National Fisherman

June Spotlight

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NOAA ship Oscar Dyson. NOAA photo.

NOAA awards $95 million contract to upgrade fisheries survey vessel

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In a 1989 National Fisherman feature on a Tremblay yard, Charles Piatt covered Tremblay Net Boats, a boatyard specializing in mullet skiffs.

Fishing back when: Tremblay yard specializes in mullet skiffs

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Evans Boat Construction and Repair of Crisfield, Md., have just introduced this Evans 25 scow for mid-Atlantic inshore fishermen. Photo courtesy of Evans Boat Construction and Repair.

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Evans Boat Construction revives fiberglass scow

Larry Chowning

From Gulf of Maine draggers to deep-sea pair trawlers, the push to modernize New England’s trawl gear has met a familiar wall: cost. Photo courtesy of Paul Hyde

New England gear shop talks tech, costs, and barriers

Carli Stewart

David Peterson installed ribs and five new planks on the Elin Laine at Zerlang & Zerlang.

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David Peterson’s craft preserves West Coast fishing

Michael Crowley

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

Paul Molyneaux

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

Paul Molyneaux

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

Paul Molyneaux

The wooden deadrise Rainbow Chaser, owned by Shannon Gay of Rescue, Va., can be seen here edging out the fiberglass Thomas Jaiden, owned by Captain Kenny Heath of Cape Charles, Va. at the Yorktown Battle of the Boats on Sunday, June 1. At the event, the Governor of Virginia named the month of June 2025 as Chesapeake Bay Deadrise Month. Photo by Larry Chowning.

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Virginia governor honors the Chesapeake Bay deadrise

Larry Chowning

Gerry Foreman and Allan MacMillan watch as Paul Nosworthy of New England Marine Engineering and Supply works on repairs to a pressure dome. Photo courtesy of Flag's Up Facebook page

Does fishing have the potential for a quiet power shift?

Carli Stewart

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

Paul Molyneaux