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Loggerhead turtle escaping a net equipped with a turtle excluder device. NOAA photo.

NMFS delays excluder rule for shrimp skimmer trawls

NF Staff

The Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project, center, would release up to 75,000 cubic feet per second of sediment-laden water from the Mississippi River to rebuild wetlands in the eroded Barataria Basin. Louisiana Trustee Implementation Group image.

Shrimp, oyster damage mitigation in Mid-Barataria diversion plans

Kirk Moore

The Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project would redirect some of the Mississippi River flow through the levee and into the Barataria Basin. Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority image.

Corps report predicts ‘major, adverse, permanent’ impact on shrimp, oysters from Mid-Barataria diversion

Kirk Moore

The shrimp trawler Jimmy and Charlie Jr. ran aground at the mouth of the Altamaha River in Georgia Nov. 4, 2021. Jay Fleming photo.

Jay Fleming.

Aground on the Altamaha; Georgia inlet claims a shrimper

Jay Fleming

John_DeSantis

Gulf shrimp: September landings the region’s lowest since 2002

John DeSantis

Pacific shrimp: With a good season in, signs are now promising for 2021

Charlie Ess

Ryan Bradley, executive director of Mississippi Commercial Fisheries United, helps deliver 36,000 meals of local shrimp to food banks across Mississippi. Dawn Ross photo

Mississippi shrimpers deliver catch to local food banks

Jessica Hathaway

John_DeSantis

Boat of the Month: Waymaker

John DeSantis

define North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries photo. — A trawler in North Carolina. N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries photo.

North Carolina state fisheries under legal attack

Maureen Donald

Hurricane Zeta was the third major storm to hit the Gulf coast within nine weeks. NASA Goddard image.

Hurricane Zeta scores third 2020 hit on Gulf Coast

Kirk Moore

In 1969, New England fishermen, mostly Mainers, landed 24 million pounds of shrimp, the most ever. Now the fishery has been closed since 2013. NOAA photo.

Northeast shrimp: Surveys canceled over covid, with no sign yet of recovery

Caroline Losneck