Mid-Atlantic

The New England Fishery Management Council has set aside four closed areas for the 2023 fishing season. NEFMC graphic.

Atlantic scallop 2023 landings to decline with biomass slide

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Hearings to gather feedback on allowing voluntary transfers of striped bass ocean commercial quota

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Imani Black of Minorities of Aquaculture

Redefining 'Minority' with Imani Black of Minorities in Aquaculture

Megan Waldrep

This 36' x 15' aluminum Cajun-built vessel has been transformed from a North Carolina skimmer shrimp trawler to a Chesapeake Bay oyster dredge boat. Larry Chowning photo.

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Cajun shrimp boat gets a second act with Virginia oysters

Larry Chowning

BOEM's proposal for eight wind energy areas off the central U.S. Atlantic coast covers about 1.7 million acres, down from 3.9 million acres in the agency's original call area in April 2022. BOEM graphic.

BOEM adapts Gulf of Mexico wind planning to central Atlantic

Kirk Moore

The Coast Guard rescued two people who jumped from the sinking 35-foot commercial fishing vessel Heathers Breeze as it sank Nov. 17 approximately five miles from Engelhard, N.C. in Pamlico Sound. Coast Guard video image.

Two rescued from sinking in Pamlico Sound

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Susan West of Buxton, N.C., a longtime National Fisherman contributor, died Nov. 10, 2022.

North Carolina fishing advocate, writer Susan West passes

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U.S. Coast Guard photograph.

Coast Guard rescues crew of sinking fishing vessel

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The fishing vessel Nordic Viking at Cape May. Cause for Action video image.

Herring fishermen take at-sea monitoring costs to Supreme Court

Kirk Moore

President Biden is considering whether to reverse the Trump administration executive order on fishing in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monument. NOAA image.

Northeast Canyons fishing prohibition may be added to councils’ management plans

Kirk Moore

The Tremont had a historic role as one of the first stern trawlers in the U.S. Northeast groundfish fleet. It was lost in a collision off Virginia Oct. 28, 2022. All 13 aboard were rescued. Coast Guard video image.

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Epitaph for a fishing boat

Jerry Fraser