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A dead female North Atlantic right whale was reported Jan. 28 at Martha's Vineyard. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute/Michael Moore photo, NOAA permit # 24359.

NOAA examining rope embedded in dead right whale on Martha’s Vineyard

Shrimping boats at dock in Louisiana. Photo by TFoxFoto on Shutterstock

Shrimp alliance calls for U.S. ban on forced-labor imports

A wrecked shrimp boat near Lake Charles, La., after Hurricane Laura. Coast Guard photo/PO3 Paige Hause.

More than $42 million newly allocated to U.S. fishery disaster relief

Responders from the Center for Coastal Studies work to free an minke whale entangled in a 20-pot trawl line in June 2022. The team cut the buoy line near the whale’s mouth, and the fisherman was able to recover the gear. Center for Coastal Studies photo/

NOAA reports whale entanglements decreased in 2022

Pacific cod. NOAA photo.

North Pacific ‘heat waves’ speed hatching, increase mortality of juvenile cod

Louisiana crawfish may be headed for their worst season ever in 2024 after months of persistent drought and low water. Louisiana State University/Ray McLain photo.

Louisiana crawfish may be headed for ‘worst season ever’

A fire erupted around 11 a.m. Jan. 22 at the Port of Ilwaco, Ore., reportedly destroying scores of crab pots staged for the Dungeness crab season. Pacific County Emergency Management Agency video image.

Fire sweeps Washington dock at brink of Dungeness season

Rutgers underwater robots called gliders being deployed in 2023 to observe water quality along the New Jersey coastal shelf. Rutgers University photo/Chip Haldeman.

Rutgers scientists saw low oxygen, fish mortality in 2023

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

California to open central Dungeness season with 50 percent traps