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Pink salmon. Photo Courtesy of NOAA Fisheries

Cliff_White

Alaska's Pink Salmon Catch Sees 43 percent Surge, Predicting Average Season in 2024

Cliff White

Friendship Boats built the Old Coot on a 44-foot Calvin Beal hull for a Providence, R.I., fisherman. Friendship Boats photo.

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All-composite materials for a new lobster boat, and a rebuild

Michael Crowley

The commercial fishing vessel Carol Jean pictured before sinking March 21 off Georgia. Coast Guard photo.

NTSB faults inadequate tow line, no chafing gear in Georgia sinking

Kristy Clement has been named CEO of the Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation. Afognak Native Corporation Board of Directors photo.

AFDF names Kristy Clement new CEO

NF Staff

Halibut hanging on a hook. Photo by Raegan Cureton on Unsplash

NOAA Fisheries Publishes Final Rule for Halibut Management Based on Abundance Assessment

Carli Stewart

Redfish in a Deepchill slurry, which the company says will bring the fish temperature from 15-18 degrees Celsius to 2 degrees Celsius in five minutes. Deepchill photo.

Cool It

Paul Molyneaux

A right whale female named Fission by scientists with an unnamed juvenile male whale is shown during an aerial survey over southern New England waters in March 2023. New England Aquarium photo/NOAA research permit #25739.

NOAA experts: Listen early for whales before wind project work

Kirk Moore

Out on the edge of trawler design

Paul Molyneaux

Ørsted installed the first 11-megawatt wind turbine of the South Fork Wind project Nov. 20 about 35 miles east of Montauk, N.Y. Ørsted photo.

First South Fork Wind turbine rises east of Montauk; BOEM issues Empire Wind decision

Kirk Moore

Swordfish on deck during long-lining operations. NOAA photo.

ICCAT declines calls for tuna, swordfish management change

Chris Chase

On-demand (ropeless) lobster pot gear on the deck of a commercial fishing vessel. NEFSC photo.

Ropeless Buoy Technology Tested in New England