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Jed Rick Dela Torre hauling on the Anthony G out of San Diego. "That's when our luck turned," said photographer and captain Rich Figueiredo.

Mail Buoy: Long trips, second chances

Dasia Rose and Katie Miller work the sorting table on the tender Silver Spray after the F/V Centurion delivers a load of silver salmon in Prince William Sound. Photo by Megan Corazza

Last Set: Prince William Sound, Alaska

U.S. Coast Guard photo

Dunleavy and coastal mayors: Job well done on a difficult season

Susan Chesney, NF national sales manager, and her husband, James, took their 28-foot San Juan sailboat through the smoke in Puget Sound with little in the way of instrumentation. Susan Chesney photos

Through the fire fog: I see it clearly now!

One Time Use — Scallopers Campaign photo

Time for change in the Atlantic scallop fishery

Captain Jim Wotton captures his crew on the F/V Overkill in the Northern Gulf of Maine Scallop Management Area in 2018. Jim Wotton photo

Scallop scuffle: Council set to vote on future for small-boat fleet

Bayou la Batre is known as the Seafood Capital of Alabama. Robert Fritchey photo.

Rolling with the tide: New book recounts fish fights in coastal Alabama

Captain Wayne Magwood, on the outrigger, started trawling at the age of 12. After more than 50 years in the industry, he is retiring. His 68-foot-long, 83-ton shrimping vessel Winds of Fortune is now under new ownership and renamed as the Shayna Michelle. Jamie Edens photo.

Last Set: Mount Pleasant, S.C.

Northern Lights: Alaska’s flying fish

Ben Platt headshot — Ben Platt, president of the California Coast Crab Association

Why everything you’ve heard about ‘ropeless’ crab fishing gear is false