OPINION | Something fishy about China’s anger over the Quad’s open ocean plans

Some international issues should be non-sensitive and uncontroversial. One of these is the regulation of fishing fleets to prevent overfishing and ensure the sustainable ..

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Failure of doubler-plated hull likely cause of sinking of fishing vessel off Massachusetts in 2022

The failure of the doubler-plated hull under the engine room likely caused the flooding and sinking of a fishing vessel near Gloucester, Massachusetts last year, the Nati ..

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BOOK REVIEW | U.S. Pacific Islanders and the Sea: A History of the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council (1976 – 2020)

This book is long overdue. It is the first and, to my knowledge, the only comprehensive natural resource study of modern open ocean fisheries in the US Pacific. In the bo ..

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REMINISCENCES | On being thrown overboard in Hawaii’s Kauai channel

The year 1957 was a big one for scientists all over the world. It also almost cost me my life. Nineteen hundred and fifty-seven marked the beginning of the International ..

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REMINISCENCES | Asherah, a two-man submarine named for a Phoenician goddess

This all started in 1959 when a twenty-six-year-old who was studying for his PhD in archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania was asked if he would like to direct the ..

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New legislation allots over US$1 billion for harbour deepening, fish passage works in Washington State

The National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2023 recently signed into law by US President Joe Biden will authorise the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to pr ..

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REMINISCENCES | Atomic bomb tests on Christmas Island (or how we had a little fun with the US Navy)

This episode started off with an atomic bang and ended in a whisper. But before the atomic explosion occurred, our fisheries research vessel Charles H. Gilbert had some u ..

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FEATURE | New mobile salmon processing platform under development in US

Sitka, Alaska-based Northline Seafoods has launched a new project to build a mobile commercial salmon processing platform, with construction planned to begin at the Port ..

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