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Oregon opened its commercial Dungeness crab season on 16 December 2025 from Cape Falcon to the California border, 15 days after its 1 December target, while the north coast waited for Washington crab to fill out.

A 243-kilogram bluefin tuna caught off Oma, Aomori, sold for a record JPY 510.3 million at Toyosu Market's first auction of 2026, bought by Kiyomura, the owner of the Sushi Zanmai chain.

The UN agreement on marine life beyond national jurisdiction became binding on its parties, the first legal framework to create marine protected areas on the high seas, which cover nearly half the planet's surface.

The seafood industry's biggest executive conference opened in Bergen with more than 1,150 executives, experts and investors, beating the previous year's record.

B.A.S.S. Nation qualifier Dylan Nutt, 22, won the Bassmaster Classic on the Tennessee River with 66 pounds 13 ounces over three days, 9-5 clear of Trey McKinney, the first Nation angler to win since 1994.

North America's largest seafood trade show opened its 44th edition in Boston with 1,215 exhibiting companies from 50 countries across 247,915 net square feet.

Jacob Wheeler finally won Major League Fishing's championship, catching 21 scorable bass for 51 pounds 11 ounces on Table Rock Lake's final day to beat Takahiro Omori by 13-3 and take $300,000.

The world's largest seafood trade show held its 32nd edition in Barcelona with more than 35,500 visitors and 2,290 exhibiting companies from 85 countries, both records for the event.

WTO members held the first regular meeting of the Committee on Fisheries Subsidies, set up to police the 2025 agreement, adopting its rules of procedure and granting the FAO permanent observer status.

Connor Daniel's 919.9-pound blue marlin, the heaviest ever weighed at the Big Rock, won the 68th tournament in Morehead City for Marlin Fever and a record $6,513,188 of a $9.04 million purse.

Proclamation 11035 removed monument-based bans on commercial fishing in parts of Papahānaumokuākea beyond 50 nautical miles, the Islands Unit of the Mariana Trench monument and waters 12 to 50 nautical miles around Rose Atoll, for US-flagged vessels.

Hvalur 9 harpooned two fin whales, Iceland's first commercial catch since 2023, after two seasons with no hunt, as the government prepared legislation to end whaling.

Cooke Inc. agreed to buy Mowi's Atlantic Canada salmon farms - hatcheries, sea sites and two processing plants in New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador, with 250 staff - for CAD 225 million.

SalMar agreed to buy the Måsøval family's 70% stake in fellow Frøya salmon farmer Måsøval for NOK 39.50 a share, about NOK 3.4 billion, valuing the whole company at NOK 4.84 billion.

Coast Guard and police special forces boarded the Paul Watson Foundation's Bandero and arrested its captain after it entered Iceland's territorial waters and closed on the whaling vessel Hvalur 9, ignoring orders to leave.

Bill Sharpe's 80-pound white marlin aboard Mister Pete of Charleston won the 53rd White Marlin Open in Ocean City, Maryland, projected to earn about $3.5 million, as 334 boats fished for an estimated $9.9 million.

Umios, the Japanese seafood group formerly called Maruha Nichiro, grew first-quarter sales 5.3% to JPY 277.6 billion but operating income fell 29.4% to JPY 6.7 billion on rising seafood costs and currency effects.

The Antarctic krill fishery ended its 2026 season on 12 August after reaching CCAMLR's 620,000-tonne trigger limit, the second early closure in a row, after closing on 1 August in 2025.

The world's largest salmon farmer reported record second-quarter revenue of EUR 1.6 billion and operational EBIT of EUR 231 million, up 23%, on a record 150,000 tonnes of salmon harvested.

Norway's SalMar more than doubled second-quarter operational EBIT to NOK 1,237 million on a record 81,800 tonnes of salmon for a second quarter, and raised its 2026 harvest guidance by 20,000 tonnes to 350,000.

Executive Order 14430 makes marine recreational fishing a consideration in all federal ocean decisions and orders NOAA to replace mail-in catch surveys with app reporting and to use states' data where its own MRIP estimates are unreliable.

Hvalur hf. ended Iceland's first commercial whaling season since 2023 after 93 fin whales in 94 days, with bad weather keeping its two boats in port for about 25 days, and the government preparing a permanent ban.

Alaska's final tally put the 2026 Bristol Bay sockeye run at 45.7 million fish and the catch at 30.1 million, the first run under 50 million since 2014, though the salmon were worth $264.0 million to fishermen.

The International Whaling Commission's biennial meeting, its 70th, opens in Hobart, with a South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary proposal and a pro-whaling 'sustainable use' resolution among the items before it.

Alaska's Bering Sea snow crab and Bristol Bay red king crab fisheries are due to open at noon on 15 October 2026, with catch limits set in early October after the summer trawl survey.

The Antarctic fisheries commission meets in Hobart from 19 to 30 October 2026 to set conservation measures for the 2026/27 season, after two straight early closures of the krill fishery.

The world's richest sportfishing tournament returns to Cabo San Lucas for three fishing days, 21-23 October 2026, with a 7:00 AM shotgun start each day and the awards on 24 October.

The WTO committee that polices the 2025 ban on subsidies for illegal fishing and for fishing overfished stocks holds its second regular meeting in Geneva, as talks on the unfinished 'Fish 2' rules run in parallel.

World Bass Enterprises' inaugural The Champions pits 60 of the top Bassmaster Elite Series and Bass Pro Tour anglers against each other on Old Hickory Lake near Nashville, 29-31 October 2026, for a $3.25 million purse and a record $1.25 million first prize.

Norwegian salmon farmer SalMar reports its third-quarter 2026 results after guiding significantly higher volumes than a year earlier and a lower cost level than in the second quarter.

Mowi, the world's largest salmon farmer, reports its third-quarter 2026 results in Oslo, with 169,500 tonnes of salmon guided for the quarter after a record second quarter.

Umios, the former Maruha Nichiro, is expected to report April-September 2026 results in early November, after a first quarter in which operating income fell 29%.

Alaska's forecast for the 2027 Bristol Bay sockeye run, the number the fleet and processors plan the next season around, is due in November after a 2026 run of 45.7 million fish.

The Atlantic tuna commission holds its 25th Special Meeting at Vilamoura in Portugal's Algarve from 16 to 23 November 2026, hosted by the European Union, to set catch rules for Atlantic tunas and related species.

The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission holds its 23rd annual session in Port Vila, Vanuatu, from 30 November to 5 December 2026, with a bigeye tuna management procedure and the 2027 IUU vessel list on the agenda.

Oregon's ocean commercial Dungeness crab season is targeted to open on 1 December 2026, subject to pre-season meat-fill and biotoxin tests and to opening in step with Washington and California.

The December Agriculture and Fisheries Council, chaired by Ireland's EU presidency, meets on 14-15 December 2026 in Brussels to fix the EU's 2027 catch limits and quotas for the Atlantic, North Sea, Mediterranean and Black Sea.

Tokyo's Toyosu Market reopens after the New Year break with its first tuna auction of 2027, a year after a bluefin from Oma set the JPY 510.3 million record.

South Korea's biggest ice-fishing festival returns to the frozen Hwacheoncheon stream in Hwacheon for 23 days, 9-31 January 2027, with anglers jigging through the ice for sancheoneo (masu salmon).

The first COP of the BBNJ Agreement meets at UN Headquarters to agree the treaty's institutions and rules, the step before any high-seas marine protected area can be declared.

Scotland's salmon season gets its traditional start on the River Tay on 15 January 2027, with an opening ceremony, a piper-led march to the river and a guest of honour's first cast, followed by catch-and-release fishing for spring salmon.

Iceland's government plans to put a bill permanently banning commercial whaling before the Althing, which would close the legal route for fin whaling despite the five-year licences issued in 2024 and leave Norway and Japan as the only whaling nations.

The 45th Seafood Expo North America, the continent's largest seafood trade show, runs for three days at Boston's Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhibition Center.

More than 1,000 seafood CEOs, investors and analysts gather in Bergen for three days at the North Atlantic Seafood Forum, the industry's largest top-executive conference.

The Bassmaster Classic brings bass fishing's world championship and its $300,000 first prize to Greenville, South Carolina, on 19-21 March 2027, Lake Hartwell's record fifth Classic.

The world's largest seafood trade show returns to Fira de Barcelona's Gran Via venue for three days after a record 2026 edition with more than 35,500 visitors.

The Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament's 2027 week, with its lady-angler and main blue marlin tournaments, runs 11-20 June 2027 in Morehead City, a year after a record 919.9-pound blue won $6.5 million.

The White Marlin Open, long billed as the world's largest billfish tournament, fishes out of Ocean City, Maryland, from 2 to 7 August 2027, with daily weigh-ins at Harbour Island.