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Meghan Lapp of the Center for Sustainable Fisheries is a co-plaintiff in Green Oceans’ federal suit against the development of wind farms on Coxes Ledge, south of Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay. Photo by Green Ocean

Offshore wind threatens future of commercial fisheries

Paul Molyneaux

Fishermen and conservationists are concerned about legislation intended to grow the aquaculture industry in federal waters and building on former President Trump’s Executive Order 13921, which opened federal waters to aquaculture. Photo by Don’t Cage Our

Addressing aquaculture to protect coastal communities

Paul Molyneaux

Members of the Port Townsend Shipwrights Cooperative talk with students at the Northwest Maritime Center Career day. Photo courtesy of Bruce Buls

Introducing youth to maritime careers

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From subsistence traditions to commercial fishing, AK possesses a unique position of understanding these challenges and conceiving the best ways to address them. Photo by ASMI

Alaska fisheries adapting to stay ahead of climate change

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Credit: Maryland Fishery Resources Office, USFWS — Henry Bear intends to export 10,000 pounds of elvers to Maine in accordance with treaty and trade agreements made in 1760 and 1776. Photo courtesy fo Maryland Fishery Resources Office, USFWS

Native fishermen seek a shared elver fishery

Paul Molyneaux

An external peeling shed in Alleppy in 2007, when workers were making a reported $2.00 a day and restricted on when they could go to the bathroom. Photo courtesy of Paul Molyneaux

Whistleblower reveals what U.S. shrimpers are up against

Paul Molyneaux

Micah Dean's study and work regarding the Atlantic cod species have brought to light the perspectives of the stock from both commercial fishermen and state and federal scientists. Photo courtesy of slowmotiongli on Shutterstock

Atlantic cod stocks from the eyes of fishermen and scientists

Carli Clancy

The mass resignation of the Fisheries Advisory Board to Rhode Island’s Coastal Resources Management Council—protesting what they called the Council’s “political theater”—was a hot topic at the Rhode Island Seafood Climate Energy Symposium on March 4. Sara

Rhode Island fisheries center hosts climate symposium

Paul Molyneaux

Bubblegum coral was observed by MBARI’s remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Doc Ricketts at Sur Ridge. Photo courtesy of MBARI.

Calif. fishermen struggle with proposal to protect deep-sea coral

Carli Clancy

The Chipmans built their wharf themselves. After the January storms swept away their wharf, they will have to do it again –but stronger if these events are to be the new normal. Chipman’s Wharf photos.

Rebuilding in Maine

Paul Molyneaux

Russia's fishing fleet modernization continues. A St. Petersburg yard delivered the Mekhanik Maslak—reportedly designed with assistance from Skipteknisk, and outfitted with Seonics deck gear—to the Russian Fishing Company in May 2023. United Shipbuilding

On the Russian front

Paul Molyneaux