News, articles, photos, and other information about commercial fishing in North America.
NOAA recently announced it will implement a comprehensive regulatory program for aquaculture in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico, effective February 12, 2016. In the U.S., federal waters begin where state jurisdiction ends and extend out to 200 miles … Continued
The New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center was recently awarded a $12,000 Cultural Heritage Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The grant will support a project to digitize the cultural heritage of New Bedford’s fishing community. The project … Continued
Atlantic menhaden stocks are not overfished nor experiencing overfishing relative to the current maximum spawning potential (MSP) based biological reference points, according to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) 2015 Atlantic menhaden benchmark assessment. Population fecundity, a measure of … Continued
U.S. fishermen landed 9.5 billion pounds of fish and shellfish, valued at $5.4 billion, in 2014, according to the latest Fisheries of the United States report from NOAA Fisheries. The Alaska port of Dutch Harbor led the nation with the … Continued
U.S. fishermen landed 9.9 billion pounds of fish and shellfish, valued at $5.5 billion in 2013, according to the 2013 Fisheries of the United States report from NOAA Fisheries. The report shows that while national total of fish and shellfish … Continued
U.S. commercial fishermen landed 9.6 billion pounds of fish and shellfish in 2012, valued at $5.1 billion, according to Fisheries of the United States 2012, released by NOAA. The value and pounds of fish and shellfish caught was higher than … Continued