Find www.app.com stories from the past week as well as calendar events, classifieds, advertisements, Yellow Page listings, local Web sites and more all in one search. Commercial swordfish fishermen do not share the excitement that canyon anglers do about the nearly rebuilt swordfish fishery. Highly migratory species angling category permit holders were still limited to one swordfish per person, but the vessel limit was increased to four fish. negotiators in 2006 allowed 2,690 metric tons...

In an effort to get lost and damaged commercial crab pots out of the ocean, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife adopted a temporary rule to allow any commercial fishing vessel to legally retrieve commercial Dungeness crab gear from the ocean in September and October. In an effort to get lost and damaged commercial crab pots out of the ocean, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife adopted a temporary rule to allow any commercial fishing vessel to legally retrieve commercial...

More than a dozen small oyster-growing enterprises in the Homer area plan to have their own processing facility up and running on the Homer Split by summer 2008. Since the shellfish growers began their commercial enterprises about a dozen years ago, they've sold every oyster them could harvest, Bader said. Statewide revenues from some 50 shellfish farms in Alaska are less than $600,000, but given the vast coastlines of Alaska, the potential for increased revenues from shellfish farming is...

And recreational fishing interests say that the reason is a familiar one; excessive commercial harvest that began about 20 years ago when a market was found for the meat. However, Forsgren points out, while sportfishers got a defined limit, three fish daily 28 inches or larger, commercial fishermen got no catch limit at all, but a 36-inch minimum size. The rule was supposed to create a 45 percent reduction in catch for both sectors, reducing the pressure on the fish and allowing more to...

Government officials and business leaders in New Bedford perennially cast about for ways to help the local economy and the commercial fishing industry, which has been the backbone of the Whaling City for generations. One effort, now in its fourth year, tries to build support for the industry by getting landlubbers up close to the men and women who work on the fishing boats and in the associated businesses along the citys waterfront. In all, the fishing industry employs about 3,700 people...

He makes sure the boats that are docked in the slips are the ones that are supposed to be there - that they're not docking in a spot reserved for others. Newport News Harbor Master keeps the city's small boat harbor - among the last local docks for small commercial vessels - running smoothly. There aren't as many places around to dock smaller commercial boats - such as the net-dragging trawlers to catch scallops, flounder and smaller watermen's boats to catch crabs, clams and oysters. In...