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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

Photo by NOAA Fisheries

Alaska seafood eyes global growth

Guest Author

Photo by Larry Chowning

ASMFC pressured to maintain menhaden catch limits

Chris Chase

This 42' tuna boat at Samoset Boatworks has tuna storage with a below-deck 3'-square live well that will come up to the underside of the cockpit sole. Next to it will be be an insulated tuna coffin next to that another live well. Samoset Boatworks photo.

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A pair of New England tuna boats

Michael Crowley

Photo courtesy of MLMC

Repeat offender caught lobstering illegally in NH waters

NF Staff

Commercial fishermen in northern California got the green light to begin fishing for rock crab after a decade. Photo courtesy of Monterey Bay Fisheries Trust

Northern Calif. rock crab fishery reopens after nearly a decade

Carli Stewart

Harvesting alewives as part of a pilot project at Wights Pond in Penobscot, Maine. With sufficient data to prove their viability, Wights Pond is among five Maine alewife runs approved for having a commercial fishery this year. Photo by Tate Yoder

New alewife fisheries for Maine

Paul Molyneaux

Power Creek dam in Cordova, Alaska. Photo by Seed Media for Cordova Electric Cooperative.

Hydro dam powers Cordova, Alaska, while refurbishing salmon habitat

Margaret Bauman

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

Halibut schooner Vansee with a 125,000 lb. deckload of halibut. Photo courtesy of Fishing Vessel Owners Association (FVOA), Seattle, WA

The 200-mile limit: Reshaping U.S. fisheries

Arni Thomson