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Storm capsizes boats off Louisiana coast, leaving 12 missing and one dead

April 15, 2021

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The crew of the 154-foot cutter Glen Harris and multiple good Samaritan vessels rescued six people from a capsized commercial lift boat off the coast of New Orleans on Tuesday, April 13. U.S. Coast Guard Eighth District

Ready for the trip from Florida to Massachusetts, Nordic Fisheries says the 85' x 28' Heritage is enough boat to get the job done. Duckworth Steel Boats photo.

April 15, 2021

F/V Heritage: Nordic Fisheries builds an innovative and nimble 85-foot scalloper

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The Lucy B was featured in the October 1981 issue of NF and is still working today in North Carolina’s Atlantic Ocean gillnet fishery. Rob and Susan West photo.

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April 15, 2021

Offshore gillnetter comes home to Carolina; maintenance is part of a fisherman’s retirement plan

Larry Chowning

This view of the Kuskokwim River in southwest Alaska was taken from NASA’s DC-8 flying laboratory as part of the Active Sensing of CO2 Emissions over Nights, Days and Seasons (ASCENDS) experiment. Peter Griffith/NASA

April 13, 2021

Salmon snag: Alaska judge strikes against Donlin mine permit

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Boats & Gear

Ready for the trip from Florida to Massachusetts, Nordic Fisheries says the 85' x 28' Heritage is enough boat to get the job done. Duckworth Steel Boats photo.

F/V Heritage: Nordic Fisheries builds an innovative and nimble 85-foot scalloper

Paul Molyneaux

The Lucy B was featured in the October 1981 issue of NF and is still working today in North Carolina’s Atlantic Ocean gillnet fishery. Rob and Susan West photo.

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Offshore gillnetter comes home to Carolina; maintenance is part of a fisherman’s retirement plan

Larry Chowning

H&H Marine is sending this Osmond 32 to Montauk, N.Y., for commercial fishing and running 6-pack charters. H&H Marine photo.

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Maine yard building West Coast longliner; 44-footers popular at Downeast boatshop

Michael Crowley

The working end of Velocity Marine’s 33-foot landing craft/gillnetter/crabber has a Kinematics hydraulic drum and roller horns. Velocity Marine photo.

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Unusual landing craft coming out of Wash. shop; fire-damaged gillnetter is undergoing repairs

Michael Crowley

NOAA scientist Noelle Yochum (left) helps fisherman Lauti Tuipala set a net with an experimental salmon excluder on the F/V Pacific Explorer. Katherine Hellen-Schneider photo.

Bye-bye bycatch: Net design and electronics help fishermen keep their catch clean

Paul Molyneaux

Alaska

This view of the Kuskokwim River in southwest Alaska was taken from NASA’s DC-8 flying laboratory as part of the Active Sensing of CO2 Emissions over Nights, Days and Seasons (ASCENDS) experiment. Peter Griffith/NASA

Salmon snag: Alaska judge strikes against Donlin mine permit

Jessica Hathaway

Photo by Jeff Johnson

Last Set: Dutch Harbor, Alaska

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Peter Pan Seafood Co.’s Rodger May and his wife, Lisa, gifted a Douglas R4D-8Z (Super DC-3) aircraft to VIPER Transitions in Alaska, a nonprofit that supports veterans through employment training and outreach programs.

Peter Pan exec donates plane to veteran group

Jessica Hathaway

Petty Officer 1st Class Nicolas Santos, a boatswain’s mate with the Coast Guard cutter John McCormick, operates the cutter’s small boat alongside the fishing vessel Tenisha Rose in Sitka Sound, Alaska, during a commercial fishing vessel safety inspection

Alaska reps call for help to fight mask mandate

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Lexi and Adam Hackett with their children, Isla and Leo. Hackett family photo.

Fish & Family: Q&A with Lexi Hackett

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The crew of the 154-foot cutter Glen Harris and multiple good Samaritan vessels rescued six people from a capsized commercial lift boat off the coast of New Orleans on Tuesday, April 13. U.S. Coast Guard Eighth District

Storm capsizes boats off Louisiana coast, leaving 12 missing and one dead

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The Deltaville-built Nassawadox is on the rails at A.C. Fisher Jr. Marine Railway in Wicomico Church, Va., to receive a new horn timber. Larry Chowning photo.

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