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Jerry Dzugan (left), former executive director of the Alaska Marine Safety Education Association, with Zhongfu Ge, ABS technology manager, at the training tool handover ceremony at the AMSEA headquarters in Sitka, Alaska. ABS photo.

ABS unveils simulation-based stability training for commercial fishermen

NF Staff

Fall-run Chinook salmon migrate to California's Central Valley rivers to spawn. Photo by Miles Daniels

California Chinook salmon are study of survival in changing climate

Margaret Bauman

Photo courtesy of Bristol Bay Forever

New poll shows strong support for permanent Bristol Bay protections

NF Staff

The deceased shortfin mako shark washed ashore on Panama City Beach on November 21, 2025. Photo courtesy of NOAA

Scientists investigate shark stranding in Florida

NF Staff

Hattie Train, senior deputy harbor master in Portland, Maine, at work in Portland Harbor in October 2025. Caroline Losneck photo.

Hattie Train: Senior Deputy Harbor Master in Portland, Maine

Caroline Losneck

Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Leveling the playing field for domestic and imported seafood

Paul Molyneaux

New regulations could allow scalloping vessels to spend more time at sea. Photo courtesy of Brooke Kushwaha / The New Bedford Light

New Bedford weighs scallop permit-stacking as fleet sits idle

Guest Author

Members of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council listen to testimony during their December meeting in Anchorage. Photo by Margaret Bauman

NPFMC sets 2026-27 groundfish TACs for Alaska waters

Margaret Bauman

A study released by NOAA stated that the snow crab collapse was due to the marine heatwave. Photo courtesy of NOAA Fisheries

Study sheds light on what caused the Bering Sea snow crab collapse

NF Staff

Judge strikes down Trump ban on new wind power approvals

Kirk Moore

Miss Denise Blount’s book, Memories of a Southern Girl, tells stories of a childhood in the fishing community of Swan Quarter, North Carolina, back in the 1950s. Now in her 70s, she is still picking shrimp. Photo by Paul Molyneaux

Stories from the margins of the industry

Paul Molyneaux