finish the job’
The Bristol Bay Defense Fund on Tuesday announced that it has launched a new $100,000 digital, print and television advertising campaign
