Tag: Fisheries

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The Study of Fish Tagging for Coastal Fisheries Management

5/14/2024 - By Frank Sargeant. Fish tagging is a powerful tool for the study of fish in coastal fisheries management where ever it’s used, allowing fishery scientists and fishery managers to keep tabs on the growth, mobility and to some extent the mortality rate of various fish. When anglers recapture a tagged… SEE MORE

Great Lakes Fishing Decree: a new era of commercial fishing

4/13/2024 - By Carli Stewart. Updated guidelines for fishery resources in parts of the Great Lakes will be in effect for the next 24 years. The Great Lakes Fishing Decree was approved on Aug. 24, 2023, by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan. According to the state’s Department… SEE MORE

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$4.3 Million Will Support Habitat Restoration in Coastal Louisiana

3/7/2024 - By ecomagazine.com. The Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act Program has approved more than $4.3 million in funding for the NOAA-sponsored South Delacroix Marsh Creation Project. NOAA works through CWPPRA to restore habitat and support resilient communities and sustainable fisheries along the Louisiana coast. Funding will support engineering and design of… SEE MORE

Alaska Senator Introduces New Bill to Strengthen Coastal Workforce, Fisheries, and Infrastructure

2/24/2024 - By Carli Stewart. Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski introduced the Working Waterfront Act, legislation that includes more than a dozen provisions aimed at boosting the workforce, energy and shoreside infrastructure, food security, and economies of coastal communities in Alaska and across the country. The bill will also support efforts to mitigate… SEE MORE

Rebuilding in Maine

2/4/2024 - By Paul Molyneaux. Two back-to-back storms devastated the coast of Maine from Jan. 10-13, flooding shoreside infrastructure and tearing away many of the docks that serve the state’s commercial fisheries. Photos of damage from Kittery to Canada filled pages on FaceBook and Instagram. Now that the waves have diminished and the tides… SEE MORE

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Seabirds Can Help Predict the Size of Fish Stocks—If Only We’d Listen

12/25/2023 - By Abby McBride. The scientists who study terns, puffins, and other fish-eating birds are trying to get fisheries managers to heed their warnings. In 2015, fisheries managers monitoring Atlantic herring in the waters off the United States and Canada made a grave miscalculation. Things were looking good for the multimillion-dollar… SEE MORE

New Funding and Coordinated Action to Help Bring California Salmon Back from the Brink

11/14/2023 - By fisheries.noaa.gov. NOAA and its partners are implementing dozens of projects to benefit endangered Central California Coast coho salmon. The Office of Habitat Conservation’s Restoration Center has awarded an unprecedented $27.8 million to its partners through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act to bring Central California Coast coho salmon back to California rivers. NOAA… SEE MORE

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Fishing through the cracks: The unregulated nature of global squid fisheries

10/26/2023 - By science.org. Seafood represents one of the most widely traded food products globally (1, 2), yet the movements and activities of global industrial fishing fleets remain notoriously opaque. These fleets are characterized by limited oversight of their activities (3), a shifting landscape of national and international policy and regulation (4, 5), and… SEE MORE

A warming Gulf Stream is edging ever closer to shore

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10/24/2023 - By pressherald.com. The shifting current may cause breakaway areas of warm water that raise temperatures in the Gulf of Maine for months at a time, a study finds. Over the last 20 years, the Gulf Stream has warmed faster than the global oceans and shifted closer to the shore, increasing… SEE MORE

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Fisheries Disaster Declaration sought in Bering Sea Crab Fishery

10/11/2023 - By nationalfisherman.com. With a virtually complete shutdown of Bering Sea crab fishing at hand, fishermen, and Alaska communities are seeking an expedited fishery disaster declaration from the federal government. The emergency is felt acutely on St. Paul Island, where the largely Aleut community of about 400 live on an economy… SEE MORE

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