Land: United States

Fishing off the West Coats is one of the highest deadliest zones in commercial fishing, even higher than waters off Alaska.

The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant worth US$284,982 to a research project that aims to find offshore balance in marine aquaculture.

NOAA Fisheries has issued a record of decision and published a final rule on Alska bowhead whale hunting for the year 2008.

NOAA’s Fisheries Service has published the plan to recover threatened sockeye salmon in Lake Ozette.

In North Carolina the landings of commercial seafood dropped for the fifth straight year in 2007 but the dockside value of the catch rose from 2006 figures.

The authority has closed salmon fishing in ocean waters off California for the first time as there was massive salmon collapse.

For global sustainability of commercial tuna fisheries improvements in regional fisheries management organization (RFMOs) is needed.

House committee approved a ban on commercial gill nets in the state’s salt and brackish waters, but opponents ready to protest in full way.

As the oil prices are soaring high and eco system started worrying, the commercial want to go to offshore to catch wind energy

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has proposed new regulations to help rebuild blue crab population.