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Northeast

elver, elver poaching — Elvers. Photo by Flickr user LHG Creative Photography.

Maine elver fishery gets lease on life despite Canada shutdown

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Focus is on fresh at restaurant-backed fishery cooperative

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The fishing vessel Carrabassett's journey has been nothing shy of an interesting one. The boat will live the rest of its decommissioned life 72 feet underwater as part of the Axel Carlson Reef. Photo by Atlantic Brokerage House

The final journey of F/V Carrabassett

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Photo by Bernd 📷 Dittrich on Unsplash

Bluefish on rebound in Long Island Sound

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Mainers scramble to fix wharves ahead of lobstering season

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The scallop tows in the Northern Gulf of Maine access area yield piles of large scallops that come up so clean there’s no picking deck. Just shovel the catch into totes and baskets. Photo by Paul Molyneaux

Mainers flock to Gloucester for short but sweet scallop season

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The DFO revealed that they seized 13 kilograms of elvers from the exact location, but this was unrelated to the arrest, and the eels were returned to the river. Photo courtesy of Joyce Godsey on Shutterstock

Five Mainers arrested in Nova Scotia for elver fishing

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Meghan Lapp of the Center for Sustainable Fisheries is a co-plaintiff in Green Oceans’ federal suit against the development of wind farms on Coxes Ledge, south of Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay. Photo by Green Ocean

Offshore wind threatens future of commercial fisheries

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15 years later, diver recalls scalloper lost off N.J.

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Photo by Hanson Lu on Unsplash

Maine town urged to put off new aquaculture leases

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New Yorkers eating wild-caught, local shrimp

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