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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

Photo courtesy of Kitsap County Sheriff Department

Deckhand found dead at Kingston Marina

An aerial view of the building and pound. Photo courtesy of MCFA

Coastal property donated to MCFA

Horseshoe crabs come ashore by the thousands to breed in spring at Mispillion Harbor, Del., and other Delaware Bay beaches. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/Gregory Breese photo.

NY fishermen say horseshoe crab management is working

Aerial view of New Bedford's commercial fishing docks. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock / Wangkun Jia

Trump administration axes offshore wind fisheries study

The Sea Grant program has helped fund dozens of training programs across the U.S. Photo courtesy of Hailey Murphy/S.C. Sea Grant Consortium

Sea Grant strengthens America’s working waterfronts