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Menhaden Fisheries Coalition analysis finds widely repeated claims “simply not supported by the record”. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock
December 4, 2025

Scientists did not recommend a 54 percent cut to the menhaden TAC

Photo courtesy of Earth Justice
December 4, 2025

Contamination safeguards of transboundary mining questioned

The Fishing Industry Safety, Health, and Wellness Improvement (Fish Wellness) Act has been reintroduced. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock
December 3, 2025

FISH Wellness Act reintroduced to strengthen fishermen’s safety and health

Sitka, Alaska, fisherman, Jeff Farvour, gaffs a salmon aboard his 40-foot troller, the Apollo. A lawsuit by the Wild Fish Conservancy almost closed the Southeast Alaska salmon troll fishery in 2023, and the fishermen’s struggle with the litigious organiza
December 3, 2025

The Wild Fish Conservancy’s never-ending lawsuits

Mike Rudolph of the US Coast Guard uses a model in a tank to demonstrate some stability basics to a very interested young man named Valour. The idea is to give vessel operators the information they need to avoid the most egregious mistakes. Photo courtesy
December 3, 2025

Stability basics save lives

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Menhaden Fisheries Coalition analysis finds widely repeated claims “simply not supported by the record”. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Carli Stewart

December 4, 2025

Scientists did not recommend a 54 percent cut to the menhaden TAC

Photo courtesy of Earth Justice

Margaret Bauman

December 4, 2025

Contamination safeguards of transboundary mining questioned

The Fishing Industry Safety, Health, and Wellness Improvement (Fish Wellness) Act has been reintroduced. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Carli Stewart

December 3, 2025

FISH Wellness Act reintroduced to strengthen fishermen’s safety and health

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Menhaden Fisheries Coalition analysis finds widely repeated claims “simply not supported by the record”. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Scientists did not recommend a 54 percent cut to the menhaden TAC

December 4, 2025

Carli Stewart

Photo courtesy of Earth Justice

Contamination safeguards of transboundary mining questioned

December 4, 2025

Margaret Bauman

The Fishing Industry Safety, Health, and Wellness Improvement (Fish Wellness) Act has been reintroduced. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

FISH Wellness Act reintroduced to strengthen fishermen’s safety and health

December 3, 2025

Carli Stewart

Mike Rudolph of the US Coast Guard uses a model in a tank to demonstrate some stability basics to a very interested young man named Valour. The idea is to give vessel operators the information they need to avoid the most egregious mistakes. Photo courtesy

Stability basics save lives

December 3, 2025

Paul Molyneaux

Cod fishing in the Gulf of Maine. Gulf of Maine Research Institute photo.
Cod fishing in the Gulf of Maine. Gulf of Maine Research Institute photo.

NOAA reopens comment period on ‘restoring nation’s seafood competitiveness’

December 2, 2025

Margaret Bauman

Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Maritime Fairtrade guide outlines path for fisheries

December 2, 2025

NF Staff

Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Dumping Day launched Canada’s largest lobster fishery

December 1, 2025

Carli Stewart

Stevie and Brian on the deck of the F/V Stacie Vea, fall of 1981. Photo courtesy of Brian Robbins

Robbins bids farewell as Commercial Fisheries News prepares its final edition

December 1, 2025

Guest Author

Alexandra Morton started off presenting fisheries science aimed at protecting wild salmon. “When I saw the science wasn’t bringing change, I became an activist,” she says. Simon Fraser University photo.

Removal of BC salmon farms coincides with rebounding wild runs

December 1, 2025

Paul Molyneaux

Fisheries biologist and lead author, Lukas DeFilippo working on a surface trawl survey, holds a coho salmon aboard a scientific survey that informs management decisions. NOAA Fisheries photo by Lukas DeFilippo

Study probes environmental drivers of salmon bycatch in Alaska pollock fishery

November 26, 2025

NF Staff

Officials say the latest discoveries underscore the need for diverse detection and management tools and show that Molt Search is already playing an important role. Photo courtesy of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community.

First European green crab detected in Skagit Bay

November 26, 2025

NF Staff

Alaska's commercial fishing industry has seen its workforce shrink for five straight years, according to state labor officials. Shutterstock photo.

Alaska seafood harvesting jobs down for fifth straight year

November 26, 2025

Margaret Bauman

Imagery from NOAA's “Blobtracker” shows the intensity of the 2014-16 Pacific sea temperatures, compared to 2024 which also saw record sea surface temperatures in some areas of the Pacific, as did the 2025 blob. NOAA graphic.

Keeping an eye on the ‘Blob’

November 26, 2025

Paul Molyneaux

A federal judge issued a temporary order Nov. 24 to return a Coast Guard rescue helicopter to its forward operating base at Newport, Ore., before the start of the Dungeness crab fishing season. Coast Guard photo.

Federal judge says Coast Guard helicopter must return to Newport

November 25, 2025

NF Staff

This photo of the Nellie Crockett was taken in 1984 when she was owned by James Ward of Deltaville, Va. and was being used to plant seed oysters. Larry Chowning photo.

Happy 100th to the buyboats

November 24, 2025

Larry Chowning

From an idea to a drawing to reality, Full Time Fabrication turns fisherman, Jordan Wilson’s dream into a fast and versatile coast crabber, ready for Puget Sound and the deeper waters offshore. TJ Lowry photo.

Full Time Fabrication floats a new crab boat design

November 24, 2025

Paul Molyneaux

Impelpro's impeller removal tool on display at the Pacific Marine Expo. National Fisherman photo.

Marine technician designs tool to simplify impeller removal

November 22, 2025

Ben Hayden

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