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In the Bass Harbor Diesel Free-For-All on June 23, LaBella Vitae and My Turn are nearly bow-to-bow in a race that La Bella Vita won. Jon Johansen photo.
July 4, 2025

Neck and neck at Bass Harbor

July 3, 2025

Coast Guard renames operational districts

July 2, 2025

Senate budget vote set mixed prospects for offshore wind

Larry Fowler and Craig Stewart on Long Island, Maine, stacking traps. Photos by Maine-based National Geographic photographer David McLain, who worked with the Maine Coast Fishermen's Association (MCFA) to document Maine’s iconic working waterfront and fis
July 2, 2025

Overuse injuries in commercial fishing

Mayasera Dyneema Lanyard fishing nets. Photo courtesy of Mayasera
July 2, 2025

How smarter trawl gear could cut fuel use and bycatch

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Larry Fowler and Craig Stewart on Long Island, Maine, stacking traps. Photos by Maine-based National Geographic photographer David McLain, who worked with the Maine Coast Fishermen's Association (MCFA) to document Maine’s iconic working waterfront and fis

Monique Coombs

July 2, 2025

Overuse injuries in commercial fishing

In the Bass Harbor Diesel Free-For-All on June 23, LaBella Vitae and My Turn are nearly bow-to-bow in a race that La Bella Vita won. Jon Johansen photo.
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Michael Crowley

July 4, 2025

Neck and neck at Bass Harbor

NF Staff

July 3, 2025

Coast Guard renames operational districts

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Senate budget vote set mixed prospects for offshore wind

July 2, 2025

Kirk Moore

Torbay Wharf supports fishing in Newfoundland and Labrador. Fisheries and Oceans Canada photo.

Canada commits $4.1 million to rebuild Torbay wharf

July 2, 2025

NF Staff

The cod end of a Danish seiner holds a ton of high-value flat fish after a three-hour set. Danish seining is a relatively low impact fishing technology in which the net is set in a square, surrounding flatfish on the seafloor before being hauled in rather

David Attenborough’s Ocean, a media super trawler

July 2, 2025

Paul Molyneaux

Mayasera Dyneema Lanyard fishing nets. Photo courtesy of Mayasera

How smarter trawl gear could cut fuel use and bycatch

July 2, 2025

Carli Stewart

The Itasca leaving San Diego and bound for her home port of Honolulu after what owner Peter Webster calls “a shave and a haircut.” Webster spends around 300 days a year at sea, longlining tuna, often hundreds of miles from any land. Peter Webster photo.

Boat of the Month: Itasca

July 1, 2025

Paul Molyneaux

Photo courtesy of Florida Sea Grant / NOAA Fisheries

The Gulf’s red snapper decline is real

June 30, 2025
Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick has appointed new and returning members to the regional fishery management councils. Shutterstock photo.

Regional fishery management council appointments announced

June 30, 2025

NF Staff

NOAA Fisheries scientists sort fish during the spring 2024 Rockfish Recruitment and Ecosystem Assessment Survey. These surveys reveal a coastal ocean dominated by a booming population of northern anchovy in recent years. NOAA Fisheries photo.

Vitamin deficiency is killing salmon in California

June 30, 2025

Margaret Bauman

A skimmer net shrimp boat in Delacroix, La., sits idle at the dock with prices too low to pay for fuel. Shrimpers from Texas to the Carolinas hope legislation can prevent restaurants from selling imported shrimp as domestic product. Paul Molyneaux photo.

Southern states lay down the law on seafood labeling

June 29, 2025

Paul Molyneaux

Problems often occur on boats during maintenance. Leonard McLay put an intentional starboard list on his vessel, the Ashtella Raelynn, to work on the port side, but water flooded the hull, and the boat sank at the dock in Newport, Ore. Georgia Haight photo.

Troller sinks at the dock in Newport, Ore.

June 27, 2025

Paul Molyneaux

Filming ‘The Perfect Storm’ in Gloucester Harbor, Mass. The Salem News Historic Photograph Collection, Salem State University Archives and Special Collections, CC BY

Checking in on New England fisheries 25 years after ‘The Perfect Storm’ movie

June 26, 2025
Oceanville Boatworks in Stonington, Maine, is completing a 50’ x19’2” H&H Marine lobster boat for a Cape Cod, Mass., fisherman, with a 750-hp continuous-duty Volvo. Jon Johansen photo.

Composite construction gains favor at Maine yard

June 25, 2025

Michael Crowley

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

Proposed NC shrimp trawl ban defeated

June 25, 2025

Kirk Moore

Former NMFS biologist Joe Smith’s encyclopedic book, Menhaden: A Biologist’s Thirty-Two-Year Journey with the Fish and Fishery, is rich with information and likely to become required reading for fishery science students. Palmetto Publishing image.

Menhaden: A Biologist’s Thirty-Two-Year Journey with the Fish and Fishery

June 25, 2025

Paul Molyneaux

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