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 ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

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

The Healey-Driscoll Administration has announced nearly $1.2 million in funding through the Massachusetts Fisheries Innovation Fund, aimed at strengthening the competitiveness of the state’s ...

It has been over a decade since landings of northern shrimp crashed, leading to a moratorium. While some fishermen continue to question the validity of the data, regulators have extended the ...

New regulations could allow scalloping vessels to spend more time at sea. Photo courtesy of Brooke Kushwaha / The New Bedford Light To walk down New Bedford’s Pier 3 is to view a time capsule of the ...