ON DECK
Fishing Back When June By Jessica Hathaway
1971— The Beaufort Menhaden Chanteymen travel around North Carolina to celebrate the heyday of the state’s menhaden industry, before the hydraulic power block changed the face of the fishery.
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On the Cover: Cod ends bulging with yellowtail flounder are becoming fewer as the fishery for the popular species faces further restrictions with decreasing biomass.
On the Cover: The Mary K, a 92foot dragger, makes her debut at the Sea Fab yard in Pascagoula, Miss., for Woods Hole, Mass., fisherman Larry Kavanagh.
On the Cover: British Columbia spot prawn fisherman Frank Keitsch enjoys a quiet moment between sets.
In February, the national fisheries service celebrated 100 years. Spencer F. Baird was the first federal commissioner, appointed in 1871. He recruited a small, mostly volunteer staff, and set up a provisional lab at Woods Hole, Mass.
The Coast Guard reports its findings from a March investigation into the 1990 sinking of the Aleutian Enterprise and recommends a federal criminal investigation into the owner and executives of Arctic Alaska Fisheries Corp. for the loss of the Bering Sea factory trawler and nine of its 31 crew members.
Maine’s Boothbay Region Lobstermen buy local Harbor Crab and Lobster Co.’s 6,400-square-foot and 110-seat wharf and restaurant for $125,000. 4 National Fisherman \ June 2021
NMFS declares the Pacific Northwest Snake River sockeye to be endangered.
The industry mourns the loss of Peter Prybot, a colleague many times over, as a fisherman, photographer, author and relentless advocate for the industry he loved so well. Peter was 63 when he went overboard from his lobster boat October Sky III out of Pigeon Cove in Rockport, Mass. Van Peer Boatworks and Harold Haynes team up to launch the 70-foot steel troller Chasina Bay, which will also work charters out of Ketchikan, Alaska.
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