New leadership announced for NEFSA
September 29, 2025 Today, the New England Fishermen’s Stewardship Association (NEFSA) is excited to announce new leadership. Aaron Williams, a third-generation fisherman, will be taking over as President. Williams succeeds Jerry Leeman, who has resigned as CEO. As captain of the F/V Tradition, Williams has 25 years of experience fishing for fluke, scup, squid, and […]
AP: Fishermen battling with changing oceans chart new course after Trump’s push to deregulate
Virginia Olsen has pulled lobsters from Maine’s chilly Atlantic waters for decades while watching threats to the state’s lifeblood industry mount.
New England Fishermen Celebrate Trump Executive Order Aimed at Restoring the U.S. Seafood Industry
April 18, 2025 President Donald Trump moved to reinvigorate the U.S. seafood industry and restore U.S. dominance on Thursday with an executive order that drew praise from Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) as well as the New England Fishermen’s Stewardship Association (NEFSA). “The United States should be the world’s dominant seafood leader. But in addition to […]
Daily Caller: Fishermen Praise Pause On Biden-Era Offshore Wind Boondoggle
A fisherman’s association is backing the Trump administration’s decision to halt a massive offshore wind project being built off the coast…
AP News: Stricter Lobster Fishing Rules Scrapped After Complaints from Fishermen About Harm to Industry
Read the full story on AP News. PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Fishing industry regulators have decided to scrap stricter new lobster fishing standards off New England in the wake of months of protest from lobster fishermen that the rules were unnecessary and would bankrupt harvesters. The regulators were planning to institute new rules this summer […]
Daily Caller: ‘It’s Gonna End On Day One’: GOP Lawmakers, Fishermen Urge Trump To Keep Promise To Axe Offshore Wind
Read the full story on Daily Caller. Critics of the offshore wind industry are calling on President-elect Donald Trump to keep his campaign promise of ending federal support for offshore wind on his first day in office. Trump’s return to the Oval Office may deal the problem-riddled offshore wind industry another blow if his administration […]
AP: Trump has vowed to kill US offshore wind projects. Will he succeed?
Read the full story on AP. ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Opponents of offshore wind energy projects expect President-elect Donald Trump to kill an industry he has vowed to end on the first day he returns to the White House. But it might not be that easy. Many of the largest offshore wind companies put […]
Fishermen Fight Bureaucrats to Defend Their Way of Life
Read more from Townhall. Fishermen are going to court in Portland, Maine, on Tuesday to protect their businesses and communities from an unconstitutional regulatory commission that is a menace to our iconic industry. Overregulation has taken the joy out of fishing, and the prosperity too. That inevitably follows when powerful bureaucrats aren’t accountable to anyone, […]
New York Times: Broken Blades, Angry Fishermen and Rising Costs Slow Offshore Wind
Read more full story in the New York Times. The collapse of a giant wind turbine blade off the Massachusetts coast confirmed Peter Kaizer’s worst fears about the dangers a new clean energy business could pose to fishermen like him. Jagged pieces of fiberglass and other materials from the shattered blade drifted with the tide, […]
National Review: New England Fishermen Sound the Alarm after Wind Turbine Litters Local Waters with Fiberglass
Read the full story on National Review. Six weeks after a turbine blade broke apart at a wind farm off the coast of Nantucket, sending fiberglass shards into nearby waters that washed up on the island’s beaches, irate fishermen and residents along the Northeast coast made their voices heard. A flotilla of 27 commercial- and recreational-fishing ships circled the […]