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Industry updates and reporting from the docks to the council table, the stories shaping access, management, and the working waterfront, updated through the day.
Who Owns America's Fish?
Inside the decades-long fight over how the nation's most valuable fisheries are divided, and why a quiet allocation formula now decides who fishes, who profits, and who gets left at the dock.
Survey expansion lifts red snapper biomass estimate
Scientists say a wider sampling footprint, not a population boom, explains the upward revision in the latest assessment.
Magnuson-Stevens markup clears subcommittee
The reauthorization advances with amendments on data modernization and a contested provision on rebuilding timelines.
Waterfront protections gain in three coastal counties
Zoning fights over dock access are becoming the front line for the working fleet.
Imported shrimp tariff petition heads to ITC
Domestic harvesters press their case as ex-vessel prices stay under pressure.
NOAA's data-modernization push, in plain language
What the agency's new survey and reporting investments actually change for the people on the water.
Who Owns America's Fish?
Inside the decades-long fight over how the nation's most valuable fisheries are divided, and why a quiet allocation formula now decides who fishes, who profits, and who gets left at the dock.
