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The Top 7 Commercial Fishing News Updates for November 2021

Jonathan Barnes

The Dark Star caught fire at Journey’s End Marina in Rockland, Maine. Stephen Betts photo

On fire and foundered: A rough week for East Coast commercial fishing boats

Jessica Hathaway

To the tender and back to the line in no time. Elliott Bay Design Group photo

New Bristol Bay boat packs a punch

Brian Hagenbuch

Cuts of Fish, illustrated in the first issue of Maine Coast Fisherman, 1946.

Digging fisheries for 75 years

Jessica Hathaway

Nicole Baker-Loke (second from left), founder of Net Your Problem, speaks at Pacific Marine Expo in Seattle. Doug Stewart photo

Gear recycling reaches milestone in commercial fishing communities

Laine Welch

Pacific herring sample. California Department of Fish and Wildlife photo

Pacific herring: Survey supports Jan. 1 opening, 750-ton quota

Charlie Ess

The Bureau of Offshore Energy Management approved a plan for 12 wind turbines in the South Fork Wind project 35 miles east of Montauk, N.Y. BOEM graphic.

BOEM approves South Fork Wind ‘habitat alternative’ plan

Kirk Moore

The Ocean Ark is a design concept for a 558-foot trimaran – a mobile fish-farming vessel. RINA rendering.

New-concept offshore fish farming vessel

Kirk Moore

Dungeness crabs in a live hold. Oregon DFW photo.

On-time opening for Oregon Dungeness season

Kirk Moore

Sean Dwyer, Taylor Layland, Reuben Ivanoff, Melodie Schones and Lindsay Layland at NF’s Fisherman of the Year Contest at Pacific Marine Expo in Seattle, November 2021. Doug Stewart photo

Fisherman of the Year takes unlikely win in Seattle

Jessica Hathaway

The Starlight is one of two O’Hara Lobster Bait midwater trawlers. It was launched from Eastern Shipyard in Panama City in the late 1970s, then overhauled at Patti Marine in Pensacola, Fla., and returned to Rockland, Maine in June 2019. Tom Farrell photo

Feds declare East Coast herring fishery a disaster

Jessica Hathaway