National Fisherman

Swordfish

Fisherman Nathan Perez of Newport Beach, Calif., fishes for swordfish with deep-set buoy gear and harpoon on his 47-foot boat Great Bear II. Nathan Perez photo.

First permits issuing for California deep-set swordfish captains

NF Staff

President Biden reversed the Trump administration executive order that would have permitted commercial fishing to continue in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monument. NOAA image.

Draft management plan for Northeast Canyons marine monument

Kirk Moore

Jerry Sansom served as executive director of the Organized Fishermen of Florida for more than 40 years. Photo courtesy Jerry Sansom.

National Fisherman Highliner: Jerry Sansom

Kirk Moore

https://divcomplatform.s3.amazonaws.com/www.nationalfisherman.com/images/608b266f68566e214d9a0a280efcac85.jpg — Atlantic striped marlin. Courtesy of NOAA Fisheries

Captain of fishing boat disqualified for ‘mutilated’ marlin says the win was ‘taken away from us’

NF Aggregator

Corals and octopus in the Hudson Canyon. NOAA photo.

NOAA announces advisors for proposed Hudson Canyon National Marine Sanctuary

The California swordfish fleet is making a long transition from large-mesh gillnets to a deep-set buoy gear and harpoon fishery. Photo by Delaney Trowbridge and provided by Nathan Perez.

The slow death and uncertain future of California’s swordfish fishery

Nick Rahaim

A proposed 770,000 square mil marine sanctuary would incorporate the existing Remote Island Marine National Monument and “currently unprotected submerged lands and waters,” according to the Biden administration. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service graphic.

Biden administration proposes new Pacific marine sanctuary

Chris Chase

Longline-caught swordfish landed at Honolulu. The Hawaii fleet is in the midst of its first swordfish season after winning Marine Stewardship Council certification. Hawaii Longline Association photo.

Hawaii longliners land swordfish under new MSC certification

NF Staff

Franklyn d’Entremont, once a superstar of the New England and Maritime Canadian swordfish harpoon fisheries, showed a photo of himself about to iron a fish back in the glory days. Monique D’Eon photo.

Swordfish!

Paul Molyneaux

A pilot whale entangled in a swordfish drift gillnet. NMFS photo.

New federal law phases out large-mesh drift gillnets for California swordfish

Nick Rahaim

The Irene Alton’s lines came from a half-model carved by Alton Raynes; Bernard Raynes named the boat after his father and mother, Irene. Raynes painted the hard-working boat every year, and NF writer Paul Molyneaux tarred the rigging. Maynard Bray photo.

A death in the family

Paul Molyneaux