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Working Waterfront

Shoreline Freezers announced a major expansion of its Bridgeton, N.J. facility. The project will add 128,000 square feet of new temperature-controlled warehouse space. Shoreline Freezers photo.

Shoreline Freezers expands NJ warehouse

NF Staff

“Time and temperature is quality,” MJ Jackson said in an interview for the Talking Shop on a Low Carbon Fleet series for National Fisherman. Pictured is the Robin slurry ice machine. Photo courtesy of Robin

Refrigeration, slurry ice and why fish quality comes first

Carli Clancy

The Gig Harbor BoatShop is offering a Purse Seine Vessel Crew Member Training Program in April of 2026. Photo courtesy of Gig Harbor BoatShop

Gig Harbor BoatShop to host 2026 purse seine crew school

NF Staff

The Coast Guard ice-breaking vessel was breaking up the ice to free the commercial fishing fleet in Saquatucket Harbor on Saturday. Photo courtesy of Barnstable County Sheriff's Department

Fleet frozen in as county funds ice clearing efforts

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The 44th Cortez Commercial Fishing Festival is taking place Feb. 14, 2026. Photo courtesy of FISH

Cortez festival celebrates Florida’s working fishing waterfront

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Aerial view of New Bedford's commercial fishing docks. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock / Wangkun Jia

State, local authorities investigate New Bedford harbor death

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On Friday, December 26th, a devastating fire struck the working waterfront in Portland. Fishermen and fishing businesses suffered extensive losses. Photo courtesy of MCFA

Community raises nearly $200k for fishermen after Portland wharf fire

Carli Clancy

This 21' x 8' New England built skiff is used in the Chesapeake Bay oyster fishery. It is getting a new fiberglass bottom at Jennings Boatyard Inc. in Reedville, Va. Larry Chowning photo.

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New England boats as 'icebreakers' in Chesapeake oyster fishery

Larry Chowning

A fisheries observer identifies the species of salmon that was caught in the pollock fishery in Alaska. Photo courtesy of NOAA Fisheries/North Pacific Observer Program

Study supports shore-based observers in Alaska pollock

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Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK). Photo courtesy of Joshua Sukoff / Shutterstock

Alaska waterfronts see funding gains in 2026

NF Staff

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