ROBERTSPORT, Liberia — The sun was scorching hot in the town of Robertsport as James Dayougar shook debris from his nets, which he’d just returned from fishing with moments earlier. His eyes looked ...
A federal fishery management council once again has moved forward with a plan that would allow rock shrimpers to drag trawling nets along a protected Florida seafloor and rare deep-water coral reef ...
A decade ago, when the government ordered shrimpers to attach a device to their nets to spare endangered sea turtles, it touched off something akin to a war. Shrimpers blocked fishing channels and ...
Atlantic northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis) caught in the Gulf of Maine during the 2019 F/V Karen Elizabeth twin-trawl wingspread study. PHOTO / COURTESY NOAA FISHERIES, CALVIN ALEXANDER A moratorium ...
Just in time for better weather conditions — maybe — comes the short reopening of spot shrimp fishing in a southern portion of Marine Area 7, the San Juan Islands, now through Saturday. Perhaps the ...
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Gulf of Maine shrimp fishing season could be a short one with the 2012 catch limited to a third of the 2011 harvest. Shrimp fishermen have been given a catch limit of 4.4 ...