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Ben Clements

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Monthly fishing events in Alaska waters charted by Ocean Data Network in the paper "Fishing Gear as a Data Collection Platform." ODN graphic/published Frontiers in Marine Science October 2020.

Commercial fishing vessels can serve as research vessels for cost-effective data collection

An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Coast Guard Sector Columbia River. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Cynthia Oldham.

Vessel owner prosecuted in Coast Guard’s ‘paper captain’ crackdown

Six Outboard Engine Companies Commercial Fishing Vessel Owners Need to Know in 2022

Doug StewartⒸ Photo.

Six Commercial Fishing Deck Boots You Need to Know About in 2022

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A Dungeness crab pot. California wildlife officials are imposing an early season closure April 15 off the central and southern coast to reduce risk of humpback whale entanglements. CDFW image.
March 31, 2023

California to close most Dungeness areas April 15

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Blackcod on the bottom. NOAA Fisheries photo Credit: Rick Starr/CBNMS
March 30, 2023

Alaska halibut, blackcod fisheries get off to slow start

Shane Slaughter with one of his spot prawn traps aboard the Hiro Maru. Faced with the loss of his market during the pandemic, Slaughter and his crewman Jason Murphy started selling direct. Shane Slaughter photo.
March 30, 2023

Going the direct route

The trawler Virginia Marise from Point Judith, R.I., near the Block Island Wind Farm. Deepwater Wind photo.
The trawler Virginia Marise from Point Judith, R.I., near the Block Island Wind Farm. Deepwater Wind photo.
March 30, 2023

RODA, federal agencies issue ‘synthesis’ report on fisheries and offshore wind

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