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One of the Port Orford’s two new 50-ton cranes lifts a boat out of the water. Commissioned on November 30, just in time for the December 16 Dungeness crab opening. The new cranes saw a few days of 24-hour-a-day service as the boat got their traps out. Pho

Harborless Port Orford gets new cranes to lift boats onto its “Dolly Dock”

Paul Molyneaux

Photo by Chris Hannant Photography / North Carolina Coastal Federation

NC fishermen launch 2026 lost gear cleanup

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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

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F/V Carli Elaine steaming into Gloucester Harbor. Photo courtesy of Clancy Fisheries

More than a name on the bow: F/V Carli Elaine

Carli Stewart

Portions of the areas within the red circles of the productive shellfish habitat in greater Boston Harbor (shown in yellow) now meet water quality standards to allow direct harvest of shellfish for the first time in 100 years.

Boston Harbor shellfishing poised to reopen after a century

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A last-minute gift guide for fishermen and their families. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

A last-minute holiday gift guide for fishermen

Carli Stewart

Pile of Gulf Shrimp. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

All vendors at Louisiana Shrimp Festival served Gulf shrimp

Carli Stewart

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

$500K state funding boost for Cape Cod fishermen

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Rock crab. Photo by Monterey Bay Fisheries Trust

California warns against eating rock crab viscera along the Northern coast

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Carli and her fiancé, Joe Clancy, and their dog, Alfie. Photo courtesy of Carli Stewart

Maine woman in fisheries: Carli Stewart

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New Bedford fishing vessels. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

$1.2M awarded to boost Massachusetts commercial fisheries

Carli Stewart