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Fishing Industry Credit Enhancement Act: A lifeline for coastal fishing communities

Carli Stewart

Ports like Portland, Maine are struggling to maintain their infrastructure and commercial fishing fleets. As the catch share programs tends to shift quota to larger ports the Portland Fish Exchange has had to diversify in order to stay open. Paul Molyneau

Staying Alive

Paul Molyneaux

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American Seafoods adds catcher-processor to fleet

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https://divcomplatform.s3.amazonaws.com/www.nationalfisherman.com/images/07b7ac021fb59abd8bef3e8fa44a7f5d.jpg — Photo by Christopher Seufert: https://www.pexels.com/photo/aerial-view-of-the-harbour-in-harwich-massachusetts-7751511/

Young fishermen training program becoming popular on Cape Cod

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Effort to save oldest netter in Gloucester, Mass., comes up short

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The NOAA research vessel Henry B. Bigelow. NOAA photo.

Opinion: NOAA's catch quotas rely on inaccurate data

Catherine “Cate” O'Keefe has been appointed as the new executive director of the New England Fishery Management Council.

Cate O’Keefe named executive director for New England council

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Owners 'very pleased' with New Bedford dragger's first trips

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Coddock? Fish shares attributes of cod, haddock

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US to invest $52 million to help West Coast industry

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Public gets last shot to comment on new snowy grouper limits

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