Gulf & South Atlantic

Ernie Piton of Key Largo, Fla., outfitted his 17-foot Mako skiff with a 2,000-watt Honda generator and twin 500-watt underwater lights for bully netting spiny lobster. Sue Cocking photo.

Boat of the Month: Bully net boat

Sue Cocking

NF_Sept_20_Market_GSA_Flounder_NOAA summer flounder — Summer flounder. NOAA photo.

Flounder: Summer landings on track; reductions coming for southern allocations

Maureen Donald

A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling against NMFS plans for permitting ocean pen aquaculture in federal waters. Kampachi Farms photo.

Federal appeals court rules against Gulf of Mexico aquaculture plan

Kirk Moore

Fisherman Keith Bruno after his business Endurance Seafood in Oriental, N.C. was heavily damaged by Hurricane Florence in 2018. He's preparing again for Tropical Storm Isaias. Maureen Donald photo.

North Carolina’s fishermen brace for Isaias

Maureen Donald

Spiny lobster. Florida Fish and Wildlife photo/Dan Ellinor.

Timing is everything: Florida lobster fishermen hope for normal season

Sue Cocking

"Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks" premieres Sunday, June 28 at 8:30/7:30c on National Geographic.

Wicked Tuna: Breaking ranks on the Outer Banks

Jessica Hathaway

Ryan Gandy is the stone crab expert at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute. Photo courtesy Ryan Gandy.

Who We Are: Ryan Gandy

Sue Cocking

Crewman_F/V Jeanette T_Connectictu. John Collins / University of Connecticut — John Collins / University of Connecticut photo

President pledges help for lobster industry, tracking of trade disparities

Jessica Hathaway

Striped mullet. University of Florida photo.

After two years of red tide, covid-19 crashes mullet market

Sue Cocking

Gulf of Mexico dead zone 2017 — The annual summer 'dead zone' off the U.S. Gulf of Mexico coast reached a record-setting 8,776 square miles in 2017. NASA image.

Scientists forecast larger Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ for summer 2020

Kirk Moore

Completed in 1973, the Bonnet Carré Spillway dumped a record 1.35 trillion cubic feet of nutrient rich water from the Mississippi River into the rich oyster and fishing grounds of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Corps of Engineers photo.

Disaster relief for gulf fishing communities

Paul Molyneaux