West Coast & Pacific

Chuck Bundrant off the coast of Akutan, Alaska, where he and his partner, Kaare Ness, built a processing plant and the Safe Harbor Church. Trident Seafoods photo

Chuck Bundrant: Built to last

Jessica Hathaway

Chuck Bundrant, founder of Trident Seafoods, with his son Joe aboard the F/V Bountiful in Alaska’s Bristol Bay, 1979. Trident Seafoods photo

Telling the story of Chuck Bundrant

Guest Author

The Lifejackets for Lobstermen program has distributed more than 1,200 PFDs to Northeast lobstermen at half the retail cost.

NTSB panel confirms: Humans like to be heard

Jessica Hathaway

Editor’s Log: Going live

Jessica Hathaway

The Vansee has been in the Odegaard family since the early 1960s. A partial owner since the late 1960s, Odegaard bought out his father Nils in 1982, and Odegaard’s son, also Nils, now crews.

Boat of the Month: Vansee

Brian Hagenbuch

Dungeness crabs in a live hold. Oregon DFW photo.

Pacific Dungeness: Live buyers are back, frozen stocks down before peak U.S. sales time

Charlie Ess

Petrzelka Brothers’ last commercial fishing boat was the Thunder, a 32-foot Bristol Bay gillnetter. Petrzelka Brothers photo

Michael_Crowley

Wash. boatshop closing up after 44 years; boatyard specializes in aluminum crabbers

Michael Crowley

Bristol Bay Wild Market video still

Bristol Bay sockeyes hit the ice

Laine Welch

NMFS has approved a plan by the Pacific Fishery Management Council to reduce salmon fishing if declining chinook numbers appear to endanger orcas. NMFS photo.

NMFS approves plan to restrict salmon fishing, protect orcas

Kirk Moore

Fred Wahl Marine Construction sponsoned and lengthened the Winona J. Fred Wahl Marine Construction photo.

Michael_Crowley

Oregon yard extends a couple of crabbers; dragger and crabber repaired at Washington shop

Michael Crowley

A crew member and a dog are hoisted to a Coast Guard helicopter during the Sept. 12 rescue of the crew of the fishing vessel Royal off Oregon. Coast Guard video image.

Coast Guard rescues fishermen, dog off Oregon

NF Staff