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The 55' Maine schooner Eleanor had hull damage after colliding with a fishing vessel off Kennebunkport Maine, June 19 but was able to return under power, local fire officials reported. Schooner Eleanor photo.
June 20, 2025

Maine schooner, fishing vessel collide off Kennebunkport

The Cameron and Connor, a vessel owned by Miss Gina’s Fresh Shrimp in Beaufort, N.C. is among small inshore shrimp trawlers that fish Pamlico Sound. Miss Gina's Fresh Shrimp photo.
June 20, 2025

Carolina shrimp trawl ban

In a 1989 National Fisherman feature on a Tremblay yard, Charles Piatt covered Tremblay Net Boats, a boatyard specializing in mullet skiffs.
June 20, 2025

Fishing back when: Tremblay yard specializes in mullet skiffs

At Boothbay June 14, in Diesel Class E, 336 to 435 h.p., 24 to 33 feet, Audrey May (Holland 32, 425 Cummins, at right) took 1st place at 39.5 mph. Guilty Pleasure (Mitchell Cove 32, 380-hp Cummins) took third. Jon Johansen photo.
June 19, 2025

Maine’s 2025 lobster boat race season kicks off

Shrimp sampling photos provided by SEAD Consulting
June 19, 2025

Alexandria diners face a 50/50 chance of getting wild Gulf shrimp

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Evans Boat Construction and Repair of Crisfield, Md., have just introduced this Evans 25 scow for mid-Atlantic inshore fishermen. Photo courtesy of Evans Boat Construction and Repair.
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Larry Chowning

June 19, 2025

Evans Boat Construction revives fiberglass scow

The 55' Maine schooner Eleanor had hull damage after colliding with a fishing vessel off Kennebunkport Maine, June 19 but was able to return under power, local fire officials reported. Schooner Eleanor photo.

NF Staff

June 20, 2025

Maine schooner, fishing vessel collide off Kennebunkport

The Cameron and Connor, a vessel owned by Miss Gina’s Fresh Shrimp in Beaufort, N.C. is among small inshore shrimp trawlers that fish Pamlico Sound. Miss Gina's Fresh Shrimp photo.

Paul Molyneaux

June 20, 2025

Carolina shrimp trawl ban

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The 55' Maine schooner Eleanor had hull damage after colliding with a fishing vessel off Kennebunkport Maine, June 19 but was able to return under power, local fire officials reported. Schooner Eleanor photo.

Maine schooner, fishing vessel collide off Kennebunkport

June 20, 2025

NF Staff

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The Cameron and Connor, a vessel owned by Miss Gina’s Fresh Shrimp in Beaufort, N.C. is among small inshore shrimp trawlers that fish Pamlico Sound. Miss Gina's Fresh Shrimp photo.

Carolina shrimp trawl ban

June 20, 2025

Paul Molyneaux

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NOAA ship Oscar Dyson. NOAA photo.

NOAA awards $95 million contract to upgrade fisheries survey vessel

June 20, 2025

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In a 1989 National Fisherman feature on a Tremblay yard, Charles Piatt covered Tremblay Net Boats, a boatyard specializing in mullet skiffs.

Fishing back when: Tremblay yard specializes in mullet skiffs

June 20, 2025

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At Boothbay June 14, in Diesel Class E, 336 to 435 h.p., 24 to 33 feet, Audrey May (Holland 32, 425 Cummins, at right) took 1st place at 39.5 mph. Guilty Pleasure (Mitchell Cove 32, 380-hp Cummins) took third. Jon Johansen photo.

Maine’s 2025 lobster boat race season kicks off

June 19, 2025

Michael Crowley

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Shrimp sampling photos provided by SEAD Consulting

Alexandria diners face a 50/50 chance of getting wild Gulf shrimp

June 19, 2025

Carli Stewart

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Evans Boat Construction and Repair of Crisfield, Md., have just introduced this Evans 25 scow for mid-Atlantic inshore fishermen. Photo courtesy of Evans Boat Construction and Repair.

Evans Boat Construction revives fiberglass scow

June 19, 2025

Larry Chowning

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Dock in Cutler, Maine. Photo by Jon Bilous / Shutterstock

Maine enacts new law to promote working waterfronts

June 18, 2025

Carli Stewart

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From Gulf of Maine draggers to deep-sea pair trawlers, the push to modernize New England’s trawl gear has met a familiar wall: cost. Photo courtesy of Paul Hyde

New England gear shop talks tech, costs, and barriers

June 18, 2025

Carli Stewart

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Fishing nets laid out to dry on the Harbour side in Mevagissey, Cornwall, England, UK. Photo courtesy of PJ photography

UK to ban bottom trawling in MPAs

June 18, 2025

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The spillway of the Lower Granite Lake Dam on the Snake River in Washington, USA. Shutterstock photo.

Trump revokes Columbia salmon pact

June 17, 2025

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Dungeness crabs in a live hold. Oregon DFW photo.

CDFW closes Northern Dungeness fishery

June 17, 2025

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Biloxi, Mississippi. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Mississippi to enforce new seafood labeling law

June 17, 2025

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David Peterson installed ribs and five new planks on the Elin Laine at Zerlang & Zerlang.

David Peterson’s craft preserves West Coast fishing

June 17, 2025

Michael Crowley

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A lancha crew were among 13 Mexican fishermen engaged in illegal fishing off southern Texas June 13, according to the Coast Guard. Coast Guard photo.

Coast Guard detains 13 Mexican fishermen off south Texas

June 16, 2025

NF Staff

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The Cape Douglas docked in 2022. Alaska Marine Surveyors, Inc. via NTSB.

NTSB cites open watertight doors in Alaska sinking

June 16, 2025

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The ALFA offers apprenticeships to young people from all over the country. The Association connects vessel owners looking for crew with young people who want to try fishing. A few have stayed in the game. Credit: Steve Fish / Alaska Longline Fishermen’s A

Keeping a labor force in the pipeline

June 16, 2025

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LDWF offering temporary commercial fishing registration locations

Commercial river herring approved for ME

Remains found entangled in fishing gear

180 pound sturgeon almost sets record

Deadliest Catch boats ranked

Trump appoints Lee Zeldin to lead EPA

Built in 1998 at Hutt Brothers in Alberton, Prince Edward Island, the Just Splashy exhibits the typical Island design—a flared bow and sheer that rolls down from the bow and sweeps up again slightly towards the stern. Photo by Molyneaux

Boat of the month: F/V Just Splashy just can’t stop fishing

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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

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