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Kenny Heath sits on the engine box of the Thomas Jaiden with 27 bushels of blue crabs caught crab potting in the Chesapeake Bay out of Cape Charles, Virginia. Jay Fleming photos

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Back to the bay: Waterman returns to fishing after accident

Larry Chowning

Book review: Death of a Fisherman

Paul Molyneaux

At Pac Fish Inc in Seattle, Doug Dixon maintains something of a little museum dedicated to 19th century shipwright Frederick Douglass. Famous for his abolitionist oratory and writing, Douglass’s first trade was boatbuilding, and he escaped to freedom by p

A day to remember a shipwright: Frederick Douglass

Paul Molyneaux

Fishing boats moored in Ukedo, Japan. The British Academy.

Japan will dump Fukushima water into the Pacific

Paul Molyneaux

https://divcomplatform.s3.amazonaws.com/www.nationalfisherman.com/images/517b3dca30af3ccd065a461704bee087.png — Carli's father and brother, Craig and Cody Stewart at this past summers Save Maine Lobstermen event in support of the Maine Lobstermen's Association. Photo Courtesy of Carli Stewart

Fishing Family Point of View: regulations and policies across the coasts

Megan Waldrep & Carli Clancy

On-demand (ropeless) lobster pot gear on the deck of a commercial fishing vessel. NEFSC photo.

The Case for Ropeless

Nick Rahaim

https://divcomplatform.s3.amazonaws.com/www.nationalfisherman.com/images/ff4feafa908a35eec1c86e9cea77200b.jpg — Aerial view of the Marshall Cove Mussel farm in Islesboro, ME. Photo courtesy of MAA

Better connecting the fishing and aquaculture communities in Maine and beyond

Jeremiah Karpowicz

Ports like Portland, Maine are struggling to maintain their infrastructure and commercial fishing fleets. As the catch share programs tends to shift quota to larger ports the Portland Fish Exchange has had to diversify in order to stay open. Paul Molyneau

Staying Alive

Paul Molyneaux

The NOAA research vessel Henry B. Bigelow. NOAA photo.

Opinion: NOAA's catch quotas rely on inaccurate data

https://divcomplatform.s3.amazonaws.com/www.nationalfisherman.com/images/135d0a30321e0848e69f18494ee806d6.jpg — Rachal Hisler's Son holding a red snapper on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico. Photo courtesy of Rachal Hisler.

Can Gulf fishermen balance the fishery management council?

Rachal Hisler

New resource warns about finfish aquaculture

Jose Antunes