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King Cove, Alaska processing plant. Photo courtesy of Peter Pan Seafood
May 20, 2025

Pacific Seafood may acquire Peter Pan’s shuttered King Cove Plant

The Empire Wind project is planned for two phases, totaling a potential 2.76 gigawatts production, with power export cables to New York City and Long Island. BOEM graphic.
May 19, 2025

Equinor to resume work at Empire Wind

US Wind proposes building up to 121 wind turbines on its lease in federal waters 10 miles east of Ocean City, Md. At right are traffic separation lanes for Delaware Bay. US Wind image.
May 19, 2025

US Wind proposes $20 million for fisheries fund

Photo by Eleonora Bianchi / The New Bedford Light
May 19, 2025

Scallop workers detained before work in New Bedford

CDFW announced an immediate restriction on the commercial and recreational harvest of Pacific sardines for human consumption. Photo by Andrea Izzotti
May 19, 2025

CDFW closes sardine fishery for human consumption

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King Cove, Alaska processing plant. Photo courtesy of Peter Pan Seafood

Chris Chase

May 20, 2025

Pacific Seafood may acquire Peter Pan’s shuttered King Cove Plant

A federal jury has convicted a commercial fisherman on charges of falsifying catch records and lying to investigators. Shutterstock photo.

NF Staff

May 20, 2025

South Carolina fisherman found guilty for falsifying catch numbers

The Empire Wind project is planned for two phases, totaling a potential 2.76 gigawatts production, with power export cables to New York City and Long Island. BOEM graphic.

NF Staff

May 19, 2025

Equinor to resume work at Empire Wind

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A federal jury has convicted a commercial fisherman on charges of falsifying catch records and lying to investigators. Shutterstock photo.

South Carolina fisherman found guilty for falsifying catch numbers

May 20, 2025

NF Staff

The Empire Wind project is planned for two phases, totaling a potential 2.76 gigawatts production, with power export cables to New York City and Long Island. BOEM graphic.

Equinor to resume work at Empire Wind

May 19, 2025

NF Staff

US Wind proposes building up to 121 wind turbines on its lease in federal waters 10 miles east of Ocean City, Md. At right are traffic separation lanes for Delaware Bay. US Wind image.

US Wind proposes $20 million for fisheries fund

May 19, 2025

NF Staff

Photo by Eleonora Bianchi / The New Bedford Light

Scallop workers detained before work in New Bedford

May 19, 2025

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CDFW announced an immediate restriction on the commercial and recreational harvest of Pacific sardines for human consumption. Photo by Andrea Izzotti

CDFW closes sardine fishery for human consumption

May 19, 2025

NF Staff

Shutterstock photo.

Insurance bill for Alaska harvesters clears state legislature

May 16, 2025

Margaret Bauman

Sponsoned and lengthened from a 1973 Nichols Brothers boat, the Ingot, the Channa Sea has a number of interesting design features including a high wave wall, a tunnel under the pilothouse for setting longline pots, and the hydraulics and RSW located in the bow. Yale Fogarty photo.

Boat of the month: Channa Sea

May 16, 2025

Paul Molyneaux

Jon Kurland is Alaska regional administrator for the National Marine Fisheries Service. NOAA photo.

A ‘worthwhile effort’ to address trawl bottom contact

May 16, 2025

Wesley Loy

A Coast Guard law enforcement crew surveys a Mexican lancha offshore the southern Texas coast, May 13, 2025. The Coast Guard interdicted four Mexican fishermen engaged in alleged illegal fishing north of the Maritime Boundary Line in the Gulf of Mexico. U.S. Coast Guard photo.

Coast Guard nabs 450 pounds of illegal catch off Texas

May 15, 2025

NF Staff

Shutterstock photo.

Bills introduced to bolster Maine’s working waterfronts

May 15, 2025

NF Staff

Alaskan pollock is the biggest fishery in the U.S. by volume. NOAA Fisheries photo.

Alaska pollock season closes with strong catches

May 15, 2025

NF Staff

A vessel fishes for salmon in Alaska's Chatham Strait. NOAA Fisheries photo.

Fishery advocates criticize WFC's Alaskan salmon lawsuit

May 15, 2025

NF Staff

An example of how an AI model can map water flow to assess the extent of salmon habitats. NOAA image.

NOAA deploys AI to help manage Columbia River salmon

May 14, 2025

NF Staff

Photo courtesy of Jeff Kneebone

Data now coming straight from the deck

May 14, 2025

Carli Stewart

U.S. shrimpers call for targeted tariffs to secure domestic seafood production. Other food groups lend support. Doug Stewart Photo.

Shrimpers call for tariffs to protect fishing industry

May 13, 2025

NF Staff

A 2021 research cruise conducted by NOAA led to the discovery of abundant ferromanganese nodules along a chain of Seamounts stretching from New England into the North Atlantic. Photo by NOAA

Fishing fleets and deep sea miners converge in the Pacific

May 13, 2025

Paul Molyneaux

Shutterstock photo.

Bill to make insurance more accessible to Alaska harvesters moving through Senate

May 13, 2025

Margaret Bauman

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