Antarctic Krill Fishery Heads for a Second Early Shutdown
Antarctic krill catches are nearing the 620,000-tonne trigger that will close the season early for a second straight year, with industry and conservation groups drawing opposite conclusions from identical figures.
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Three States Try Again for Longer Atlantic Red Snapper Seasons
Florida, Georgia and South Carolina have lodged fresh exempted fishing permit applications for state-run Atlantic red snapper seasons after a May court injunction killed the first round. Comments close 25 August.
Water Samples Instead of Nets: Congress Eyes eDNA for Stock Assessments
The Fisheries Science Modernization Act would have NOAA sample seawater for fish DNA alongside its survey fleet. The fishing industry is on board, provided it is not paid for out of the survey budget.
A 427-Year-Old Fish Is Swimming in Michigan, and It Changes the Rules
Researchers re-aged five Great Lakes lake sturgeon populations using 44 years of tagging data. The oldest fish predates the United States, and the finding tightens the case for near-zero harvest.
Alaska Seafloor Case Turns on Injury, Not Corals
A Ninth Circuit panel spent Monday probing whether Oceana had standing to challenge how federal managers screen bottom-trawling impacts on Alaska seafloor habitat.
Ropeless Gear Goes to Public Comment, and Maine Is Already Against It
NOAA has put 52 questions to lobster and crab fishermen about on-demand gear, with a 14 October deadline. Maine's fleet, its senators and its unions have answered ahead of schedule.
The Upper Sacramento Is Open to Salmon Again After Three Years
Chinook fishing returned to the Redding stretch of the Sacramento on 1 August after a three-year closure, with guides, CDFW and restoration scientists assessing what changed.
Up to 15% of the World's Wild Fish Catch Is Illegal, Study Finds
UBC professors Philippe Le Billon and Rashid Sumaila put industrial illegal fishing at 8-15% of global marine wild capture in a new PNAS paper, and say better detection has not changed the economics.
Lucas Ends a Six-Year Drought With 98-11 of Erie Smallmouth
Justin Lucas beat Jacob Wheeler by 19-6 on Lake Erie, took the $125,000 Stage 7 win, and did it on a drop-shot without forward-facing sonar.
The Same Licence Increase Tennessee Lawmakers Killed Is Back
Tennessee's wildlife agency has revived a licence fee package that lawmakers forced it to withdraw in 2025, after a bill to fund it from TVA payments collapsed in budget talks. Resident combination licences would go from $33 to $42, with comments due August 11.
Shark Finning Dominates What Canada Found on the Pacific High Seas
Canadian fishery officers recorded 52 violations across just 30 high-seas boardings in the North Pacific this summer, concentrated in the tuna fleet's treatment of sharks. Officers also logged labour abuses aboard inspected vessels and an unexplained slump in forage fish catches.
An 80-Pound Marlin, the First Bite of the Day, Paid $3.5 Million
The 53rd White Marlin Open closed in Ocean City with an 80-pound white marlin - taken on the first bite of the day - paying Charleston's Mister Pete more than $3.5 million. Gray Fox won two divisions, the swordfish category drew a blank, and Michael Jordan's Catch 23 never reached the scales.