CAPE COD FISHERMAN - LETTING YOU KNOW - AHEAD OF TIME

Marine fisheries officials are ignoring the obvious

Cape Cod Times - ‎9 hours ago‎

21 story on the fate of the bill to end commercial fishing for striped bass and limit recreational catches highlights the erroneous thinking employed by the ...

Casting blame in striper dispute

Boston Globe - Beth Daley - ‎11 hours ago‎

As scientists try to figure out why, a group of recreational fishermen is lobbying the Massachusetts Legislature to ban commercial fishing of stripers, ...

Momentum builds for United We Fish March

Gloucester Daily Times - Richard Gaines - ‎Feb 6, 2010‎

Under duress from intensifying fishing restrictions, and facing a new national policy that would essentially privatize the historically ...

NOAA and fishermen cooperate on research into monkfish migration

Fishnewseu (blog) - ‎1 hour ago‎

Funding is being provided by the NOAA-supported Northeast Consortium and by the commercial fishing industry through its research set aside programme for ...

Federal Offshore Energy Plans Dwarf Cape Wind

Martha's Vineyard Gazette - Mike Seccombe - ‎2 hours ago‎

Suggestions that other issues such as bird and whale migration routes, fishing grounds and navigation should have been taken into account were met with the ...

Fishery officials could increase black sea bass catch for 2010

Press of Atlantic City - Richard Degener - ‎9 hours ago‎

Nowalsky said if Kurkul approves emergency action, it should result in more liberal fishing limits this year. Commercial fishermen kept to their quota in ...

Decision to slash sea scallop quota reversed

Asbury Park Press - Kirk Moore - ‎14 hours ago‎

Battle lines formed, with fishing groups and their representatives in Congress pushing for reconsideration, and environmental groups urging the council to ...

Striped bass fishing ban appears dead

Nantucket Island Inquirer - Doug Fraser - ‎1 hour ago‎

Patrick said he was open to a limited commercial fishery. The original bill banned the sale of striped bass in Massachusetts, and cut the number of fish ...

Are stripers threatened?

Cape Cod Times - ‎7 hours ago‎

It would end commercial fishing for striped bass (20 percent of the total catch), reduce from two to one the number of fish that the recreational fisherman ...

NOAA rewrites commercial fishing rules

Cape Cod Times - Steve Urbon - ‎8 hours ago‎

Amendment 16, a rewrite of the rules of commercial fishing in the Northeast, has been approved by NOAA's Fisheries Service and will take ...