At a Commerce Committee hearing this month, Sen. Dan Sullivan pushed for Deputy Secretary of Commerce nominee Paul Dabbar to make sure a contract was signed so the Oscar Dyson — a research vessel from ...

Over the past 15 years, a wave of factory trawling vessels has quietly arrived on British Columbia’s coastline, often targeting ecologically rich regions off at the edge of the continental shelf in ...

Habitat disturbance Finally, ... One of the worst food groups for habitat disturbance are groundfish such as cod, haddock or halibut that dwell near the bottom of the sea.

So you can imagine the habitat side of that. ... However, the groundfish fleet that Woodley represents is responsible for only a small percentage of Alaska’s salmon bycatch.

NOAA reverses course on winter Florida groundfish ban. By ... three-month ban — called a “discard reduction season” — on dozens of species that share the same near-bottom habitat with ...

Catch of huge groundfish worth $60M in Nova Scotia in 2022 Warming ocean temperatures caused by climate change will provide favourable conditions for Atlantic halibut, according to a new study ...

Groundfish — so called because they dwell on or near the seafloor — are plentiful in the Gulf of Maine, but many perfectly tasty species have, historically, been left off dinner plates. Now, as cod, ...

In 2018, Blue Harvest Fisheries made its initial commitment to New England's historic groundfish fishery. Our goal was, and is, to help our industry and our community realize the full economic ...

NEW BEDFORD, MA / ACCESSWIRE / May 30, 2023 / The newest, most modern vessel in the New England groundfish fishery, the F/V Nobska, has returned to port after its successful inaugural deployment ...

It's fishing season for cod, haddock and flounder. Massachusetts fishermen say they're relieved NOAA released emergency rules this week, allowing the season to start on time despite fears agency ...