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Oysters to be used for restoration are grown at University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science’s Horn Point Laboratory in Oxford, Md. Maryland Department of Natural Resources photo.

Maryland oysters a restoration success

The research vessel Connecticut trails behind the OSV Mahoney as both vessels circle the alkalinity-enhanced patch, dyed red with rhodamine tracer for visibility. Sarah Schumann photo.

Gulf of Maine sees first open-water ocean alkalinity enhancement field trial in US

Sarah Schumann

Fishermen train in survival suits during an exercise with the Alaska Marine Safety and Education Association, now at risk from federal budget cuts. Since AMSEA began safety training in 1985 fishing fatalities are more than 80 percent lower. AMSEA photo.

Healthy fishermen for a healthy America‬

The Lower Granite Dam, in southeastern Washington, is the furthest upstream dam on the Snake River equipped with a fish ladder, enabling adult salmon and steelhead to continue their migration upstream. Photo by Noe Gonzalez / U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Walla Walla District.

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Snake River showdown over salmon and power

Jerry Fraser

Among the last from a greatly diminished fleet of local boats in Patonga, NSW, Austrailia, the Van Der Neut brothers, Joshua and Dane, continue fishing their 38-foot trawler, Lindy, with help from their father, Thomas. Neutical Media photo.

Consolidation isn’t conservation

Paul Molyneaux

Photo courtesy of Florida Sea Grant / NOAA Fisheries

The Gulf’s red snapper decline is real

Trawling vessels in Seattle, WA. Photo by Ian Dewar Photography / Shutterstock

Trawl tensions rise as NPFMC meets in Oregon

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James "Jim" Brantingham, 1945 - 2025. Photo courtesy Nate Brantingham.

Great to know you, Jim!

Photo by Global Seafood

Seafood Producers Cooperative response to WFC lawsuit

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Jon Kurland is Alaska regional administrator for the National Marine Fisheries Service. NOAA photo.

A ‘worthwhile effort’ to address trawl bottom contact

Wesley Loy

Last week, Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan spoke harsh words to the federal government about the failure of timely fisheries surveys. Photo courtesy of NOAA Fisheries

“Get on with the surveys” or risk shutting down U.S. fisheries

NF Staff