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Tilghman Island Seafood is the only USDA-certified blue catfish processor on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Photo by Larry Chowning

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Maryland awarded grant to control blue catfish population

Larry Chowning

John Roberts, safety training director for Fishing Partnership Support Services, and instructor Dana Collymer hold the life raft painter as fishermen jump in during suvival suit training at Barnegat Light, N.J. Kirk Moore photo.

Fishing Partnership brings safety training dockside

Kirk Moore

The wind turbine installation vessel Vole au Vent installs the first wind turbine in U.S. federal lease waters, as part of the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project, June 20, 2020. Dominion Energy photo.

Offshore wind opponents mount court challenge to Virginia project

Kirk Moore

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management outlined a final wind energy area totaling about 2 million acres off Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, from 23 to 92 milws offshore. BOEM graphic.

Next BOEM studies will examine Gulf of Maine, NJ wind conflicts

Kirk Moore

Newly approved Virginia state legislation is designed to protect commercial fisherman from harassment. The bill was prompted by a Sept. 23, 2023 incident when a jet skier rode inside a menhaden purse net set off Hampton, Va. in protest of the fishery. La

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Virginia lawmakers move to protect commercial fishermen from harassment at sea

Larry Chowning

The Jaqueline Alice was built in 2002, and the boat that helped Jeremy Bonniville learned the craft of fiberglass boatbuilding. Bonniville works the boat in Virginia gillnet, crab pot, and oyster fisheries. Larry Chowning photo.

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Wooden deadrise tradition lives on in fiberglass

Larry Chowning

A New Horizon National Fisherman goes digital

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Scallops harvested aboard a Maine commercial fishing boat. Benjamin Hayden photos.

Lower harvests, prices for Atlantic scallops

Caroline Losneck