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Photo courtesy of North Carolina Sea Grant/The North Carolina Oyster Trail

NOAA-backed grants help expand knowledge on farmed seafood

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The New England Fishermen’s Stewardship Association is a bipartisan nonprofit that represents New England wild-harvest fishermen and works to inform public policy and public understanding on fisheries management, conservation practices, economic viability, ecosystem sustainability, and U.S. food security. Shutterstock photo.

NEFSA appoints new directors

NF Staff

One of the Port Orford’s two new 50-ton cranes lifts a boat out of the water. Commissioned on November 30, just in time for the December 16 Dungeness crab opening. The new cranes saw a few days of 24-hour-a-day service as the boat got their traps out. Pho

Harborless Port Orford gets new cranes to lift boats onto its “Dolly Dock”

Paul Molyneaux

Small Sablefish caught in a bottom trawl survey off the coast of California. Photo courtesy of Ian G. Taylor / U.S. Fish & Wildlife AK

Recertification of flatfish fisheries as sustainable challenged

Margaret Bauman

The Revolution Wind project off southern New England was almost 90% complete toward its array of 68 wind turbines in December 2025. Ørsted photo.

Another reprieve for Revolution Wind

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F/V Texas Lady ran aground. Photo courtesy of Robert Anderson / Oregon Coastal Crabbing & Shellfish Facebook page

All souls saved after F/V Texas Lady washed ashore near Port Orford

Carli Stewart

Local and state officials are laying the groundwork to bring in new business to their ports to protect against the chaos of the current offshore wind industry. Photo courtesy of The New Bedford Light

New Bedford adjusts course amid offshore wind uncertainty

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Photo by Chris Hannant Photography / North Carolina Coastal Federation

NC fishermen launch 2026 lost gear cleanup

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2025 apprentices lifting a tray of freshly harvested clams to be tumbled and graded. Photo credit: Hailey Murphy/S.C. Sea Grant Consortium

Applications open for SC Sea Grant seafood apprenticeship

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Dungeness crabs caught off California. California Department of Fish and Wildlife photo.

Calif. Dungeness crab fishery opens in parts of the North Coast

NF Staff

Commercial salmon fishing boats at processing plants in St. Paul Harbor in Kodiak, Alaska. Photo courtesy of Karen Foley / Shutterstock

Bycatch Reduction and Research Act introduced in AK

Nathan Strout