Gulf of Maine
Maine Lobstermen Concerned Over Warmer Waters
Portland Press Herald: Ocean temperatures have been higher than normal in the Gulf of Maine, creating worries among lobstermen that there could be a repeat of last spring’s early harvest that resulted in a market glut, a crash in...
Plan to Open No-Fishing Zones Stirs Opposition
Portland Press Herald: A proposal by the New England Fishery Management Council could open up portions of protected, closed areas of the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank to commercial fishing to compensate for dramatic cuts in catch limits...
Survey of Northeast Pelagic Zone Completed
The Northeast Fisheries Science Center reports that researchers have completed the first comprehensive survey of the upper waters of the continental shelf off the Northeast U.S., from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina to the Nova Scotia Shelf, including Georges Bank...
Shellfisheries Reopen at Georges Bank
NOAA.GOV: Something good is happening at Georges Bank, a large area off the coast of Massachusetts that separates the Gulf of Maine from the Atlantic Ocean: After 22 years, some 6,000 square miles of the sea floor recently reopened...
Gulf of Maine Shrimp Season a Bust
Boston.com: With their quota cut by 74% and warnings that the Gulf of Maine shrimp population was in bad shape due to warm ocean temperatures, fishermen expected this to be a rough shrimp season. But it’s turned out to...
Canada, U.S. Concerned Over Illegal Fishing
SouthCoast Today: Both the state Division of Marine Fisheries and the Canadian government are concerned that vessels may be fishing in one area, then claiming the catch is from another, federal fishery officials revealed at a New England...
Fishery Cuts Will Trigger Industry Collapse, Say Fishermen
CapeCodOnline: New England’s fishing regulators on Wednesday approved steep cuts in Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank cod catch limits that fishermen say will trigger the collapse of the industry. The mood was grim at the New...
Cod Landings Could be Cut 80%
Gloucester Times; Landings of inshore or Gulf of Maine cod, already cut by 22% for the 2012 fishing year that ends April 30, could be further reduced by between 76.8% and 82.6% for each of the next 3 years,...
Peer Review Panel Submits Grim Cod Report
Saving Seafood: Based on recent reports developed by fisheries scientists and peer reviewed by independent experts, there is little good news about the health of cod stocks in the Northeast. The reports, developed during 2 separate stock assessments held...
Woods Hole Robots Listen for Endangered Whales
The following excerpt appeared in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution e-newsletter for January 2013: Two robots equipped with instruments designed to “listen” for the calls of baleen whales detected 9 endangered North Atlantic right whales in the Gulf of...
