Land: United States

New loan program are up and running to help fish harvesters getting new fuel saving models of boat.

As shrimp-baiting season starts this week South Carolina’s commercial shrimpers does not worry about baiters as they used to.

Today the United States West Coast limited entry groundfish trawl fishery entered full assessment in the Marine Stewardship Council’s (MSC) certification program for sustainable and well-managed fisheries. The fishery, which operates in the United States West Coast Pacific Exclusive Economic Zone off of Washington, Oregon and California, will be assessed by an independent certifier against the MSC standard for sustainable fishing. If successful, products from this fishery will be eligible to bear the blue MSC ecolabel.

Core sound will be closed to flounder gill net fishing Friday to protect threatened and endangered sea turtles.

NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) are working on making changes to current fishing regulations to make fish oil free.

Catching groundfish in the Northeast Coast is the most dangerous business and the real ‘deadliest catch’.

Research and Market has announced a report on US commercial fishing industry, revealed a media report.

Among US industries commercial fishing is the most dangerous occupation as its fatality rates rank top.

Effective August 27, 2010 at 6 p.m. eastern time (5 p.m. central time), NOAA will reopen 4,281 square miles (11,088 sq km) of area it had previously closed to commercial and recreational fishing in the Gulf of Mexico in response to the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill.