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Hilcorp's proposed Liberty project would build an artificial island as base for the first offshore drilling in Federal Arctic waters. BOEM rendering.

Federal appeals court rejects approval for Arctic offshore drilling

Kirk Moore

Almost the entire crew of the U.S. Seafoods trawler Legacy tested positive for covid-19 after the vessel arrived in Unalaska Dec. 3. U.S. Seafoods photo.

24 of 25 crew members aboard U.S. Seafoods trawler test positive for covid-19

Brian Hagenbuch

Logan and Bethany Branstiter co-captain the F/V B-Team in Alaska's Nushagak Bay, drift gillnetting sockeye salmon in Bristol Bay. Crew Shots photo

Alaska salmon forecast: It's complicated

Laine Welch

Crew Shots: This is Your Life

Jessica Hathaway

New England Seafood International has become known for telling the story of wild Alaska salmon. Sealaska photo.

Northern Lights: The world goes wild

Crew Shots: Alex Johnson, Kitty Tolman, Sean Braman, Niki Riga, Christopher Riga, Nolan Braman and Tammy Braman, the 2020 setnet crew at pickup in Coffee Point, Bristol Bay. Photo by Garret “Otto” Means

Editor's Log: Crew life

Jessica Hathaway

National Fisherman — January Issue — 2021

NF Staff

Right whale #3560 with her calf off Georgia in December 2019. Photo courtesy Georgia Department of Natural Resources/CMARI Aerial Survey.

Conservation groups file petition calling for gear ban to protect right whales

Chris Chase

NMFS is in the early planning stages for proposed "aquaculture opportunity areas" off southern California and in the Gulf of Mexico. NOAA photo.

NMFS planning for offshore aquaculture areas

Kirk Moore

Salmon Sisters Cookbook Cover

Giving it all away: Our Salmon Sisters contest winners

Jessica Hathaway

Tom Burke of Sloop Point Oyster Farms delivered 23,700 oysters for restoration work on the Tuckerton Reef as Bill Shadel of the Nature Conservancy kept tally Dec. 2, 2020. Kirk Moore photo.

New Jersey growers deliver 240,000 oysters for reef restoration

Kirk Moore