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Paul Molyneaux

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

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The Supersede Marine Board has superior structural integrity to traditional plywood, is more cost-effective, and is sustainably crafted using recycled plastic waste. Photo courtesy of Supersede

Supersede's alternative to wood

An automatic feeding buoy for offshore fish farming was part of the UNH's continuing work on offshore aquaculture development. Other universities and entities around the world are working on the complex engineering required for open ocean aquaculture. Pho

Act seeks to block offshore aquaculture in US EEZ

In 2024,, Lisa, Brian Gabriel, and others experimented with beach seining to harvest sockeye salmon without harming Chinooks. Some of the crew are learning to haul the nets on a beach in Upper Cook Inlet. Photo by Brian Gabriel

Cook Inlet setnetters told to wait for 2027

American Unagi photo.

An American market for American elvers

Sponsoned and lengthened from a 1973 Nichols Brothers boat, the Ingot, the Channa Sea has a number of interesting design features including a high wave wall, a tunnel under the pilothouse for setting longline pots, and the hydraulics and RSW located in the bow. Yale Fogarty photo.

Boat of the month: Channa Sea

A 2021 research cruise conducted by NOAA led to the discovery of abundant ferromanganese nodules along a chain of Seamounts stretching from New England into the North Atlantic. Photo by NOAA

Fishing fleets and deep sea miners converge in the Pacific

Pound netters hauling their gear on a rough autumn day off Hoopers Island, Maryland, in Chesapeake Bay. “They catch menhaden, and what they call money fish, stripers, trout, drum whatever they can sell,” says photographer Jay Fleming.

Jay Fleming: Photography of fishermen’s lives

Harvesting alewives as part of a pilot project at Wights Pond in Penobscot, Maine. With sufficient data to prove their viability, Wights Pond is among five Maine alewife runs approved for having a commercial fishery this year. Photo by Tate Yoder

New alewife fisheries for Maine

The field model of SeafoodAI’s Crabscan360 uses biometrics to identify individual crabs and determine their size and sex. Company CEO Rob Terry plans to build other models for dockside deliveries, processing, and onboard scanning. Photo by SeafoodAI

SeafoodAI’s CrabScan360: AI-powered crab sorting revolution

TimeZero online has revolutionized TZ’z entire product line enabling automatic software updates, real time chart updates, community Maps, TZ online AIS, premium weather with real time Doppler radar, text based weather alerts, and fleet tracking. Photo by

TIMEZERO in the cloud