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https://divcomplatform.s3.amazonaws.com/www.nationalfisherman.com/images/f4e746bd8ae22ad9cf916d5fc8bd0f05.jpg — Photo by Denise H.

Can Chesapeake's blue catfish shift from disaster to dinner plate?

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A May 3 online hearing by New Jersey state Republican senators featured Jim Hutchinson Jr., editor of The Fisherman magazine (bottom left) and Meghan Wren, fisheries liaison for Seafreeze Ltd. of Rhode Island. NJ Senate Republican office video image.

GOP pushes for New Jersey offshore wind moratorium

Kirk Moore

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The fishing vessel Nordic Viking at Cape May. Cause for Action video image.

Supreme Court takes up potential landmark case from New Jersey fishermen

Kirk Moore

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TRAP: a national program to remove derelict fishing gear

Jose Antunes

A North Atlantic right whale, known to scientists as #3503 or “Caterpillar,” swims close to the surface. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission photo/NOAA permit #20556-01.

Tracking endangered North Atlantic right whales

Carli Stewart

https://divcomplatform.s3.amazonaws.com/www.nationalfisherman.com/images/d75e0b8aba3cbbe1ff86474265fa9110.jpg — Photo by Erik Mclean

U.S. grants Va. institute $8m to lead abandoned crab pot program

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Faye Hall christens the 180’ F/V Little River with a bottle of champagne on Saturday, April 22 at the Omega Protein dock in Reedville, Va.. Larry Chowning photo.

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Chesapeake Bay menhaden steamers christened

Larry Chowning

https://divcomplatform.s3.amazonaws.com/www.nationalfisherman.com/images/f0967cca8ca68a52211c00fe29b0a819.jpg — Menhaden. NOAA Fisheries

Menhaden fleet agrees to limit where it fishes in Chesapeake

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A team from the Marine Mammal Stranding Center examined a dead 30-foot juvenile humpback whale that washed up at Atlantic City, N.J., Jan. 7. Atlantic City Police Department photo.

After whale strandings, New Jersey to fund more offshore wind impact studies

Kirk Moore

A tally shows how far the Bureau of Offshore Energy Management has progressed toward permitting U.S. offshore wind projects as of April 2023. BOEM graphic.

National Academies’ offshore wind advisors meet, and critics fume

Kirk Moore