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Ørsted's Block Island Wind project, a five-turbine pilot project built off Rhode Island in 2016, was a forerunner of the $5 billion Revolution Wind project now being blocked by the Trump administration. Ørsted photo.

Ørsted, states sue Trump administration over Revolution Wind

NF Staff

The 45-foot vessel Navigator was at anchor during when it was engulfed in flames and sank. Central Fire District of Santa Cruz County photo.

Fishing vessel burns and sinks near Santa Cruz

Eric Haun

Photo by NOAA Fisheries

Calif. squid fishery an economic powerhouse

NF Aggregator

After a mechanical failure Aug. 17, Cape May County, N.J. officials kept the Middle Thorofare drawbridge locked open to permit continued fishing boat access to the Port of Cape May/Wildwood. Lund's Fisheries photo.

Cape May keeps drawbridge open for fishing traffic

NF Staff

Port of Galilee in Narragansett celebrates a newly finished commercial fishing pier. Photo by Andrei Orlov on Shutterstock

Port of Galilee ensures commercial fishermen's future

Carli Stewart

While under construction at Dixon Marine in Lower Wood’s Harbour, Nova Scotia, the Pacific Bully grew wider twice. Photo by Pacific Bully

Dixon Marine Group builds multi-fishery hull for Calif. fisherman

Paul Molyneaux

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management outlined a final wind energy area totaling about 2 million acres off Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, from 23 to 92 milws offshore. BOEM graphic.

Next BOEM studies will examine Gulf of Maine, NJ wind conflicts

Kirk Moore

The last of 12 turbines in the South Fork Wind project 35 miles east of Montauk, N.Y., were completed March 14. Ørsted video image.

Despite fierce opposition, South Fork Wind completes turbines

NF Staff

New York State cancelled provisional power agreements tiehr three offshore wind developers, shown here as areas in red, yellow and light blue. BOEM graphic.

Farther offshore, next New York Bight wind leases still draw opponents

Kirk Moore

California squid. NOAA photo.

UMaine betting folks want to eat squid fins

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A final environmental assessment for the Sunrise Wind energy project recommends reducing the number of turbines to protect cod habitat and avoid seafloor geology resistant to pile driving. BOEM graphic.

BOEM says fewer turbines at Sunrise Wind to protect cod, avoid glauconite

Kirk Moore