Land: United States

New regulations have cut in half the days fishermen could spend at sea in order to reduce overfishing for 2009.

Farmed salmon industry is growing healthy in British Columbia as shortages in supply continue and industry has strong foothold.

NOAA Fisheries Service has proposed Amendment 29 to the Grouper and Tilefish Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) program in the Gulf of Mexico.

Getting sustainable seafood has become more than challenge as many species are declining due to overfishing.

Commercial salmon season is going to be ban in the US waters as the American authorities have decided to revive salmon’s depleting stocks.

Mariculture farming is becoming the talk of the town in Alaska as the state is making tidelands available for a ten-year lease for people to apply for and raise shellfish.

Oregon’s fishing industry is on the verge of facing new ban on commercial Chinook fishing this season.

Crisis in the marine environment of the United States has gone so far that serious policy reform is the need of the hour.

The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) is pushing hard to adopt proposed rule that helps secure sustainable fisheries.

A Coast Guard helicopter safely rescue crew from Air Station Kodiak and gave medical treatment to an injured crewman from a fishing vessel 34 miles northeast of Kodiak.