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Highliner Nominations Are Now Open – Submit Your Nomination for the 2026 Highliner Class. <<<

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https://divcomplatform.s3.amazonaws.com/www.nationalfisherman.com/images/c1b6ced2eef06b57d0ae16bac48d6093.jpg — Photo by Lesli Whitecotton : https://www.pexels.com/photo/the-old-fisherman-s-wharf-in-monterey-13011170/

US to invest $52 million to help West Coast industry

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https://divcomplatform.s3.amazonaws.com/www.nationalfisherman.com/images/d34e3f6ee60d0b56df872389d388cae1.jpg — Snowy grouper. Courtesy of NOAA Fisheries

Public gets last shot to comment on new snowy grouper limits

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https://divcomplatform.s3.amazonaws.com/www.nationalfisherman.com/images/f1ebeffe1451660e032907ad3377756b.jpg — Blue catfish. Photo courtesy to NOAA Fisheries

Blue catfish endanger Chesapeake crabs, threaten other species

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https://divcomplatform.s3.amazonaws.com/www.nationalfisherman.com/images/49a2947b734bd455c196e3798fe93c80.jpg — Photo by Kindel Media: https://www.pexels.com/photo/food-healthy-wood-fishing-8351888/

Opinion: North Pacific Council eyeing challenges ahead

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https://divcomplatform.s3.amazonaws.com/www.nationalfisherman.com/images/133b2d9c728a65e32caa6bd805f154c8.jpg — Photo by Nick Haynes: https://www.pexels.com/photo/the-st-louis-cathedral-in-louisiana-10490805/

La. redfish, long denied commercial harvest, may see new protections

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https://divcomplatform.s3.amazonaws.com/www.nationalfisherman.com/images/633f29227797671c88a17766a42f36d1.png — Haddock. Courtesy of NOAA Fisheries

New England Council seeking increase in haddock limit

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A Coast Guard boarding team with NOAA and Alaska state law enforcement officers boarded a trawler April 16 near Kodiak and found evidence violations using non-pelagic trawl gear. Coast Guard photo.

Alaska charges vessel operator for non-pelagic trawl gear near Kodiak

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U.S. to spend $52m on Oregon seafood products

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https://divcomplatform.s3.amazonaws.com/www.nationalfisherman.com/images/cbd9420e3778b1acec165eb9134f4a54.jpg — Photo by Farhad Ibrahimzade

Failed fish plant up for sale in Nova Scotia — and with it, 20% of Canada's silver hake quote

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

New England groundfish fleet faces long rebuilding period

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New association seeks to unite New England fishermen

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