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Cover Story \ 2021 Highliners Meet the National Fisherman Highliners: Julie Decker, Jennifer Lincoln, Jerry Dzugan and Ben Platt.
Features / Boats & Gear
A Letter from NMFS
Elizabeth Becker
Another $2.2 million coming for bycatch reduction projects and research.
Boatbuilding
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Around the Yards New boat design for Maine’s marine patrol; salvaging after Hurricane Ida; Bristol Bay buyers are back.
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Product Roundup Propspeed foul-release coating; Inmarsat’s woven networks; a Vicky pocket knife.
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Editor’s Log
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Fishing Back When
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Retrospective 1946
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Mail Buoy
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Around the Coasts & Markets Reports
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Boat of the Month
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Crew Shot
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Snapshot
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Last Set / Neets Bay, Alaska
Northern Lights Imagining Alaska seafood in 2050: AI, robotics and remote sensing.
Rebuilding Indiana: A classic wooden State Boat.
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Captains share their favorite systems for building bottom views.
On Deck 09
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What’s in your wheelhouse?
Gear Profile You have the power: Mitsubishi’s line of mechanically controlled engines gives fishermen more options in remote fishing grounds.
Reader Services 64
Classifieds
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Advertiser Index
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