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Commercial fishing organizations are welcoming new seafood-related provisions included in the Farm Bill language released by the Senate Agriculture Committee. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Senate Farm Bill proposal boosts seafood priorities

Carli Clancy

The 2026 Bristol Bay sockeye salmon season is beginning to take shape, with early catches concentrated in the Ugashik District. Photo courtesy of theautumnonempire

Bristol Bay sockeye run gaining momentum

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Caitlin Townsend and her father out lobstering. Photo courtesy of the Townsend family

A foot on deck and a voice for the fleet

Carli Clancy

Roger Williams University Center for Economic and Environmental Development has announced its second cohort for the annual Blue Fellows Program. Photo courtesy of RWU

Students dive into aquaculture, fisheries innovation

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The URI fisheries and technology program legacy

Paul Molyneaux

Station Papa in Gulf of Alaska. Photo courtesy of NOAA

Loss of ocean monitoring could create fisheries blind spot

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Jeremy Zirlott's shrimper the Emily Ariel. Photo courtesy of VesselFinder

Alabama shrimper says transparency remains key

Carli Clancy

On the lobster boat, Paradigm, in Jonesport, Maine, a newly installed 900 HP Scania DI16 083M is ready for testing. Scania distributor, Mack Boring will soon have higher efficiency, 800-hp 13L and 16L Scania marine engines available. Photo courtesy of Pau

Mack Boring powers the lobster industry

Paul Molyneaux

Gig Harbor’s long-planned Commercial Fishing Homeport moved a step closer to reality this week after a city hearing examiner verbally indicated he would approve a shoreline permit for the project. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Gig Harbor homeport project clears key permitting hurdle

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Mike Malczewski fishes blue catfish using pots. His son Cody, seen behind the pot, goes longlining for blue cats, but sometimes helps his father. Malczewski makes all his own pots. “I haven’t had luck with storebought,” he says. Photo courtesy of Jay Flem

Invasive blue catfish turn problem into fishery

Paul Molyneaux

Reid Wilson returned to Eastport, Maine, in 1989. Wilson started fishing in the 1930s and kept fishing for over 60 years, until there was nothing left to catch. He blamed draggers for the disappearance of groundfish in Cobscook Bay. Photo courtesy of Quod

Downeast groundfish vanish, leaving stories and questions behind

Paul Molyneaux