A Coast Guard helicopter crew rescued all nine men aboard the crab boat Arctic Sea on Monday, seven 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 ...

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

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

Santa wishes you a Merry Fishmas: Amanda Parks, Spencer Montgomery, Karl Day, and Capt. Tim Rider on the Finlander in the Gulf of Maine. New England Fishmongers photo Local and domestic sources of ...

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

The C. ANN, a 55-foot former steel commercial fishing boat is the newest addition to the Manasquan Inlet Reef site. Photo courtesy of NJDEP Earlier this month, the New Jersey Department of ...

The catcher-processor Arctic Storm, as seen in 2007 in Seattle. The vessel remains hard at work in the Bering Sea pollock fishery and is taking part in the trawl industry’s Gear Innovation Initiative.