A complaint was filed with an international commission in mid-July to investigate claims of human rights violations in Hawaii’s longline fishing fleet.

The Wild Wild West (West 28 with a 1,050-hp Isotta) continued her dominance at the lobster boat races in Friendship, Maine.

Florida officials are investigating a video that shows a hooked shark being dragged at high speeds behind an outboard-powered boat.

A U.S. federal jury found former Bristol County, Mass., sheriff’s deputy Antonio Freitas guilty of smuggling profits from the quota scheme to Portugal.

AquaBounty Technologies has said that they plan to produce 1,300 tons of genetically modified salmon annually starting in 2018. 

Jim Balano is reluctant to label himself a fisherman. “I would feel like a fraud calling myself a fisherman at this point,” says Balano, who lives on Monhegan Island, 12 nautical miles off mainland Maine. …

In the midst of extended coverage of the Jones Act entanglement of America’s Finest in Anacortes, Wash., hearing Jones Act on the East Coast at a small oyster growers’ dock was a bit of a …

The implementation of the Magnuson Act in 1976 heralded a significant change in American fisheries and indeed the industry on a global scale, as we reclaimed our shores from the big fishing nations of Japan, …

Everyone is talking salmon, halibut and blackcod, but we’re already looking forward to rainy fall days in Seattle.

If the government is going to electronically monitor fishermen, how about monitoring government employees to ensure proper management of our tax dollars?