National Fisherman

Mid-Atlantic

A blue catfish is assessed after capture by Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources workers in 2022. Virginia DWR/Meghan Marchetti photo.

Md. promotes blue catfish as invader surges through Chesapeake

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Menhaden Management Board approved a motion that could lead to further regulations of the fishery. Photo by Larry Chowning

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ASMFC vote to create workgroup to study Virginia’s menhaden fishery

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Photo by Currituck Co. North Carolina website

North Carolina man tries to swim away after stealing crabs

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Hurricane Debby made landfall on Florida's west coast, leaving significant flooding in its wake. Photo by NOAA

Tropical Storm Debby slowly moving up the East Coast

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Cooke net pen collapse — A Cooke Aquaculture salmon net pen in Puget Sound collapsed on Aug. 20, 2017. Wild Fish Conservancy photo

Canadian owner of Omega Protein seeks lawsuit dismissal

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66 major wastewater treatment plants discharge into the bay, with five located within the bay area, directly impacting the species living in that region of water. Photo by Jay Fleming

Blue crabbers speak out about wastewater dumping

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Virginia scientists investigate mass oyster die-offs

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Vandals destroy TikTok waterman’s new boat

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Rollins’ bread and butter is a 26-footer. Based on the 42’ deadrise work boat that dominates the bay’s fisheries, his unusually smaller version, offered in a sport fishing model, incorporates several modifications, including more deadrise in the bottom af

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Fishing back when: Virginian builds 26’ deadrise in juniper or fir

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Creighton Palmer built the wooden long-planked bottom cabin cruiser Lauralia, above, in 1968. He also built 42-foot workboats for Maryland’s soft-shell clam dredge fishery. Photo by Robert Hurry

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Last of Potomac River dory builders passes

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Riverkeepers claim that the taking and discarding of sturgeons due to bycatch has drastically caused the species' decline. Photo by NOAA Fisheries

Riverkeepers take legal action to save sturgeons

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