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The GM 6-53 "was the beating heart of the Hard Times. It ran and ran and ran...sometimes when I went down forward for something I would pause for a second or two and just marvel at it as it roared." Photo courtesy of Jerry Fraser

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From Johnson Seahorse to screaming jimmy

Jerry Fraser

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The URI fisheries and technology program legacy

Paul Molyneaux

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How out‑of‑work fishermen saved the American Revolution

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Marad modernizes US citizenship evidencing requirements for vessel owners and program participants

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For fishing families, the dock is a third place as much as a workplace. Photo courtesy of David McLain

What we lose when the waterfront changes

Monique Coombs

The U.S. celebrates its 250th birthday this year, many of us in the fishing and ocean communities are also celebrating another important milestone: the 50th anniversary of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. Photo courtesy of MFCN

Fifty years of the law that changed our fisheries

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Pile of menhaden. Photo courtesy of the Chesapeake Bay Program

Virginia law already requires pause on Bay menhaden harvest, groups argue

Carli Stewart

Capt. Rene Hernández’s son, Rene Jr., talks fishing with four-year-old Juan Pablo Molyneaux. The Hernándezes also started at the same age, as do so many kids in the fish business, learning a way of life as much as a way to make a living. Paul Molyneaux photo.

Getting the next generation to sea

Paul Molyneaux

Commercial fishing boats docked in Seattle. Shutterstock photo.

Op-ed: A momentous US Supreme Court decision

The Maine-focused Commercial Fisheries News published its final edition in December 2025. Shutterstock photo.

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After 53 years, Maine’s fishing voice falls silent

Jerry Fraser

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Winter fishing, recovery, and hydration

Monique Coombs