Mid-Atlantic

Matt Gregg of Forty North Oyster Farms pilots a load of harvested oysters to dock in Barnegat Bay, N.J. Forty North Oyster Farms photo.

Unsold oysters go to New Jersey restoration reefs

Kirk Moore

New Jersey legislators call to suspend offshore wind approval

Kirk Moore

The skipjack Virginia W dredging oysters on Chesapeake Bay. Maryland Sea Grant photo.

Maryland Watermen’s Association and partners sue EPA over bay cleanup

Kirk Moore

Menhaden’s ecological reference points allow management to meet broad ecosystem needs. Kris Rowe Photography.

Points of pride: Atlantic states commission takes bold step on menhaden

Captain Louis Puskas at Barnegat Light, N.J. in the early 1980s. Photo by Ray Fisk/National Fisherman.

Barnegat Light legend Lou Puskas passes at age 89

Kirk Moore

Captain Wayne Magwood, on the outrigger, started trawling at the age of 12. After more than 50 years in the industry, he is retiring. His 68-foot-long, 83-ton shrimping vessel Winds of Fortune is now under new ownership and renamed as the Shayna Michelle. Jamie Edens photo.

Last Set: Mount Pleasant, S.C.

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Built-in 1978 at what is now Eastern Shipbuilding Group, the Relentless has been repowered and maintained for many years at Garpo Marine on Staten Island, New York. Jake Smith photo

Relentless never quits: A venerable East Coast scalloper goes in for a significant power upgrade at Staten Island’s Garpo Marine Services

Paul Molyneaux

NF_September_20_ATY_South_Lead_Parker — This Parker 25 worked by Nathan Everett on Chesapeake Bay recently got a new 300-hp four-stroke outboard engine. Larry Chowning photo

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New power for a 25-footer in Chesapeake Bay; Wright skiff is ready for sale in Deltaville, Va.

Larry Chowning

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Mid-Atlantic council calls for extending observer waiver through 2020

Kirk Moore

1970 World Championship Sardine Packing Contest Champion Rita Willey of Rockland, Maine

Flashback Friday: Sardine packing champ, launch for offshore lobster, remembering Uncle Ted

Jessica Hathaway

Summer flounder. NEFSC photo.

It’s nice to share: NMFS, Mid-Atlantic council propose more flounder quota for states

Kirk Moore