Land: United States

Fishermen have succeeded in hauling up more than 10,000 derelict so-called “ghost pots,” from the Chesapeake Bay.

NOAA has confirmed the presence of sick fish with bacteria present in the Gulf but deny any direct link to BP oil spill.

Salmon season along north coast is expected with promising result, say Department of Fish and Game biologists.

North Carolina government is inviting public opinion on the commercial use of hook-and-line gear in the region’s ocean striped bass fishery.

The third U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) meeting announced bilateral fishery management cooperation.

Aboriginal fisheries on the lower Fraser River are “out of control” and carry on illegal trade on native-caught salmon rampantly, says DFO.

In North Carolina commercial seafood harvests shows slight growth by 4 percent in 2010.

Gulf fishermen are tagging their catch to mark that the seafood from gulf are safe to eat.

Fishermen are happy over getting long term guarantees under radical change in CFP.

Federal engineers have decided to open the swollen Mississippi River to protect Baton Rouge and New Orleans but flood hundreds of thousands of acres in Louisiana Cajun country.