National Fisherman

West Coast & Pacific

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Coast Guard medevacs injured fisherman off Crescent City

NF Staff

The first-ever state-authorized on-demand fishing gear by Sub Sea Sonics and Guardian Ropeless pop-up gear. Photo courtesy of Sub Sea Sonics

CDFW authorizes first on-demand gear for Dungeness crab

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Final Calif. area opens for Dungeness crab fishing

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Passports given to visitors who participate in the Storms and Seafood Festival allow them to mark which dishes they have been served and where. Photo courtesy of Westport Marina

Storms, seafood, and a working waterfront

Carli Stewart

Halibut longline survey southeast Alaska 2004 NOAA — Pacific halibut. Photo courtesy of NOAA Fisheries

Catch limits down slightly for Pacific halibut fishery

Laine Welch

After more than 80 years, Columbia River Chinook and sockeye salmon have regained access to 1,000 miles of spawning habitat above the Grand Coulee and Chie Joseph Dams in Washington. Upper Columbia Tribes in the US and Canada welcome their return. Photo c

A homecoming for Upper Columbia River salmon

Paul Molyneaux

A fishing vessel hauls in catch offshore California, USA. Photo by Elliott Hazen, courtesy of Heather Welch, UCSC.

VMI data used to study marine heatwaves may also monitor ecosystem health

Margaret Bauman

One of the Port Orford’s two new 50-ton cranes lifts a boat out of the water. Commissioned on November 30, just in time for the December 16 Dungeness crab opening. The new cranes saw a few days of 24-hour-a-day service as the boat got their traps out. Pho

Harborless Port Orford gets new cranes to lift boats onto its “Dolly Dock”

Paul Molyneaux

F/V Texas Lady ran aground. Photo courtesy of Robert Anderson / Oregon Coastal Crabbing & Shellfish Facebook page

All souls saved after F/V Texas Lady washed ashore near Port Orford

Carli Stewart

Dungeness crabs caught off California. California Department of Fish and Wildlife photo.

Calif. Dungeness crab fishery opens in parts of the North Coast

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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