National Fisherman

Working Waterfront

Linda Greenlaw’s 41-foot, cedar planked over oak frames and silicon-bronze fastened, 41-foot lobster boat Ernest hauled out at Wesmac Custom Boats prior to being refastened. Wesmac Custom Boats photo.

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A full house at Wesmac Custom Boats

Michael Crowley

Photo by NASA Science

Six decades of change on Cape Cod’s working waterfronts

Carli Clancy

The last wooden boat built at John’s Bay Boats is this 34 footer, being planked with 1-inch cedar for shop owner Peter Kass, who is retiring. Once it slides down the launching ramp, no new wooden lobster boats will be built. Jon Johansen photo.

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John’s Bay Boats building one more – for the owner

Michael Crowley

Hattie Train, senior deputy harbor master in Portland, Maine, at work in Portland Harbor in October 2025. Caroline Losneck photo.

Hattie Train: Senior Deputy Harbor Master in Portland, Maine

Caroline Losneck

Miss Denise Blount’s book, Memories of a Southern Girl, tells stories of a childhood in the fishing community of Swan Quarter, North Carolina, back in the 1950s. Now in her 70s, she is still picking shrimp. Photo by Paul Molyneaux

Stories from the margins of the industry

Paul Molyneaux

From an idea to a drawing to reality, Full Time Fabrication turns fisherman, Jordan Wilson’s dream into a fast and versatile coast crabber, ready for Puget Sound and the deeper waters offshore. TJ Lowry photo.

Full Time Fabrication floats a new crab boat design

Paul Molyneaux

The seiner Odin is being hauled at Hansen Boat Co. for yearly maintenance work. Hansen Boat Co. photo.

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Fall season in full swing at Hansen Boat Co.

Michael Crowley

The Port of Coos Bay obtained $1 million in federal Community Project Funding for the Charleston Shipyard Enhancement Project. Oregon Coast Visitors Association photo.

Coos Bay obtains $1 million federal funding for fishing dock improvements

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Oregon's Newport Harbor. Creative Commons photo by D. Reinhart.

Local Ocean Seafoods: A business model for fishing communities

Paul Molyneaux

Workers using water cannons blow empty shells onto an oyster reef restoration site on New Jersey's Mullica River. NJ Division of Fish & Wildlife photo.

New Jersey, Sysco to expand oyster shell recycling

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Dock in Cutler, Maine. Photo by Jon Bilous / Shutterstock

Maine enacts new law to promote working waterfronts

Carli Clancy