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Representative Chris Smith, R-NJ, is putting renewed focus on China’s illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing practices. Photo courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard

Congressional hearing targets China’s IUU fishing, impacts on US fleet

Carli Stewart

With existing commercial fisheries moving north due to climate change and others potentially opening up, the Coast Guard's new icebreakers will be of importance to Alaska's commercial fishing industry. Coast Guard image.

New icebreakers to be homeported in Alaska

Margaret Bauman

The U.S. celebrates its 250th birthday this year, many of us in the fishing and ocean communities are also celebrating another important milestone: the 50th anniversary of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. Photo courtesy of MFCN

Fifty years of the law that changed our fisheries

Guest Author

The Magnuson-Stevens Act turns 50 years old today, April 13, 2026. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Magnuson-Stevens turns 50 as NOAA cuts raise concern

NF Staff

On-demand fishing gear systems were tested in Jonesport, Maine, using the Maine Department of Marine Resources gear library. Photo courtesy of NOAA Fisheries

Maine senators raise red flags on ropeless gear mandate

NF Staff

President Trump's FY2027 budget cuts target NOAA, other federal agencies. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Trump budget proposal targets NOAA

Carli Stewart

Colonna's Travelift was the country's most powerful when it was delivered in 2010, funded through the Small Shipyard Grant Program. Photo courtesy of Doug Stewart

$35M in federal grants aims to modernize US small shipyards

Ben Hayden

U.S. Coast Guard members from Station South Padre Island, Texas, stop Mexican nationals aboard a lancha after crews in Coast Guard aircraft spotted them fishing in U.S. territorial waters May 1, 2015. Photo courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st C

Cartel-backed poaching continues to pressure Gulf red snapper fishery

NF Staff

Gas and diesel prices on the rise across all U.S. working waterfronts. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Fuel costs squeeze US fleets as Dungie season ends on a low note

Carli Stewart

The effort to crack down on illegal fishing is moving forward again on Capitol Hill, with Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan’s Fighting Foreign Illegal Seafood Harvest (FISH) Act advancing out of the U.S. Senate. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

FISH Act advances as Senate targets illegal foreign fishing fleets

Carli Stewart

Ocean Integrity has a patent pending on its Aquatherm Disruptor. According to CEO Kieran Kelly, it consists of a huge net pulled through deep water to create upwelling and bring as much as one million tons of colder water per minute to the surface. Photo

Geo-engineering a healthy ocean

Paul Molyneaux