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The Virginia General Assembly approved $250,000 Sept. 6 to support and encourage blue catfish processing, flash freezing, harvesting and infrastructure projects in an effort to enhance the growth of a blue catfish fishery in Virginia. Larry Chowning photo

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Virginia looks to expand blue catfish fishery and processing

Larry Chowning

Robbie Pollock’s son Chris tried his hand at other trades for a while, but came back to the water where he catches oysters with his wife Brittany and their children, and pulls crab traps with his father. Spence Harrison photo.

The Tip of the Tong

Paul Molyneaux

The self-propelled barge is charged with oyster habitat restoration in the estuarine waters of North Carolina. N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries photo.

Pipeline recovery vessel has new life as oyster restoration barge

A nearshore Gulf of Maine water sample full of Tripos Muelleri collected in May 2023.  Photo by Joe Vallino/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Scientists, fishermen keep eyes on huge algae bloom in Gulf of Maine

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The Corps of Engineers opened the Bonnet Carré Spillway twice in 2019 to divert flood waters headed down the Mississippi River toward New Orleans. Corps of Engineers photo.

Mississippi opens financial aid for fishermen affected by 2019 Bonnet Carré diversion

https://divcomplatform.s3.amazonaws.com/www.nationalfisherman.com/images/1332760322a13877ea77151fccc7c8f5.png — Shoreside support image. Doug Stewart

Behind The Scenes: What 'Shoreside Support' Really Looks Like for Fishing Families

Megan Waldrep & Carli Stewart

https://divcomplatform.s3.amazonaws.com/www.nationalfisherman.com/images/517b3dca30af3ccd065a461704bee087.png — Carli's father and brother, Craig and Cody Stewart at this past summers Save Maine Lobstermen event in support of the Maine Lobstermen's Association. Photo Courtesy of Carli Stewart

Fishing Family Point of View: regulations and policies across the coasts

Megan Waldrep & Carli Stewart

Fishery disasters declared for Louisiana and Mississippi

The 40' x 16.5' Capt. William was launched in May for planting oyster shells and spat on Virginia leased oyster grounds. Larry Chowning photo.

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Virginia oysterman builds himself a new planter vessel

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Lobsters, and now oysters? Seafood Watch downgrades Chesapeake oysters

Chris Chase

The lifting operation began carefully May 12 as the Rebecca T. Ruark was hauled out to repair damage inflicted by a pickup truck driven over a dock bulkhead in December 2022. Photo courtesy of Wade Murphy III.

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Historic Chesapeake Bay skipjack, hit by a truck, is under repair

Larry Chowning