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Beal's Island Marina in Downeast, Maine. Photo courtesy of Marinas.com

Rogue wave capsizes skiff off Downeast Maine, one fisherman dead

NF Staff

Gov. Healey and Sen.Tarr requested federal assistance to retrieve key equipment from the Gloucester-based Lily Jean. Photo courtesy of Steve Kennedy

Mass. officials urge Navy to aid in Lily Jean investigation

Carli Clancy

Debate over Atlantic menhaden management in Chesapeake Bay is continuing to intensify. Photo courtesy of Larry Chowning

ASMFC menhaden pause draws split reaction

NF Staff

Clam harvesters in Downeast Maine are continuing hands-on efforts to rebuild local flats through a combination of transplanting juvenile clams and planting hatchery-raised seed. Photo courtesy of Kate Sfeir

Downeast Maine clammers take hands-on approach to rebuilding flats

Carli Clancy

To protect whales, Maine lobstermen have increased their trawl size, added weak links in buoy lines, switched to sinking groundlines, switched to purple rope for buoy lines to identify Maine gear, and honored seasonal closures. Paul Molyneaux photo.

More than one way to save a whale

Paul Molyneaux

The Michael and Kristin, a 65-foot offshore lobsterboat built in 1982 at Gladding and Hearn, hauled out on the 400-ton Syncrolift at Rose Marine in Gloucester. “We’re putting a new shaft in,” says Frank Rose, company owner and head of operations. Photo co

Rose Marine serves the industry with a large inventory of propeller shafts

Paul Molyneaux

A coalition of environmental groups has filed suit against the Trump administration over its move to reopen the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument to commercial fishing. Photo courtesy of NOAA

Environmental groups sue over reopening of Northeast marine monument

NF Staff

Menhaden Fisheries Coalition argues that federal fisheries managers treated economic concerns differently when weighing striped bass and menhaden management decisions. Photo courtesy of Ocean Harvesters

Menhaden group claims ASMFC applied a double standard on economic impacts

Carli Clancy

Two independent analyses are pushing back on a key claim driving current Atlantic menhaden management discussions, that Virginia’s reduction fishery is preventing fish from reaching Maryland waters. Photo courtesy of Larry Chowning

Studies challenge 'gauntlet' theory in Chesapeake menhaden debate

Carli Clancy

Jeremy Zirlott, of Bayou la Batre, Alabama, buys from his three boats and two others. He packs his own shrimp and is pushing up his wholesale prices to try to get more money to the boats as fuel prices rise. “I also preach fuel efficiency,” he says. Photo

Fishermen weigh fuel costs against the catch

Paul Molyneaux

Maryland is taking another swing at its growing blue catfish problem, this time with gill nets. Photo courtesy of NOAA

Maryland targets invasive blue catfish with gill net study

NF Staff