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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.
Dealers warn of bottleneck as processing capacity tightens
Thin processing margins reshape who survives on the coast.
Why for-hire captains are split on electronic reporting
It's not the device, it's what the data gets used for.
Private-angler reporting app sets adoption record
States lean on voluntary data as the recreational sector heads into one of its longest seasons on record.
The burden of proof belongs to those who fence access off
A public resource is a public resource, until someone proves otherwise.
