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Watch: Two whales play in ocean steps from Aliso Beach and a crowd on the sand

Orange County Register 25 Mar 2025
“It was as if you moved, you would break it ... Related links. Dungeness crab fishery delayed till after the new year as whale entanglements hit a six-year high Whale entanglements on the West Coast rise again in 2018, is this the new normal? Video.
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Lack of Oversight Impacts U.S. Fishing Industry

MarineLink 24 Mar 2025
America’s $320 billion fishing industry relies on a branch of the federal government, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to manage coastal fisheries ... 'NO FISHERY, NO WORK' ... "No fishery means no work," she said.
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Trump’s Regulatory Freeze Throws US Fishing Industry Into Chaos

gCaptain 23 Mar 2025
America’s $320 billion fishing industry relies on a branch of the federal government, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to manage coastal fisheries ... ‘NO FISHERY, NO WORK’ ... “No fishery means no work,” she said.
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Some regions see large cuts to snow crab quotas, while total catch rises

CBC 22 Mar 2025
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has released the quotas for the 2025 snow crab fishery, and while the numbers are up overall, some regions have been hard hit ... .
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You rely on this agency’s data for weather and climate forecasts. DOGE is decimating its workforce.

Grist 18 Mar 2025
... fisheries ... Howard pointed out that when a survey of shellfish in the Bering Sea was missed in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Alaska’s $200 million snow crab fishery collapsed the following year.
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N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission advisory committees meet to discuss blue crab adaptive management

Island Free Press 13 Mar 2025
Marine Fisheries Commission will meet this month to accept public comment, discuss, and vote on recommendations for adaptive management for the draft Blue Crab Fishery Management Plan Amendment 3 Revision.
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Guest Commentary | Terminated Monterey NOAA probationary employees speak out

Santa Cruz Sentinel 13 Mar 2025
She was collaborating with the West Coast Take Reduction Team to reduce the entanglement of blue and humpback whales in five fisheries, including California’s spot prawn and Dungeness crab fisheries.
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Marine Fisheries Commission meeting in Kitty Hawk this week

Island Free Press 11 Mar 2025
An update on Blue Crab Fishery Management Plan Amendment 3 Adaptive Management, and a presentation by NOAA officials on the Marine Recreational Information Program, were to take place at the meeting ...
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NOAA’s uncertain future brings tsunami of worry for wildlife, ocean

Orange County Register 10 Mar 2025
Commission of Fish and Fisheries was founded ... NOAA Fisheries has jurisdiction over 165 endangered and threatened species, including blue whales, Oceanic whitetip sharks, Chinook salmon, green sea turtles and several species of corals.
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For some invasives, if you can’t beat them, eat them

Bangor Daily News 09 Mar 2025
Along the coast, populations of the invasive European green crab are exploding, creating havoc with fisheries and outcompeting native shellfish species. Considered a delicacy in other parts of the world, green crabs have not quite caught on here.
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Oyster tax breaks could save fishermen after crab invasion

AOL 05 Mar 2025
Cristiano Corazzari, the politician in charge of fisheries for the Veneto region, which includes Venice, said recently that the impact of the blue crab has been like “an earthquake” ... The crab has a very high reproduction rate.
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Oregon crab fishery faces scrutiny after record whale entanglements

The News Guard 04 Mar 2025
Oregon’s commercial Dungeness crab fishery is under increasing pressure to address whale entanglements after a record-breaking four incidents in 2024, including one as recently as January 6th ....
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