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Meet the Highliners Kirk Moore Associate editor, kmoore@divcom.com
or close to half a century now, National Fisherman has honored outstanding fi shermen from every corner of the U.S. coastline. They work across the vast spectrum of the U.S. industry, from the decks of small boats working lobster and crab pots and gillnets, to dredges and trawlers and longliners. The title of Highliner recognizes their success at the day-to-day business of fi shing, and the respect that brings within their communities. But the editors of National Fisherman have always looked closely too at how nominees contribute to the greater good of making sure those communities — and the fi sheries resources they depend on — thrive into
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the future. During my years of reporting I’ve interviewed and gotten to know some Highliners well. I’ve always heard from them the belief that they are blessed to be in a profession that they love. They also have a strong protective sense of its potential fragility — if policymakers, fi shermen and managers make wrong decisions. Highliners are out there on the front line of management debates, pushing to do what is right for the resource, all fi sheries users and the U.S. public. That role is as critical as ever, with the challenges now facing the fi shing industry and the environment it is working in. A changing climate is scrambling the ocean
On the cover Fishing during opilio season this year on the F/V Brenna A. are Will Jennings (left) and Cody Lipse. Jeff Ryan / @jarpictures photo.
the Northeast and North Pacific pushing fi sh stocks in dramatic new directions. Introducing the brand-new National How U.S. policymakers respond to those designed to keep withBering our hard-wo trends — from turning offup stressed Seawhere crab fi sheries, to forging ahead on you are! developing off shore wind power — is Browse news and read the latest already having profound effects on longfromfishing voices in the industry established communities. It’s Download a stressful time an industry that fullfor issues of National proved its ingenuity and resiliency during Fisherman Magazine for offline the covid-19 pandemic, doing its part for reading public health and the nation’s food supply, and coming outour better on the other marine side. Access commercial Always there have for beenjob fi shermen marketplace postings, parts who step to do right more thing forforward sale and sothe much — and most importantly, to keep doing navigate Marine it year PLUS after year, buildingPacific confidence and Expo withinour interactive exhibitor credibility the process. So here’s to the list, 2022 Highliners starting on page 8: Chris expo map, and show schedule Brown, Mimi Stafford, Terry Alexander and Jerry Sansom, the latest in a long tradition of the best.
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