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Over 100 groundfish industry volunteers worked in 80 degree heat at Terminal 91 at the Port of Seattle on May 28 to clean four huge midwater trawl nets to recycle plastics in the into new products. Photo by John Dunlap, Trident Seafoods

June 5, 2026

Groundfish industry cleans 55,935 pounds of nets for recycling

Mike Malczewski fishes blue catfish using pots. His son Cody, seen behind the pot, goes longlining for blue cats, but sometimes helps his father. Malczewski makes all his own pots. “I haven’t had luck with storebought,” he says. Photo courtesy of Jay Flem

June 1, 2026

Invasive blue catfish turn problem into fishery

Homer, Alaska, boatbuilder Ivan Bargasin had a Nanni shipped north to repower his propeller driven 32-foot Bristol Bay gillnetter. Built on a Scania Block, the Nanni N13 is paired with a ZF360 gear at 1.5:1. Ivan Basargin photo.

June 3, 2026

Kraft Power delivers Nanni engines to US fishermen

Dungeness crabs in a live hold. Oregon DFW photo.

June 1, 2026

Calif. fisheries bill advances out of Senate

Station Papa in Gulf of Alaska. Photo courtesy of NOAA

June 7, 2026

Loss of ocean monitoring could create fisheries blind spot

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