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Atlantic bluefin tuna fishermen are debating limits for the 2018 season. But would it make a difference in biomass or just in landings? Corky Decker photo.

How many bluefin will you keep?

Alaska-raised chef Aaron Apling-Gilman at work in the kitchen.

Put your best food forward

Don’t step on the fish!

Bristol Bay Setnet — Captain Shayan Rohani and Deckhand Ryan Higginbotham of the setnet skiff Mosquito haul in a huge low tide switch set of sockeye salmon near the mouth of the Kvichak River in Bristol Bay. Corey Arnold photo

Pebble state permit application spawns more than 1,000 comments

A NOAA observer collecting scale samples from a yellowtail flounder. NOAA photo.

A hard look at NOAA’s observer program

Alaska Knight — Bering Sea trawlers, like U.S. Seafoods' 128-foot Alaska Knight, have stood down to allow a quota loophole to be closed in Alaska's cod FMP. Corey Arnold photo

Alaska cod quotas light up a loophole

Queen Ann's Revenge — The 46-foot dragger Queen Ann's Revenge and her two-man crew has been missing off the New Jersey coast after a distress call

Two still missing off Barnegat Light, N.J.

Maggie_Corky Decker_Harpoon

Book excerpt: Harpoon

Snow & Co. puts 3-D Scanner to use — 3-D laser scanner captures the surface in millions of points. The point cloud develops a 3D model so the tender Tuxedni gets a wheelhouse that fits perfectly.

Seattle yard puts 3D scanner to use

Bristol Bay Setnet — Captain Shayan Rohani and Deckhand Ryan Higginbotham of the setnet skiff Mosquito haul in a huge low tide switch set of sockeye salmon near the mouth of the Kvichak River in Bristol Bay. Corey Arnold photo

Pebble problems: EPA reinstates Obama-era objection to Bristol Bay mine