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Along the Coast, Bearin’s, Classifieds, Coming Events,

Editorial, Fleet Addition, Letters, Lobster Market Report

Maine Line, News Catch, SAFE BOAT, Shop Talk and

Featured News Articles:

• River herring catch caps

• Red’s Best taps local foods trend

• Lobster prices - Anticipating Canada openings

• A dose of monkfish relief

• Maine elvers – Harvest cuts; swipe card reporting

• Scallop RSA – Powerful fishery tool

• Rothschild: Celebrating industry’s friend

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Along the Coast, Bearin’s, Classifieds, Coming Events, Editorial, Guest Column, Letters, Lobster Market Report, Maine Line, News Catch, SAFE BOAT, Shop Talk

and

Featured News Articles:

• Controversial yellowtail ban for scallopers

• Maine takes scallop emergency action

• Rhode Island wind farm - A model for fishermen involvement

• Maine Marine Patrol launches 38-Foot Dirigo II

• Wear PFDs – Wintertime, anytime safety advantage

Plus the Editorial and much more…

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This month’s edition includes:

Along the Coast, Bearin’s, Classifieds, Coming Events, Editorial, FISH SAFE, Guest Columns 7,13

Letters, Lobster Market Report, NE Groundfish History, News Catch, Shop Talk and

Featured News Articles:

• Closed Areas I, II access outrage
• Late season bluefin bite off NJ
• Shrimp Moratorium – No fishing in 2014
• Herring/haddock – Face-off at NE council meeting
• Dogfish quota up, but no market fix
• CFRF whelk, lobster, scallop project results
  

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Along the Coast, Bearin’s, Classifieds, Coming Events, Editorial,

FISH SAFE, Guest Columns, Letters, Lobster Market Report,

Maine Line, NE groundfish history, News Catch, Shop Talk and

Featured News Articles:

• Scallops, yellowtail

• Fishing the Ochse way

• Northeast snapshot - Scallops, lobsters dominate

• CT enacts pesticide ban

• MSC certification - Branding ME lobster fishery

• FISH SAFE - What happened to the Lady Mary

PLUS

• NOAA Fisheries Navigator

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This month’s edition includes:
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Editorial, SAFE BOAT, Guest Columns, Lobster Market Report,
Maine Line, New Boats, Shop Talk

and

Featured News Articles:

• Bluefin hearing - Industry pans Amendment 7

• Health insurance for all

• Surf clams

• Titan - Grand Banks pays off

• Lobsters - Prices, data, collaborative

• Working Waterfront Festival weekend

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Editorial, FISH SAFE, Guest Columns, Letters, Lobster Market Report,
Maine Line, New Boats, Shop Talk

and

Featured News Articles:

Geir Monsen – Industry loses advocate

Scallop/skate project

Lobsters – Low prices, market report

Boat Building Focus – Buxton Boats; new scalloper

Herring – Amendment 5 and more

Elver issues unresolved at ASMFC

ALSO INSIDE: NOAA FISHERIES NAVIGATOR

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This month”s edition includes:
Along the Coast, Bearin’s, Classifieds, Coming Events,
Editorial, FISH SAFE, Guest Columns, Letters, Lobster Market Report,
Maine Line, New Boats, Shop Talk

and

Featured News Articles:

• Changing ocean – What does it all mean?

• More bluefin – big giants

• Lobsters – Prices, market questions

• Vertical lines proposed rule

• Shrimp – Game plan for 2014

• Marine Engine Directory – Power listings for fishermen

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Along the Coast, Bearin’s, Classifieds, Coming Events,
Editorial, FISH SAFE, Guest Columns, Letters, Lobster Market Report,
Maine Line, New Boats, Shop Talk

and

Featured News Articles:
Wind energy - Historic first lease sale
Bluefin mania
Maine’s elver fishery
Lobsters - Canadian catch swamps markets
Menhaden - First-ever quotas for fewer fish
Sturgeon finding: ‘No-jeopardy’

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This month”s edition includes features:
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and News Articles:

• 2012 lobster settlement numbers
• Scallopers hit with restrictive yellowtail, dab catch limits
• Another imminent crisis: Gulf of Maine haddock
• White hake assessment leads to quota increase
• New minimum fish sizes to take effect July 1
• Distribution confuses cod abundance questions
• New England council asks NMFS to modify monkfish emergency action
• Longfin quid fishery gets new control date
• Paul Shuman: Innovative net designer
• Fishing industry rallies to demand aid, MSA flexibility
• Wind farm advice: Accept, engage, negotiate
• Wind farms: Ecosystem effects differ depending on species, seafloor features
• New Bedford breaks ground for terminal to support offshore wind construction
• Electrical systems: Vent, ground, protect to prevent onboard fires
• Dana’s Boat Shop
• Spat growout: There’s more to the ‘ME scalloper loses gonads’ story
• Slow lobster spring continues; turmoil in Canada
• Stonington, ME tackles lobster handling, quality issues, produces instructional DVD
• Fishermen’s used rope transformed into giant NYC art installation

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and News Articles:

• Wind Farms and the Fishing Industry
• Changing Ocean: Dogfish, seals, environment
• Avoiding yellowtail: SMAST, scallopers team up
• Lobsters - Market Report; Town Meeting; Union
• Tracing fish: Ocean to plate
• GEARNET: Fishermen partnerships

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and News Articles:

• NMFS weighs emergency action to lift northern monkfish trip limits
• Conch fishermen warned about perils of Asian horseshoe crab bait
• Maine Lobster earns MSC certification
• Gloucester summit: Huge potential to diversity working waterfront
• 2013 MLA awards
• Maine DMR holds off on pursuing new lobster rules
• lobster marketing bill sent to DMR for fee adjustments
• ‘Thumbs up’ to the Maine forum
• Section expands shrimp fishery for those still taking a stab at it
• AOL: 20 years and still going strong
• NMFS grants redfish exemption but industry calls program ‘unworkable’
• How to manage fluke? RI seeks industry input
• NE groundfish history: The only thing constant is change
• Flower’s Boats: ‘A long short ride’ so far

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and News Articles:

• Special Report- Cod despair
• Winter flouder bright spot
• Shrimp catch - Weather thwarts fleet
• ME scallops - How’re limited-access areas working out
• Looking deep for SNE lobsters
• Fishermen safety - Can’t beat training; attend courses
• NOAA FISHERIES NAVIGATOR

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and News Articles:

• Shrimp preseason tows disappointing
• Dogfish: Research reveals migration surprises
• Hundreds turn out at Maine lobster meetings
• Scallops: Access area changes, gen cat IFQ fleet flexibility, and more
• Safe, effective use of flares
• End of an era on Martha’s Vineyard

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and News Articles:

• SPECIAL REPORT - Shrimp
• Bluefin tuna quota unchanged at ICCAT
• Maine Lobster: Talk with commissioner at public forums
• New boat launches, Khristy Michelle, Miller Time
• Atlantic herring: Expect quotas to rise; lawsuit fallout
• Lobster symposium covers science bases
• Students bring fresh eyes to gear design

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and News Articles:

• Sandy slams the Northeast; NJ shore takes biggest hit
• MA pushes to modify ‘ambiguous’ zero tolerance lobster v-notch rule
• ASMFC alerts lobstermen to CA II agreement, future area changes
• GET INVOLVED! It Might Change Where You Fish
• Trawl to Table connects fishermen to consumers
• Bluefin: Assessment bodes well for recovery
• Dogfish quota hike hailed, but processors face challenges
• In praise of the mighty biscuit

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and News Articles:

• Georges Bank yellowtail quota fears
• Scallopers welcomed with double christening
• NMFS shifts harbor porpoise closure to Feb/March
• NE council moves to protect Elephant Trunk seed scallops
• Rebuilt Commercial Fisheries Center of RI opens
• Dam removals aid groundfish rebuilding
• Another Working Waterfront Festival success

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• Focus on Lobsters – Prices, marketing, handling, boats, and more
• Seafreeze buys former Pt. Judith co-op plant
• Scalloper Liberty rebuilt from stem to stern
• Shrimp section considers allocating quota by state/gear in Addendum I
• Dogfish: Fishermen still struggle, despite quota hike, MSC label

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and News Articles:

• ASMFC keeps dogfish quota rollover at 5% max
• ASMFC adopts Areas 2 and 3 lobster trap reduction program
• Eat lobsters; abundant supply, prices low
• Cornell Cooperative Extension launches monkfish RSA study
• Herring spawning issues continue to command industry attention
• Groundfish: Foreboding cuts on 2013 horizon

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• Lobster Price Plummets
• Herring Amendment 5
• Climate change, NMFS assesses stock impacts
• Yelowtail quota shift: Scallopers to groundfish fleet
• Maine considers split area scallop plan
• Bullard new NMFS RA
• Engine Directory

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and News Articles:

• Maine trappers for new shrimp association
• Longliners won’t benefit from swordfish revitalization
• Bluefin market report: Cautions optimism as season starts
• GOM gillnetters under Oct/Nov closure to protect harbor porpoise
• Sluggish lobster demand: downward price pressure
• Scallop RSA program funds 13 more projects
• NMFS, ASMFC ultimately agree on 2012 dogfish quota, trip limit

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and News Articles:

• More trouble for groundfish stocks
• SNE lobster cuts approved
• Gloucester revives commission
• Concordia - Outfitting a community affair
• Maine Forum - lots of coverage, photos, awards
• Gear work trims blackback bycatch

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• In New Bedford - Commercial Marine Expo
• Skate TALS - Wing limits unchanged
• Ron Smolowitx - A tip of the hat
• Yelllowtail cut a fleet crippler
• Monkfish control date
• Time for another look at butterfish
• Lots of Lobsters - Assessments, markets and more

and much much more!

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• Scaqllop, groundfish study biggest ever
• GOM cod - an interim reprieve
• Troubled lobster company closes
• Herring Area 1A open days
• River herring - avoiding hot spots
• Maine lobster marketing plan

…and much much more

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• SPECIAL REPORT - GOM Cod
• Record lobster catch in Maine
• DMR Commissioner Keliher
• Shrimp turmoil, abrupt closure
• Herring - Spawning regs; Amendment 5 hearings
• SNE lobsters - doomed by rising water temps?
• Black sea bass tagging

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• Scallop survey findings
• Squid net modification
• Bluefin series stunning conclusion
• Vanuish - Scalloper designed with fishermen in mind
• Lobster - Processors have busy December
• Bill Whipple tribute
• NEFMC HERRING AMENDMENT 5 OVERVIEW

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• Groundfish trials intensity
• Scalloper Concordia launches in Fairhaven
• Lobsters - Eat ‘em fresh over the holidays
• Bluefin Part 6 - Challenging slog to east-west mixing proof
• BASE auctions

… and much, much more!

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