NOAA Fisheries announces the 2017 catch limits for the Atlantic surfclam and ocean quahog fisheries and provides projected status quo quotas for 2018. Fishing year 2017 (January 1-December 31, 2017) quotas are 3.4 million bushels for Atlantic surfclams, 5.3 million bushels for ocean quahogs, and 100,000 Maine bushels for Maine ocean quahogs. […]
BOSTON – December 22, 2016 – The Baker-Polito Administration today awarded $76,545 in grants for recreational saltwater fishing access projects in Beverly, Chatham, Manchester, Scituate, Fall River, and Truro. The grants were awarded through the Department of Fish and Game’s Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) Public Access Small Grant Program, which uses revenue from […]
BOSTON – December 22, 2016 – The Baker-Polito Administration today awarded $76,545 in grants for recreational saltwater fishing access projects in Beverly, Chatham, Manchester, Scituate, Fall River, and Truro. The grants were awarded through the Department of Fish and Game’s Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) Public Access Small Grant Program, which uses revenue from […]
MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. — The North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries will hold a public hearing on proposed shellfish bottom and water column leases in Hyde County at 6 p.m. on Jan. 11 at the Hyde County Courthouse, 30 Oyster Creek Street, Swan Quarter. Callie S. Carawan of Swan Quarter has applied to lease approximately […]
MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. — The Shrimp Bycatch Reduction Industry Workgroup will meet at 10:30 a.m. Jan. 9 at the New Bern Riverfront Convention Center, located at 203 S. Front St. in New Bern. The committee will receive an update on 2016 testing of bycatch reduction gears and prioritize new gears for field tests in […]
MOREHEAD CITY — The North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries is reminding fishermen that an additional escape ring will be required in crab pots beginning Jan. 15, 2017. With this addition, commercial and recreational crabbers will be required to have three escape rings in crab pots. One of the three escape rings must be located […]
