West Coast & Pacific

Cody Vandecoevering took over the F/V Karen, his late father’s 75-year-old, 58-foot wooden dragger, earlier this year.

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Boat of the Month: Karen

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delayed — Dungeness crab. Susan Chambers photo.

Dungeness crab: Despite shutdowns, Oregon fleet fares well; live market spikes prices to $6.28 per pound

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An offshore wind data buoy in Morro Bay off California. U.S. Department of Energy photo.

First offshore wind research buoys deployed off West Coast

Kirk Moore

Strongback Metal Boats is building this 32-foot combination boat to fish Bristol Bay salmon and spiny lobsters off Southern California. — Strongback Metal Boats is building this 32-foot combination boat to fish Bristol Bay salmon and spiny lobsters off Southern California. Strongback Metal Boats photo.

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First-of-a-kind combo will run spinies to bay salmon; Washington boatyard delivers 49-foot California crabber

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Strongback Metal Boats is building this 32-foot combination boat to fish Bristol Bay salmon and spiny lobsters off Southern California. — Strongback Metal Boats is building this 32-foot combination boat to fish Bristol Bay salmon and spiny lobsters off Southern California. Strongback Metal Boats photo.

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First-of-a-kind combo will run spinies to bay salmon; Washington boatyard delivers 49-foot California crabber

Michael Crowley

Doug Dixon, general manager of Seattle — Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell with Doug Dixon, general manager of the Pacific Fishermen boatyard in Seattle, at a Pebble Mine rally in 2017. Jerry Fraser photo

Pebble probe: Cantwell calls on Justice Department to investigate

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Join us OnDeck: Processing & Handling

Jessica Hathaway

Susan Chesney, NF national sales manager, and her husband, James, took their 28-foot San Juan sailboat through the smoke in Puget Sound with little in the way of instrumentation. Susan Chesney photos

Through the fire fog: I see it clearly now!

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Farmed steelhead. Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife photo

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Washington state takes comment on Cooke Aquaculture permits

Samuel Hill

Richard "Chuddy" Alley bluefin tuna Maine 1970 — Richard "Chuddy" Alley lands the first bluefin tuna of the 1970 season on the F/V Suzanne in Islesford, Maine. Ralph Tate and Ricky Alley help Chuddy horse the harpooned the 738-pounder onto the deck.

Flashback Friday: 50 Years Ago | September 1970

Jessica Hathaway

California red urchin. Photo by Kirk Onthank/CC BY-NV 4.0

Urchins: Open season on purps with goal to help restore red urchins, abalone

Charlie Ess