The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration has awarded the city of Rockland, Maine, an $830,000 grant to renovate its commercial fish pier.

The state reports that some paddlefish harvesters were likely falsifying records to hide the fact that they’re taking too many of the fish.

Ocean conditions seem to have gifted the trawlers in terms of distribution and density of rockfish.

An international team of researchers has completed a seven-year baseline study of fish populations in the Gulf of Mexico in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Maine’s cold-water oysters are a hot item on the regional shellfish market, and market research shows the industry will be able to continue expanding well into the future.

This fall, the show we lovingly call Fish Expo returns to Seattle’s CenturyLink Field Event Center for a Sunday to Tuesday run, Nov. 18-20.

Friendship, hardship and that old demon time aligned this past summer to put my wife, Cheryl, and I on deck for a month of bliss with Joe Weber.

In two NIOSH safety videos released this year, West Coast fishermen reenact potentially fatal accidents aboard their boats.

A Downeast Maine 42-foot stern trawler was between tows when it lost hydraulics and an explosion came from the engine compartment.

The range of responses to the passage of the Magnuson-Stevens Act reauthorization in the House of Representatives on July 11 shows the diversity and breadth of this industry. The biggest hold-up on coast-to-coast support for …