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Photo courtesy of North Carolina Sea Grant/The North Carolina Oyster Trail

NOAA-backed grants help expand knowledge on farmed seafood

NF Staff

The Revolution Wind project off southern New England was almost 90% complete toward its array of 68 wind turbines in December 2025. Ørsted photo.

Another reprieve for Revolution Wind

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Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources photo.

Kentucky boosts incentive for commercial fishers to catch invasive carp

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Commercial fishing boats docked in Seattle. Shutterstock photo.

Op-ed: A momentous US Supreme Court decision

Acy Cooper, president of the Louisiana Shrimp Association, and other members of the organization at an informal 2023 meet-up in Delacroix, La., when shrimp prices were so low they could not cover fuel costs to fish. Paul Molyneaux photo.

Lawmakers seek to protect US fishermen from low-priced imports

Paul Molyneaux

U.S. negotiators obtained an additional allocation of 231 metric tons of Atlantic bluefin tuna. Shutterstock photo.

US secures record bluefin tuna quota increase

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Timothy Petty has been approved as the new Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, the top position overseeing NOAA Fisheries. Department of Energy photo.

Senate confirms new head of NOAA Fisheries

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A last-minute gift guide for fishermen and their families. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

A last-minute holiday gift guide for fishermen

Carli Stewart

Furuno’s GP-170D bears the wheelmark icon on the lower left corner of the front, indicating that it meets U.S. Coast Guard and IMO requirements for use with electronic chart systems ECS. Photo by Furuno

New navigation tools for new navigation rules

Paul Molyneaux

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Leveling the playing field for domestic and imported seafood

Paul Molyneaux

Miss Denise Blount’s book, Memories of a Southern Girl, tells stories of a childhood in the fishing community of Swan Quarter, North Carolina, back in the 1950s. Now in her 70s, she is still picking shrimp. Photo by Paul Molyneaux

Stories from the margins of the industry

Paul Molyneaux