Mid-Atlantic

This outboard profile is of a 64' x 20" steel hull oyster boat being built by Delaware Bay Shipbuilding Co. LLC of Leesburg, N. J. Courtesy of Delaware Bay Shipbuilding.

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New oyster boat on the way for Delaware Bay

Larry Chowning

A team from the Marine Mammal Stranding Center examined a dead 30-foot juvenile humpback whale that washed up at Atlantic City, N.J., Jan. 7. Atlantic City Police Department photo.

Offshore wind critics call for investigation of New Jersey whale strandings

Kirk Moore

The Coast Guard, Maryland Department of the Environment and Evergreen Marine Corporation, in partnership with multiple state and local responders, refloat the Ever Forward Sunday, April 17, in the Chesapeake Bay. George Mason University photo.

Ever Forward ship owners to pay $676,200 for Chesapeake oyster bar restoration

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Lund's $2 million investment in a new tunnel freezer for scallops will double its daily processing capability. Lund's Fisheries graphic.

Lund’s Fisheries invests $2 million in new scallop processing

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The East Coast surf clam fishery could see revenues decline between 3 percent and 15 percent if proposed offshore wind turbine projects are built, according to a Rutgers University study. NMFS photo.

New funding to study shifting surf clams, potential fishing devaluation from offshore wind

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The historic Maryland skipjack Rebecca T. Ruark was damaged Dec. 27, 2022 when a pickup truck crashed through a piling along Dogwood Harbor on Tilghman Island and landed on the boat. Photo by Wade Murphy III.

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Close call for historic Maryland skipjack

Larry Chowning

An offshore wind turbine under construction. Avangrid photo.

Wind developers’ tightening financials call New England project into question

Kirk Moore

Herring — Atlantic herring. NOAA photo

Legal activists push herring fishermen’s bid for Supreme Court review

Kirk Moore

The Rhode Island squid trawler Yankee Pride under tow by the Coast Guard after becoming disabled 90 miles off New Jersey Dec. 15, 2022. Coast Guard Station Atlantic City photo.

Disabled squid boat recovered in heavy weather off New Jersey

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Tangier Island waterman Willie Crockett is installing a new fiberglass shaft alley tube on his glass-over-wood 42-foot deadrise Carolyn Annette in in October 2022 at Pruitt's Boat Yard on the island. Nathan Straub photo.

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DIY shaft fix gets Virginia oysterman back on the water

Larry Chowning

Black Fishermen harvesting oysters in 1905 on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland on a sailboat. — Fishermen dredge for oysters in the Chesapeake Bay, c. 1905. Image: Keystone View Co., courtesy of the Library of Congress via NOAA.gov

What It Really Takes To Preserve Fishing History with Blacks of the Chesapeake

Megan Waldrep