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Lawmakers are calling on USDA to purchase Pacific whiting fillets to support a West Coast industry facing export disruptions, increased import competition, inflation, and rising operating costs. Photo courtesy of the WCSPA

Lawmakers seek USDA purchase of Pacific whiting

Carli Clancy

Green Oceans says it hopes the discovery provides answers and some measure of closure for the fishermen’s families and the regional commercial fishing community. Photo courtesy of Green Oceans

Seven years later, wreck believed to be F/V Mistress found

NF Staff

Running September 19-26, Maine Lobster Week celebrates the state's iconic fishery. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Maine Lobster Week returns to celebrate fishery

NF Staff

Maine Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King are urging Senate leaders to advance the Northeast Lobstermen Protection Act. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Collins, King urge Senate action on lobster regulatory pause

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Annual dredging keeps the Columbia River open to commercial shipping, but tribal leaders warn the work could affect salmon, steelhead, and lamprey habitat. Photo courtesy of Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission

Columbia River dredging raises concerns for salmon habitat

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The New England Fishery Management Council will not prioritize scallop permit-stacking in 2027. Photo courtesy of Doug Stewart

NOAA could take lead on scallop permit-stacking

Carli Clancy

U.S. seafood groups are calling for changes to EU traceability requirements after documentation issues disrupted thousands of metric tons of legally harvested U.S. seafood. Photo courtesy of the At-sea Processors Association

US seafood groups push back on EU seafood trade requirements

NF Staff

Farm Bill 2.0 expands federal financing options for commercial fishermen, including access to farm operating loans for acquiring, operating, or maintaining fishing vessels. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Farm Bill 2.0 included new provisions for fishing, seafood

Carli Clancy

Butchering a bowhead whale on the ice requires all hands. Whaling crews and community members join together to do the job by hand. “It’s a lot of work,” says Martin Edwardsen, director of the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission. Photo courtesy of AEWC

Fall subsistence whale hunt is on in Alaska

Paul Molyneaux

North Carolina is appealing a ruling that the state failed to meet its constitutional obligations to protect fisheries, in a case challenging shrimp trawling, gillnetting, overfishing, and gaps in commercial harvest reporting. Photo courtesy of Wick Smith

North Carolina appeals ruling over fisheries management

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NEFSA argues that Chesapeake Bay osprey research documents food stress but does not establish commercial menhaden harvest as the cause. Photo courtesy of Jerry Prezioso / NOAA Fisheries

NEFSA questions link between menhaden harvest and osprey declines

NF Staff