As commissioner of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, I often hear concerns about the impacts of trawl gear used in Alaska’s pollock fisheries, most recently related to potential unobserved ...

Members of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head are asking federal regulators to help restore the river herring, a forage fish they said is vital to the regional food chain. A statewide moratorium on ...

Chinook salmon in Washington's Elwha River. NOAA photo. NOAA scientists have upgraded a crucial tool for Chinook salmon conservation. This genetic reference tool allows researchers to pinpoint the ...

“It’s coming! It’s coming!” someone yelled. It was before dawn on a recent Sunday, and a dozen men in matching navy-blue T-shirts were waiting by a loading dock in Manhattan for the headliner of Sushi ...

Sitting in the water, there is little to tell the Lorna Jane apart from other fishing boats. But this vessel is believed to be one of a kind. Below deck, where the engine once was, there is a battery ...

Winds whipped over 100 mph. Waters threatened hundreds of miles of Florida coast. And Philip Tooke managed to punch out a terse but frantic message from his phone as he sat riding out Hurricane Helene ...

A former Pacific Seafood employee has filed a $2.25 million lawsuit against his former employer, one of the nation’s biggest seafood companies, claiming it fired him after he discovered one of the ...

Coast Guard boat crews stopped five Mexican fishing boats and crews Sept. 29 off Texas, seizing 900 pounds of illegaly caught fish. Coast Guard photo. Coast Guard boat crews stopped five Mexican boats ...

Maritime Canada lobster fishermen walked out of a Tuesday meeting with Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO). Photo by crwpitman Lobstermen from Eastern Canada, also known as the Maritime provinces, ...

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced today the allocation of $39.5 million to address a fishery resource disaster that occurred in the Alaska Bering Sea Snow Crab Fishery from 2023 to ...

During the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (South Atlantic Council) meeting being held in Charleston, South Carolina, NOAA Fisheries’ Southeast Regional Administrator, Andy Strelcheck, told ...

From a bird’s-eye view, it looked like a gathering of seafarers circling a totem pole off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. The totem pole in question is an 850 feet tall Vineyard wind turbine, ...