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NOAA Fisheries opens the public comment period for the proposed Atlantic scallop rule until April 17, 2025. Photo by Carli Stewart

Public comment opened for proposed Atlantic scallop rule

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Andrew Tsui, founder and president of the Ike Jime Federation, and Maryland DNR Secretary Josh Kurtz display a trout processed with ike jime. Photo by Winn Brewer, Maryland DNR.

Elevating Chesapeake seafood with Japanese technique

Carli Stewart

Here the Peggy is spit shined up on the hard at Deltaville Boat Yard in 2018. She will be doubly spit shined for her 100th birthday party in September. Larry Chowning photo.

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Charmed life for a Chesapeake buyboat

Larry Chowning

The shad fisheries of the East Coast once produced millions of barrels of salted shad. Fishing pressure and habitat destruction have depleted the stocks, but the ASMFC is working with states to restore the fishery. Photo by Holly White

Shad fishermen hang on in North Carolina

Paul Molyneaux

Invasive blue catfish are competing for habitat with commercially important Chesapeake Bay species, according to Maryland state officials. NOAA photo.

Maryland programs aim to up harvest of invasive blue catfish

Jonathan Barnes

Invasive blue catfish are competing for habitat with seven commercially important Chesapeake Bay species, say Maryland state officials. NOAA photo.

Virginia moves to lift blue catfish harvest limits

Nathan Strout

Atlantic Shores and the neighboring Ocean Wind 1 would have been only the first of wind energy projects planned off New Jersey. BOEM graphic.

New Jersey retreats from offshore wind

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This C-Hawk 24 works in Virginia oyster and crab fisheries and is rigged to work on the state’s public oyster grounds using a required 22”-wide dredge. Larry Chowning photo.

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Fiberglass boats revolutionize Chesapeake Bay's oyster fleet

Larry Chowning

Right whales on the surface between Hudson and Block Canyons 40 to 70 miles south of Long Island, N.Y., photographed by the Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life aerial survey. New England Aquarium photo/NMFS permit # 25739.

NMFS drops proposed boat speed limits to protect whales

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Dredge samples of sea scallops collected during the Northeast Fisheries Science Center’s 2024 Integrated Sea Scallop and HabCam Research Survey sit on a vessel. Photo by Northeast Fisheries Science Center

Fishermen brace for challenges as scallop framework is reviewed

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Former president Donald Trump and Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-NJ, speak at a May 11 campaign rally at Wildwood, N.J. Real America's Voice video image.

NJ congressman: Trump will issue moratorium on offshore wind

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