Maine is implementing a new lottery system for licenses to fish for baby eels, or elvers, in the 2018 season.

NMFS Greater Atlantic Regional Administrator John Bullard recently announced that he will be retiring on Jan. 5, 2018.

Strongback Metal Boats is taking its boatbuilding business back to Bellingham, Wash., where Pat Pitsch and his son, Rory, started the shop in 2008.

As predicted, Alaska fishermen are getting higher prices for their salmon this year.

After a mid-decade explosion resulting from heavy exports into Asian markets, spiny lobster prices are calming, but not enough to raise concerns.

In the midst of extended coverage of the Jones Act entanglement of America’s Finest in Anacortes, Wash., hearing Jones Act on the East Coast at a small oyster growers’ dock was a bit of a …

The implementation of the Magnuson Act in 1976 heralded a significant change in American fisheries and indeed the industry on a global scale, as we reclaimed our shores from the big fishing nations of Japan, …

Everyone is talking salmon, halibut and blackcod, but we’re already looking forward to rainy fall days in Seattle.

If the government is going to electronically monitor fishermen, how about monitoring government employees to ensure proper management of our tax dollars?

Thomas Olander is a young fisherman by most people’s standards — only 24 — but he’s spent nearly all of those years on Louisiana waters.