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Insurance bill for Alaska harvesters clears Alaska legislature

Margaret Bauman

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Bills introduced to bolster Maine’s working waterfronts

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Salmon Bliss Bowl at Chopped and Chowdered, which opened 14 months ago in Anchorage, is a hot seller on the restaurant's lunch and dinner menu. Photo by Margaret Bauman

Restaurant patrons yearn for taste of the wild

Margaret Bauman

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Data now coming straight from the deck

Carli Stewart

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Bill to make insurance more accessible to Alaska harvesters moving through Senate

Margaret Bauman

The 68-foot F/V Captain Raleigh sank Friday morning near the entrance to Grays Harbor, Washington. USCG photo.

Newport captain missing after F/V Capt. Raleigh sinks

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A pair of commercial fishing boats prepare their nets for salmon and halibut during the busy summer season in the Kenai Peninsula. Shutterstock photo

Alaska's 2025 salmon forecast more than doubles last year

Laine Welch

The King and Winge was built in West Seattle, WA in 1914. The builders, Al King and Tom Winge, were charter members of the FVOA. It was the most modern schooner yet constructed for her time and the largest halibut schooner constructed in northwest shipy

Significant economic developments in the Pacific halibut fishery

Arni Thomson

Pound netters hauling their gear on a rough autumn day off Hoopers Island, Maryland, in Chesapeake Bay. “They catch menhaden, and what they call money fish, stripers, trout, drum whatever they can sell,” says photographer Jay Fleming.

Jay Fleming: Photography of fishermen’s lives

Paul Molyneaux

The loss within the NGOM fleet shook the community, a tight-knit group that gathers in Gloucester every spring for the region’s short but intense scallop season. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Gloucester’s fishing community rallies for its own

Carli Stewart

A limited test fishery had Maine shrimpers hopeful, however, the fishermen came back to the docks with little luck. Photo by NOAA Fisheries / Calvin Alexander

Still no shrimp in sight for Mainers

NF Staff