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The USDA is planning a major purchase of Alaska canned salmon and frozen pollock products for its national food and nutrition programs. ASMI image.

USDA to purchase Alaska salmon, pollock for nutrition programs

After two back-to-back storms in January, the Working Waterfront Support Fund was created to help assist coastal communities left in shambles. Photo courtesy of Kayla Arro on Unsplash.

Maine Lobster Community Alliance helps coastal communities rebuild

The 53-foot purse seiner Hotspur at Ketchikan, Alaska, before it sank Aug. 2, 2022 while transiting the Dixon Entrance. Coast Guard photo via NTSB.

NTSB: Bilge alarms failed to sound before purse seiner sank

A dead 1-year-old female right whale was towed to Tybee Island, Ga., for necropsy that found blunt force trauma including fractures of the skull, consistent with a vessel strike. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission photo/NOAA permit 24359.

Right whale died in vessel strike off Georgia, NOAA says

A Gulf of Mexico menhaden steamer and purse boats from the vantage point of a drone camera. NOAA photo.

Louisiana extends compromise menhaden fishing buffers

NOAA Fisheries recommends funding projects that explore innovative strategies to reduce red snapper discards and increase fishing opportunities in the South Atlantic. Photo by Martina Sappe on Shutterstock.

NOAA Fisheries seeks solutions to reduce red snapper discards in the South Atlantic

A fisherman opens a fish box as a boat crew from the Coast Guard cutter Jacob Poroo checks a Mexican lancha 26 miles off Texas Feb. 6, 2024. Coast Guard crews interdicted six lanchas and seized 1,300 pounds of red snapper and shark. Coast Guard photo.

Coast Guard interdicts 26 Mexican fishermen off Texas

Horseshoe crabs come ashore by the thousands to breed in spring at Mispillion Harbor, Del., and other Delaware Bay beaches. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/Gregory Breese photo.

Endangered species listing sought for horseshoe crabs

Atlantic scallop landed on deck. Ben Hayden photo.

More scallop landings for 2024; more frequent VMS reporting

2023 National Fisherman Highliners at the Pacific Marine Expo in Seattle, WA. Curt Brown, Maggie Raymond, Matt Alward, Jimmy Hull, and MJ Jackson. Photo by Britton Spark @couchchronicles

2024 National Fisherman Highliner submissions now open