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Mark and Matt Ring wear low-profile PFDs on the Stanley Thomas out of Gloucester, Mass. Kelli Park/NECOHS photo.
Consequences: Let’s not go overboard
Lifelong fisherman Luis P. Fidalgo from the F/V Hustler out of New Bedford dumps baskets of hake into the takeout tank at Bergie’s Seafood. Photo by Phil Mello
Last Set: New Bedford, Mass.
Northern Lights: All Hands — online
Pollock survey. NOAA photo
Mail Buoy: Senators: Start the surveys
Hannah Heimbuch and Brett Veerhusen of Ocean Strategies.
Survey tracks covid-19 impacts on fishermen
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!
Scallopers Campaign photo
Time for change in the Atlantic scallop fishery
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June 15, 2026
Biofuel basics
On-demand fishing gear systems were tested in Jonesport, Maine, using the Maine Department of Marine Resources gear library. Photo courtesy of NOAA Fisheries
June 15, 2026
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Red king crab. NOAA photo.
June 14, 2026
North Pacific council to study new options to reduce bottom trawling
A Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater helicopter crew medevaced an ailing fisherman from a vessel 92 miles offshore Brunswick, Georgia. Coast Guard photo.
June 13, 2026
Fisherman medevaced off Georgia coast