National Fisherman

Working Waterfront

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

NF Staff

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

Ketchikan, Alaska. Photo by Alexandre.ROSA / Shutterstock

Murkowski and King reintroduce Working Waterfronts Act

Carli Clancy

Jamie O'Connor, deputy executive director of AMCC. Photo courtesy of AMCC

Stronger federal support for AK fisheries

NF Staff

Seward, AK harbor in southern Alaska, set on an inlet on the Kenai Peninsula. Photo courtesy of Chansak Joe / Shutterstock

Resilient in the face of change: Alaska's waterfronts

Carli Clancy

Jes Hathaway, former NF editor, moderated a discussion and opened with a pointed question: How do we attract people into the industry and take care of them once they’re in? Photo courtesy of Shutterstock/ JLC Photo Images

Keep the work in working waterfronts

Carli Clancy