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The Dark Star caught fire at Journey’s End Marina in Rockland, Maine. Stephen Betts photo

On fire and foundered: A rough week for East Coast commercial fishing boats

Jessica Hathaway

Benjamin Platt: Crab boss

Nick Rahaim

The commercial fishing vessel Pappy's Pride was outbound from Galveston, Texas, when it collided with the tanker Bow Fortune Jan. 14, 2020. NTSB graphic.

NTSB faults lack of communication in fatal Texas collision

Kirk Moore

Preston Dore’s Demi Rae rolled over on her side during the storm surge caused by Hurricane Ida. Preston Dore photo

‘Pray for a miracle’: Gulf Coast still in recovery mode after Ida

Jessica Hathaway

The trawler Master Dylan ran aground and burned after being towed by the Master Dustin II. Coast Guard photo.

Generator explosion claimed shrimp trawler; NTSB recommends fuel cut-off valves outside engine rooms

Kirk Moore

Northern shrimp from the Gulf of Maine. NMFS photo.

Northeast Shrimp: Moratorium expires this year, but biomass still at bottom

Caroline Losneck

The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Pelican, an 87-foot patrol boat homeported in Corpus Christi, Texas, tows a disabled 84-foot fishing boat after a vessel collision 15 miles off Port O’Connor, Texas, July 26, 2021. The Pelican crew safely transferred the tow — The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Pelican out of Corpus Christi, Texas, tows the disabled 84-foot shrimp boat Aiden Boy after a collision with another fishing boat about 15 miles off Port O’Connor. U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Pelican photo

Video: Coast Guard rescues five crew off Texas coast

Jessica Hathaway

Dungeness crab. Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute photo

Alaska’s Dungeness crab prices double, halibut and blackcod also on the rise

Laine Welch

The Miss. Kim capsized on the opening day of the South Carolina shrimp season. GoFundMe/Grace Sayre photo.

South Carolina shrimp boat capsizes on opening day of season

Maureen Donald

The Coast Guard and good Samaritan vessels responded to a capsized commercial lift boat on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, searching for people in the water 8 miles south of Grand Isle, La. U.S. Coast Guard photo

John_DeSantis

Fishermen aided search efforts after 13 lost in lift boat capsizing

John DeSantis

Shrimp boats tied up in Venice, La. Creative Commons photo by Flickr user Finchlake2000.

USDA spends $70.9 million on domestic seafood

Jessica Hathaway