Nathan Strout

The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), which has been representing commercial fishermen in an ongoing case before the U.S. Supreme Court, expressed cautious optimism that the court would align with their reasoning following oral arguments.

“After many years, our clients were finally before a court that seemed disinclined to defer to the agency they have been fighting as to what the law is,” NCLA Senior Litigation Counsel John

A challenge by New Jersey herring fishermen to a rule requiring commercial fishermen to pay for at-sea monitoring equipment could significantly weaken the rulemaking authority of NOAA Fisheries and U.S. regulatory agencies more broadly. 

On 17 January, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. The case began as an attempt to overturn a single rule originally set by the New England Fishery

The Wild Fish Conservancy has petitioned NOAA Fisheries to list Alaska king salmon under the Endangered Species Act.

The organization claims the petition is a response to “the severe decline and poor condition of Chinook populations” in Alaska.

“For decades, scientists have been sounding the alarm that Alaska’s Chinook are in dire trouble,” Wild Fish Conservancy Executive Director Emma Helverson said. “Despite

The U.S. Department of Commerce has finalized antidumping tariffs for imported tin products used in seafood canning.

The tariffs are largely unchanged from the preliminary rates announced in August 2023, with the department implementing dumping rates of 123 percent for Chinese tin imports, 5 percent for Canadian tin imports, and 7 percent for German tin imports. However, the department also opted to set tariffs on some imported steel from South

The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has issued a USD 10 million (EUR 9.1 million) contract to the Center for Enterprise Modernization to develop technologies that can help protect endangered North Atlantic right whales.

“NOAA and its partners are working to stabilize the North Atlantic right whale population and prevent extinction of this species,” U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said. “This partnership,

The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Turtle Restoration Network have jointly filed a lawsuit against NOAA over the latter organization's alleged failure to protect Pacific leatherback sea turtles from becoming entangled in sablefish pot gear on the U.S. West Coast.

The lawsuit comes on the heels of NOAA Fisheries’ December 2023 decision to reopen about 2,000 square miles of critical sea turtle habitat for commercial sablefish

The government of the U.S. state of Maryland has vowed to continue its fight against invasive catfish and snakehead in the Chesapeake Bay watershed after NOAA Fisheries denied its request for a federal fishery disaster declaration in December 2023.

Maryland Governor Wes Moore submitted the request in March 2023 as his state has struggled to contain an exploding population of invasive blue catfish, which was first introduced to the bay to create

U.S President Joe Biden has signed into law a clarification of the Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP) that will ensure projects supporting commercial fishing operations can access funding under that program.

The PIDP is a federal program that provides grants to port authorities, states, and local governments for port-related infrastructure projects; however, vague language left it unclear whether PIDP grants could be awarded to