Apply: Young Fishermen Career Funding
Sea Grant has a funding opportunity to develop and execute local, regional and national programs, workshops, and services to enable fishermen to enter career paths.
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Sustainable Scallop Harvesting in Arctic
Norwegian company Tau Tech, with its vessel Arctic Pearl, is set to begin sustainable scallop harvesting in the Barents Sea, using Inmarsat’s Fleet Xpress to deliver a consistent, stable, uninterrupted quality of service and seamless high-speed network coverage in the Arctic.
Read moreUSV for Peru Fishing Industry
Peruvian fishing company TASA has assumed ownership of a Kongsberg Sounder USV for cost-effective fish finding and oceanographic and marine resource monitoring.
Read moreProject Hiu: Shark Conservation in Indonesia
Exile Content Studio and the artist Edgar Plans have committed to donate $83,000 to Project Hiu to support shark conservation and fishing communities in Indonesia.
Read moreSustainable Fishing Challenges, Approaches: An Angler’s Perspective
By Coty Perry As with many other aspects of government policy, overfishing and other fishing-related environmental issues are a real problem, but it’s not clear that government intervention is the solution. Indeed, it might be one of the main drivers of overfishing. Much like drone fishing, there are serious ethical issues of interest to the average angler. There’s another commonality
Read moreBill Against IUU Fishing Introduced in US House
Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.) have introduced the Illegal Fishing and Forced Labor Prevention Act, a comprehensive bill to end illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, expand transparency, and stop seafood fraud, while strengthening U.S. leadership on issues that threaten the oceans, consumers and human rights. A report by the International Trade Commission found that the United
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