West Coast & Pacific

The working end of Velocity Marine’s 33-foot landing craft/gillnetter/crabber has a Kinematics hydraulic drum and roller horns. Velocity Marine photo.

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Unusual landing craft coming out of Wash. shop; fire-damaged gillnetter is undergoing repairs

Michael Crowley

Two California Spiny Lobsters offshore of Anacapa Island. Ed Bierman photo.

Pacific spiny lobster: After pandemic low-price worries, this season could reach new highs

Charlie Ess

Handling ropeless gear adds time to a day's work. If a fisherman spends 5 or 10 minutes more per trawl, that can add up to hours in the course of a day. EdgeTech photo.

California crabbers, activists tangle over ropeless gear legislation

Kirk Moore

The Scandies Rose. NTSB image.

Editor’s Log: Safety first

Jessica Hathaway

Albacore hooked on a bait pole offshore Oregon. NOAA Fisheries West Coast photo.

Pacific Yearbook Market Report: Fleets made good use of dockside markets

Charlie Ess

Photo: Outfitter Satellite

OnDeck in the Pacific Northwest & Alaska: Communication Electronics

NF Staff

Boats, docks and debris are tied down or stored in a corner of the port of Crescent City, Calif., after an 8-foot tsunami surge rocked the harbor on March 11, 2011. Susan Chambers photo

Flashback Friday: West Coast tsunami, March 2011

Jessica Hathaway

After an encounter with a large rock, the 58-foot Defiance was hauled at Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-op to have part of her bottom rebuilt. Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-Op photo.

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Abrupt stop sends seiner in for planking work; seine skiff meets the builder’s expectations

Michael Crowley

Alex Oczkewicz photo.

Have it both ways: After more than 20 years, Maritime Fabrications launches a new and improved through-picker

Paul Molyneaux

Unloading Alaska halibut. NOAA photo.

New optimism for Pacific halibut market

Laine Welch

The F/V Coastal Reign capsized on Oregon's Garibaldi Bar on Saturday, Feb. 20, killing two members of its four-person crew. Facebook photo

Deadly crabbing season continues with loss of two crew and the F/V Coastal Reign

Jessica Hathaway