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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 Cameron and Connor, a vessel owned by Miss Gina’s Fresh Shrimp in Beaufort, N.C. is among small inshore shrimp trawlers that fish Pamlico Sound. Miss Gina's Fresh Shrimp photo.

Carolina shrimp trawl ban

The ALFA offers apprenticeships to young people from all over the country. The Association connects vessel owners looking for crew with young people who want to try fishing. A few have stayed in the game. Credit: Steve Fish / Alaska Longline Fishermen’s A

Keeping a labor force in the pipeline

Ivan Basargin Sr.s Top Notch is one of the early aluminum boats built by Basargin Boats. It reflects the Basargin family’s original designs adapted from fiberglass to aluminum and is one of the company’s first jet boats. Credit: Max Basargin

Forged in fire: Basargin Boats reinvents itself

Devyn Campbell’s crew gets ready to sort a tow of grey sole, monk fish, dab, haddock, and other flats and groundfish. Using knowledge and charts passed on to him by old timers, Campbell makes a living fishing the waters off the coast of Maine. Photo by De

Dragging tradition in a wooden hull

The Port of Toledo Shipyard’s 650-ton Ascom travel lift had no trouble bringing the 500-ton Alaska king crabber Kiska Sea ashore. The yard also has an 85-ton Acme lift for smaller vessels. Photo by Toledo Shipyard

Port of Toledo Shipyard in the flow

Photo by Mike Hill Photography / Shutterstock

From the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America

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