Map of Native American Tribes in the Pacific North West
The Stillaguamish Indian Tribe has spent $70,000 over the past five years to locate and remove more than 400 crab pots that have been abandoned on the seabed of Port Susan. There are still about 100 crab pots left. Many are buried in sediment or too […]
Shrimp Boat in the Gulf of Mexico
Carlton Reyes’ truck bounces into the lot of Reyes Marine, his six-boat shrimping operation at the Brownsville shrimp basin. He hops out, swatting at mosquitoes as he drops a machine part into the grease-streaked hand of his mechanic. “There’s always work to do,” Reyes says, “for some of us […]
Remember, there is no healthy substitute for seafood!
Two meals of oily fish a week can do as much or more to reduce the risk of cognitive impairment and dementia as many of the so-called “smart” pills which claim to improve brain function, according to a CHOICE report. The benefits of omega-3 have been highlighted consistently […]
Lobster Boat Run Ashore
Wayne Sholds wishes his retired lobster boat would’ve floated as long as the mythical boat from “Gilligan’s Island.” Sholds made it just a half-mile before having to run the Krusty Krab aground to save it from sinking yesterday. A veteran lobster man, whose name he never caught, helped guide him past rocks […]
Divers Catch Personal Lobster Feast During Lobster Mini Season in Fort Meyers Florida
Rescue crews resumed their search Thursday for a missing diver who did not return to his boat on the first day of lobster mini-season. The U.S. Coast Guard and Miami-Dade police are searching for Yosmany Gonzalez, 33, of Hialeah, who was free diving […]
Muhyiddin Yassin vows to export Malaysian seafood to the European Union
International Trade and Industry Minister Muhyiddin Yassin of Malaysia said today that the government is taking immediate measures to avoid an European Union (EU) ban on Malaysian seafood exports. Six out of nine tests failed were failed by the seafood exporter.
Illegal Lobster Trap
Norway’s lobster population has been in serious decline for years and the trapping ban was imposed to try to revive it. Crab trapping is still allowed but regulations only allow traps at a depth of more than 25 meters. All traps are to be clearly marked with their owner’s name and address, and […]
These do not belong in the road
Officer Seth Appelbaum was on patrol in his cruiser Thursday morning when he came upon a dozen or more jumbo lobsters crawling across Nimble Hill Road and a tractor trailer driver picking some of them up, say police. According to Sgt. Timothy Stuart, on July 24 at about 10 […]
Spiny Lobster
A Ridgley man who started sending friends Tasmanian seafood as gifts, before cashing in on his catch, has been fined almost $60,000 for selling abalone and rock lobster without a commercial license. Andrew Ian Crawn was sentenced in the Devonport Magistrates Court yesterday after pleading guilty to five counts of unlawfully selling fish and […]
Dead Salmon
Over 40,000 baby salmon were released prematurely last week after McGuffie Creek filled with sediment from a construction site. Volunteers with the Powell River Salmon Society and CUPE (Canadian Union of Public Employees) Local 798 had been imprinting the fish in a pen placed in the creek. Paul Nassichuk, City of Powell River parks […]