Mid-Atlantic

Fishing vessels at the Block Island Wind Farm. Ørsted photo.

Fishermen say offshore wind surveys rip up gear: ‘There has to be accountability’

Kirk Moore

The Dark Star caught fire at Journey’s End Marina in Rockland, Maine. Stephen Betts photo

On fire and foundered: A rough week for East Coast commercial fishing boats

Jessica Hathaway

Jeremy Kiszka of Florida International University checks on one of the Marine Autonomous Recording Units (MARUs) deployed in the Caribbean in 2017 to record humpback songs and other ocean sounds. NMFS photo.

New guidelines for acoustic monitoring of sea life and wind energy projects

Kirk Moore

The NMFS Greater Atlantic regional office is ending the use of traditional paper logbooks in favor of electronic catch reports in fall 2021. NMFS image.

Nov. 10 deadline for Atlantic electronic trip reporting

NF Staff

The Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind project would be built in two phases totaling 1,510 megawatts of potential energy. Atlantic Shores graphic.

Atlantic Shores Wind scoping evokes Hurricane Sandy trauma

Kirk Moore

James “Ooker” Eskridge, a working waterman and the mayor of Tangier, lifts a peeler pot into his workboat Sreedevi in Cod Harbor, Va. Ooker’s workboat is named after one of his four daughters, all of whom he and his wife, Irene, adopted from India. Jay Fleming photo

Jay Fleming.

Island Life: Jay Fleming documents Chesapeake Bay’s offshore communities

Jay Fleming

The F/V Heidi & Elisabeth heads toward the commercial fishing pier in Portsmouth on a late summer evening to offload her daily catch of groundfish, sold at local farms through the Daily Haul. Eric Gendron @ericgendronphotography photo

Close Quarters: Ocean zoning pushes fisheries to the brink

Guest Author

The NMFS Greater Atlantic regional office is ending the use of traditional paper logbooks in favor of electronic catch reports in fall 2021. NMFS image.

Mid-Atlantic council to host eVTR training workshop

NF Staff

Aerial surveys estimated that 40 percent of the surviving North Atlantic right whale population was swimming near Cape Cod, Mass., in late April 2021. Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries photo.

NMFS planning new whale protections for Atlantic gillnet and trap fisheries

NF Staff

BOEM is considering calls to change plans for New York Bight wind energy areas, including vessel transit lanes (blue corridors) and a buffer zone for the Hudson Canyon scallop access area (blue area). BOEM graphic.

Offshore wind plans court disaster, fishermen warn

Kirk Moore

The Port of New Bedford is hosting an Aug. 6 meeting for fishermen and BOEM to discuss offshore wind areas in the New York Bight, shown here in relation to the Hudson Canyon scallop access area (light blue). Port of New Bedford image.

New Bedford to host meeting on New York Bight offshore wind

NF Staff