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Stanley Ross (at left, coiling rope) and friends pull up crab traps just beyond the Golden Gate Bridge on an early November morning in 2018. (Photo credit: Samantha Ross)

Op-ed: Save California’s Crab Culture From Drowning in Regulations

By Samantha Ross

June 4, 2025

We need to balance protecting whales with allowing sustainable crabbing practices that keep fisheries healthy and traditions alive.

Warming Waters Cause Invasion of Sea Squirts at Maine Fisheries

By Kirsten Lie-Nielsen

May 27, 2025

A fisherman pulls up a big fishing cage off of a boat. He is wearing yellow waders and a beanie

What Deep Cuts to NOAA Mean for U.S. Fisheries

May 15, 2025

multiple colorful small boats line a small harbor in Rhode Island on a sunny day with blue skies

A Cookbook From the Host of ‘Outdoor Chef Life’ Entices Us to Fish, Forage, and Feast

March 18, 2025

A book cover that is blue with drawings of tuna and other fish and the title,

The Mashpee Wampanoag Work With a Cape Cod Town to Restore Their Fishing Grounds

By Emma Glassman-Hughes

December 11, 2024

A member of the Wampanoag tribe wearing a baby blue t-shirt that says Aboriginal Rights

Op-ed: ‘Blue Foods’ May Not Save the World

By Becca Franks and Laurie Sellars

October 31, 2024

a fishing pen where a worker is using a large net for farmed salmon

The Case for Seafood Self-Reliance

October 1, 2024

A fisherman sorts oysters on a table with yellow buckets next to him

Weathering Climate Shocks: How Restaurants Survive Supply Disruptions

By Hannah Wallace

September 30, 2024

a photo collage of a commercial crabber wearing an orange jacket, a white truck on a farm, and white chickens in the foreground

The Future of Seaweed Farming in America

By Alexandra Talty, Pulitzer Center Ocean Reporting Fellow

September 5, 2024

Photo courtesy of Ocean Rainforest

On Cape Cod, the Wampanoag Assert Their Legal Right to Harvest the Waters

By Emma Glassman-Hughes

August 21, 2024

Freshly caught and harvested Quahog clams from Cape Cod.

17 Food and Ag Approaches to Tackling the Climate Crisis

By The Civil Eats Editors

August 5, 2024

Sheep graze among the dormant grapevines at Dodon. (Photo credit: Tom Croghan, Dodon)

The Hard Work of Bringing Kelp to Market

By Alexandra Talty, Pulitzer Center Ocean Reporting Fellow

July 31, 2024

Rescuing Kelp Through Science

By Alexandra Talty, Pulitzer Center Ocean Reporting Fellow

July 17, 2024

A scientist scuba dives in a Monterey, California, kelp forest to gather data about the health of the region's remaining kelp forests. (Photo © Patrick Webster)

Can Seaweed Save American Shellfish?

By Alexandra Talty, Pulitzer Center Ocean Reporting Fellow

June 27, 2024

Donna Collins-Smith hauls out kelp lines for the Shinnecock Kelp Farmers on Shinnecock Bay. (Photo credit: Rebecca Phoenix)

The Promise and Possible Pitfalls of American Kelp Farming

By Alexandra Talty, Pulitzer Center Ocean Reporting Fellow

June 27, 2024

an illustration by nhatt nichols showing a hand pulling a kelp line out of the sea

The Shrimp on Your Table Has a Dark History

April 17, 2024

a worker in india holds up a pile of shrimp that needs to be peeled before being shipped to the united states

Walmart Heirs Bet Big on Journalism

By Bill Lascher

February 28, 2024

old newspapers paired with rolls of dollar bills to convey the idea of money being invested in journalism

A Circular Economy for Fish? These Icelandic Companies Have a Plan.

By Kirsten Lie-Nielsen

February 26, 2024

The Last Front in the Battle to Save the ‘Most Important Fish’ in the Atlantic

February 20, 2024

Photo credit: Chesapeake Bay Program/Flickr

Diving—and Dying—for Red Gold: The Human Cost of Honduran Lobster

By Alice Driver

December 6, 2023

Injured divers work on various exercises in a small rehabilitation room at the hospital. Dr. Henzel Roberto Pérez, the deputy director of information management at the hospital, said that one of the many problems with the lobster diving industry is “Children are working for these companies. At least one of the companies is from the United States.” (Photo credit: Jacky Muniello)

Op-ed: Walmart’s Outsized Catch

By Aaron Van Neste

November 21, 2023

Photo of a shark swimming through a school of fish, with a gritty overlay including walmart's yellow and blue colors. (Photo credit: Scott Carr, Getty Images, illustration by Civil Eats)

What the Rapid Rise of Norway’s Farmed Salmon Industry Means For the Rest of the World

September 7, 2023

NOAA Is Rolling Out a Plan to Radically Expand Offshore Aquaculture. Not Everyone Is Onboard.

By Monique Brouillette

August 15, 2023

How Alaska Natives Lost the Right to Fish Sacred Salmon

August 14, 2023

An Alaska Native subsistence fisherman steers his boat loaded with salmon on the Yukon River.

A Fight for Salmon Fishing Rights Connects Indigenous Peoples Across the Pacific Ocean

July 26, 2023

Members of the Raporo Ainu Nation observe asir cep nomi, an Ainu ceremony that marks the fish’s annual migration back to the island’s major rivers and tributaries. (Photo credit: Centre for Environmental and Minority Policy Studies)