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The owner of a commercial fishing vessel in B.C. was recently fined almost $37,000 for illegally fishing in the Haida Gwaii ...
Dragging nets along the ocean floor is like ‘clearcutting an old-growth forest,’ Pacific Wild says. An industry group ...
An investigation traces arrival of nine large factory trawlers to B.C.'s coast in recent years, claiming some may be involved ...
Halifax, NS, Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People – On June 16, 2025, Fisheries and Oceans ...
The cuts are the work of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, a Trump initiative whose stated goal is eliminating waste in government programs. The effort has been marked by confusion ...
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 ...
Martens said the value of groundfish is down 73% from 2019. A big part of that decline, he said, comes from landed fish not selling at all. That means fishermen are often in the red for their ...
Commercial fishing, including for groundfish like haddock and cod and for lobster, has occurred in parts of Cashes Ledge for more than 100 years. Regulations mitigate to some extent this activity in ...
California Fish and Game Commission Adopts 2025-26 Recreational Fishing Regulations for Federal Groundfish in State ... where the species is primarily threatened by habitat modification or ...
With a sizzle of grease, a McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish slides across the sticky drive-through counter in Homer, Alaska. Before being battered and fried, the fish in this sandwich was likely caught ...
The bank forces deep, nutrient rich waters upward, which creates valuable fishing habitat for halibut, salmon, and other species of groundfish. Jerome Thomas Sep 26, 2024 3:51 AM Share by Email ...