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An Oregon student watches classroom salmon eggs as part of the Salmon and Trout Enhancement Program. Photo courtesy of ODFW

West Coast schools raise the next generation of fish advocates

Photo courtesy of David Hills/Fishy Pictures

Monkfish are there- fishermen say the science is missing them

Local and state officials are laying the groundwork to bring in new business to their ports to protect against the chaos of the current offshore wind industry. Photo courtesy of The New Bedford Light

New Bedford adjusts course amid offshore wind uncertainty

2025 apprentices lifting a tray of freshly harvested clams to be tumbled and graded. Photo credit: Hailey Murphy/S.C. Sea Grant Consortium

Applications open for SC Sea Grant seafood apprenticeship

$500K state funding boost for Cape Cod fishermen. Photo courtesy of CCCFA

$500K state funding boost for Cape Cod fishermen

New regulations could allow scalloping vessels to spend more time at sea. Photo courtesy of Brooke Kushwaha / The New Bedford Light

New Bedford weighs scallop permit-stacking as fleet sits idle

Stevie and Brian on the deck of the F/V Stacie Vea, fall of 1981. Photo courtesy of Brian Robbins

Robbins bids farewell as Commercial Fisheries News prepares its final edition

Heavy seas at the Block Island Wind Array in Rhode Island, the first offshore wind array in the United States. Department of Energy photo

The lost future of offshore wind

Fishing vessels docked at Homer’s Wharf, with wind turbine towers for Vineyard Wind rising in the background. Photo courtesy of Eleonora Bianchi / The New Bedford Light

Launch of first US study on fishing within offshore wind farms

Melanie in the skiff with her mother and sister, Kathy, and Elaine in 2012. Elaine Chukan Brown photo.

The fishing work of women