Boats & Gear

The crew of the F/V Vansee (above) preps new CodCoil, or slinky, pots. The gear is made for longliners tired of feeding whales a seafood buffet and is noted for being collapsible and lightweight. Shawn McManus photo.

Off the hook: Slinky pots revolutionize Alaska’s blackcod fishery

Brian Hagenbuch

ZF’s iDrift helps you control drift speed and direction in windy conditions or active current.

Reliable and driven: ZF Marine provides long-lasting and wide-ranging commercial solutions

Brian Hagenbuch

The speed log fulfills for vessels 150 GT and higher.

Better speed reading: A next generation single axis doppler speed log from Furuno

Brian Hagenbuch

The 64-foot Prospector was the first boat in the Port of Toledo Shipyard’s new fabrication shop. Port of Toledo Shipyard photo.

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Oregon shrimper gets shafted — for the better; family tradition keeps going at California boatyard

Michael Crowley

The Calcasieu Pass is at Ampro Shipyard in Weems, Va., getting outfitted for the May start of Chesapeake Bay menhaden season. Larry Chowning photo.

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Omega trims Atlantic steamer fleet with conversion; pound-net skiff gets overhaul at Virginia railway

Larry Chowning

The working end of Velocity Marine’s 33-foot landing craft/gillnetter/crabber has a Kinematics hydraulic drum and roller horns. Velocity Marine photo.

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Unusual landing craft coming out of Wash. shop; fire-damaged gillnetter is undergoing repairs

Michael Crowley

Ready for the trip from Florida to Massachusetts, Nordic Fisheries says the 85' x 28' Heritage is enough boat to get the job done. Duckworth Steel Boats photo.

F/V Heritage: Nordic Fisheries builds an innovative and nimble 85-foot scalloper

Paul Molyneaux

The Lucy B was featured in the October 1981 issue of NF and is still working today in North Carolina’s Atlantic Ocean gillnet fishery. Rob and Susan West photo.

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Offshore gillnetter comes home to Carolina; maintenance is part of a fisherman’s retirement plan

Larry Chowning

H&H Marine is sending this Osmond 32 to Montauk, N.Y., for commercial fishing and running 6-pack charters. H&H Marine photo.

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Maine yard building West Coast longliner; 44-footers popular at Downeast boatshop

Michael Crowley

NOAA scientist Noelle Yochum (left) helps fisherman Lauti Tuipala set a net with an experimental salmon excluder on the F/V Pacific Explorer. Katherine Hellen-Schneider photo.

Bye-bye bycatch: Net design and electronics help fishermen keep their catch clean

Paul Molyneaux

Strong, quiet pumps move waste farther away. Tecma photo.

Turbine toilets: Tecma’s pumps liquefy waste

Brian Hagenbuch