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At Long Island the best battle was between Lynn Marie and Black Diamond. In the Gasoline Class E race it looks like Black Diamond is ahead but at the finish Lynn Marie slid by for the win. Jon Johansen photo.

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Maine Lobster Boat Racing season’s home stretch

Michael Crowley

Built in 1992 for gillnetting herring, the F/V Ironic was rigged for fishing a lampara net for anchovies. The 32-foot fiberglass over plywood Ironic can also be rigged for salmon trolling. Photo by Ken Bates

Boat of the Month: F/V Ironic

Paul Molyneaux

Alaska's U.S. House will debate the state's fisheries on Oct. 8 at 7 p.m. Photo by Loren Holmes/ ADN

U.S. House candidates to debate AK fisheries

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The New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center has installed a striking new landmark in the heart of the City's Seaport Historic District. Photo by Phil Mello

A landmark celebration of fishing heritage and community

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The GenTech hydraulic generator developed by Erling Skaar, Dr. Odd Arild Olsen, and the GenTech team has been available since 2013. It provides fishing vessel owners with a cost-effective means of increasing the efficiency of a vessel’s main engine and re

Two companies, two approaches: Innovating power capture and wear reduction for gensets

Paul Molyneaux

The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Oliver Henry visits with residents of Satawal, after safely returning six rescued fishermen and their 22-foot fiberglass boat to the community on Aug. 18. Photo by Ryder Nollan / U.S. Coast Guard

Rescue of six fishermen shows importance of personal locator beacons

Carli Stewart

QPS and managers pleaded guilty to mislabeled seafood and committed wire fraud by marketing inexpensive and frozen imported substitutes as more expensive and premium local species. Photo by Allan P.

Mississippi seafood giant hit with $1M fine for fish scheme

Carli Stewart

Sea scallops as seen in a drop camera survey image by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth School for Marine Science and Technology. SMAST image via Northeast Fisheries Science Center.

New study looks to how wind projects will change ocean

Kirk Moore

Fred Wahl Marine Construction specializes in building and repairing commercial fishing vessels for the West Coast and Alaska. Their shipyard is located on the Oregon Coast. Photo on Fred Wahl Facebook page

From humble beginnings to iconic vessels: Celebrating 50 years of Fred Wahl Marine Construction

Paul Molyneaux

A foreign long-line fishing vessel, Kim Thu, was moored at Pier 36 at the time of the April explosion, leaving five injured. Photo by Island News

Coast Guard alert after fishing boat explosion in Hawaii

Carli Stewart

The crew of the F/V Capt. John, which on Sunday led the “flotilla” of about two dozen boats in protest against offshore wind development. Photo by Will Sennott / The New Bedford Light

Fishermen protest Vineyard Wind turbine collapse

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