National Fisherman

Bluefin Tuna

Wesmac Custom Boats 54-foot Kaye Williams is for the Bridgeport Regional Vocational Aquaculture School. It has the same walk-around wheelhouse design with a recessed deck that Wesmac is starting to put on tuna boats. Wesmac Custom Boats photo.

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Maine builder feeds the ‘tuna fever’

Michael Crowley

Bluefin tuna GMRI photo.

The trouble with tuna

Kyle Grant, center, lands a bluefin at the 2018 Bluefin Blowout in Gloucester, Mass. Grant’s fish dressed out at 630-pounds and earned him second place. He is glad to see it back after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic. F/V Battlewagon photo.

Bluefin Blowout is back

Paul Molyneaux

Ready for “Wicked Tuna,” charters and offshore trips, Paul Hebert heads of Milbridge, Maine, bound for the Wicked Pissah’s home port of Gloucester, Mass. Paul Hebert photo

Wicked Pissah: Maine’s H&H Marine launches a star-quality bluefin tuna hunter

Paul Molyneaux

The “Wicked Tuna” 11th season premieres with a 90-minute episode this Sunday, Feb. 27, on National Geographic at 9/8c.

Wicked Tuna: The captain’s comeback

Jessica Hathaway

President Biden reversed the Trump administration executive order that would have permitted commercial fishing to continue in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monument. NOAA image.

Biden administration may reinstate Northeast marine monument restrictions

Kirk Moore

Bluefin tuna. NOAA image

Atlantic Highly Migratory Species panel meets in May

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Fishing boats tied up in Maine's Perkins Cove. Elena Elisseeva/Shutterstock photo

Jerry_Fraser

Hung up: Ball player gets out of a jam

Jerry Fraser

Hawaii's bigeye tuna fishery is worth more than $100 million annually. Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center photo.

Seafood sustainability foundation reports most world tuna stocks in good shape

Kirk Moore

The Reel E' Bugging, a vessel featured on the National Geographic series Wicked Tuna, burned 34 miles east of Barnegat Light, N.J. Nov. 5, 2020. Coast Guard photo.

‘Wicked Tuna’ crew survives boat fire

Kirk Moore

A survey vessel towing an airgun array during a seismic survey . International Association of Geophysical Contractors photo.

Atlantic seismic survey permits expiring; oil exploration ‘back to square one’

Kirk Moore