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According to officials, the closure will impact some recreational shellfishermen, the city of New Bedford, which had hoped to open up an aquaculture industry within the Clark's Cove area, and two quahog harvesters — effective immediately.
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A Sandwich resident is rallying veterans to trap the invasive crabs by the bushel and sell them to local restaurants and bait shops.
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The "Red List" label pushed Whole Foods, Hello Fresh, Blue Apron, and others to stop selling the shellfish caught in U.S. waters. More than 25,000 restaurants, stores, and distributors use the Red List to help guide purchasing and menu choices.
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Massachusetts Lobstermen are looking for a new way to fish during an annual 3-month-long closure established to protect migrating whales. CAI’s Eve Zuckoff reports they’ve just been awarded a 1.2 million grant to develop technology on their own.
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Proposals to allow company names on shellfish aquaculture licenses have sparked heated debates in some Cape Cod communities.
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A national conservation group is honoring Francis Smith for decades of work restoring the Quashnet River.
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The Center for Coastal Studies, located in Provincetown, has been granted more than $2.7 million in federal money to tackle the problem of hauling lost or abandoned fishing gear out of the environment.
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Blue Harvest Fisheries in New Bedford has closed down all its fishing operations.
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Experts often say the lobster fishery will have to move to innovative “ropeless” fishing gear to protect North Atlantic right whales from entanglement. Fewer than 340 of the critically endangered whales are left. But a new report says Massachusetts lobstermen may be headed for troubled economic waters if they make the switch.
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An abundance of cinder worms was behind the unusual fish kill.