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The USS Mobile underway off California Nov. 28, 2022. Homeported at San Diego, the Mobile is now deployed to the Western Pacific with a Coast Guard team on board to combat illegal fishing. U.S. Navy photo/Eric Parsons.

Navy, Coast Guard deploy on Western Pacific fisheries patrol

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A proposed 770,000 square mil marine sanctuary would incorporate the existing Remote Island Marine National Monument and “currently unprotected submerged lands and waters,” according to the Biden administration. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service graphic.

Biden administration proposes new Pacific marine sanctuary

Chris Chase

Tuna longline fishing needs to do more to protect endangered species

Jose Antunes

https://divcomplatform.s3.amazonaws.com/www.nationalfisherman.com/images/9035b45f3ee734a15c77840cfe86887a.jpg — Sunset over rough waters. Photo by Sascha Thiele

Pacific islands, nations contending with evolving tuna migration patterns

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Marine protected areas don’t help tuna, new paper shows

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An HC-130 Hercules aircraft from Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point in February 2022. A Barbers Point aircrew dropped life rafts to the crew of the disabled vessel Sea Smile, who were rescued by two other fishing vessels. Coast Guard photo.

Coast Guard, fishing vessels rescue Hawaii longline crew

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An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Coast Guard Sector Columbia River. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Cynthia Oldham.

Vessel owner prosecuted in Coast Guard’s ‘paper captain’ crackdown

Ben Clements

President Biden reversed the Trump administration executive order that would have permitted commercial fishing to continue in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monument. NOAA image.

Northeast Canyons fishing prohibition may be added to councils’ management plans

Kirk Moore

Wesmac Custom Boats 54-foot Kaye Williams is for the Bridgeport Regional Vocational Aquaculture School. It has the same walk-around wheelhouse design with a recessed deck that Wesmac is starting to put on tuna boats. Wesmac Custom Boats photo.

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Maine builder feeds the ‘tuna fever’

Michael Crowley

Bigeye tuna at the Honolulu Fish Auction. Hawaii Longline Association photo.

Marine Stewardship Council certifies Hawaii longline fisheries

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The Honolulu-based longliner Blue Dragon was struck by a sudden fire in the wheelhouse in November 2021. Coast Guard photos.

NTSB: Electrical fault suspected in Hawaii longliner fire

Kirk Moore