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Offloading salmon in Petersburg, Alaska. Jessica Hathaway photo.

Alaska’s Land of Second Sons: Petersburg in profile

Jessica Hathaway

Editor’s Log: Going live

Jessica Hathaway

The Vansee has been in the Odegaard family since the early 1960s. A partial owner since the late 1960s, Odegaard bought out his father Nils in 1982, and Odegaard’s son, also Nils, now crews.

Boat of the Month: Vansee

Brian Hagenbuch

Bob Charney & Tom Hill

Who we are: Hill Family

Sue Cocking

James “Ooker” Eskridge, a working waterman and the mayor of Tangier, lifts a peeler pot into his workboat Sreedevi in Cod Harbor, Va. Ooker’s workboat is named after one of his four daughters, all of whom he and his wife, Irene, adopted from India. Jay Fleming photo

Jay Fleming.

Island Life: Jay Fleming documents Chesapeake Bay’s offshore communities

Jay Fleming

Dungeness crabs in a live hold. Oregon DFW photo.

Pacific Dungeness: Live buyers are back, frozen stocks down before peak U.S. sales time

Charlie Ess

Dredging oysters in Louisiana. Lousiana Sea Grant photo.

GSA Oysters: Shortages after Hurricane Ida strike amid market upswing

Kirk Moore

Alaska pollock. NMFS photo.

Alaska Pollock: With strong global demand, U.S. production ramped up in 2021

Charlie Ess

Petrzelka Brothers’ last commercial fishing boat was the Thunder, a 32-foot Bristol Bay gillnetter. Petrzelka Brothers photo

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Wash. boatshop closing up after 44 years; boatyard specializes in aluminum crabbers

Michael Crowley

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PVC is the choice material for one Virginia builder; new version of a classic Chesapeake style

Larry Chowning

Wesmac Custom Boats launched the Sarah B, a 46-foot tuna boat, at the end of August. Wesmac Custom Boats photo

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50-footers are a big seller for one Maine boatbuilder; lobster-boat races end with tugs tearing down the lane

Michael Crowley