OTTAWA, Ontario, June 2 -- The Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, which says it covers fisheries and aquatic science, published research articles on the following topics in its June 2020 edition: * Climate and competition influence sockeye salmon population dynamics across the Northeast Pacific Ocean Articles: * Contrasting effects of coastal upwelling on growth and recruitment of nearshore Pacific rockfishes (genus Sebastes) * Application of neural networks to model change  more

BANGOR, Maine, June 6 -- The Center for Biological Diversity issued the following news release: President Trump issued an executive order today allowing commercial fishing in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument. The announcement, made amid the COVID-19 pandemic and continuing national protests against police violence, follows a federal court ruling in December that rejected a challenge by commercial fishing group to the monument's designation. President Obama created t  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, June 5 -- The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services issued the following news release: To protect the public from the possible consumption of contaminated shellfish, officials from the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) and the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department have closed all nearshore and offshore Atlantic waters in New Hampshire for the taking of all species of molluscan shellfish (mussels, clams, oysters) until further notice  more

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- President Trump issued the following proclamation on modifying the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument: In Proclamation 9496 of September 15, 2016, and exercising his authority under section 320301 of title 54, United States Code (the "Antiquities Act"), the President established the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, reserving for the care and management of objects of historic and scientific interest approximately 4,913 square m  more

BANGOR, Maine, June 6 -- President Trump issued the following transcript in a roundtable on supporting commercial fishermen: THE PRESIDENT: Okay. And I heard there was some controversy with respect to the current governor. She never asked me a question. By the way, you have everything right on tape. She assured I came here, because when she said I shouldn't come, I said, "Now I know I'm coming." (Laughter.) I'm like Paul. MR. LEPAGE: You should see the crowd outside, the crowd that's gathered   more

GUILFORD, Maine, June 6 -- President Trump issued the following transcript of a meeting at Puritan Medical Products: THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Appreciate it. We had some crowd coming in. I don't know, you have a lot of people up here. A lot more than people think. And they're great people, and they like Trump -- that, I can tell you. No, we had -- (applause) -- we had a lot of people. We got off Air Force One, and we came, and the roads were packed. Five deep; ten deep, in some cases  more

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, issued the following statement ahead of President Trump's arrival in Maine to visit Puritan Medical Products and hold a roundtable with representatives of Maine's fishing industry: "The men and women of Puritan Medical Products deserve to be recognized for their hard work and the contributions they are making to the national effort to overcome the coronavirus. With his visit tomorrow, the president has an opportunity to step back from the divisi  more

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, issued the following statement regarding President Trump's roundtable with Maine fishermen and proclamation to rollback of marine monument protections: "President Trump spent much of his roundtable saying he could fix trade policies that have hurt Maine fishermen with the stroke of a pen, but it is his failed trade policies that caused China to retaliate with a lobster tariff. "The congressional delegation wrote to him last June to help our   more