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F/V Carli Elaine steaming into Gloucester Harbor. Photo courtesy of Clancy Fisheries

More than a name on the bow: F/V Carli Elaine

Carli Stewart

Portions of the areas within the red circles of the productive shellfish habitat in greater Boston Harbor (shown in yellow) now meet water quality standards to allow direct harvest of shellfish for the first time in 100 years.

Boston Harbor shellfishing poised to reopen after a century

NF Staff

Capt. Rene Hernández’s son, Rene Jr., talks fishing with four-year-old Juan Pablo Molyneaux. The Hernándezes also started at the same age, as do so many kids in the fish business, learning a way of life as much as a way to make a living. Paul Molyneaux photo.

Getting the next generation to sea

Paul Molyneaux

Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources photo.

Kentucky boosts incentive for commercial fishers to catch invasive carp

NF Staff

The Mirage is a 50-foot longliner-troller based in Sitka, Alaska. Photo by Ben Matthys.

Alaska fishing vessel set to trial hybrid propulsion system

Margaret Bauman

Wild black sea bass in a 32,000-gallon research aquarium at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center's James J. Howard Marine Sciences Laboratory at Sandy Hook, New Jersey. Photo by NOAA Fisheries

Black sea bass tagging study tracks shifting range in MA waters

NF Staff

File photo of a U.S. Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Bradley Pigage.

Nine rescued from crab boat grounded in Pribilof Islands

Margaret Bauman

Crab traps loaded aboard a fishing boat in Eureka, CA, in preparation for the Dungeness crab season. Photo by Shutterstock

San Francisco Dungeness crab season stalls again

Carli Stewart

Linda Greenlaw’s 41-foot, cedar planked over oak frames and silicon-bronze fastened, 41-foot lobster boat Ernest hauled out at Wesmac Custom Boats prior to being refastened. Wesmac Custom Boats photo.

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A full house at Wesmac Custom Boats

Michael Crowley

Juvenile salmon experienced a mix of favorable and challenging ocean conditions off the West Coast in 2025. NOAA Fisheries photo.

Mixed signals suggest moderate Pacific salmon returns

NF Staff

Acy Cooper, president of the Louisiana Shrimp Association, and other members of the organization at an informal 2023 meet-up in Delacroix, La., when shrimp prices were so low they could not cover fuel costs to fish. Paul Molyneaux photo.

Lawmakers seek to protect US fishermen from low-priced imports

Paul Molyneaux