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Mid-Atlantic

Ørsted’s withdrawal shocks friends and foes

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The Ocean Wind turbine array off Atlantic City, N.J. would send power ashore through two export cables, to the former BL England coal generation plant in Cape May County and north to the former Oyster Creek nuclear generating station in Ocean County.

Ørsted gives up on New Jersey wind projects

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Va. game wardens serious about protecting herring

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Courtesy of NOAA Fisheries

Chesapeake Bay menhaden study would cost $2.6m

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The clammers of Raritan and Sandy Hook Bays work on a quota of sorts. The James T. White Clam Depuration plant determines how many clams it can process and allots the requisite crates equally among the clammers. Luke Jenks photo.

The Clammers of Highlands

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Locals feel misled by bureau at Md. public meeting on wind

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A right whale female named Fission by scientists with an unnamed juvenile male whale is shown during an aerial survey over southern New England waters in March 2023. New England Aquarium photo/NOAA research permit #25739.

Scientists say right whale decline may have slowed

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A dead North Atlantic right whale washed ashore in Virginia Beach Feb. 12, 2023, apparently the victim of a ship strike. Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center Foundation Stranding Response Program photo/NOAA Fisheries permit #24359

Speeding ships and whales: NOAA sees progress, advocates not so much

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Summer flounder. Courtesy of NOAA Fisheries

Va. Tech studying summer flounder's shift north

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American shad. Courtesy of NOAA Fisheries

New effort hopes to reverse decline of American shad

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Photo by The Tampa Bay Estuary Program on Unsplash

Female horseshoe crabs spared harvest for another year

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