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Annual Fisherman of the Year contest.

Seattle Sessions: Expo is looking for speakers

Jessica Hathaway

Striped mullet. University of Florida photo.

Atlantic mullet: Production and prices down for roe, and red tide worries

Sue Cocking

Paul Stoffer installs a new plank on Defiance, a 1947 58-footer built in Tacoma for a Gig Harbor fisherman. Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-op photo.

They saw a lot: Washington’s Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-op is still buzzing

Paul Molyneaux

The final rule establishes coral protection areas around Georges Bank and in the Gulf of Maine. New England Fishery Management Council graphic.

Northeast coral protection rule finalized

Kirk Moore

Mike McGowan and Steve Schwartz off-load California king salmon at Fisherman's Wharf for the first deliveries of the 2021 summer commercial salmon season in San Francisco. Dennis Whitaker/Golden State Salmon Association photo

King me! San Francisco markets welcome first salmon of the season

Jessica Hathaway

Peter Pan Seafoods photo.

Peter Pan posts $1.10 per pound for Bristol Bay sockeye

Brian Hagenbuch

Jeff McClean/NOAA/GARFO image

Meet the new NMFS director: Janet Coit

Jessica Hathaway

Heather Anne Tyson Fick Alaska salmon — Aboard the Heather Anne out of Juneau, Alaska, Tyson Fick cuts off the head of a salmon prior to pressure bleeding. John McCarthy photo

Alaska salmon report: Low returns so far

Jessica Hathaway

Charter fishing vessel operators in the Gulf of Mexico are challenging NMFS electronic monitoring rules. Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council.

Gulf of Mexico charter operators fight back against lawsuit mandating electronic monitoring

Steve Bittenbender

Killer gillnetter Bristol Bay stern shot — Using art to sell engines, Killer and FPT Industrial aim to make a splash. Randy Wells photo

Killer revealed: Building a Bristol Bay gillnetter like no other

Jessica Hathaway

Southwind was one of the last round-stern deadrise boats built by George P. Butler at Reedville Marine Railway in Virginia. When Butler died in 1976, his son took over. Larry Chowning photo.

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Butler family sells railway after 106 years; Butler-built classic wooden boats still at work

Larry Chowning