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Aaron Williams. Photo courtesy of NEFSA

New leadership announced for NEFSA

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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

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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

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The captain steers from the flying bridge as the 80-foot trawler Miss Kelley II, built in 1980 by Kelley Boat Works,heads down through a particularly narrow section of the Noyo River in Fort Bragg, Calif. Kelley Boat Works photo.

Boat of the Month: Miss Kelley II

Paul Molyneaux

The crew of Maximum Retriever conducts an illegal transfer of fish between commercial fishing vessels. NOAA Fisheries photo.

South Carolina fisherman sentenced for falsifying catch records

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Dock in Cutler, Maine. Photo by Jon Bilous / Shutterstock

Joe Clancy, Carli Stewart, their daughter Avery, and their dog Alfie. Photo courtesy of the Clancy family

Maine enacts new law to promote working waterfronts

Carli Stewart