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Heading out from Cordova for salmon fishing. Paradigm Seafoods LLC photo.

Outpost Alaska: Who's landing salmon, halibut, king crab and more from Southeast to the Bering Sea

Laine Welch

Gulf of Mexico dead zone 2017 — The annual summer 'dead zone' off the U.S. Gulf of Mexico coast reached a record-setting 8,776 square miles in 2017. NASA image.

Scientists forecast larger Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ for summer 2020

Kirk Moore

Sean Dwyer Brenna A Video Interview June 2020 Seattle

Sean Dwyer: From the Bering to the Bay on the Brenna A

Jessica Hathaway

Jennings Boatyard garvey — This is the fourth garvey that Jennings Boatyard in Reedville, Va., has completed for commercial fishermen. Garveys are growing in popularity among Chesapeake Bay oystermen. Jennings Boatyard photo.

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Garveys are growing on Chesapeake oystermen

Larry Chowning

A NMFS observer holds an Alaska red king crab. NMFS photo.

Alaska surveys cancelled over coronavirus; ‘reduced footprint’ survey for Pacific halibut

Laine Welch

Completed in 1973, the Bonnet Carré Spillway dumped a record 1.35 trillion cubic feet of nutrient rich water from the Mississippi River into the rich oyster and fishing grounds of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Corps of Engineers photo.

Disaster relief for gulf fishing communities

Paul Molyneaux

Fishing vessels at — Fishing vessels at the Block Island Wind Farm off Rhode Island. A revised Bureau of Ocean Energy Management environmental assessment acknowledges the new U.S. offshore wind energy industry will have major cumulative impacts on commercial fishing. Ørsted photo.

BOEM issues new draft environmental statement on Vineyard Wind

Kirk Moore

Reps ask for more federal aid

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Scallops on deck — Scallops on deck. NOAA photo.

Scallop prices took 30 percent price hit from covid-19

Caroline Losneck

Vineyard Wind with cable route — Vineyard Wind plans to build an 804-megawatt offshore wind energy array south of Martha's Vineyard, Mass. Vineyard Wind image.

Fishermen say Massachusetts, Oregon fail in offshore wind planning

Kirk Moore

President Donald Trump signs a proclamation allowing commercial fishing in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts marine monument on June 5, 2020. Jessica Hathaway photo

Reverse course: Trump declaration makes way for commercial fishing in Atlantic monument

Jessica Hathaway