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The Hannah, Northline Seafoods' 110-foot freezer barge, at work in Bristol Bay in the summer of 2025. Photo by Chris Miller

Passion for Bristol Bay salmon fishery runs deep with Northline Seafoods

Margaret Bauman

Photo courtesy of Shutterstock

Dumping Day launched Canada’s largest lobster fishery

Carli Stewart

Stevie and Brian on the deck of the F/V Stacie Vea, fall of 1981. Photo courtesy of Brian Robbins

Robbins bids farewell as Commercial Fisheries News prepares its final edition

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Alexandra Morton started off presenting fisheries science aimed at protecting wild salmon. “When I saw the science wasn’t bringing change, I became an activist,” she says. Simon Fraser University photo.

Removal of BC salmon farms coincides with rebounding wild runs

Paul Molyneaux

Fisheries biologist and lead author, Lukas DeFilippo working on a surface trawl survey, holds a coho salmon aboard a scientific survey that informs management decisions. NOAA Fisheries photo by Lukas DeFilippo

Study probes environmental drivers of salmon bycatch in Alaska pollock fishery

NF Staff

Officials say the latest discoveries underscore the need for diverse detection and management tools and show that Molt Search is already playing an important role. Photo courtesy of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community.

First European green crab detected in Skagit Bay

NF Staff

Alaska's commercial fishing industry has seen its workforce shrink for five straight years, according to state labor officials. Shutterstock photo.

Alaska seafood harvesting jobs down for fifth straight year

Margaret Bauman

Imagery from NOAA's “Blobtracker” shows the intensity of the 2014-16 Pacific sea temperatures, compared to 2024 which also saw record sea surface temperatures in some areas of the Pacific, as did the 2025 blob. NOAA graphic.

Keeping an eye on the ‘Blob’

Paul Molyneaux

Students on the water participate in a Sea Potential program. Sea Potential photo.

Maritime Blue, Sea Potential and the next generation of seafarers

Paul Molyneaux

A federal judge issued a temporary order Nov. 24 to return a Coast Guard rescue helicopter to its forward operating base at Newport, Ore., before the start of the Dungeness crab fishing season. Coast Guard photo.

Federal judge says Coast Guard helicopter must return to Newport

NF Staff

This photo of the Nellie Crockett was taken in 1984 when she was owned by James Ward of Deltaville, Va. and was being used to plant seed oysters. Larry Chowning photo.

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Happy 100th to the buyboats

Larry Chowning