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The New England Fishery Management Council welcomed a new 2025-26 ''year class" of officers and members this week at Gloucester, Mass. NEFMC photo.

New England council elects 2025-26 officers

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The Wanchese commercial fleet has been shrinking for years, but Mark Vrablic at Willie Etheridge Seafood believes that if Trump administration starts telling Americans about the value of domestic seafood it could strengthen US fisheries. Paul Molyneaux ph

Fighting for a fishing future

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Aboard his 43-foot tuna longliner, the Provider II, Marty Scanlon, president of the Blue Water Fishermen’s Association and past National Fisherman Highliner, talks about the challenges the East Coast tuna fleet faces. Paul Molyneaux photo.

Tuna meltdown

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Credit: Steve Fish / Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association

House Committee advances reauthorization of Young Fishermen’s Development Act

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The F/V Tangier Sound is the newest boat in Virginia's Ocean Harvesters fleet at Reedville, Va., built by Omega Shipyard Inc.. in Moss Point, Miss. Larry Chowning photo.

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Ocean Harvesters welcome new menhaden seiner

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US Wind proposes building 114 wind turbines on its lease in federal waters 10 miles east of Ocean City, Md. At right are traffic separation lanes for Delaware Bay. US Wind image.

Trump administration seeks to cancel Maryland wind permit

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Oysters to be used for restoration are grown at University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science’s Horn Point Laboratory in Oxford, Md. Maryland Department of Natural Resources photo.

Maryland oysters a restoration success

Northeast fishery managers look to improve sampling

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After setting on a promising indication of bait fish, crewman Robert Boyd (right) and captain Tommy Danchise (left) haul back the first of two 400-yard gillnets, landing about 50 pounds of bluefish, Spanish mackerel, and other species. Paul Molyneaux phot

Carolina fishermen get home with a little help from friends

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An offshore wind turbine under construction. Avangrid photo.

Trump administration moves to block Avangrid’s New England Wind project

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Kirk O. Larson, a longtime scallop fisherman and co-owner of the Viking Village dock in Barnegat Light, N.J., died suddenly Aug. 30. Ocean County Republican Organization photo.

Barnegat Light’s Kirk Larson passes at 71

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