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We received great news earlier this month: The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a major award to bolster th...
08/28/2026

We received great news earlier this month: The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a major award to bolster the American seafood industry through the NSF Regional Innovation Engines program. The NSF Seafood Engine in New England, led by the Portsmouth-based non-profit Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems NERACOOS , is a collaboration of seafood industry, tech sector, government, and research partners across Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island, including Fishermen’s Alliance. We are excited to start transformative work with commercial fishermen and about two dozen partners.
Read more about the project here: https://seafoodengine.org/news/nsf-seafood-engine-in-new-england-wins-15m-award/

08/28/2026

60 years on the water comes with a few stories. 🎣 Pier host Mike Anderson has plenty to tell, from 1,000 pound tuna to the everyday questions about what’s coming across the dock. Stop by the Chatham Fish Pier, ask questions, and learn from someone who knows these waters firsthand.

The Hand That Holds the Line is back and this time proceeds are benefiting the families of those lost aboard the F/V Yan...
08/27/2026

The Hand That Holds the Line is back and this time proceeds are benefiting the families of those lost aboard the F/V Yankee Rose, which tragically sank off of Provincetown earlier this year. Get your tickets today and join us on September 8th! Women of Fishing Families
Provincetown Film Society & Festival

https://www.provincetownfilm.org/cinema_films/the-hand-that-holds-the-line/

Cape Cod summer isn’t over yet. Rep the Fishermen’s Alliance while you make the most of the season. 🎣☀️ cape-cod-commerc...
08/26/2026

Cape Cod summer isn’t over yet. Rep the Fishermen’s Alliance while you make the most of the season. 🎣☀️ cape-cod-commercial-fishermens-alliance-shop.square.site/

Water is the lifeblood of Cape Cod, surrounding our coastline and flowing through our rivers, marshes, and aquifers. 🌊 W...
08/25/2026

Water is the lifeblood of Cape Cod, surrounding our coastline and flowing through our rivers, marshes, and aquifers. 🌊 Whether you’re fishing, swimming, or simply turning on the tap, protecting our shared waters matters.

One way to help is by choosing a Massachusetts Environmental Trust specialty license plate. Over the past 30 years, MET has invested more than $25 million into nearly 1,000 conservation projects led by over 300 organizations, including the Fishermen’s Alliance.

We’re grateful for MET’s support of our 2026 Small Boats. Big Science. events and for every driver already displaying an MET plate. 💙

When you renew, purchase, or lease your next vehicle, consider choosing a plate that helps protect the waters we all depend on. Visit mass.gov/eea/met to learn more.

Six years ago, Dan McKiernan, Director of Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, got a call from Captain Domenic Sa...
08/24/2026

Six years ago, Dan McKiernan, Director of Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, got a call from Captain Domenic Santoro who couldn’t get a winter berth at a port on Cape Cod Bay.
That meant he couldn’t access fishing grounds.
“It dawned on me how important municipal policies and decisions are for accommodating the commercial fishing industry,” McKiernan said. “These are state and federally managed activities, yet it is the municipalities that can be the choke point relative to the business being successful.”

Photo: Dina Lyons Howell
Read more here: https://capecodfishermen.org/family-table-collaborative-adds-small-boats-big-taste-to-their-great-meals/

The last of 100 meetingsIn 1996 the mobile flip phone hit the market, Hubble Space Telescope captured the first surface ...
08/21/2026

The last of 100 meetings
In 1996 the mobile flip phone hit the market, Hubble Space Telescope captured the first surface photos of Pluto, Fox News was launched, Beanie Babies were big and John Pappalardo attended his first New England Fishery Management Council meeting.
“I went up with Fred Bennett. There were a couple of carloads of guys,” remembered Pappalardo, 24 at the time. “I had never seen anything like it. I knew from the fishermen these are the people who make the rules.”
Now 54, Pappalardo, CEO of Fishermen’s Alliance, recently celebrated his 100th meeting, 20 years on that council, honored at its June meeting when he “retired.”
Continue reading the article here: https://capecodfishermen.org/8857-2/

View the Hookers Ball XXV video and hear from Fred Bennett, one of the founding members of Fishermen's Alliance, on how ...
08/20/2026

View the Hookers Ball XXV video and hear from Fred Bennett, one of the founding members of Fishermen's Alliance, on how the organization got its start 35 years ago, and from some of the local fishermen and shellfish farmers who bring fresh seafood to your plate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS-b827pxf8

08/19/2026

The ever present Chatham Bar never sits still. One of the most volatile, legendary stretches of coastline in New England, its shifting sands have rewritten the region's history and its fishermen's routes for generations, forcing them to relearn its channels again and again, day in and day out. Hear firsthand what it's like to work the water that changes by the tide, where the daily ebb and flow of sediments reshapes the coast beneath them.
🎥: Video by Sara Cornell

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