Lobster

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

Timing is everything: Florida lobster fishermen hope for normal season

Sue Cocking

Bert Jongerden, longtime general manager of the Portland Fish Exchange, will retire at the end of 2020. Maine Fishermen's Forum photo.

Portland Fish Exchange manager Bert Jongerden to retire

Kirk Moore

The third event in Maine's 2020 lobster boat racing season drew 81 boats to Moosabec Reach. Jon Johansen photo.

Michael_Crowley

Moosabec Reach lobster boat races mark Independence Day

Michael Crowley

President Donald Trump signs a proclamation allowing commercial fishing in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts marine monument on June 5, 2020. Jessica Hathaway photo

Spotlight on seafood

Jessica Hathaway

Oregon's Newport Harbor. Creative Commons photo by D. Reinhart.

Top 10 for ’20

Jessica Hathaway

Blue Eyed Girl is barely ahead of Maria’s Nightmare in Rockland’s Diesel Free For All race. Jon Johansen photo

Michael_Crowley

Lobster rockets: Let the races begin

Michael Crowley

Right whale #3560 with her calf off Georgia in December 2019. Photo courtesy Georgia Department of Natural Resources/CMARI Aerial Survey.

Vessel strikes suspected in first U.S. 2020 right whale death

Kirk Moore

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

Inside a lobster processing plant. University of Maine Cooperative Extension photo

White House pledges support for lobster industry

Jessica Hathaway

Phippsburg, Maine – Alex Wallace pulled in this monster wrapped in pot warp on the F/V Badpenny.

July Crew Shot of the Month

NF Staff

Lobsterman lobster boat Pixabay — Northeast lobstering faces yet another front in the fight over the risk vs. realities of right whale mortality. Pixabay photo.

Pew requests area closures in the name of right whales, suggests trap and line limits as next step

Jessica Hathaway