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Photo courtesy of Baird Maritime

New shrimper for tropics designed to burn less fuel

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Photo by the Marine Stewardship Council

ICCAT gains breakthrough on tropical tuna management

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Project collaborator Kinsey Brown conducted a tabletop exercise at a May 2024 membership meeting of Cordova District Fishermen United to collect fishermen's priorities for transitioning to a low-carbon fishing fleet. Photo by Sarah Schumann

Fishermen at the helm of clean energy future for vessels

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Pelagic freezer-trawler association defends practices

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A cod after 14 days in PicoICE which creates a very fine slurry around the fish, reducing core temperature faster and holding product at 29F. The fish appears to be in much better condition than fish coming out of flake ice. Green Iceberg photo.

Bristol Bay sockeye gets a boost with new PicoICE tech

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Photo by Helene Sofie Thorkildsen / Norwegian Armed Forces

Norwegian fishermen snag U.S. nuclear submarine

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Chevronu2019s Jack/St. Malo semisubmersible in the Gulf of Mexico. Crowley Maritime photo.

Chevron deference is past, but regulatory state lives

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NOAA: U.S. catching, eating a little less fish

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Kieran Kelly, founder of Ocean Integrity, patented the Micro-plastic Elimination Device (MPED), and has used it all over the world to clean rivers carrying plastic to the sea. Kelly says 95 percent of plastic going into the sea arrives by river, much of i

Cleaning the sea of plastic

Paul Molyneaux

Offloading frozen Pacific cod from a freezer trawer. NOAA photo.

Supermarket shoppers giving frozen seafood cold shoulder

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According to a study published in October, seabirds fitted with radar detectors that pick up emissions from navigation equipment could help identify IUU fishing. Photo by Paul Molyneaux

AI to combat illegal fishing and enhance vessel tracking

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