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May 16, 2025

Insurance bill for Alaska harvesters clears Alaska legislature

Sponsoned and lengthened from a 1973 Nicols Brothers boat, the Ingot, the Channa Sea has a number of interesting design features including a high wave wall. Photo by Quinn Phillips
May 16, 2025

Boat of the month: Channa Sea

Salmon Bliss Bowl at Chopped and Chowdered, which opened 14 months ago in Anchorage, is a hot seller on the restaurant's lunch and dinner menu. Photo by Margaret Bauman
May 15, 2025

Restaurant patrons yearn for taste of the wild

Photo courtesy of Jeff Kneebone
May 14, 2025

Data now coming straight from the deck

A 2021 research cruise conducted by NOAA led to the discovery of abundant ferromanganese nodules along a chain of Seamounts stretching from New England into the North Atlantic. Photo by NOAA
May 13, 2025

Fishing fleets and deep sea miners converge in the Pacific

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Sponsoned and lengthened from a 1973 Nicols Brothers boat, the Ingot, the Channa Sea has a number of interesting design features including a high wave wall. Photo by Quinn Phillips

Paul Molyneaux

May 16, 2025

Boat of the month: Channa Sea

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Margaret Bauman

May 16, 2025

Insurance bill for Alaska harvesters clears Alaska legislature

Jon Kurland is Alaska regional administrator for the National Marine Fisheries Service. NOAA photo.

Wesley Loy

May 16, 2025

A ‘worthwhile effort’ to address trawl bottom contact

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Insurance bill for Alaska harvesters clears Alaska legislature

May 16, 2025

Margaret Bauman

Sponsoned and lengthened from a 1973 Nicols Brothers boat, the Ingot, the Channa Sea has a number of interesting design features including a high wave wall. Photo by Quinn Phillips

Boat of the month: Channa Sea

May 16, 2025

Paul Molyneaux

Jon Kurland is Alaska regional administrator for the National Marine Fisheries Service. NOAA photo.

A ‘worthwhile effort’ to address trawl bottom contact

May 16, 2025

Wesley Loy

A Coast Guard law enforcement crew surveys a Mexican lancha offshore the southern Texas coast, May 13, 2025. The Coast Guard interdicted four Mexican fishermen engaged in alleged illegal fishing north of the Maritime Boundary Line in the Gulf of Mexico. U.S. Coast Guard photo.

Coast Guard nabs 450 pounds of illegal catch off Texas

May 15, 2025

NF Staff

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Bills introduced to bolster Maine’s working waterfronts

May 15, 2025

NF Staff

Alaskan pollock is the biggest fishery in the U.S. by volume. NOAA Fisheries photo.

Alaska pollock season closes with strong catches

May 15, 2025

NF Staff

A vessel fishes for salmon in Alaska's Chatham Strait. NOAA Fisheries photo.

Fishery advocates criticize WFC's Alaskan salmon lawsuit

May 15, 2025

NF Staff

An example of how an AI model can map water flow to assess the extent of salmon habitats. NOAA image.

NOAA deploys AI to help manage Columbia River salmon

May 14, 2025

NF Staff

Photo courtesy of Jeff Kneebone

Data now coming straight from the deck

May 14, 2025

Carli Stewart

U.S. shrimpers call for targeted tariffs to secure domestic seafood production. Other food groups lend support. Doug Stewart Photo.

Shrimpers call for tariffs to protect fishing industry

May 13, 2025

NF Staff

A 2021 research cruise conducted by NOAA led to the discovery of abundant ferromanganese nodules along a chain of Seamounts stretching from New England into the North Atlantic. Photo by NOAA

Fishing fleets and deep sea miners converge in the Pacific

May 13, 2025

Paul Molyneaux

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Bill to make insurance more accessible to Alaska harvesters moving through Senate

May 13, 2025

Margaret Bauman

The 68-foot F/V Captain Raleigh sank Friday morning near the entrance to Grays Harbor, Washington. USCG photo.

Newport captain missing after F/V Capt. Raleigh sinks

May 12, 2025

NF Staff

NEFSA commends the Trump administration for opening the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument southeast of Cape Cod near the edge of Georges Bank to commercial fishing. Photo courtesy of The Pew Charitable Trusts

Trump to reopen Northeast Canyons to commercial fishing

May 11, 2025

NF Staff

The King and Winge was built in West Seattle, WA in 1914. The builders, Al King and Tom Winge, were charter members of the FVOA.   It was the most modern schooner yet constructed for her time and the largest halibut schooner constructed in northwest shipy

Significant economic developments in the Pacific halibut fishery

May 9, 2025

Arni Thomson

Photo by Larry Chowning

ASMFC pressured to maintain menhaden catch limits

May 7, 2025

Chris Chase

This 42' tuna boat at Samoset Boatworks has tuna storage with a below-deck 3'-square live well that will come up to the underside of the cockpit sole. Next to it will be be an insulated tuna coffin next to that another live well. Samoset Boatworks photo.

A pair of New England tuna boats

May 7, 2025

Michael Crowley

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