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Spotlight: Pacific Northwest
Geoduck
The 34-foot boat currently being built at Next Gen Fab will have a strong resemblance to the Arctic Blonde, which was launched in August 2023. Next Gen Fab photo.
Trailerable 34-footer will pack lots of fishing power
Michael Crowley
Matt Johnston leased a crab license during the pandemic. Coming out of lockdown he realized he wanted to commit to the fishery and decided to build a boat at Full Time Fabrication with his old friend TJ Lowry. Full Time Fabrication photo.
The Wild West
Paul Molyneaux
The 34’ x 11’ Cobra fishes multiple fisheries off Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula. Crozier Craft photo.
New boat does it all on waters off Washington’s Olympic Peninsula
Michael Crowley
Alaska divers’ geoduck, sea cucumber fisheries on rebound
Charlie Ess
Cordova, Alaska. Cheryl Ess photo
Alaska’s salmon season starts soon, plus pot shrimp, Dungeness, halibut and more…
Laine Welch
Logan and Bethany Branstiter co-captain the F/V B-Team in Alaska's Nushagak Bay, drift gillnetting sockeye salmon in Bristol Bay. Crew Shots photo
Alaska Yearbook Market Report: Tradition wins out in a long, strange year
Charlie Ess
The U.S. geoduck fishery's predominant live export market has been hobbled by the coronavirus outbreak in Chine. USDA photo.
Alaska geoduck biomass is down, but cukes continue an upswing
Charlie Ess
Oyster processors blast freeze trays of half-shell oysters at the Taylor Shellfish headquarters in Shelton, Wash. Jessica Hathaway photo
Judge tosses Washington state shellfish permit
Ben Fisher
Alaska sea otters. Marine Mammal Commission photo.
Alaska fishermen plead for changes to sea otter plan
Laine Welch
A geoduck farm on Hartsine Island, Wash. Geoduck clams are among the crops envisioned by an Alaska group promoting mariculture expansion. Creative Commons photo by lawdawg1.
Alaska group eyes mariculture expansion
Laine Welch