I found this video on Youtube.com. It shows people enjoying lobster sushi. I know I would never eat lobster like this, how about you?

A 62 year-old lobster was drawing the crowds in the northern Algerian coastal town of Jijel after a local fisherman landed an unusually elderly catch. The age of the veteran crustaceans was determined by their weight, according to the standard formula of 1lb every 7 years. The fisherman wants $1700 for someone to eat it […]

Plans to limit brown crab fishing to maintain profitable, sustainable stocks around the UK coast have been circulated in a discussion paper drawn up with the help of the shellfish and seafood industry. The document is designed to get views on how proposed conservation measures would impact on people’s businesses and operations, leading to possible […]

Giant Isopod
Tiny crustaceans threaten coastal marshes needed for salmon. An army of tiny crustaceans in the tidal waters of Coos Bay is slowly chomping away at shorelines, exacerbating shoreline erosion and threatening marshes needed for salmon recovery. An Oregon Institute of Marine Biology graduate student, Tim Davidson, hopes his study of the isopod Sphaeroma quoianum, […]

A commercial crab fisherman with more than two decades of experience who set crab traps illegally within the boundaries of Porteau Cove Marine Park has been fined $2,000 for breaking federal fisheries rules. That’s a hefty fine!

Biloxi Mississippi- Shrimpers found out how to get a new fishing permit that will put a cap on the number of boats the government will allow to work in federal waters.
A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration official unveiled the federal regulations that will put a 10-year prohibition on any new authorizations to fish for shrimp […]

Russian Crab Boat
Russian efforts to get the Barents Sea King crab harvest certified as sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council might not all be in vain. Jim Humphries, with the MSC office in Portland, Ore., said much will depend on the outcome of a meeting being held by the council last week in Asia. Though […]

Students from Bridgeport’s city’s Aquaculture School are set to play a large role in state efforts to rebuild Long Island Sound’s lobster population. As many as 20 Aquaculture students — along with counterparts from the Sound School in New Haven and Ella Grasso Technical High School in Groton — were to begin clipping the tails […]

Commercial crab fishermen are gearing up for the season that begins Nov. 15 from the Russian River south to Morro Bay. Inspectors from the U.S. Coast Guard will be walking the docks of Northern California ports over the next week to check crab fishing vessels’ safety equipment and make sure the crews load crab pots […]

Environmentalists and the birds win. Starting December 11th, there will be a two-year moratorium on the catch of horseshoe crabs. DNREC Secretary John Hughes made the decision which brings the First State in line with New Jersey’s similar ban. It’s an effort to protect the crab population – and the Red Knot shore bird which […]