16+ hour, 30+ min ago  (789+ words) Some boats are not beauties or particularly innovative. In Lubec, Maine, a lot of boats are simple workhorses " rough boats for a rough environment " and whatever they're running for systems has earned its place onboard. Lubec is a community with…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (527+ words) An ambitious campaign is underway to boost the population of lucrative red king crab in Alaska's Bering Sea. The project centers on a newly constructed shellfish hatchery housed in the Trident Seafoods processing plant at St. Paul, a remote island…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago  (569+ words) Consumers are willing to pay a premium for lobster harvested with ropeless fishing technology designed to reduce whale entanglement risks, according to new research from the University of Maine. The study, led by Qiujie "Angie" Zheng, associate professor of business…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago  (204+ words) National Fisherman Magazine Fisherman medevaced off Georgia coast An ailing crewmember was medically evacuated Friday from a fishing vessel operating 92 miles offshore Brunswick, Ga. , the Coast Guard said. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Charleston's command center received a notification from…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago  (435+ words) A global salmon market report produced for the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute predicts a drop in 2026 state harvests of all five species of Pacific salmon. Global sockeye harvests, meanwhile, are forecast to see a 15% drop from the previous five-year average,…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago  (295+ words) A June 11 executive order by President Trump will open some fishing grounds in the U. S. western Pacific, the latest in years of restricting and then reopening national marine monument waters during the Obama, Biden and Trump administrations. Like Trump's earlier lifting…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (201+ words) True enough. Technology has replaced many of the skills taught in the intensive, 19-credit-per-semester program. "We taught students how to make nets, for example," said De Alteris. "Nobody makes their own nets now. A lot of times, they don't even…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (253+ words) The Jan. 5 grounding of the fishing vessel'Arctic Sea resulted in some 45, 000 gallons of diesel fuel being released into the ocean offshore of St. George Island in the Pribilofs,'environmental officials have confirmed. Approximately 2, 000 gallons of lube oil and hydraulic fluid…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (641+ words) Fisheries scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks are on a mission to find out where Chinook salmon are at all times, not to catch them, but to avoid them. Their research draws on a trove of data from a…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (545+ words) Veteran harvester Jeff Turner is fishing halibut and black cod in Southeast Alaska this summer aboard his 50-foot longliner and troller Mirage, equipped with a new hybrid diesel-electric propulsion system. After a short break from harvesting from Sitka up to…...