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THE LIGHT RAIN that fell on much of NorCal Wednesday settled the dust but little more. The state remains dry despite a couple of feet of snow in the Sierras. The California Department of Public Health announced Wednesday that “17 communities and...

SAN FRANCISCO – For centuries, men like Larry Collins, a garrulous crab and sole fisherman, were free to harvest the seas. But sweeping across the globe is a system that slowly and steadily hands over a $400 billion ocean fishing industry to corporations...

Next week, the House of Representatives will consider H.R. 1335, a bill to reauthorize the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.  Fisheries issues often avoid the partisanship that otherwise rules (some would say cripples) Washington...

Gaffing a halibut. (Photo: Scott Dickerson/Getty Images) My latest for Takepart.com: The way the world is currently consuming (and wasting) seafood, we will soon be living on our familiar blue planet, but with oceans that abound in plastic debris rather...

Magnuson-Stevens Act revisions focus of fishers in 2014 By Molly Dischner, Alaska Journal of Commerce Published: 2014.02.20 SEATTLE - Bycatch reporting, transparency and the role of the National Environmental Policy Act in fisheries management are...