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Finestkind Paramount+ photo.

Paramount+ premiers fishing industry crime thriller 'Finestkind'

Doug Stewart

Bering Sea pollock come aboard a trawler. NMFS video image.

More Alaska groups join salmon bycatch lawsuit

NF Staff

Righting a capsized liferaft during an abandon-ship drill. AMSEA photo.

Hands-on rescue training with AMSEA

Fishermen training in an abandon ship drill with survival suits and liferaft. Fishing Partnership Support Services photo.

Widening the safety net

Fisherman Cam Hagen and Partner of a Commercial Fisherman, Grace Hagen, show recent coverage by NF Boats & Gear Editor Paul Molyneaux.

Open Call for National Fisherman Coverage + PME Takeaways For the New Year

Megan Waldrep

Coho salmon. NMFS photo.

Snohomish coho salmon stock rebuilt; 50th success under Magnuson law

Alaska's 2023 pink salmon harvest of almost 200,000 metric tons was likely exceeded three times by the Russian harvest, driving down market value for all salmon species. NOAA photo.

Extraordinary Circumstances

A Gulf of Mexico menhaden steamer and purse boats from the vantage point of a drone camera. NOAA photo.

Menhaden fishermen say proposed Louisiana buffers threaten fishing communities

Juvenile salmon. Shutterstock image.

Global synthesis study reveals hatchery salmon adversely impact wild populations

Benjamin Hayden

Linda Behnken is a commercial fisherman and the Executive Director of the Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association out of Sitka, Alaska. Fishing Communities Coalition photo.

We can build resilient fishing communities

Boats converging on lower Manhattan to rescue thousands on September 11, 2001. New York City Police Department photo.

Calling All Boats: Honoring the 22nd Anniversary of 9/11

NF Staff