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Shrimp boats in the Gulf.

Congressman Higgins asks Trump to impose tariffs on foreign seafood

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Photo by Salmon Hatcheries for AK

Alaska Board of Fisheries rejects hatchery production cuts

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Heather Douville returns home with a day’s harvest of sea otters. After years of practice, Douville can skin an otter in about ten minutes, and she passes the traditional knowledge she has acquired on to Indigenous youth. Photo by Michael Douville

Keeping the balance: Tlingit hunter fights for shellfish and tradition

Paul Molyneaux

The Coast Guard interdicted three lanchas, detained 11 Mexican fishermen, and seized approximately 1,595 pounds of illegally caught red snapper and nine sharks in federal waters off southern Texas on Thursday, February 6th. Photo by USCG/ Petty Officer 3r

Coast Guard seizes 1,595 pounds of illegal red snapper

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WDFW opened their state’s coastal season after detailed test fishing and data analysis. Photo courtesy of NOAA Fisheries/ Austin Trigg

West Coast Dungeness crab kicks off after rigorous testing

Carli Stewart

Maine lobstermen’s defamation case against Monterey Bay Aquarium moves forward

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The SSA brought FTC commissioner Alvaro Bedoya (seen standing between FTC counsel Max Miller and SSA board member Steve Bosarge) to the Gulf to understand what U.S. shrimpers and fishing communities are up against. Photo by Southern Shrimp Alliance

Save the U.S. shrimp industry from rock-bottom prices

Paul Molyneaux

The dramatic number of FDA inspections of domestic seafood producers, like these in Bayou la Batre, compared to the foreign producers responsible for 94 percent of the seafood Americans eat. Photo by Dominick’s

FDA falls short on foreign shrimp inspections

Paul Molyneaux

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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Kinematics Bristol Bay Gillnetter — Kevin Wilson, deckhand on the F/V Curragh, standing on the back deck of a 32-foot salmon gillnetter on his first day of the season in Alaska’s Bristol Bay Naknek River fishing district. Kinematics Marine Equipment

Bristol Bay data show widening gap in fishermen’s earnings

Charlie Ess

Aleutian Islands state-waters Pacific cod season opens

NF Staff