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Permit Questions Loom Over Crab Fishery
Oregon’s valuable commercial Dungeness crab fishery has seen significant changes in recent years as the state looks to minimize and monitor whale entanglements involving gear used in the fishery.
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What Is a Super El Niño? Key Questions Answered
We get into it: Why some meteorologists don’t like the term ‘super El Niño,’ why climate change can lead to El Niño surprises, and more.
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New Bedford Fishers Hit by Rising Fuel Costs
Rising fuel costs have impacted the fishing industry in New Bedford
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Northwest Fishers Feel Impact of Fuel Costs
Rising fuel costs ripple through Northwest’s fishing industry due to war in Iran
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Lawmakers Seek Section 301 Seafood Probe
A pair of U.S. lawmakers have asked U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Ambassador Jamieson Greer to launch a Section 301 investigation into unfair trade practices that are harming America’s seafood industry.
MASSACHUSETTS: Massachusetts lobsterman beats local red tape: ‘He preserves … Cape Cod’s identity’
Red snapper fight heads to court over expanded South Atlantic seasons
OREGON: Questions about federal permit hang over commercial crab fishery
What’s a ‘super El Niño’? And other El Niño questions, answered
MASSACHUSETTS: New Bedford fishing industry sees impact of rising fuel costs
LOUISIANA: Wildlife agents might soon need reasonable suspicion to stop boats in Louisiana
Revised crab import rules lift bans for some countries
OREGON: Humpback tangled in fishing gear spotted near Oregon coast
Capelin: a “Sea Canary” for Marine Ecosystem Change in Response to Heatwaves
TEXAS: Texas shrimpers ask Trump administration for more H-2B visas amid labor shortage
Rising fuel costs ripple through Northwest’s fishing industry
US lawmakers request broad Section 301 investigation into foreign seafood
Scientists share work to understand struggling sea scallop populations
MASSACHUSETTS: Mass. Gov. Healey asks US Navy to help with investigation into sunken Gloucester fishing vessel
- US House passes Save Our Shrimpers Act
- Trump Administration says it supports Rep. Golden’s proposal to delay right whale regulation
- Bill to delay right whale regulations gains support from Trump and Maine fishermen
Washington
- OREGON: Questions about federal permit hang over commercial crab fishery
- MASSACHUSETTS: New Bedford fishing industry sees impact of rising fuel costs
- LOUISIANA: Wildlife agents might soon need reasonable suspicion to stop boats in Louisiana
State & Local
- Alaska’s maritime economy works because we invest in people, not just projects
- Congressional investment in science essential to protect our ocean
- BEN LANDRY: Call to shut down menhaden fishery is unwarranted
Opinion
- Revised crab import rules lift bans for some countries
- Rising fuel costs ripple through Northwest’s fishing industry
- US lawmakers request broad Section 301 investigation into foreign seafood
Economic Impact
- ASMFC Defends Menhaden Delay as Debate Over Chesapeake Science Intensifies
- Trump administration asks NEFMC to kill rule forcing herring fishers to pay for at-sea monitors
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Peddles a False Menhaden Crisis—Not Science
Fisheries Management
- Alaska halibut fisherman convicted in ghost fishing scheme
- Florida Keys commercial fisherman is sentenced to jail on lobster charges
- United States Pushes for Stronger Action to Fight Illegal Fishing and Sustainably Manage Fisheries in the North Pacific
Enforcement
- At world’s largest shark conference, scientists warn of a grim outlook across the board
- Sharks and rays do not know boundaries and a new high seas treaty seeks to protect them
- IOTC kicks off 30th annual meeting; ISSF pushing for more momentum on management procedures
International Trade
- What’s a ‘super El Niño’? And other El Niño questions, answered
- Gulf of Alaska king salmon are not endangered species, federal government concludes
- Birds dying along California beaches as marine heat wave intensifies
Conservation & Environment
- Red snapper fight heads to court over expanded South Atlantic seasons
- Conservationists ask to defend US right whale speed rule in court
- US Supreme Court declines to hear case brought by Alaska commercial fishers
Legal
- Request for Proposals: Pacific Island Fishery Governance and Policy Projects
- NEFMC Meeting Reminder: RSA Share Day – Tue, May 12
- ASMFC 2026 Spring Meeting Press Releases, Meeting Summaries, Motions, and Audio Files Now Available