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Charlie Ess

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Charlie Ess is the North Pacific Bureau Chief for National Fisherman.

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Alaska pollock NOAA — Alaska pollock. NOAA photo.

Alaska pollock: Alaska product now 86 percent of U.S. consumption

Albacore hooked on a bait pole offshore Oregon. NOAA Fisheries West Coast photo.

Pacific albacore: Trollers look for restaurants to revive fresh prices

The F/V Woodstock, a blackcod and halibut longliner out of Sitka, Alaska. Photo by Joshua Roper/Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute.

Alaska halibut and blackcod: As market recovers from covid, biomass future looks bright

Logan and Bethany Branstiter co-captain the F/V B-Team in Alaska's Nushagak Bay, drift gillnetting sockeye salmon in Bristol Bay. Crew Shots photo

Alaska salmon: With pandemic experience, fleet gears up for expected 2021 harvest

Pacific swordfish: After big 2020 drop, fleet looks to restaurants and Asian markets

Ben Ahrens with his wife Shelby and three sons, Brayden, 11, Colben, 9, and 7-year-old Laeth.

Who we are: Ben Ahrens

Alaska cod: Gulf cod stocks creep back, but Bering and Aleutian still down

Two California Spiny Lobsters offshore of Anacapa Island. Ed Bierman photo.

Pacific spiny lobster: After pandemic low-price worries, this season could reach new highs

Albacore hooked on a bait pole offshore Oregon. NOAA Fisheries West Coast photo.

Pacific Yearbook Market Report: Fleets made good use of dockside markets

Boat of the Month: Surrender