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The National Marine Fisheries Service is taking public comments on its plan to expand the Massachusetts Restricted Area to include the previously exempted 'wedge' between state and federal waters. NMFS graphic.

NMFS plans to end ‘Massachusetts Wedge’ exemption for trap gear

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The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council started a process to allow on-demand or 'ropeless' gear in the black sea bass trap fishery from North Carolina to Florida. Photo by Bryan Fluech, UGA Marine Extension/Georgia Sea Grant.

South Atlantic council opens door to ‘ropeless’ fish trap gear

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https://divcomplatform.s3.amazonaws.com/www.nationalfisherman.com/images/544cb96a034e7789d39a8fa71cd176e3.png — Black sea bass. Courtesy of NOAA Fisheries

Black sea bass landings on rise in R.I.

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BOEM has outlined three final offshore wind energy acres potentially covering 557 square miles off Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. BOEM graphic.

BOEM outlines three Mid-Atlantic wind energy areas

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https://divcomplatform.s3.amazonaws.com/www.nationalfisherman.com/images/23ce93a967923891b5b3407207d5ca8f.png — Black sea bass courtesy of NOAA Fisheries

Black sea bass habitat shifting north as Atlantic heats up

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Three North Atlantic right whales feeding at the water surface in Cape Cod Bay. Brigid McKenna/Center for Coastal Studies photo, under NOAA research permit #19315-01.

Portland public meeting on NMFS whale plan set for Oct. 5

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The Ocean Wind project is planned 15 miles off Atlantic City, N.J., a longtime surf clam port. Ørsted graphic.

Survey conflicts test relations between wind, fishing industries

Kirk Moore

Kim Sawicki, founder of Sustainable Seas Technology, works with deckhands on the F/V Capt Lynn out of Townsend, Ga., to test a new pot configuration for black sea bass. Sustainable Seas Technology photo

Ropeless gear puts South Atlantic black sea bass fishermen back on the water

Nick Rahaim

Wolfgang Rain is chief coordinating officer for Sea Risk Solutions LLC. US Wind photo.

US Wind, Sea Risk Solutions to work on Delmarva fishermen outreach

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A juvenile black sea bass that was caught in a fish trap in Long Island Sound. NEFSC photo.

Black sea bass more abundant in Long Island Sound as water warms

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Wild black sea bass in a 32,000-gallon research aquarium at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center's James J. Howard Marine Sciences Laboratory at Sandy Hook, N.J. NEFSC photo.

NOAA scientists study how offshore wind construction noise may affect black sea bass

Kirk Moore