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Chinese distant-water fishing activities growing rapidly, unsustainably across world

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Monthly fishing events in Alaska waters charted by Ocean Data Network in the paper "Fishing Gear as a Data Collection Platform." ODN graphic/published Frontiers in Marine Science October 2020.

Commercial fishing vessels can serve as research vessels for cost-effective data collection

Ben Clements

Seafood Watch OKs certain Vietnamese farmed shrimp

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Mexican cartel members arrested for trafficking ‘cocaine of the sea’

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Questioning the effectiveness of MPAs in conserving tuna stocks

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Meet Nautilus, a deep-sea squat lobster species recently discovered

Jose Antunes

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The American dream: How invasive species have created new fisheries

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Franklyn d’Entremont, once a superstar of the New England and Maritime Canadian swordfish harpoon fisheries, showed a photo of himself about to iron a fish back in the glory days. Monique D’Eon photo.

Swordfish!

Paul Molyneaux

Jeremy Zirlott had to drop his price on 21-25 headless shrimp from $7 to $4.90 in order to compete in a market flooded with subsidized farmed shrimp. “I don’t know if we can stand another year of this,” he says. Paul Molyneaux photo.

Imports killing shrimp prices

Paul Molyneaux

A Carsoe autofreezer, a fully automated freezer line that produces precision-weighed fillet or surimi blocks. Carsoe photo.

Follow the leader

Paul Molyneaux

How Canada’s fishing industry is slowly righting the safety ship

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