If current fishing trends continue, a total collapse of the global fishing industry would occur before the year 2050, predicts a study published in the November 3, 2006, issue of the journal Science. One of the study's co-authors, Steve Palumbi of Stanford University, even went so far as to remark, "Unless we fundamentally change the way we manage all the oceans species together as working ecosystems, then this century is the last century for wild seafood. One of the study's co-authors,...

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That's one way to look at it, although Alaska's six community development quota corporations are on their way to becoming big fish in their own right. Ten years ago, no one would have dreamed that a CDQ group would make a catch like this, or that profits from Bering Sea fish allocations could be leveraged to this extent. It will get an infusion of cash to position itself to take advantage of a growing worldwide demand for salmon. As for Bristol Bay, it's a chance to plug into a marketing...

Deval Patrick Monday argued that those regulations have created an economic disaster in the Massachusetts groundfishing industry and asked the federal Department of Commerce to supply disaster relief, citing $22 million in losses to the state s fishing communities. A wholesale change to how the fishery is managed that was implemented in 1994 allocated a specific number of allowable days at sea each year for each fishing permit. Both proposals end the current method of counting and limiting...

The two places came together because of a shared history in the fishing industry. Three of the eight who died on the oil rig support ship when it capsized off Shetland came from the town. It is now thought unlikely the Bourbon Dolphin will be raised from the seabed, about 3,500ft down, although deepwater experts have said the wreck could possibly be raised by an albeit difficult operation. On Sunday, relatives of the dead crew members had gathered at a beach in Lerwick for a memorial...

Following an extensive consultation process, the Honourable Loyola Hearn, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, and the Honourable Tom Rideout, Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, announced a number of policy changes and new investments that will strengthen the province's fishing industry. Following an extensive consultation process, the Honourable Loyola Hearn, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, and the Honourable Tom Rideout, Minister of...