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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

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

Sorting the catch on the F/V Darana R during survey tows using restrictor rope on trawls. NEFSC photo.

Northeast fishermen, scientists test ‘restrictor rope’ for bottom trawl surveys

NF Staff

The purse seiner St. Teresa was re-equipped with a new mast, boom and A-frame in just four weeks. Snow & Co. photo.

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Scan software quickens purse seiner modification

Michael Crowley

BOEM used data about scallop, squid, mackerel and butterfish fisheries to map out potential conflicts between fishermen and wind energy development in the New York Bight. BOEM graphic.

BOEM proposals to mitigate offshore wind fishing impact

The Ocean Wind offshore wind project (green square) amid a fishing grounds chart based on federal and New Jersey state data. Ørsted image.

Seven fisheries surveys for New Jersey offshore wind project

Kirk Moore

The trawler Virginia Marise from Point Judith, R.I., near the Block Island Wind Farm. Deepwater Wind photo.

Fishing advocates seek new funding for offshore wind studies

Kirk Moore

Nikko Eterovich holds the 33-pound squid caught off the coast of Hawaii in February. Facebook photo

‘100 plates of calamari’: Hawaiian fisherman catches massive squid

Jessica Hathaway

GE Haliade-X turbines planned for Vineyard Wind would stand more than 800 feet above sea level. A lawsuit challenging project approvals questions if the turbines can survive major hurricanes. GE image.

Fishing advocates sue over federal approvals for Vineyard Wind

Kirk Moore

Bonnie Brady, right, of the Long Island Commercial Fishing Association, speaks at a Jan. 20 panel hosted by the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Listening are Meghan Lapp of Seafreeze Ltd., and Texas state Rep. Jared Patterson. TPPF video image.

Texas wind power critics, Northeast fishing advocates meet at Austin forum

Kirk Moore

The Bureau of Offshore Energy Management approved a plan for 12 wind turbines in the South Fork Wind project 35 miles east of Montauk, N.Y. BOEM graphic.

Final approval for South Fork Wind project

Kirk Moore