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Empire Wind, a 810-megawatt turbine array under construction off New York, was allowed to proceed in mid-May by the Trump administration. But project opponents continue to apply political pressure. Equinor rendering.
July 8, 2025

Trump moves to restrict wind power tax credits

Coastal fishing communities are planning their next moves in response to the federal government's new package of tax and spending cuts. Shutterstock photo.
July 8, 2025

Dealing with Trump's megabill remains a work in progress

Amendment 25 would replace the current Atlantic cod stocks with newly identified cod stocks in Eastern Gulf of Maine, Western Gulf of Maine, Georges Bank, and Southern New England. NEFMC graphic.
July 7, 2025

New England council tries again on Northeast groundfish plan

The fishing vessel Tarka II burned Sept. 2, 2024, near near Tatoosh Island, Wash., Coast Guard photo.
July 7, 2025

Extra smoke, fire detectors improve vessel safety, NTSB says

In the Bass Harbor Diesel Free-For-All on June 23, LaBella Vitae and My Turn are nearly bow-to-bow in a race that La Bella Vita won. Jon Johansen photo.
July 4, 2025

Neck and neck at Bass Harbor

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Coastal fishing communities are planning their next moves in response to the federal government's new package of tax and spending cuts. Shutterstock photo.

Margaret Bauman

July 8, 2025

Dealing with Trump's megabill remains a work in progress

Empire Wind, a 810-megawatt turbine array under construction off New York, was allowed to proceed in mid-May by the Trump administration. But project opponents continue to apply political pressure. Equinor rendering.

Kirk Moore

July 8, 2025

Trump moves to restrict wind power tax credits

Amendment 25 would replace the current Atlantic cod stocks with newly identified cod stocks in Eastern Gulf of Maine, Western Gulf of Maine, Georges Bank, and Southern New England. NEFMC graphic.

NF Staff

July 7, 2025

New England council tries again on Northeast groundfish plan

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Empire Wind, a 810-megawatt turbine array under construction off New York, was allowed to proceed in mid-May by the Trump administration. But project opponents continue to apply political pressure. Equinor rendering.

Trump moves to restrict wind power tax credits

July 8, 2025

Kirk Moore

Coastal fishing communities are planning their next moves in response to the federal government's new package of tax and spending cuts. Shutterstock photo.

Dealing with Trump's megabill remains a work in progress

July 8, 2025

Margaret Bauman

The National Commercial Fishing Safety Advisory Committee advises the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security on matters relating to national commercial fishing safety. Shutterstock photo.

Coast Guard seeks applicants for Commercial Fishing Safety Advisory Committee

July 8, 2025

NF Staff

Amendment 25 would replace the current Atlantic cod stocks with newly identified cod stocks in Eastern Gulf of Maine, Western Gulf of Maine, Georges Bank, and Southern New England. NEFMC graphic.

New England council tries again on Northeast groundfish plan

July 7, 2025

NF Staff

The fishing vessel Tarka II burned Sept. 2, 2024, near near Tatoosh Island, Wash., Coast Guard photo.

Extra smoke, fire detectors improve vessel safety, NTSB says

July 7, 2025

NF Staff

Dredging is underway in Dutch Harbor, Alaska — one of the United States' top fishing ports. USACE photo.

Dutch Harbor dredging commences

July 7, 2025

NF Staff

In the Bass Harbor Diesel Free-For-All on June 23, LaBella Vitae and My Turn are nearly bow-to-bow in a race that La Bella Vita won. Jon Johansen photo.

Neck and neck at Bass Harbor

July 4, 2025

Michael Crowley

Coast Guard renames operational districts

July 3, 2025

NF Staff

Senate budget vote set mixed prospects for offshore wind

July 2, 2025

Kirk Moore

Torbay Wharf supports fishing in Newfoundland and Labrador. Fisheries and Oceans Canada photo.

Canada commits $4.1 million to rebuild Torbay wharf

July 2, 2025

NF Staff

The cod end of a Danish seiner holds a ton of high-value flat fish after a three-hour set. Danish seining is a relatively low impact fishing technology in which the net is set in a square, surrounding flatfish on the seafloor before being hauled in rather

David Attenborough’s Ocean, a media super trawler

July 2, 2025

Paul Molyneaux

Larry Fowler and Craig Stewart on Long Island, Maine, stacking traps. Photos by Maine-based National Geographic photographer David McLain, who worked with the Maine Coast Fishermen's Association (MCFA) to document Maine’s iconic working waterfront and fis

Overuse injuries in commercial fishing

July 2, 2025

Monique Coombs

Mayasera Dyneema Lanyard fishing nets. Photo courtesy of Mayasera

How smarter trawl gear could cut fuel use and bycatch

July 2, 2025

Carli Stewart

The Itasca leaving San Diego and bound for her home port of Honolulu after what owner Peter Webster calls “a shave and a haircut.” Webster spends around 300 days a year at sea, longlining tuna, often hundreds of miles from any land. Peter Webster photo.

Boat of the Month: Itasca

July 1, 2025

Paul Molyneaux

Photo courtesy of Florida Sea Grant / NOAA Fisheries

The Gulf’s red snapper decline is real

June 30, 2025
Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick has appointed new and returning members to the regional fishery management councils. Shutterstock photo.

Regional fishery management council appointments announced

June 30, 2025

NF Staff

NOAA Fisheries scientists sort fish during the spring 2024 Rockfish Recruitment and Ecosystem Assessment Survey. These surveys reveal a coastal ocean dominated by a booming population of northern anchovy in recent years. NOAA Fisheries photo.

Vitamin deficiency is killing salmon in California

June 30, 2025

Margaret Bauman

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