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Oysters

ShellCast app expands to South Carolina and Florida

Jose Antunes

The 70' Columbia is shown here with three other Conn. boats that were brought south to Chesapeake Bay, three of which will work in the State of Maryland's Oyster Replenishment Program. Photo by Benny Horseman.

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New homes on Chesapeake Bay for Connecticut oyster schooners

Larry Chowning

The Maine Hall at the 2017 Maine Fishermen's Forum. National Fisherman photo.

The Maine Fishermen’s Forum returns

NF Staff

While Mike Vernese sells the Slayer with power options including a Honda engine and a Porta bracket, Tohatsu engines also seem to be popular. All in all the hull, trailer and engine can cost fishermen around $45,000. Ugly Boats photo.

Slayer Skiffs: Multi-role boats for Gulf fishermen

Paul Molyneaux

This outboard profile is of a 64' x 20" steel hull oyster boat being built by Delaware Bay Shipbuilding Co. LLC of Leesburg, N. J. Courtesy of Delaware Bay Shipbuilding.

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New oyster boat on the way for Delaware Bay

Larry Chowning

The Coast Guard, Maryland Department of the Environment and Evergreen Marine Corporation, in partnership with multiple state and local responders, refloat the Ever Forward Sunday, April 17, in the Chesapeake Bay. George Mason University photo.

Ever Forward ship owners to pay $676,200 for Chesapeake oyster bar restoration

Kirk Moore

The historic Maryland skipjack Rebecca T. Ruark was damaged Dec. 27, 2022 when a pickup truck crashed through a piling along Dogwood Harbor on Tilghman Island and landed on the boat. Photo by Wade Murphy III.

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Close call for historic Maryland skipjack

Larry Chowning

Tangier Island waterman Willie Crockett is installing a new fiberglass shaft alley tube on his glass-over-wood 42-foot deadrise Carolyn Annette in in October 2022 at Pruitt's Boat Yard on the island. Nathan Straub photo.

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DIY shaft fix gets Virginia oysterman back on the water

Larry Chowning

Black Fishermen harvesting oysters in 1905 on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland on a sailboat. — Fishermen dredge for oysters in the Chesapeake Bay, c. 1905. Image: Keystone View Co., courtesy of the Library of Congress via NOAA.gov

What It Really Takes To Preserve Fishing History with Blacks of the Chesapeake

Megan Waldrep

Imani Black of Minorities of Aquaculture

Redefining 'Minority' with Imani Black of Minorities in Aquaculture

Megan Waldrep

This 36' x 15' aluminum Cajun-built vessel has been transformed from a North Carolina skimmer shrimp trawler to a Chesapeake Bay oyster dredge boat. Larry Chowning photo.

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Cajun shrimp boat gets a second act with Virginia oysters

Larry Chowning