A Coast Guard helicopter crew rescued all nine men aboard the crab boat Arctic Sea on Monday, 12 hours after the 110-foot ...

The long-delayed commercial Dungeness crab season in the San Francisco Bay Area was expected to open by today. Still, due to ...

The retired trawler C. Ann was sunk as an artificial reef off the coast of New Jersey. NJDEP photo.

There’s plenty of boatbuilding work going on at Wesmac Custom Boats in Surry, Maine. “We’ve got so many boats that we’re ...

The analysis evaluates 16 ocean indicators that describe conditions juvenile salmon encounter during their first months at ...

Currently, under the Magnuson-Stevens Act, fishermen affected by natural or manmade disasters like hurricanes or oil spills ...

Commercial fishermen are industrial athletes, and winter can change the rules of the game. Cold exposure, wet environments, ...

The commercial Dungeness crab fishery will open in Central California on Jan 5., 2026. CDFW photo.

The Maine-focused Commercial Fisheries News published its final edition in December 2025. Shutterstock photo.

Furuno’s GP-170D bears the wheelmark icon on the lower left corner of the front, indicating that it meets U.S. Coast Guard and IMO requirements for use with electronic chart systems ECS. Photo by ...

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Acy Cooper, president of the Louisiana Shrimp Association, and other members of the organization at an informal 2023 meet-up in Delacroix, La., when shrimp prices were so low they could not cover fuel ...