Gloucester Times: Recreational fishermen and charter captains here are reportedly experiencing one of their best spring seasons in years, thanks to a boom in the fish population off the North Shore coast. Specifically, huge numbers of cod and haddock...

NOAA has announced that quotas will be reduced on 9 stocks of cod, haddock, and flounder. For nearly half of these stocks however, the 2013 quotas are higher than what fishermen actually caught in the last fishing year. The...

SouthCoastToday: Sharp new cuts in fishing quotas mark the start of the fourth year of fishing catch shares and sector management in the Northeast, NOAA’s prescription for rebuilding fish stocks and streamlining the fishing industry. Today...

Portland Press Herald: With drastic cuts to the commercial cod and haddock fishery mandated at the end of January, many recreational groundfish anglers are wondering, “Are we next?” It seems recreational anglers have gained a reprieve, if only for...

HeraldNews.com: The sign in front of Higson Seafood offered cod for $6.99, haddock for $6.99 and scrod for $5.99. But don’t expect those prices to last, Chris Higson said. “The prices are going up,” Higson said. “You can count...

CapeCodOnline: Thousands of square miles of ocean that have been off-limits to fishing for the past 16 to 18 years could be reopened in May to help offset the effects of anticipated drastic reductions in fishing quotas. On...

Capt. Barry Gibson of Shark Six Charters in Boothbay Harbor said that some decent catches of striped bass are still being made along the western beaches and off Small Point. “Capt. George Warren of the Charger told me he...

Reuters: New England fishing quotas for cod, haddock and yellowtail flounder may be cut by 70% next year due to their depleted populations, a U.S. government official said. Fishermen scrambled to come up with an economic plan to protect...

Capt. Barry Gibson of Shark Six Charters in Boothbay Harbor, Maine reports that the striper activity has picked up a bit, although many of the fish being caught in the Kennebec River system are running between 10” and 17”....

A pair of University of New Hampshire fisheries researchers, Jamie Cournane and Christopher Glass, have received a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation under its Fisheries Innovation Fund to develop a state-of-the-art fisheries stock assessment model and...