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BOEM is considering calls to change plans for New York Bight wind energy areas, including vessel transit lanes (blue corridors) and a buffer zone for the Hudson Canyon scallop access area (blue area). BOEM graphic.

Offshore wind plans court disaster, fishermen warn

Kirk Moore

Dungeness crab. Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute photo

Alaska’s Dungeness crab prices double, halibut and blackcod also on the rise

Laine Welch

Kinematics Bristol Bay Gillnetter — Kevin Wilson, deckhand on the F/V Curragh, standing on the back deck of a 32-foot salmon gillnetter on his first day of the season in Alaska’s Bristol Bay Naknek River fishing district. Kinematics Marine Equipment

OnDeck in the Pacific Northwest & Alaska: Nets & Haulers

NF Staff

University of Massachusetts researchers are using fisheries surveys in a first study to assess effects when the Vineyard Wind offshore energy project is built. Vineyard Wind image.

Vineyard Wind fisheries study to assess effect of offshore turbines

Kirk Moore

The Emmy Rose, an 82-foot groundfish trawler based in Portland, Maine, was lost at sea on Nov. 23, 2020. Rink Varian photo.

Searchers locate Emmy Rose wreckage

Jessica Hathaway

Shrimp boats tied up in Venice, La. Creative Commons photo by Flickr user Finchlake2000.

USDA spends $70.9 million on domestic seafood

Jessica Hathaway

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management issued its final record of decision for Vineyard Wind (blue crosshatched area), an 800-megawatt project to be built 15 nautical miles off Martha's Vineyard, Mass. BOEM graphic.

Biden administration clears way for Vineyard Wind

Kirk Moore

Fishing boats tied up in Maine's Perkins Cove. Elena Elisseeva/Shutterstock photo

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Hung up: Ball player gets out of a jam

Jerry Fraser

The Ocean Wind turbine array off Atlantic City would send power ashore through cables to the. former BL England coal generation plant (lower left) and north to the former Oyster Creek nuclear generating station. Ørsted image.

Ocean Wind project worries New Jersey beach resorts, fishing industry

Kirk Moore

BOEM withdrew plans for offshore wind energy areas Fairways North and Fairways South (at top) off the South Shore of Long Island. BOEM image.

BOEM pulls two areas from New York Bight wind planning

Kirk Moore

The NMFS Greater Atlantic regional office is ending the use of traditional paper logbooks in favor of electronic catch reports in fall 2021. NMFS image.

NMFS switching Northeast fishermen to electronic reporting; new policy to reimburse electronic monitoring

NF Staff