Commercial Fishing

NOAA Launches Deepwater Horizon Response Public Information Website

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Published: January 6, 2011

NOAA has released a web archive of the maps, wildlife reports, scientific reports and other previously released public information used by emergency responders, fishermen, mariners and local officials during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

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Study Finds Sea Lice Not the Cause of Canadian Salmon Decline

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Published: December 22, 2010
Updated: January 6, 2011

A new UC Davis study contradicts earlier reports that salmon farms were responsible for the 2002 population crash of wild pink salmon in the Broughton Archipelago of western Canada.

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Alaska King Crab Researchers Recieve Grants

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Published: December 13, 2010

Biologists developing the science and technology to raise wild red and blue king crab in hatcheries as a way to rebuild collapsed stocks in parts of Alaska have received $460,000 in grants and support to assess how the crab may fare in the wild.

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NRDC Findings: FDA Underestimates Gulf Coast Residents Exposure to Carcinogens in Seafood

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Published: December 13, 2010

A survey of Gulf Coast seafood consumption habits released by the Natural Resources Defense Council reveals that many Gulf residents are eating far more seafood, far more often, than the federal government has acknowledged, bringing seafood safety standards under renewed scrutiny.

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Bluefin Tuna ESA Listening Sessions

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Published: December 13, 2010
Updated: December 14, 2010

NOAA Fisheries' Office of Protected Resources will host three listening sessions with bluefin tuna fishermen during January 2011. These meetings are designed to give bluefin fishermen an opportunity to present information to be considered in the Endangered Species Act (ESA) status review that is now underway.

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NOAA Fisheries Service Publishes 2011 List of Fisheries Under the Marine Mammal Protection Act

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Published: December 12, 2010

NOAA Fisheries Service recently published its final List of Fisheries for 2011, as required by the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA).

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University of Rhode Island Squid Net Bycatch Reduction Research

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Published: November 21, 2010

Two experimental commercial fishing nets for use in capturing squid have been tested by University of Rhode Island fisheries researchers and preliminary data suggests that they were successful at reducing by-catch.

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New Study Finds FDA Review on Transgenic Salmon Too Narrow

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Published: November 21, 2010

The review process being used by the Food and Drug Administration to assess the safety of a faster-growing transgenic salmon fails to weigh the full effects of the fish's widespread production, according to analysis by a Duke University-led team Which was published in Science Magazine.

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U.N. Releases Report on Worldwide Inland Fisheries

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Published: October 26, 2010

Inland Fisheries and their Often Overlooked Role in Economies; Livelihoods; Health and Human Development Spotlighted in New Report

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Alaska Sea Grant Environmental Policy Workshops

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Published: October 22, 2010

Explaining how the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) works is the goal of a series of educational training workshops being organized by Izetta Chambers, the Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program agent based in Dillingham. Chambers said the training workshops aim to help Alaskans better understand how NEPA affects the policy-making process of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC).

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