The city of Rockland is trimming its tree for the holiday season in a way only a fishing community can. The tree is made out of 143 lobster traps. And it will be decorated by buoys donated by local fishermen. Members of the Penobscot Bay Chamber of Commerce and the Dowtown Merchants Alliance built […]
New Delhi- The government has decided to make another appeal to World Trade Organization to set up a panel for resolving a dispute with the US over exports of marine products from India. India had approached the WTO after the US Government tried to restrict imports of marine products such as shrimps. However, the […]
Maine Shrimp fishermen in New England will be able to fish for 151 days during the upcoming northern shrimp season, eleven days longer than last year. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s shrimp committee has approved a season that will run from December first through April 30th. Chairman Ritchie White said the commission’s efforts to […]
Sea Turtle ensnared in left over crab nets
Commercial fishing is one of the most dangerous jobs to be found anywhere on earth but it is an important job as it provides a large portion of the world’s food supply.
To the fishermen, nets and crab pots are their tools of their trade. Some of these […]
North Atlantic Whale
Lobster fishermen will find out Monday how a number of rare and endangered North Atlantic right whales that are lingering longer than usual in the Bay of Fundy will affect their season. As many as 50 of the slow-moving whales have been reported along the southern New Brunswick coast in the last […]
Sunday October 15th was the first day of stone crab season. It’s a day that not only local fisherman look forward too but also fans who love to chow down on the sweet and delicate tasting seafood. In 2005, Hurricane Wilma caused up to three quarters of the stone crab trap inventory to be lost […]
Shrimp boats were flung far and wide, and literally left hung out to dry near the Alabama Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Alabama Gov. Bob Riley requested funding from the Bush-Clinton Katrina fund to remove stranded shrimp boats from involuntary dockings on land and return them to their rightful place at sea. […]
Police say 288 cases of crab meat stolen from a cold-storage facility could be bad for consumers’ health. The $85,000 worth of canned crab meat was being held on orders of federal inspectors because it may contain an unapproved animal antibiotic. The Little River Lump Crab meat could not be sold until it was inspected […]
It has swum the waters of the earth for 400 million years, predating mankind and even the dinosaurs, but now the peculiar horseshoe crab is facing its biggest survival challenge. Pollution and the development of shorelines in Hong Kong is destroying the spawning and nursery grounds of the crab, one of the world’s oldest and […]
The heart-healthy benefits of eating seafood overshadow any risk posed by mercury or other dangerous contaminants, the Institute of Medicine reported this week. Still, consumers are perplexed and need help figuring out which fish and shellfish they should eat, according to the institute, which advises the government on health policy. “The confusion may have scared […]