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NOAA Fisheries awarded $103 million to 16 habitat restoration projects supporting salmon, shrimp, oysters, and other fisheries across the country. Photo courtesy Shutterstock

More than $100 million in habitat funding targets key US fisheries

NF Staff

ASMFC has scheduled public hearings to collect public comment on reducing the industrial menhaden harvest on Chesapeake Bay by 50% and other reductions on the fishery. Photo by Larry Chowning

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ASMFC public hearings on menhaden

Larry Chowning

F/V Sea Cucumber. Photo by Glas Ocean Electric

Electrical efficiency: where fishermen are already finding gains

Carli Clancy

Adorned with birds and an awning to help keep the heat off shrimp she brings aboard, the Miss Caylee plies the waters of Mobil Bay in Alabama, as she has for 85 years. David Bryan photo.

Boat of the Month: Miss Caylee

Paul Molyneaux

Three fishing vessels attached to one another in the water near Long Island, Alaska, Sept. 10. The Coast Guard and other fishing vessel crews responded after one of the vessels, Emily Rose, struck a rock and began flooding. Screenshot from U.S. Coast Guard video by Gregory Wilcox.

Good Samaritan crews, Coast Guard save flooding fishing vessel near Kodiak

Eric Haun

The Bristol Bay sockeye season is short and intense; aboard a Northline boat, a four-man crew picks fish and does all it can to preserve quality, bleeding and chilling fish in RSW tanks. Photo courtesy of Asher Molyneaux

Getting wild salmon onto the plate

Paul Molyneaux

Alaska’s four gubernatorial candidates faced questions on fisheries management during a Sept. 9 debate in Kodiak. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Alaska governor candidates split on fisheries

Carli Clancy

The Southern Shrimp Alliance is urging regulators to protect traditional fishing grounds as offshore aquaculture expands. Photo by NF Archive / Carli Clancy

Shrimpers urge caution on aquaculture sites

NF Staff

Southeast Alaska will see back-to-back commercial red king crab fisheries for the first time in more than 20 years. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Southeast gets rare back-to-back red king crab season

Carli Clancy

USDA funding separately targets invasive catfish processing and farm-raised catfish purchases. Photo courtesy of the Chesapeake Bay Program

USDA puts $26 million behind US catfish industry

NF Staff

Pacific Marine Expo returns to Seattle Nov. 19-21, 2026, at the Seattle Convention Center Arch Building. Photo courtesy of Doug Stewart

Pacific Marine Expo 2026 registration now open

Carli Clancy