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Nominations are officially open for the 2026 Highliner Awards. Photo courtesy of Doug Stewart

Highliner nominations now open ahead of PME

Carli Clancy

Salmon fishing yoga teacher, Susie Newson, shows fishermen how to do simpler exercises than this one to avoid carpal tunnel syndrome and other fishing-related issues. Photo courtesy of Oscar Tweet

Stretching for the long haul: Yoga on deck

Paul Molyneaux

The crew at Wesmac Custom Boats will be the first to install a Tier III, 1000-hp exempted engine in a New England lobster boat. The limit for Tier III is 803 horsepower, but the EPA promises flexibility going forward. Photo courtesy of Wesmac

EPA promotes flexibility for Tier IV implementation

Paul Molyneaux

Senators are urging the Treasury Department to sanction vessels that support China's distant-water fishing fleet. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Senators urge sanctions on China's fishing support fleet

NF Staff

Fishing is more than an occupation. For many fishermen, it is a lifelong identity that doesn't end at retirement. Photo courtesy of James Kirkikis / SS

When fishing is who you are

Monique Coombs

The group Save Long Beach Island called for NOAA "to designate the primary historic migration corridor of the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale along the East Coast as critical habitat." Save LBI graphic.

NOAA refuses petition for right whale migration corridor

Kirk Moore

Fisheries and Oceans Canada photo.

Fishery officers seize 18,000 pounds of Halibut off Nova Scotia

NF Staff

The Lobster Trap Company’s plastic trap being field tested on the same trawl as a wire trap. According to research and reports from fishermen, plastic traps have been shown to fish as well as or better than wire. Photo courtesy of the Lobster Trap Company

Nova Scotia company aims to reinvent the lobster trap

Paul Molyneaux

A delegation of commercial fishing leaders from Scotland toured ports across the Northeast last month. Photo courtesy of NOAA Fisheries/Heather Soulen

Scottish fishing leaders look to Northeast cooperative research model

Carli Clancy

Bills aimed at strengthening the nation's food safety system are advancing in both the House and Senate, a move that could help prevent hazardous imported seafood from re-entering the U.S. market. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Bills would let FDA destroy hazardous seafood imports

NF Staff

NOAA Fisheries continues to manage the U.S. fishery under existing quota rules, while the United Kingdom has expanded commercial access following an increase in its national allocation. Photo courtesy of NOAA / Getty Images

US bluefin fishery continues while UK expands commercial access

Carli Clancy