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Steve Bittenbender

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Steve Bittenbender works as a freelance journalist based in Louisville, Kentucky. Besides working for SeafoodSource.com as a contributing editor, Steve also works as an editor for Government Security News and as the Kentucky correspondent for the Reuters News Service.

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NOAA boosts seafood monitoring program

Shrimp boats docked in Bayou La Batre, Alabama. Doug Stewart photo.

Southern Shrimp Alliance director sends SOS to President Biden

The map illustrates how runoff from farms and cities drain into the Mississippi, delivering nutrients into the Gulf of Mexico and fueling the annual hypoxic zone. Image credit: NOAA

NOAA expects average-sized Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" this summer

The Strengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act was among fisheries legislation championed by the late Alaska Rep. Don Young.

Fisheries advocate, ‘dean’ of Congress Don Young dies coming home to Alaska

A Bering Sea crew hauls opilio pots. ASMI/Chris Miller photo

March 25 deadline for U.S. ban on Russian seafood imports

Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, speaks on the Senate floor in favor of the U.S.-Russian Federation Seafood Reciprocity Act on Feb. 17, 2022. Video image by office of Sen. Dan Sullivan via YouTube.

Massachusetts vs. Alaska fish fight over Russian imports

Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., speaks in favor of seafood provisions in the COMPETES Act in the House of Representatives. Office of Rep.Jared Huffman image.

COMPETES Act passes house, will expand seafood import monitoring

The Persistence and Relentless are two of the Seafreeze Ltd. trawler fleet. Seafreeze photo.

Atlantic herring fishermen open appeal of monitoring case

Workers processing Chesapeake Bay blue crabs. Maryland Sea Grant photo.

Biden administration to add 20,000 H-2B visas, helping blue crab processors

Lawsuit seeks to block Vineyard Wind, faults NMFS biological opinion