Fish Talk in the News – Friday, September 7
An oral argument was held Wednesday in the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to determine the legality of the implementation of Amendment 16An update to the Northeast Multispecies Fishery...
View ArticleFish Talk in the News – Friday, October 26
Scientists and environmental groups have spoken out against a new confidentiality rule proposed by NMFSNational Marine Fisheries Service. The federal agency in charge of the management, conservation...
View ArticleNew England’s Protected Waters are Threatened
Parts of New England’s waters set aside to protect cod, haddock, flounder, and other important fish could soon be subjected to some of the most damaging forms of large-scale fishing. After populations...
View ArticleDestructive Trawling and the Myth of “Farming the Sea”
In the wake of significant but highly warranted cuts to catch limits for cod, the New England Fishery Management Council spent the last day of their most recent meeting in January discussing the...
View ArticleOn Cod, Climate, and Closed Areas
New England’s fish are already feeling the heat from global warming. Record high water temperatures are having an impact on our coastal ecosystem, and carbon pollution’s acidifying effect on seawater...
View ArticleThe Atlantic Wolffish – Antifreeze Included
What Big Teeth You Have! It’s clear where the wolffish gets its name. Those canines kind of remind you of…an actual wolf, right? But those visible chompers aren’t even the wolffish’s most useful dental...
View ArticleFish Talk in the News – Friday, September 7
An oral argument was held Wednesday in the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to determine the legality of the implementation of Amendment 16 to the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management...
View ArticleFish Talk in the News – Friday, October 26
Scientists and environmental groups have spoken out against a new confidentiality rule proposed by NMFS under the Magnuson-Stevens Act. The rule would limit access to fisheries observer data like...
View ArticleNew England’s Protected Waters are Threatened
Parts of New England’s waters set aside to protect cod, haddock, flounder, and other important fish could soon be subjected to some of the most damaging forms of large-scale fishing. After populations...
View ArticleDestructive Trawling and the Myth of “Farming the Sea”
In the wake of significant but highly warranted cuts to catch limits for cod, the New England Fishery Management Council spent the last day of their most recent meeting in January discussing the...
View ArticleOn Cod, Climate, and Closed Areas
New England’s fish are already feeling the heat from global warming. Record high water temperatures are having an impact on our coastal ecosystem, and carbon pollution’s acidifying effect on seawater...
View ArticleThe Atlantic Wolffish – Antifreeze Included
What Big Teeth You Have! It’s clear where the wolffish gets its name. Those canines kind of remind you of…an actual wolf, right? But those visible chompers aren’t even the wolffish’s most useful dental...
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