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Beau Gribbin had been roofing and framing houses for more than five years and his business – born when Hurricane Bob swept across the Cape in 1991 – was doing quite well.

The Community Development Partnership (CDP) is selling a Federal Scallop Qualifier Permit to a local Lower Cape fisherman. Eligible applicants will be entered into a lottery. The deadline for applying is January 4, 2018 at 3 PM.

Tom Bayuk has been a chef on the Cape for decades, but last month, for the first time, he got to cook a “beautiful” fish he never heard of: dogfish. He minced and sautéed celery, onions, carrots, garlic and added ginger and served the white fish at the Faith Neighborhood Kitchen, which provides meals to folks in need.

For decades, people on the Cape’s backshore have seen the night glow with the bright lights of 150-foot mid-water trawlers as they work in pairs to rake up millions of pounds of ocean herring in nets the size of football fields. The disappearance of herring has damaged local fisheries that depend on the bait fish and has had ripple effects - even ecotourism has been harmed as whales lose a food source and move away...

Erica Fuller of Earthjustice didn’t want a decision on herring management kicked back to committee. In Gloucester last week, Fuller faced the 18 New England Fishery Management Council members and said that for six years the council had made a political decision. Now it was time to make one for the resource --- and for the next generation of fishermen...

Having black sea bass at Mac’s Seafood is not for the faint-hearted. Even Mac Hay says it can be intimidating, but worth it.

Captain Kurt Martin had caught his limit of black sea bass, but the last line of pots had only brought up a few of the beautifully-marked fish. Still, Martin had a huge grin on his face. The owner of the F/V Time Bandit was looking at his fish finder and seeing a bunch of activity a little farther on. That was where he was going to drop the pots next...

The Fishermen’s Alliance is once again collaborating with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) on important fisheries research. The current study concerns halibut, a highly prized and severely restricted species. A resurgence of halibut could be a harbinger of a healthier marine ecosystem and provide significant economic benefits for Cape Cod fishermen...

The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod (AFCC) and The Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance have tapped a Cape native to craft a multi-faceted digital narrative of the region’s fishing community.

Local Partnership Continues Cape Cod Inspired Cooking Video Series.

On July 12, the final rule for Framework Adjustment 10 to the monkfishery was published for immediate implementation. The Fishermen’s Alliance is currently following many other actions including skate, scallop, groundfish and herring at the council, and are asking our fishermen members to share their ideas.

For decades, every piece of federal legislation regarding a ban on the shark fin trade in the United States has contained an exemption for dogfish. This is because the dogfish fishery is sustainable both from an environmental perspective as well as a food-use perspective: every part of a harvested dogfish is utilized.