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Decades-long pattern of violations leads to felony convictions for Alaska fisherman. Photo courtesy of bonilook / Shutterstock
January 20, 2026

Alaskan convicted on multiple felony fishing violations

F/V Texas Lady ran aground. Photo courtesy of Robert Anderson / Oregon Coastal Crabbing & Shellfish Facebook page
January 12, 2026

All souls saved after F/V Texas Lady washed ashore near Port Orford

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January 14, 2026

Lobstermen’s knowledge offers critical insight into the Gulf of Maine

After more than 80 years, Columbia River Chinook and sockeye salmon have regained access to 1,000 miles of spawning habitat above the Grand Coulee and Chie Joseph Dams in Washington. Upper Columbia Tribes in the US and Canada welcome their return. Photo c
January 16, 2026

A homecoming for Upper Columbia River salmon

One of the Port Orford’s two new 50-ton cranes lifts a boat out of the water. Commissioned on November 30, just in time for the December 16 Dungeness crab opening. The new cranes saw a few days of 24-hour-a-day service as the boat got their traps out. Pho
January 13, 2026

Harborless Port Orford gets new cranes to lift boats onto its “Dolly Dock”

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A bill was introduced in the Virginia General Assembly in January that calls for the state to leave the Atlantic Marine Fisheries Commission Compact and to instead create a Menhaden Management Advisory Committee to assist the Virginia Marine Resources Commission in managing the fishery. Larry Chowning photo.
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Larry Chowning

January 23, 2026

Bill calls for Virginia to leave ASMFC

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Image taken on April 25, 1998, shows the coccolithophore bloom in the Bering Sea. The greenish color is caused by the high concentration of phytoplankton. Photo courtesy of NASA

Margaret Bauman

January 23, 2026

2026 AMSS keynotes will focus on algal blooms, maritime disasters

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Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK). Photo courtesy of Joshua Sukoff / Shutterstock

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January 23, 2026

Alaska waterfronts see funding gains in 2026

Fishing vessels tied to the dock in Cape May, NJ. Photo courtesy of George Wirt / Shutterstock

New Jersey fishermen challenge monitoring rule again

January 23, 2026

Nathan Strout

Halibut longline survey southeast Alaska 2004 NOAA
Pacific halibut. Photo courtesy of NOAA Fisheries

Catch limits down slightly for Pacific halibut fishery

January 23, 2026

Laine Welch

A bill was introduced in the Virginia General Assembly in January that calls for the state to leave the Atlantic Marine Fisheries Commission Compact and to instead create a Menhaden Management Advisory Committee to assist the Virginia Marine Resources Commission in managing the fishery. Larry Chowning photo.

Bill calls for Virginia to leave ASMFC

January 23, 2026

Larry Chowning

Image taken on April 25, 1998, shows the coccolithophore bloom in the Bering Sea. The greenish color is caused by the high concentration of phytoplankton. Photo courtesy of NASA

2026 AMSS keynotes will focus on algal blooms, maritime disasters

January 23, 2026

Margaret Bauman

Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK). Photo courtesy of Joshua Sukoff / Shutterstock

Alaska waterfronts see funding gains in 2026

January 23, 2026

NF Staff

Commercial fishing boats and a few smaller boats docked in South Harbor, Petersburg, Alaska, with a view of mountains on nearby Kupreanof Island, on an overcast morning at the start of summer. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock / Ken Schulze

ALFA seeks applicants for 2026 Alaska crew training program

January 22, 2026

NF Staff

The fishing vessel Quantum ran aground near Kodiak, Alaska, Jan. 21, 2026. The crewmembers were transferred to emergency medical services with no reported injuries. U.S. Coast Guard photo.

Two rescued from fishing vessel that ran aground near Kodiak

January 22, 2026

NF Staff

Salmon samples from canned salmon in which researchers found dead anisakid roundworms. Photo courtesy of Natalie Mastick

Researchers: parasites help measure in salmon populations

January 22, 2026

Margaret Bauman

The Inuksuk II in Igaluit, Nunavit, Canada, for its official christening on July 29, 2025. The vessel had arrived in Newfoundland months earlier, but had to wait for the ice-out in the north before it could finally make it home. Photo by Tattuinee

Canada’s biggest boat starts fishing in the north

January 22, 2026

Paul Molyneaux

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F/V Carli Elaine steaming into Gloucester Harbor. Photo courtesy of Clancy Fisheries

More than a name on the bow: F/V Carli Elaine

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F/V Faith Crew Ready to Shrimp

Handstand on the Deck of F/V Defiant

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