MARCH 2010 • VOL. 90, NO. 11
Up Forward
Northern Lights
Bristol Bay association has gotten off to a fast start.
Around the Coasts
A council chairman has second thoughts.
Features
Cover: Trap happy
Low prices and poachers can’t dim skipper Robert Palma’s enthusiasm for catching spiny lobsters.
Can catch shares catch on?
Northeast groundfishermen remain apprehensive about quotas and co-ops.
Boats&Gear
Self-help
You, too, can build your own fishing vessel. Perhaps.
Well-bled salmon
An innovative Alaska fisherman is refining the art of bleeding the catch.
Prevent defense
The Coast Guard makes a push for vessel inspection.
Around the yards “Deadliest Catch” crabber Time Bandit is going green for the cameras in 2010.
The locker
The Hail
Editor’s Log
Fishing Back When
Fo’c’sle Library/In Search of the Simple Life
From the Town Landing
Dock Talk/
ConsequencesWashington Lookout
Mail Buoy/Perc Sane
Jim Balsiger
Market ReportsInside the Industry
Product Roundup
Classified
Advertiser’s Index
Last Set