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Paul Molyneaux

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

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Built in 1998 at Hutt Brothers in Alberton, Prince Edward Island, the Just Splashy exhibits the typical Island design—a flared bow and sheer that rolls down from the bow and sweeps up again slightly towards the stern. Photo by Molyneaux

Boat of the month: F/V Just Splashy just can’t stop fishing

Portland Shipyard’s 330-ton travellift launching a passenger vessel, and the stern of a schooner in the foreground, offer a glimpse of the many types of vessels in the yard, including a wide array of commercial fishing boats. Photo by Paul Molyneaux

Portland shipyard: Preserving a working waterfront

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