MYSTIC, CT – Four years after its initiation, the New England Fishery Management Council (NEMFC) has approved the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for Amendment 18 to the Northeast Multispecies (Groundfish) Fishery Management Plan.
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By the time most of you see this, the pages of the old shop calendar will have turned to June. And that means just one thing.
The start of another season of lobster boat racing here on the coast of Maine … and by all early indications this one...
By Brian Robbins
Welcome to another CFN Shakedown Cruise.
Periodically, we will focus on a new launch and dig a little deeper into what went into the project – whether it be a new model or a hull well-known to the New England commercial marke...
by Brett Tolley
Control over the iconic New England groundfish is concentrating into fewer hands because of catch share policy, and the future of our ocean and seafood system is at stake.
According to last year’s National Marine Fisheries Ser...
The following is Part 2 of a column that began in the last issue. To see Part 1, view online here, CFN May, 2015.
—Editor
The Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2010 requires the Coast Guard to prescribe and develop, in cooperation with the c...
MYSTIC, CT – At the end of the New England Fishery Management Council’s (NEFMC) April meeting, the council requested that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) prepare an estimate of the cost-revenue ratio for at-sea monitoring of Northeas...
The following is this year’s “Update 2014 to the American Lobster Settlement Index,” prepared and presented here by Rick Wahle and his colleagues at the University of Maine’s Darling Center. Our thanks to Dr. Wahle and his team for sharing ...
SWANS ISLAND, ME – Lobsterman Jason Joyce didn’t get into selling LED lights because he was looking for a side business … he simply wanted to be able to see what he was doing when it was dark.
After experimenting with numerous types of bulbs...