Land: United States

US Commerce Secretary has approved the Arctic Fisheries Plan which would prohibit industrial fishing in the stated area.

The Cornish sardine fishery has started an assessment for the coveted Marine Stewardship Council eco-label. If successful, the 14 boats catching sardines with ring nets and drift nets within six nautical miles of the Cornwall coast will be certified as a well-managed, sustainable fishery.

Fishing regulators ate expected to slash herring quotas sharply for 2010, confirms a report.

Scientific data from NOAA’s 2009 bottom trawl and mid-water acoustic surveys of pollock in the Bering Sea has been released.

Local fishermen have urged the Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke to take an emergency action on the herring fleet currently fishing in waters off Cape Cod.

New program encourages fishing line recycling has begun on the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge near Winona.

The population of Alaska’s Bering Sea pollock remains low, revealed government released data.

A plan ahs been approved to save more than 23,000 square miles of rare corals, says a report.

Half of the fish consumed globally is now raised on farms, confirms Stanford Study.

A group of commercial crab fishermen has lost a legal battle to lift a state weekly catch limit imposed on Dungeness crabs.