Peter Pan Seafood's seafood processing facility in Dillingham, Alaska — Peter Pan Seafood's seafood processing facility in Dillingham, Alaska | Photo courtesy of Peter Pan Seafood

October 4, 2024

Rodger May gets court approval of winning bid for Peter Pan assets

ILA head Harold J. Dagget speaks at a dockworker strike rally | Photo courtesy of Facebook/ILA

October 4, 2024

US port strike suspended after employers concede on wages

A length of rope next to a binder labeled "E17-22 Right whale #5120" — A length of the rope that right whale #5120 was entangled in, which NOAA determined came from the Maine lobster industry | Photo courtesy of NOAA

October 4, 2024

NOAA confirms link between Maine lobster fishing and right whale death

A photo of Scottish Sea Farms employees removing dead fish from a net pen — Footage from Animal Equality UK, showing Scottish Sea Farms employees removing dead salmon from a net pen | Photo courtesy of Animal Equality UK

October 4, 2024

Scottish salmon industry responds to “extreme activist” claims of poor welfare

Two Canadian Coast Guard officers on the bridge of the Sir Wilfrid Laurier looking out the windows with binoculars — Canada is leading an annual mission to combat IUU in the North Pacific for the second year in a row | Photo courtesy of Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans

October 4, 2024

Canada launches latest mission to combat IUU in North Pacific

National Fisherman

A cod fisher in the Gulf of Maine.

New England groundfish fleet faces cod, haddock challenges

May 15, 2023

Training program for young fishermen takes off in Cape Cod

May 11, 2023

A trial Pacific cod pot.

Alaska fishing group calls for reduced gear impact to aid in crab population recovery

May 10, 2023

New England Fisherman Stewardship Association Executive Director Jerry Leeman (left).

New association formed to unite New England fishermen against offshore wind development

May 5, 2023

F/V Sounder gillnetting in Lynn Canal, Southeast Alaska.

US court orders new federal review of king salmon fishing plan in Southeast Alaska

May 5, 2023

Gulf of Maine haddock

New England council seeks boost in haddock quota to avoid shutdown

April 24, 2023

Chum salmon hang in a smokehouse.

Alaska judge dismisses challenge to state management of Yukon, Kuskokwim River salmon

April 18, 2023

A swordfish in California.

California’s swordfish fishery faces uncertain future

April 14, 2023

An EdgeTech ropeless trap recovery system.

New England council seeks fishermen to advise on new pop-up trap gear

April 12, 2023

A monkfish.

NOAA, Cornell Cooperative Extension hope to reboot market for monkfish

April 7, 2023

The U.S.S. Mobile.

US Navy, Coast Guard deploy on Western Pacific fisheries patrol

March 31, 2023

The trawler Virginia Marise from Point Judith, Rhode Island, U.S.A., near the Block Island Wind Farm.

Offshore wind development could bring major changes to US fisheries environment, report finds

March 30, 2023

A humpback whale and calf.

US court rules NMFS must move on whale take-reduction plan for West Coast black cod fishery

March 16, 2023

A Maine lobster fisherman retrieves a trap.

Maine lobstermen sue Monterey Bay Aquarium over “red list”

March 15, 2023

A shipping vessel in the Arctic.

Arctic Ocean fisheries agreement on fragile ground as global tensions mount

March 10, 2023

A salmon troller in Southeast Alaska.

Alaska salmon troll fleet facing shutdown over alleged killer whale interference

February 6, 2023

Right whales.

Unusual mid-winter feeding aggregation of right whales in Massachusetts prompts gear-removal order

February 3, 2023

US EPA issues rare veto to end Pebble Mine project

February 2, 2023