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The North Pacific Fishery Management Council will hold a meeting from Sept. 29 to Oct. 9 in Anchorage, Alaska. Shutterstock photo.

MRA regulations face final vote at NPMFC's October meeting

Margaret Bauman

The China-flagged Xue Long 2 is one of five Chinese research vessels being monitored by the U.S. Coast Guard operating in U.S. Arctic waters. U.S. Coast Guard photo.

US Coast Guard tracking Russian, Chinese vessels approaching Alaska

Margaret Bauman

Photo by Brandon Cole (Insta: @alaskanadventures)

Registration for the 2025 Pacific Marine Expo is open

NF Staff

With tariffs and anti-fraud legislation pushing prices up, shrimpers are calling for swift passage of the Save Our Shrimpers Act, which would stop the U.S. from contributing billions to the World Bank for building more shrimp farms. Paul Molyneaux photo.

Moving the SOS Act

Paul Molyneaux

Large fleets of fishing boats, supported by refrigerator ships to ferry their catch to shore, can stay at sea for months at a time. Shutterstock photo.

How satellites and AI track illegal fishing in protected oceans

An artisanal fisheries panel at the UN Ocean Conference in Nice, France, in June focused on the values of small-scale fisheries. When assigned monetary values, food security, health and traditions increased seafood value by almost 10 times. Paul Molyneaux

Small-scale fisheries at the UN Oceans Conference

Paul Molyneaux

Co-founders of Canada's Ocean Legacy Foundation Chloe Dubois and James Middleton. Ocean Legacy Foundation photo.

Plight of the albatross sparked BC plastics recycling program

Margaret Bauman

A wrecked shrimp boat near Lake Charles, La., after Hurricane Laura in 2020. Coast Guard photo/PO3 Paige Hause.

Lawmakers propose disaster mitigation tax credit for working waterfronts

NF Staff

Ten years after the introduction of it’s CSH8L Omni sonar, Furuno has launched the CSH10, with far more settings to optimize performance and the potential to be tied into the company’s TZTXL MFD. Furuno image.

A new way to see with Furuno’s Omni Sonar

Paul Molyneaux

A shrimp boat at Brunswick, Ga. Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

Southern shrimpers cheer tariffs on India shrimp imports

NF Staff

The Fisheries Modernization Act would modify the existing Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to specifically include red swamp crawfish and white river crawfish. Shutterstock photo.

Louisiana lawmakers introduce bill to expand disaster relief for crawfishermen

NF Staff