Nathan Strout

The Trump administration is planning to make severe cuts to NOAA Fisheries, transferring most fisheries services to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services (USFWS), according to internal documents obtained by CNN.

“This is ludicrous! Whether you live on a coast or in the heartland, these proposed cuts to NOAA will impact you,” Oceana Vice President for the United States Beth Lowell said in a statement. “Eliminating funding and

Conservation groups are suing the city of Tacoma, Washington, U.S.A., alleging the municipality’s wastewater discharge is poisoning Chinook salmon in the Puget Sound.

“Despite scientists’ years of having demonstrated harm to Puget Sound Chinook from Tacoma’s discharge of personal care products, synthetic hormones, and industrial chemicals, [the Environmental Protection Agency] and the Department of Ecology have done

Lawmakers in Congress are debating the impact of the Trump administration’s ever-fluctuating tariffs on the seafood sector, with a handful of Republicans crossing the aisle in favor of curtailing the president’s authority to implement tariffs without review.

U.S. President Donald Trump has moved swiftly in the first few months of his second administration to improve the nation’s trade deficit by implementing wide-ranging

U.S. senators are once again pushing legislation that would exempt temporary migrant seafood workers from counting against the national cap for H2-B visas, ensuring the industry can hire the seasonal workforce it needs.

“Virginia’s seafood industry relies on seasonal, H2-B workers to help meet demand during peak season,” U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-Virginia) said in a statement. “Without this workforce, many of

The state legislature of the U.S. state of Mississippi has passed a bill expanding the state’s seafood-labeling law, sending the legislation to the state’s governor to be signed into law.

"We are trying to do everything that we can to help promote seafood [and] to help promote the brand of Gulf fresh seafood, not just for shrimp, not just for oysters, but for all seafood," Mississippi Senator Scott DeLano (R-Biloxi) told

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has decided to close part of its commercial Dungeness crab fishery to protect whales from entanglement in fishing gear, although crabbing will be allowed to continue in the state’s three northernmost fishing zones.

Early closures and delayed starts to the season due to the presence of whales – which can be entangled in the vertical lines used in pot fisheries such as Dungeness