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The New England Fishery Management Council has set aside four closed areas for the 2023 fishing season. NEFMC graphic.

Atlantic scallop 2023 landings to decline with biomass slide

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A right whale known to researchers as “Half Note” and her calf, sighted in January 2022 off of Georgia. The calf was thin with whale lice on its flukes, indications of poor health. Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute photo/NOAA permit #20556

U.S. agencies propose to protect whales while building wind power

Kirk Moore

Leading Light Wind is planned for lease OCS-A 0542, about 84,000 acres obtained with a winning $645 million bid on Feb. 23, 2022, one of the largest awarded in the New York Bight offshore wind lease sale. Leading Light Wind graphic.

Leading Light Wind picks fisheries liaison team for New York Bight project

Kirk Moore

Industry members listen to the New England Fishery Management Council’s scallop leasing discussion on September 27, 2022 in Gloucester, Mass. NEFMC photo.

New England council votes down scallop leasing

Kirk Moore

A Lund's Fisheries employee prepares to test for vibrio at the company's newly accredited inspection facility. Lund's Fisheries photo.

Lund’s Fisheries accredited for in-house seafood safety inspection

NF Staff

The Bureau of Offshore Energy Management will evaluate wind energy companies' interest in leasing across a 13.7 million-acre study area in the Gulf of Maine. BOEM graphic.

Environmental groups tell BOEM to slow Gulf of Maine wind plan

Kirk Moore

The Ocean Queen was launched earlier this year at Jemison Marine & Shipbuilding. The firm is currently building a sistership just like her for Warren Alexander of Cape May, N. J. Jemison photo.

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New scallop vessels from Bayou La Batre

Larry Chowning

NewBedford draggers Melissa Wood/NF File photo

New Bedford officials say BOEM must demand mitigation, monitoring from wind developers

Kirk Moore

Gordon Carr named New Bedford Port Authority executive director

NF Staff

The Bureau of Offshore Energy Management will evaluate wind energy companies' interest in leasing across a 13.7 million-acre study area in the Gulf of Maine. BOEM graphic.

BOEM solicits offshore wind developers for Gulf of Maine

Kirk Moore

Plans for the Ocean Wind 1 project off New Jersey could be modified for a power export cable route across Barnegat Bay to the Oyster Creek site. BOEM graphic.

BOEM extends public comment on New Jersey wind project

Kirk Moore