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The Thialf, a 661’x290’ semi-submersible crane vessel, operated by Netherlands-based Heerema Marine Contractors under the Panamanian flag, is to install turbine towers on the Equinor lease. Heerema photo.
June 13, 2025

Opponents seek injunction to halt Empire Wind

Trawling vessels in Seattle, WA. Photo by Ian Dewar Photography / Shutterstock
June 13, 2025

Trawl tensions rise as NPFMC meets in Oregon

June 13, 2025

A tribute to a Brant Rock lobsterman

Ivan Basargin Sr.s Top Notch is one of the early aluminum boats built by Basargin Boats. It reflects the Basargin family’s original designs adapted from fiberglass to aluminum and is one of the company’s first jet boats. Credit: Max Basargin
June 12, 2025

Forged in fire: Basargin Boats reinvents itself

Southeast Alaska retired commercial troller and artist Stephen Lawrie and his Miniature Schnauzer Harry Potter, in his studio in Sitka, Alaska. Photo courtesy of Stephen Lawrie
June 12, 2025

Retired Alaska fisherman captures Sitka’s fishing life

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Carli Stewart

June 13, 2025

A tribute to a Brant Rock lobsterman

The Thialf, a 661’x290’ semi-submersible crane vessel, operated by Netherlands-based Heerema Marine Contractors under the Panamanian flag, is to install turbine towers on the Equinor lease. Heerema photo.

Kirk Moore

June 13, 2025

Opponents seek injunction to halt Empire Wind

Trawling vessels in Seattle, WA. Photo by Ian Dewar Photography / Shutterstock

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June 13, 2025

Trawl tensions rise as NPFMC meets in Oregon

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The Thialf, a 661’x290’ semi-submersible crane vessel, operated by Netherlands-based Heerema Marine Contractors under the Panamanian flag, is to install turbine towers on the Equinor lease. Heerema photo.

Opponents seek injunction to halt Empire Wind

June 13, 2025

Kirk Moore

A tribute to a Brant Rock lobsterman

June 13, 2025

Carli Stewart

Ivan Basargin Sr.s Top Notch is one of the early aluminum boats built by Basargin Boats. It reflects the Basargin family’s original designs adapted from fiberglass to aluminum and is one of the company’s first jet boats. Credit: Max Basargin

Forged in fire: Basargin Boats reinvents itself

June 12, 2025

Paul Molyneaux

Southeast Alaska retired commercial troller and artist Stephen Lawrie and his Miniature Schnauzer Harry Potter, in his studio in Sitka, Alaska. Photo courtesy of Stephen Lawrie

Retired Alaska fisherman captures Sitka’s fishing life

June 12, 2025

Margaret Bauman

Photo courtesy of the U.S. Coast Guard

FISH Act targets IUU fishing to protect U.S. fishermen

June 12, 2025

NF Staff

Charleston restaurant overlooking shrimp boats. Photo courtesy of SEAD Consulting

Charleston concludes round one of shrimp fraud testing

June 11, 2025

Carli Stewart

U.S. Representative Val Hoyle (D-Oregon) speaking at a hearing titled "Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness.” Screenshot courtesy of Nathan Strout

Trump’s NOAA cuts clash with seafood competitiveness goals

June 11, 2025

Nathan Strout

Shutterstock photo.

Too early to tell if Copper River sockeye run will fall short of forecast

June 11, 2025

Margaret Bauman

A boat crew from Coast Guard Station South Padre Island approaches a lancha with four Mexican fishermen aboard approximately 12 miles north of the Maritime Boundary Line off the Texas coast, April 16, 2024. U.S. Coast Guard photo.

Mexican fishermen face federal prison time for fishing in US waters

June 10, 2025

NF Staff

Ketchikan, Alaska. Photo by Alexandre.ROSA / Shutterstock

Murkowski and King reintroduce Working Waterfronts Act

June 10, 2025

Carli Stewart

Devyn Campbell’s crew gets ready to sort a tow of grey sole, monk fish, dab, haddock, and other flats and groundfish. Using knowledge and charts passed on to him by old timers, Campbell makes a living fishing the waters off the coast of Maine. Photo by De

Dragging tradition in a wooden hull

June 10, 2025

Paul Molyneaux

Photo courtesy of Florida Sea Grant / NOAA Fisheries

Final rule for Amendment 59 sets stricter red snapper limits

June 10, 2025

NF Staff

Bering Sea pollock come aboard a trawler. NMFS video image.

NMFS reports 24 percent cut in Alaska staffing

June 9, 2025

NF Staff

The Port of Toledo Shipyard’s 650-ton Ascom travel lift had no trouble bringing the 500-ton Alaska king crabber Kiska Sea ashore. The yard also has an 85-ton Acme lift for smaller vessels. Photo by Toledo Shipyard

Port of Toledo Shipyard in the flow

June 9, 2025

Paul Molyneaux

Nicole Baker, founder of Net Your Problem, on Egg Island in Alaska's Prince William Sound, with Nelly Hand of Drifters Fish, a Cordova, Alaska, seafood harvester and processor. The two-day plastics cleanup effort collected 5,500 pounds of debris for recycling. Photo courtesy of Drifters Fish.

Washed ashore and reborn: Fishing gear and plastics get new life

June 9, 2025

Margaret Bauman

Photo by Mike Hill Photography / Shutterstock

From the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America

June 6, 2025

Paul Molyneaux

Lake Charles, Louisiana. Photo courtesy of Explore Louisiana

Study finds Lake Charles leads in Gulf shrimp honesty

June 6, 2025

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