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Paul Molyneaux

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

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Alewives are returning to the St. Croix River, and an international consortium is working to help increase the numbers by improving fishways around several dams. Photo by Mike Thalhauser

Alewife runs restored in East Coast rivers

While ASMFC data indicate a collapse of northern shrimp, Pandalus borealis, stocks and recruitment in the Gulf of Maine, 59 boat in the Pacific Northwest landed 41.2 million pounds of a similar species, Pandalus jordani, in 2022. Photo by Ben Downes

Fishermen hope to find Gulf of Maine shrimp stocks revived

Blake Herman stands in the pulpit of the Sharon G., bearing down on a swordfish off the coast of California. Access to MPAs in the Channel Islands will afford Herman more options when weather and other factors limit where he can fish. Photo by Blake Herman

Petition to open California MPAs for swordfishing

The mass resignation of the Fisheries Advisory Board to Rhode Island’s Coastal Resources Management Council—protesting what they called the Council’s “political theater”—was a hot topic at the Rhode Island Seafood Climate Energy Symposium on March 4. Sara

Rhode Island fisheries center hosts climate symposium

Originally launched in 2019 and covered in National Fisherman that year, the Beachcomber took time to build because owner Ronald Yow paid for the boat as it progressed. Portier Fabrication photo.

Florida shrimp boat sets sail debt-free

Controlling illegal and unregulated fishing is a big part of the push to make seafood traceable from harvest to plate. Emydex has systems to track tuna through the international markets. Emydex photo.

Software enables tracing seafood from catch to sale

A happy crew on the Rita K in Bristol Bay, Alaska. Photo courtesy Omar Keval.

Bristol Bay captain fishes shallow waters with aluminum through-picker

Maine salmon farms owned by a foreign company have drawn criticism from adjacent communities. The Maine Municipal Association is opposing legislation that would limit public participation in the aquaculture leasing process. Paul Molyneaux photo.

In Maine, aquaculture-friendly legislation meets opposition

Brooks Trap Mills has been a Maine family-owned business since 1946 (Stephen, Sally, Julie, Mark). Photo courtesy of Brooks Trap Mill.

From Wood to Wire: Brooks Trap Mill's Lobster Legacy

Analyses by several organizations estimates the fishing industry discards around 600,000 tones of nets and other gear annually. Getting that material into the recycling stream, not the ocean, is Bureo’s mission. Alfred Westermeyer photo.

Transforming waste fishing gear into profitable resources