National Fisherman

Geoduck

Matt Johnston leased a crab license during the pandemic. Coming out of lockdown he realized he wanted to commit to the fishery and decided to build a boat at Full Time Fabrication with his old friend TJ Lowry. Full Time Fabrication photo.

The Wild West

Paul Molyneaux

The 34’ x 11’ Cobra fishes multiple fisheries off Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula. Crozier Craft photo.

Michael_Crowley

New boat does it all on waters off Washington’s Olympic Peninsula

Michael Crowley

Alaska divers’ geoduck, sea cucumber fisheries on rebound

Charlie Ess

Cordova, Alaska. Cheryl Ess photo

Alaska’s salmon season starts soon, plus pot shrimp, Dungeness, halibut and more…

Laine Welch

Logan and Bethany Branstiter co-captain the F/V B-Team in Alaska's Nushagak Bay, drift gillnetting sockeye salmon in Bristol Bay. Crew Shots photo

Alaska Yearbook Market Report: Tradition wins out in a long, strange year

Charlie Ess

The U.S. geoduck fishery's predominant live export market has been hobbled by the coronavirus outbreak in Chine. USDA photo.

Alaska geoduck biomass is down, but cukes continue an upswing

Charlie Ess

Oyster processors blast freeze trays of half-shell oysters at the Taylor Shellfish headquarters in Shelton, Wash. Jessica Hathaway photo

Judge tosses Washington state shellfish permit

Ben Fisher

sea otter — Alaska sea otters. Marine Mammal Commission photo.

Alaska fishermen plead for changes to sea otter plan

Laine Welch

A geoduck farm on Hartsine Island, Wash. Geoduck clams are among the crops envisioned by an Alaska group promoting mariculture expansion. Creative Commons photo by lawdawg1.

Alaska group eyes mariculture expansion

Laine Welch