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The fishing vessel Relentless. Photo courtesy New Civil Liberties Alliance.

After Chevron victory at US Supreme Court, commercial fishers ask appeals court to vacate at-sea monitors rule

Nathan Strout

Halibut longline survey southeast Alaska 2004 NOAA — Pacific halibut. Photo courtesy of NOAA Fisheries

Catch limits down slightly for Pacific halibut fishery

Laine Welch

A bill was introduced in the Virginia General Assembly in January that calls for the state to leave the Atlantic Marine Fisheries Commission Compact and to instead create a Menhaden Management Advisory Committee to assist the Virginia Marine Resources Commission in managing the fishery. Larry Chowning photo.

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Bill calls for Virginia to leave ASMFC

Larry Chowning

Image taken on April 25, 1998, shows the coccolithophore bloom in the Bering Sea. The greenish color is caused by the high concentration of phytoplankton. Photo courtesy of NASA

2026 AMSS keynotes will focus on algal blooms, maritime disasters

Margaret Bauman

Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK). Photo courtesy of Joshua Sukoff / Shutterstock

Alaska waterfronts see funding gains in 2026

NF Staff

Commercial fishing boats and a few smaller boats docked in South Harbor, Petersburg, Alaska, with a view of mountains on nearby Kupreanof Island, on an overcast morning at the start of summer. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock / Ken Schulze

ALFA seeks applicants for 2026 Alaska crew training program

NF Staff

The fishing vessel Quantum ran aground near Kodiak, Alaska, Jan. 21, 2026. The crewmembers were transferred to emergency medical services with no reported injuries. U.S. Coast Guard photo.

Two rescued from fishing vessel that ran aground near Kodiak

NF Staff

Salmon samples from canned salmon in which researchers found dead anisakid roundworms. Photo courtesy of Natalie Mastick

Researchers: parasites help measure in salmon populations

Margaret Bauman

The Inuksuk II in Igaluit, Nunavit, Canada, for its official christening on July 29, 2025. The vessel had arrived in Newfoundland months earlier, but had to wait for the ice-out in the north before it could finally make it home. Photo by Tattuinee

Canada’s biggest boat starts fishing in the north

Paul Molyneaux

Commercial fishing boats docked at Whitefish Point State Harbor on the coast of Lake Superior. Photo courtesy of ehrlif / Shutterstock

Great Lakes commercial fishing industry moves towards 100 percent utilization

NF Staff

Menhaden are being caught and processed in Louisiana. Photo courtesy of LAFB

Science, not assumption, in Louisiana menhaden debate

Carli Stewart