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Paul Molyneaux is the Boats & Gear editor for National Fisherman.
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Captain Paul Tate, far right on the flying bridge, docks the Western Flyer at Fishermen’s Wharf in Monterey, California, amid much celebration and fanfare. The 86-year-old seiner fished out of Monterey for years and was chartered in 1940 by John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts for their journey to the Sea of Cortez. Paul Molyneaux photo.
Bringing Back the Legend: Western Flyer's Epic Restoration Story
Alabama Marine Resources Division biologist Jason Herrmann, counts oysters, oyster drills, and cultch in a sample from one of the state’s reefs. The absence of spat is causing concern about the next couple of seasons. Alabama MRD photo.
Staying alive in Alabama’s oyster fishery
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’
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