National Fisherman

Paul Molyneaux

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

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The clammers of Raritan and Sandy Hook Bays work on a quota of sorts. The James T. White Clam Depuration plant determines how many clams it can process and allots the requisite crates equally among the clammers. Luke Jenks photo.

The Clammers of Highlands

Welders at Fairhaven Shipyard pieced together the bulbous bow on the Vigilance. The thruster, which runs off the boat’s hydraulics and was supplied by Pine Hill Equipment. Paul Molyneaux photo.

Keep it simple

Passamaquoddy fisherman Erik Francis on the F/V Treaty Defender, catching lobsters in Canadian waters. Canadian authorities acknowledge that Native fishermen have fishing rights, but say they must abide by Canadian regulations. Henry Bear photo.

Canada’s DFO confronts Native fishermen

An AI eye on the fuel gauge

The schooner Grace Bailey in June 2007. Photo by Cinster/Wikimedia Commons.

Fatal schooner accident in Maine waters

Left to right: Sean “Pepper” Cleary, Captain Lillian Connor and her dog Dunkin, Sam Chytla, and Andrew “Farkus” Koehler—celebrate Connor's 31st birthday on June 25, 2023, and first year as a Kodiak seine boat skipper. Lillian Connor photo.

Rookie of the Year

Five generations and counting, Frank Sr., Frank Jr., and Frank III together in Rockland, Maine. Frank Sr. was at his desk at the O’Hara Corporation’s Rockland headquarters until age 81. O’Hara Corp. photo.

Remembering Frank J. O’Hara

Small-scale fishermen’s organizations want to make sure that revisions to National Standards of the Magnuson-Stevens act protect fisheries dependent communities like this one on the shore of the Bering Sea. Paul Molyneaux photo.

Protecting ‘fisheries dependent communities’

Robbie Pollock’s son Chris tried his hand at other trades for a while, but came back to the water where he catches oysters with his wife Brittany and their children, and pulls crab traps with his father. Spence Harrison photo.

The Tip of the Tong

David Kumah, the second engineer on the Northern Eagle, died Aug. 18 after being exposed to an ammonia leak aboard the vessel Northern Eagle. American Seafoods has offered its support to the family and grief counseling to the crew. David Kumah photo via Facebook.

Tragedy in the Bering Sea: Seaman Dies in Ammonia Leak