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Paul Molyneaux

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

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After five seasons of extensive and costly restoration that improved performance and safety, the Alaska Spirit heads north in January 2022, ready to bring in a return on the O’Hara Corp.’s investment. O’Hara Corp. photo

Feeling the Alaska Spirit

The venerable Alaska trawl fleet and processing vessels undergo maintenance and upgrades in Seattle in late November. By January most of them were back in Alaska waters fishing long nights and short days. Paul Molyneaux photo

Look-Sea: A Walk Among the Giants

Asher Molyneaux holds a woolly mammoth tooth he hauled up in a scallop dredge just a few mile off from Newburyport, Mass. Asher Molyneaux photo

Dino Dragger: Fisherman hauls up woolly mammoth fossil

Andrew Joyce’s father, Jason, has helped inform him about what matters to Maine fishermen and how they hope to sustain their values and way of live in the face of corporate takeover of the ocean.

Who We Are: Andrew and Jason Joyce

Corvus supplied 248 kWh of battery storage capacity for the 61.7-meter longliner Geir, launched in Norway in 2020, and at press time fishing in the Barents Sea north of Murmansk, Russia. HP Holmeset photo

Banking on batteries: Price drops and expanded options change the hybrid power model

Monte Rome and his wife, Yi Bing Gao-Rome, celebrate the launching of the Bing Bing after a complete overhaul. Paul Molyneaux photo.

Bing Bing: Gloucester fisherman rebuilds a cherry of a clam boat

Asher Molyneaux running the newly refurbished Finlander II back to its berth in Portsmouth, N.H., from where he will take the boat scalloping. New England Fishmongers photo

Hook, line and stop sign: Overhauling a New England groundfish boat amid new regs

The 79.5-meter Selvåg Senior, expected to be launched in December 2022, will burn a mix of LNG and diesel in a 6,400-hp, 8V31DF Wärtsilä engine. Skipsteknisk photo

‘We are the pioneers’: Building a hydrogen-powered fishing vessel

When he is not setting and hauling the shrimp net on the Udvaar 3, Benjamin Bakke transforms into MonkfishMan. Vidar Andersen photo

The Funniest Catch

The GX5 is geostationary, staying above the same terrestrial region at all times — like all Inmarsat satellites. But that will change with he company’s launch of the GX10s and a constellation of LEO satellites.

Arctic Payload: Satellite comms are primed for northern climes