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2025 National Fisherman Highliner, Erik Velsko. Photo courtesy of Kaia Fisheries

National Fisherman Highliner: Erik Velsko

Margaret Bauman

2025 National Fisherman Highliner, Dustin Delano. Photo courtesy of NEFSA

A voice for New England’s working waterfronts: Dustin Delano

Carli Stewart

A line of killer whales swim in the Bering Sea, as viewed from the deck of a trawl vessel. Photo by Hannah Meyers, courtesy of University of Alaska Fairbanks

Modified groundfish nets limit killer whale entanglements

Margaret Bauman

Aaron Williams. Photo courtesy of NEFSA

New leadership announced for NEFSA

NF Staff

The New England Fishery Management Council welcomed a new 2025-26 ''year class" of officers and members this week at Gloucester, Mass. NEFMC photo.

New England council elects 2025-26 officers

NF Staff

An Atlantic Salmon Federation map showing Atlantic salmon migration routes to Greenland, where a 2018 agreement with ASF and other stakeholders has significantly reduced the take of salmon from US and Canadian rivers. ASF graphic.

Fisheries management and Greenland

Paul Molyneaux

Ørsted's Block Island Wind project, a five-turbine pilot project built off Rhode Island in 2016, was a forerunner of the $5 billion Revolution Wind project now being blocked by the Trump administration. Ørsted photo.

Ørsted, states sue Trump administration over Revolution Wind

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The Black Eagle is a 65-foot, highly versatile fishing platform for the North Atlantic. The vessel can be rigged for sealing, crabbing, shrimping, trawling for turbot and redfish, and longlining cod. Jake Payne photo.

Boat of the Month: The Black Eagle

Paul Molyneaux

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council will hold a meeting from Sept. 29 to Oct. 9 in Anchorage, Alaska. Shutterstock photo.

MRA regulations face final vote at NPMFC's October meeting

Margaret Bauman

The China-flagged Xue Long 2 is one of five Chinese research vessels being monitored by the U.S. Coast Guard operating in U.S. Arctic waters. U.S. Coast Guard photo.

US Coast Guard tracking Russian, Chinese vessels approaching Alaska

Margaret Bauman

Cod fishing in the Gulf of Maine. Gulf of Maine Research Institute photo.

New England council seeks fishermen for advisory panels

NF Staff