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

NMFS reports 24 percent cut in Alaska staffing

Jamie O'Connor, deputy executive director of AMCC. Photo courtesy of AMCC

Stronger federal support for AK fisheries

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

Empire Wind opponents sue Trump administration, Equinor to stop work again

Oregon pink shrimp. Photo by ODFW

USDA buys $16M of Oregon shrimp as fleet faces setbacks

Fishing vessels in slips at a Portland, Maine, dock. Photo courtesy of NOAA

Cooler waters ahead for Gulf of Maine

Captain Brandon Barfield’s fishing vessel New Beginning is based out of Panama City, Fla. Pcbfishingcharter.com photo/via NOAA Fisheries Office of Lasw Enforcement.

Florida fisherman convicted of poisoning, shooting dolphins

2017 0125 AtlanticCod groundfish — Atlantic cod. NOAA photo.

Commerce rejects New England council’s cod amendment

Photo courtesy of the What's Going On in Rhode Island Facebook page

Injured Rhode Island lobsterman sues state over wharf collapse

The 2022 Chesapeake Bay blue crab dredge survey showed an historic low for crabs in the bay. Results from the annual winter survey now show 2025 will have the second lowest population estimate. Larry Chowning photo.

Survey shows Chesapeake crab population second lowest since 1990

Crewmembers from the Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Doyle interdict a Mexican lancha offshore the southern Texas coast, May 22, 2025. Coast Guard photo by Edward Wargo

Coast Guard detains 4 for fishing illegally off Texas coast