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Old Scituate Harbor Light. Photo courtesy of Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism

Scituate considers expanding commercial fisherman definition

NF Staff

Small Sablefish caught in a bottom trawl survey off the coast of California. Photo courtesy of Ian G. Taylor / U.S. Fish & Wildlife AK

Recertification of flatfish fisheries as sustainable challenged

Margaret Bauman

Commercial salmon fishing boats at processing plants in St. Paul Harbor in Kodiak, Alaska. Photo courtesy of Karen Foley / Shutterstock

Bycatch Reduction and Research Act introduced in AK

Nathan Strout

Photo by NASA Science

Six decades of change on Cape Cod’s working waterfronts

Carli Clancy

New Bedford fishing vessels. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

$1.2M awarded to boost Massachusetts commercial fisheries

Carli Clancy

Hattie Train, senior deputy harbor master in Portland, Maine, at work in Portland Harbor in October 2025. Caroline Losneck photo.

Hattie Train: Senior Deputy Harbor Master in Portland, Maine

Caroline Losneck

Members of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council listen to testimony during their December meeting in Anchorage. Photo by Margaret Bauman

NPFMC sets 2026-27 groundfish TACs for Alaska waters

Margaret Bauman

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 Clancy

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