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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

NF Staff

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

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

Maine enacts new law to promote working waterfronts

Carli Clancy

Fishing nets laid out to dry on the Harbour side in Mevagissey, Cornwall, England, UK. Photo courtesy of PJ photography

UK to ban bottom trawling in MPAs

NF Staff

The Thialf, a 661’x290’ semi-submersible crane vessel, operated by Netherlands-based Heerema Marine Contractors under the Panamanian flag, is to install turbine towers on the Equinor lease. Heerema photo.

Opponents seek injunction to halt Empire Wind

Kirk Moore

Trawling vessels in Seattle, WA. Photo by Ian Dewar Photography / Shutterstock

Trawl tensions rise as NPFMC meets in Oregon

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