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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

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

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

Gillnetters line up to deliver to the tender in Alaska’s Bristol Bay salmon fishery. — Gillnetters line up to deliver to the tender in Alaska’s Bristol Bay salmon fishery. Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association photo

Supreme Court won’t consider Pebble Mine appeal

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

NMFS extends Gulf of Maine haddock increase

The cutter Alex Haley crew prepares a tow line to the disabled Aleutian No. 1 with eight people aboard Dec. 31, 2023. The vessel lost propulsion and was towed 160 nautical miles to Adak, Alaska. Coast Guard video image/PO1 Jasen Newman.

Disabled Bering Sea trawler towed 160 miles to Adak