Recent Commercial Fishing Articles

A Fight Over Fairness: New Bill Targets Commercial Red Snapper Fishing During Recreational Closures in the Southeast Atlantic For anyone who has ever rigged up a rod along the Carolina coast or run offshore out of Jacksonville chasing one of the most prized reef fish in American waters, the frustr

America's Fishing Fleet Is Getting Back to Work — And Washington Is Finally Helping For decades, commercial fishermen from the trawler captains of New Bedford to the salmon seiners of Kodiak have nursed the same grievance: the fish are there, the boats are ready, and yet the federal regulatory mac

Trump's America First Fishing Blitz: What the Policy Actually Does, Who Benefits, and What's at Stake From the Oval Office to the open Pacific, President Donald Trump has spent the better part of fourteen months methodically dismantling some of the most significant marine conservation boundaries i

America's Waters, America's Fight: Inside Trump's All-Out Push to Reopen the Ocean to Commercial Fishing The scene inside the Oval Office on a crisp April morning in 2025 was equal parts ceremony and declaration of war — a war, at least, on decades of marine conservation policy. President Donald T

Trump Signs Proclamation Opening Nearly Half a Million Square Miles of Pacific Ocean to Commercial Fishing President Donald Trump signed an executive proclamation on June 11, 2026, delivering what his administration is calling the most sweeping expansion of American commercial fishing rights in th

Congress Moves to Lock In Commercial Fishing Rights Inside Marine National Monuments For the better part of a decade, the question of whether American commercial fishermen can legally drop a line inside a federally designated marine national monument has been answered differently depending on who

Congress Moves to Lock In Commercial Fishing Access to Marine Monuments — and It's Bigger Than It Looks A bill quietly advancing through the U.S. House of Representatives could permanently redraw the boundary between presidential power and commercial fishing rights in some of the most ecologically