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define North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries photo. — A trawler in North Carolina. N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries photo.

Proposed NC shrimp trawl ban defeated

Kirk Moore

Former NMFS biologist Joe Smith’s encyclopedic book, Menhaden: A Biologist’s Thirty-Two-Year Journey with the Fish and Fishery, is rich with information and likely to become required reading for fishery science students. Palmetto Publishing image.

Menhaden: A Biologist’s Thirty-Two-Year Journey with the Fish and Fishery

Paul Molyneaux

A pair of Mississippi oystermen on a dredge boat separate oysters and load them into old Tim Horton’s coffee sacks. Bill 2648 now in the Mississippi Legislature would privatize 80 percent of the state’s oyster reefs. Richard Bosarge photo.

Privatization threatens Mississippi oyster harvesters

Paul Molyneaux

A boat crew from the Coast Guard cutter Jacob Poroo hands life jackets to Mexican fishermen aboard a lancha during a boarding for illegal fishing off southern Texas in December 2023. Coast Guard photo.

Inspector general says Coast Guard misses illegal fishing in US waters

Kirk Moore

A sandbar shark takes a bite out of a red snapper, seen from the NOAA research ship Oregon II. NOAA Teacher at Sea program photo..

Florida congressmen seek EEZ ban on shark feeding

NF Staff

The Cameron and Connor, a vessel owned by Miss Gina’s Fresh Shrimp in Beaufort, N.C. is among small inshore shrimp trawlers that fish Pamlico Sound. Miss Gina's Fresh Shrimp photo.

Carolina shrimp trawl ban

Paul Molyneaux

In a 1989 National Fisherman feature on a Tremblay yard, Charles Piatt covered Tremblay Net Boats, a boatyard specializing in mullet skiffs.

Fishing back when: Tremblay yard specializes in mullet skiffs

Guest Author

Shrimp sampling photos provided by SEAD Consulting

Alexandria diners face a 50/50 chance of getting wild Gulf shrimp

Carli Clancy

Biloxi, Mississippi. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Mississippi to enforce new seafood labeling law

Nathan Strout

A lancha crew were among 13 Mexican fishermen engaged in illegal fishing off southern Texas June 13, according to the Coast Guard. Coast Guard photo.

Coast Guard detains 13 Mexican fishermen off south Texas

NF Staff

Charleston restaurant overlooking shrimp boats. Photo courtesy of SEAD Consulting

Charleston concludes round one of shrimp fraud testing

Carli Clancy