News
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.
A small move at the pump, a big move offshore
How diesel prices ripple through a season.
The investment case for a commercial permit
What buyers are really paying for, and why.
Gag grouper closure window set for fall
Managers lock in dates as landings approach the annual catch limit.
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.
The economics of a working waterfront
Dock space, fuel, ice, and labor: the unglamorous math that decides whether a port stays a fishing port.
A morning on the Bayou La Batre waterfront
A dispatch from a working morning on the Bayou La Batre waterfront.
