National Fisherman

01/25/2025

Fishing Back When Written by past editor Jim Fullilove from the November 1987 National Fisherman.

Not long ago, I attended a series of publishing workshops in New York City. At one session, several issues of NF were spread out on a table next to trade magazines that played to perhaps 20 different industries.

01/24/2025

Members of the U.S. commercial fishing industry unveiled a groundbreaking set of publications under the banner of A Transition to a Low Carbon Fishing Fleet.

01/24/2025

The Canadian shellfish industry is navigating a winter season filled with significant hurdles. From Nova Scotia's struggling lobster fishery to disputes in Newfoundland over snow crab payments and prices, challenges are mounting for harvesters and processors alike.

01/24/2025

For the first time in over a decade, Maine fishermen will return to the water in pursuit of northern shrimp, marking a cautious revival of a long-cherished winter fishery.

01/24/2025

Fishermen in the LA area and southern California have largely escaped the direct impacts of the fires raging on shore, but they are feeling some effects, and the fires have destroyed many of their markets.

01/22/2025

Privately-owned fish processor, packing house, wholesaler and retailer Steelhead Food Company has signed the “100% Great Lakes Fish Pledge,” publicly committing to use 100% of each fish it raises by the end of 2025. Steelhead is the 36th company, and 10th from Ontario - to sign the pledge.

01/22/2025

The U.S. Coast Guard and local mariners responded to a mayday call on Friday to assist the crew of the Miss Sandy, a fishing vessel in distress 7 nautical miles off Gloucester, Massachusetts.

01/21/2025

In his first hours as 47th President, Donald Trump said he will declare an “energy emergency,” seeking to streamline permitting and expanding drilling for oil and gas, while ending federal leasing for wind energy.

01/21/2025

When West Coast fishermen with older boats – especially wooden vessels – come to the end of the fishing season, they are most likely to make the Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-op in Port Townsend, Wash., their destination of choice.

When West Coast fishermen with older boats – especially wooden vessels – come to the end of the fishing season, they are most likely to make the Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-Op in Port Townsend, Wash., their destination of choice.

01/21/2025

In a heart-wrenching tragedy that has rocked the small fishing community of South Addison, Maine, two fishermen, Chester Barrett, 67, and his son Aaron Barrett, 29, are feared lost at sea after their scallop dragger, Sudden Impact, failed to return on Saturday evening.

01/17/2025

https://www.nationalfisherman.com/the-cadillac-of-winches-powering-commercial-fishing

Pullmaster winches can be found on commercial fishing vessels all around the U.S., Canada, and Mexico and are exported to several other countries. “We’ve got winches in Australia, Korea, and others,” says Edward Schultz, Pullmaster’s distribution sales manager, north region.

01/17/2025

https://www.nationalfisherman.com/nh-looking-for-candidates-to-serve-on-fishing-council

The State of New Hampshire has been notified by the National Marine Fisheries Service of a vacancy for New Hampshire’s obligatory seat on the New England Fishery Management Council (NEFMC). NEFMC is one of eight regional councils in the United States established by federal regulation in 1976. It i...

01/17/2025

10 year Vet of the Bristol Bay Fishery, Largest Salmon run for reds in the world! Deck Boss Ian Vincent describes his life on the water and what its like t

01/16/2025

The National Marine Fisheries Service withdrew a proposal to extend the East Coast speed limit rules protecting endangered North Atlantic right whales to smaller vessels under 65’ length, citing “numerous and ongoing requests from the public” to review it.

01/16/2025

New England scallopers are looking at another tough year in 2025, as they prepare for a set of federal regulations to protect both their livelihoods and the Atlantic Ocean’s scallop populations.

01/16/2025

On Wednesday afternoon, the Coast Guard rescued two fishermen after their vessel capsized near Kodiak.

Watchstanders at the 17th Coast Guard District Command Center received a distress alert from the fishing vessel Tanusha’s emergency position indicating radio beacon at 9:48 a.m. Wednesday.

01/16/2025

After 35 years, the genetically engineered salmon saga has ended. AquaBounty has closed its genetically modified salmon production facilities after losing millions of dollars trying to market a product for which there is no demand.

01/15/2025

https://www.nationalfisherman.com/endangered-species-one-mans-fight-for-the-sea

As a small boat fisherman, he has faced the harshest conditions the ocean can dish out, while navigating a world that grows increasingly indifferent to the struggles of those who work the sea. In his powerful memoir Endangered Species, Goethel not only shares the personal journey of a man fighting ...