New Bedford Fishing Industry

The loss of fishermen at sea is heartbreaking at any time of year, but this tragedy at the start of the holiday season is particularly profound.

Mr. President, thank you for providing refuge for our fishing industry in New Bedford.

Our U.S. Senate delegation has abandoned us.

The Baker Administration says the fishing industry will have to learn to co-exist with the wind industry.

The story of New Bedford's Commercial Fishing Industry is now being told at a new attraction in the city's Historic District. The New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center is located at 38 Bethel Street, and held its Grand Opening on Saturday...

The present unchecked fishing management system has gone wild. It's carried away to the point where our fishing industry cannot sustain itself based on junk science, questionable assessments and government profiteering. Just recently, Joseph Laplante of the U...

Our local fishermen have been working for 10 years under a fishing grounds rebuilding plan that is arbitrary and without any support or foundation in good science. There are so many conflicts with it. On Wednesday, the spotlight is on the fishermen paying for monitors that could likely put the fishermen out of business...

Alma del Mar Charter School fourth graders are getting  first-hand knowledge of our local commercial fishing industry with the help from the New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center. Since March, Executive Director Laura Orleans has been a “scholar in residence,” teaching  Alma scholars about the skills folklorists like her use to learn about and document local culture...