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Herring — Atlantic herring. NOAA photo

Legal activists push herring fishermen’s bid for Supreme Court review

Kirk Moore

The Rhode Island squid trawler Yankee Pride under tow by the Coast Guard after becoming disabled 90 miles off New Jersey Dec. 15, 2022. Coast Guard Station Atlantic City photo.

Disabled squid boat recovered in heavy weather off New Jersey

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Tangier Island waterman Willie Crockett is installing a new fiberglass shaft alley tube on his glass-over-wood 42-foot deadrise Carolyn Annette in in October 2022 at Pruitt's Boat Yard on the island. Nathan Straub photo.

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DIY shaft fix gets Virginia oysterman back on the water

Larry Chowning

Black Fishermen harvesting oysters in 1905 on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland on a sailboat. — Fishermen dredge for oysters in the Chesapeake Bay, c. 1905. Image: Keystone View Co., courtesy of the Library of Congress via NOAA.gov

What It Really Takes To Preserve Fishing History with Blacks of the Chesapeake

Megan Waldrep

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

Atlantic states look to regional fisheries mitigation for offshore wind

Kirk Moore

The New England Fishery Management Council has set aside four closed areas for the 2023 fishing season. NEFMC graphic.

Atlantic scallop 2023 landings to decline with biomass slide

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Hearings to gather feedback on allowing voluntary transfers of striped bass ocean commercial quota

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Imani Black of Minorities of Aquaculture

Redefining 'Minority' with Imani Black of Minorities in Aquaculture

Megan Waldrep

This 36' x 15' aluminum Cajun-built vessel has been transformed from a North Carolina skimmer shrimp trawler to a Chesapeake Bay oyster dredge boat. Larry Chowning photo.

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Cajun shrimp boat gets a second act with Virginia oysters

Larry Chowning

BOEM's proposal for eight wind energy areas off the central U.S. Atlantic coast covers about 1.7 million acres, down from 3.9 million acres in the agency's original call area in April 2022. BOEM graphic.

BOEM adapts Gulf of Mexico wind planning to central Atlantic

Kirk Moore

The Coast Guard rescued two people who jumped from the sinking 35-foot commercial fishing vessel Heathers Breeze as it sank Nov. 17 approximately five miles from Engelhard, N.C. in Pamlico Sound. Coast Guard video image.

Two rescued from sinking in Pamlico Sound

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