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The 2022 Chesapeake Bay blue crab dredge survey shows an historic low for crabs in the bay. Larry Chowning photo.

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Chesapeake Bay blue crabs at record low

Larry Chowning

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

The former tour boat Richard Lee is getting a makeover into an oyster planter at Cockrell Marine Railway in Heathsville, Va. Larry Chowning photo.

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Tour boat will get second act in Chesapeake Bay oyster restoration

Larry Chowning

Dominion Energy's twin wind turbines 27 miles off Virginia Beach are the pilot project for a planned 2.6 gigawatt array of 176 turbine towers. Dominion Energy photo.

Wind power opponents set their sights on Virginia project

Kirk Moore

The wind turbine installation vessel Vole au Vent installs the first wind turbine in U.S. federal lease waters, as part of the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project, June 20, 2020. Dominion Energy photo.

Dominion Energy says performance guarantee could kill Virginia offshore wind

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

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Three North Atlantic right whales feeding at the water surface in Cape Cod Bay. Brigid McKenna/Center for Coastal Studies photo, under NOAA research permit #19315-01.

Portland public meeting on NMFS whale plan set for Oct. 5

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Florida officials measure a right whale calf killed in a 2021 collision with a sportfishing boat near St. Augustine, Fla. Tucker Joenz/FWC photo, NOAA permit 18786.

Resistance builds on new speed restrictions to protect whales

Kirk Moore

2014 National Fisherman Highliner Russell Sherman Gloucester, Mass. Steve Kennedy Photo Gloucester, Mass

Do you know someone that should be a National Fisherman Highliner?

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The Ocean Queen was launched earlier this year at Jemison Marine & Shipbuilding. The firm is currently building a sistership just like her for Warren Alexander of Cape May, N. J. Jemison photo.

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New scallop vessels from Bayou La Batre

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Photo: North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

North Carolina makes Covid relief funds available to eligible seafood processors, dealers, processing vessels

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