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Fishing vessels docked at Homer’s Wharf, with wind turbine towers for Vineyard Wind rising in the background. Photo courtesy of Eleonora Bianchi / The New Bedford Light

Launch of first US study on fishing within offshore wind farms

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V-notching a female lobster only takes a minute, but its impact lasts for generations... helping protect the resource that sustains our families, communities, and coast. Photo courtesy of the MLA Facebook page

Lobstermen push back on ASMFC overfishing claim

Carli Clancy

A shucking good time. Photo courtesy of the New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center

Scallopalooza brings New Bedford’s heritage to life

Carli Clancy

Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Mid-Atlantic watermen urge balance on striped bass cuts

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The U.S. Geological Survey aerial geophysical survey area (outlined in blue) will cover Maine counties including parts of Aroostook, Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis and Washington. USGS map.

Geological Survey plans Maine survey for ‘critical minerals’

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Dredging equipment has arrived on site to deepen Lake Montauk Harbor's channel depth to -17' MLLW. Town of East Hampton, N.Y. photo.

Dredging operations underway at Lake Montauk Harbor

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The C. ANN, a 55-foot former steel commercial fishing boat is the newest addition to the Manasquan Inlet Reef site. Photo courtesy of NJDEP

Commercial fishing vessel becomes new reef habitat

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A wind turbine at Dominion Energy’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project off the coast of Virginia Beach, Va. Shutterstock photo.

Kennedy orders CDC study of potential offshore wind hazards

Kirk Moore

A school of menhaden. NOAA photo/Jerry Prezioso.

Groups push back after ASMFC approves 20 percent menhaden quota cut

Carli Clancy

Commercial fishing group calls proposed cut “unscientific and absurd." Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Fishermen push back on proposed 55 percent cut to menhaden quota

Carli Clancy

Members of the Aids to Navigation Team, Cape May, N.J., re-establish navigational aids in Little Egg Inlet, N.J., in 2018. Coast Guard photo.

Coast Guard suspends plan to remove Northeast buoys after public pushback

NF Staff