National Fisherman

West Coast & Pacific

The Itasca leaving San Diego and bound for her home port of Honolulu after what owner Peter Webster calls “a shave and a haircut.” Webster spends around 300 days a year at sea, longlining tuna, often hundreds of miles from any land. Peter Webster photo.

Boat of the Month: Itasca

Paul Molyneaux

NOAA Fisheries scientists sort fish during the spring 2024 Rockfish Recruitment and Ecosystem Assessment Survey. These surveys reveal a coastal ocean dominated by a booming population of northern anchovy in recent years. NOAA Fisheries photo.

Vitamin deficiency is killing salmon in California

Margaret Bauman

Problems often occur on boats during maintenance. Leonard McLay put an intentional starboard list on his vessel, the Ashtella Raelynn, to work on the port side, but water flooded the hull, and the boat sank at the dock in Newport, Ore. Georgia Haight photo.

Troller sinks at the dock in Newport, Ore.

Paul Molyneaux

Shutterstock photo.

Salmon and forests are telling us we are about out of time

Margaret Bauman

The spillway of the Lower Granite Lake Dam on the Snake River in Washington, USA. Shutterstock photo.

Trump revokes Columbia salmon pact

NF Staff

Dungeness crabs in a live hold. Oregon DFW photo.

CDFW closes Northern Dungeness fishery

NF Staff

David Peterson installed ribs and five new planks on the Elin Laine at Zerlang & Zerlang.

Michael_Crowley

David Peterson’s craft preserves West Coast fishing

Michael Crowley

Bering Sea pollock come aboard a trawler. NMFS video image.

NMFS reports 24 percent cut in Alaska staffing

NF Staff

The Port of Toledo Shipyard’s 650-ton Ascom travel lift had no trouble bringing the 500-ton Alaska king crabber Kiska Sea ashore. The yard also has an 85-ton Acme lift for smaller vessels. Photo by Toledo Shipyard

Port of Toledo Shipyard in the flow

Paul Molyneaux

James "Jim" Brantingham, 1945 - 2025. Photo courtesy Nate Brantingham.

Great to know you, Jim!

Oregon pink shrimp. Photo by ODFW

USDA buys $16M of Oregon shrimp as fleet faces setbacks

NF Staff