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President Donald Trump and Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-NJ, speak at a May 2024 campaign rally at Wildwood, N.J., where Trump promised “we are going to make sure that (offshore wind project development) ends on day one." Real America's Voice video image.

Offshore wind opponents reel from Trump turnaround

NF Staff

American Unagi photo.

An American market for American elvers

Paul Molyneaux

West Island Oysters co-owner Dale Leavitt drives a boat through his oyster farm in Fairhaven in January. Photo courtesy of Adam Goldstein / The New Bedford Light

Oyster farmers brace for rising costs due to tariffs

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Photo by Eleonora Bianchi / The New Bedford Light

Scallop workers detained before work in New Bedford

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Shutterstock photo.

Bills introduced to bolster Maine’s working waterfronts

NF Staff

Photo courtesy of Jeff Kneebone

Data now coming straight from the deck

Carli Clancy

NEFSA commends the Trump administration for opening the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument southeast of Cape Cod near the edge of Georges Bank to commercial fishing. Photo courtesy of The Pew Charitable Trusts

Trump to reopen Northeast Canyons to commercial fishing

NF Staff

Photo by Larry Chowning

ASMFC pressured to maintain menhaden catch limits

Chris Chase

This 42' tuna boat at Samoset Boatworks has tuna storage with a below-deck 3'-square live well that will come up to the underside of the cockpit sole. Next to it will be be an insulated tuna coffin next to that another live well. Samoset Boatworks photo.

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A pair of New England tuna boats

Michael Crowley

Photo courtesy of MLMC

Repeat offender caught lobstering illegally in NH waters

NF Staff

Harvesting alewives as part of a pilot project at Wights Pond in Penobscot, Maine. With sufficient data to prove their viability, Wights Pond is among five Maine alewife runs approved for having a commercial fishery this year. Photo by Tate Yoder

New alewife fisheries for Maine

Paul Molyneaux