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National Fisherman Highliner: Dick Ogg

Nick Rahaim

2019 NF Highliner, Jack Schultheis. Photo by Andy Gulick

National Fisherman Highliner: Jack Schultheis

Charlie Ess

Menhaden fishermen handle a purse seine full of fish in Chesapeake Bay. A bill before the Virginia House of Delegates is recommending a three year study of Atlantic Menhaden in Virginia waters. Larry Chowning photo.

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Virginia lawmakers could order sweeping study of menhaden

Larry Chowning

This shot of the double-ender currently under construction at Peregrine Boats shows the two stanchions that will support the wheelhouse. Peregrine Boats photo.

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A bow-and-stern gillnetter from Peregrine Boats

Michael Crowley

A Coast Guard rescue swimmer signals to his helicopter crewmates during the rescue of three people from an overturned vessel off Chichagof Island Jan. 9. Coast Guard video image/Air Station Sitka.

Three rescued, two dead after boat overturns near Sitka

NF Staff

An Alaskan chinook salmon. Wild Fish Conservancy photo.

Chinook salmon fight escalates with Endangered Species Act petition

Charlie Ess

California to open central Dungeness season with 50 percent traps

NF Staff

The Coast Guard, Maryland Department of the Environment and Evergreen Marine Corporation, in partnership with multiple state and local responders, refloat the Ever Forward Sunday, April 17, in the Chesapeake Bay. George Mason University photo.

Maryland to plant oysters as mitigation for 2022 ship grounding

NF Staff

Henry Allens Seafood is one among many lobster wharves heavily damaged by the storm that blasted the Maine coast on Wednesday, Jan. 10. Another storm is approaching and due to hit on Saturday. Photo courtesy of Henry Allen's Seafood.

Maine’s fishing infrastructure hammered by winter storm

Paul Molyneaux

An injured North Atlantic right whale calf in early January 2024, seen with injuries on the head, mouth, and left lip consistent with vessel strike. Forever Hooked Charters of South Carolina photo/via NOAA.

NOAA: Right whale calf off South Carolina injured in vessel strike

Kirk Moore

A new project backed by Northeast seafood processors is working with fisheries experts and other groups to map endangered right whale migrations and lobster fishing effort to help reduce gear entanglement dangers. Fishery Impact Fund photo.

Lobster industry project to use whale tracking, reduce entanglement risk

NF Staff