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Paul Molyneaux is the Boats & Gear editor for National Fisherman.

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A mixed bag of bluefish, black sea bass, squid, flounder, monkfish, and triggerfish — Locals Seafood sells what fishermen catch off the coast of North Carolina. Locals Seafood photo.

Keep your cool: Rethinking processing, supply, and cold chains in a post-pandemic world

The 184-foot factory longline vessel Northern Leader combines diesel electric power and a low-impact fishing method to land quality product with a lower carbon footprint. Alaskan Leader Fisheries photo.

Riding the wave: Boatbuilders, designers and fishermen take advantage of new technology and design for the times

Ready for the trip from Florida to Massachusetts, Nordic Fisheries says the 85' x 28' Heritage is enough boat to get the job done. Duckworth Steel Boats photo.

F/V Heritage: Nordic Fisheries builds an innovative and nimble 85-foot scalloper

NOAA scientist Noelle Yochum (left) helps fisherman Lauti Tuipala set a net with an experimental salmon excluder on the F/V Pacific Explorer. Katherine Hellen-Schneider photo.

Bye-bye bycatch: Net design and electronics help fishermen keep their catch clean

A Florida fisherman wears ACR’s overboard location alert system tag linked to a mobile phone or base station on the boat. ACR photo.

Where you at?: Competition and tech advances make life-saving measures more accessible

Chad Lowenberg takes Deckhand’s electronic logbook for a trial run in the Bering Sea crab fishery. Chad Lowenberg photo.

Logged on: The venerable captain’s logbook is moving to digital

Alex Oczkewicz photo.

Have it both ways: After more than 20 years, Maritime Fabrications launches a new and improved through-picker

Treena Brunelle photo.

Drive and moxie: Maine’s Elijah Brice is calling his new boat Perseverance, and that’s what it took to get her in the water

Hanging a nylon seine: While the cost of the Plateena and other lightweight fibers can be four times that of nylon, they are stronger and lighter. Dick Shellhorn photo.

Fresh mesh: Technology gives the ancient fishing technique of seining a total overhaul

The Aleutian Endurance. Buck and Ann Fisheries photo.

Poised for pots: A new skipper and new launch head for the Aleutian pot cod fishery