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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

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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

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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

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BOEM has outlined three final offshore wind energy acres potentially covering 557 square miles off Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. BOEM graphic.

BOEM cancels all offshore Wind Energy Area designations

Kirk Moore

Fisherman collect massive amounts of data, and can share with fishery managers. Rob Terry, founder of Seafood AI, believes they should get paid for it, with a cut of the premium prices earned by certified sustainable seafood. Seafood AI photo.

AI Innovations turn fisherman’s data into dollars

Paul Molyneaux

Trained responders use a grapple to grab an entanglement trailing behind a North Atlantic right whale in Northeast waters. Center for Coastal Studies photo/NOAA Permit # 24359.

Whale entanglement reports declined slightly in 2023, NMFS reports

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Shrimp processing in South Asia. The Southern Shrimp Alliance says new trade agreements with Indonesia and Vietnam could help combat unethical practices and open markets to competitive access. Paul Molyneaux photo.

Southern shrimpers hail ‘breakthrough’ on shrimp tariffs

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