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NEFSA in the News
AP News: Stricter Lobster Fishing Rules Scrapped After Complaints from Fishermen About Harm to Industry
February 10, 2025 Read the full story on AP News. PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Fishing industry regulators have decided to scrap stricter new...
Feb 10
Daily Caller: ‘It’s Gonna End On Day One’: GOP Lawmakers, Fishermen Urge Trump To Keep Promise To Axe Offshore Wind
November 10, 2024 Read the full story on Daily Caller. Critics of the offshore wind industry are calling on President-elect Donald Trump...
Nov 10, 2024
AP: Trump has vowed to kill US offshore wind projects. Will he succeed?
November 10, 2024 Read the full story on AP. ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Opponents of offshore wind energy projects expect President-elect...
Nov 10, 2024
Fishermen Fight Bureaucrats to Defend Their Way of Life
Oct 29, 2024 Read more from Townhall. Fishermen are going to court in Portland, Maine, on Tuesday to protect their businesses and...
Oct 29, 2024
New York Times: Broken Blades, Angry Fishermen and Rising Costs Slow Offshore Wind
Sept. 12, 2024 Read more full story in the New York Times. The collapse of a giant wind turbine blade off the Massachusetts coast...
Sep 12, 2024
National Review: New England Fishermen Sound the Alarm after Wind Turbine Litters Local Waters with Fiberglass
August 27, 2024 Read the full story on National Review. Six weeks after a turbine blade broke apart  at a wind farm off the coast of...
Aug 27, 2024
Daily Caller: ‘We’ve Been Steamrolled’: Fishermen Protest Offshore Wind Following Turbine Failure That Shed Debris Into Atlantic
August 27, 2024 Read the full story on Daily Caller. Scores of fishermen took to the seas Sunday to protest offshore wind developments...
Aug 27, 2024
Fox News: 'Menace to our fisheries': New England flotilla unites to protest wind farm after turbine 'disaster'
August 26, 2024 Read the full story on Fox News. A fleet of 25 fishing boats off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, rallied together...
Aug 26, 2024
Nantucket Current: At Sea And On Land, Protests Against Vineyard Wind
August 25, 2024 Read the full story on Nantucket Current. At sea and on land, Nantucket residents protested on Sunday against Vineyard...
Aug 25, 2024
WMUR: New regulations on lobstering delayed amid pushback from Seacoast lobstermen
August 7, 2024 Read the full story on WMUR. PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — New federal regulations on the lobstering industry are being delayed after...
Aug 8, 2024
Fish Focus: Lobstermen Stall Devastating New Catch Limits
August 8, 2024 Read the full story on Fish Focus. The New England Fishermen’s Stewardship Association (NEFSA) is praising federal...
Aug 8, 2024
WMTW: Big changes could be coming for local lobstermen, but not as soon as expected
August 7, 2024 Read the full story on WMTW. PORTLAND, Maine — The implementation of a proposed rule that says fishermen must catch larger...
Aug 8, 2024
The Federalist: Wind Turbine Debacle Perfectly Encapsulates Biden-Harris Green New Deal Failures
August 2, 2024 Read the full story on The Federalist. The timing couldn’t have been worse for Vineyard Wind, the New England offshore...
Aug 2, 2024
Fox News: Emhoff hobnobs on Nantucket while fishermen reel from wind turbine 'disaster'
July 31, 2024 Read the full story at Fox News. A New England fishermen's association is calling attention to second gentleman Doug...
Jul 31, 2024
Boston Herald: As VP Harris’ hubby stumps on Nantucket, residents fight for answers on Vineyard Wind
July 30, 2024 Read the full story at Boston Herald. Debris from another portion of the broken wind turbine blade off the coast of...
Jul 31, 2024
Fox News: 'So-called expert bureaucrats': Fishermen rip Sen Warren's new plan to 'silence' them
July 29, 2024 Read the full story on Fox News. America’s seafood leaders are pushing back on new plans from Democrats on Capitol Hill to...
Jul 29, 2024
Daily Caller: Supreme Court Delivers Crippling Blow To Permanent Bureaucracy’s Power Over Americans’ Lives
June 28, 2024 Read the full story on Daily Caller. The Supreme Court handed small fishing companies a victory Friday in their lawsuits...
Jun 28, 2024
Fox News: Supreme Court sides with fishermen in landmark case deciding fate of the administrative state
June 28, 2024 Read the full story on Fox News. The Supreme Court on Friday ruled in favor of a group of fishermen who challenged a...
Jun 28, 2024
Fox News: Fishing industry reels over Biden's destructive wind farm plan: It's 'coming at us from every direction'
March 26, 2024 Read the full story on Fox News. Time is running out for fishermen and women in the Northeast who fear their industry is...
Mar 26, 2024
Fox News: Local fishermen slam Biden administration’s newly unveiled plans to industrialize Gulf of Maine
March 21, 2024 Read the full story on Fox News. A group of fishing associations is sounding the alarm about new plans from the Biden...
Mar 21, 2024
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Trawling, Dragging, Gillnetting, and Fin Fisheries: jerryleeman@fishermenstewardship.org
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