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▲ Corea, Maine
▲ Seward, Alaska
Father and daughter lobster
team Dan and Taylor Rodgers.
Eric Darbyshire, Britt-Mari Holloway, Nickolas
Gordon, Tucker DeYoung and skipper Karl Skrifvars
on the halibut and cod longliner Karelia.
▲ Prince William Sound, Alaska
Stephen, Abby, Esther and David Roper
gearing up for PWS gillnetting on the SeaFlyer.
2015
▲ Saco, Maine
Tim O’Brien on the Mad Dog
with a bluefin tuna.
▲ Egegik, Alaska
Jake Williams, Duane Carpenter and Sam Graham setnetting on the Veal
pulled in more than 5,000 pounds on about 30 fathoms of net after a
30-minute soak.
Chignik, Alaska
The crew of the 58-foot purse
seiner Memry Anne deckloaded
on the first day of the season:
Sierra Anderson, Susan
Anderson, Dean Anderson,
Memry Anderson and
Bryan Cordero swimming
in sockeye.
▲ Port Moller, Alaska
Dimian Kalugin, owner/skipper Sofron Reutov and
Timon Reutov on the Discovery, and owner/skipper
Mavrik Reutov, Kirek Reutov and David Martishev on the
Concord, both salmon gillnetters out of Homer, Alaska.
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▲ Kodiak, Alaska
Nathaniel Rose, Michael Johnson, Jacob
Privat and Greg Rose assemble at the
stern on the seiner Historian.
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Crew Shots
All IDs left to right.
▲ Shinnecock,
N.Y.
▲ Port Moller, Alaska
Max McDonnell, Josh Middlesworth, Brittany
Middlesworth and Kyle Middlesworth on the
tender/longliner Melanie out of Kodiak.
Stefan Krywolar
and friend on the
Patriot.
▲ Ipswich,
Mass.
Christine Sarah
representin’ bugs
on the Dawn
Breaker.
▲ Port Moller, Alaska
Dusty and Bill Sager, a father and son
team from King Cove, Alaska, drift
gillnet salmon on the Mr. Bill at False
Pass and Port Moller.
▲ Bristol Bay,
Alaska
▲ Boston Harbor, Mass.
Mike Kohler and Taylor Smith on the Ishmael out of Hingham.
▲ Manomet, Maine
Matt Jacobs takes the bait on the lobster
boat Molly May.
Ron Latsha on the
gillnetter Three
Winds out of
Seattle.
▲ Kittery Point,
Maine
▲ Hyannis, Mass.
Rich Figueiredo and offshore madness
on the lobster boat Rachael Leigh.?
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Crewman Matt Huron
on the lobster boat Mary
Baker out of Kittery Point.
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Nushagak Point,
Alaska
Setnet fishing crew James
Crimp, Neil Liotta, Jonah
Golden and skipper
Lindsay Layland out of
Dillingham, Alaska.
▼ Gloucester, Mass.
Michael Hamilton on the
Sinful out of Gloucester.
▲ Chatham, Mass.
▲ Cook Inlet, Alaska
Katie Pitzman, skipper Ian
Pitzman, deckhand-in-training
Austin Pitzman and Carson
Duggar drift for salmon aboard
the gillnetter Stephanie Anne
out of Homer.
▲ Hull, Mass.
Skipper Eric Meschino and son on the
lobster boat Triple J-B.
▲ Port Moller, Alaska
Hayden Knight, Paolo Jurkovich and his son,
Branko, target salmon on the drift gillnetter
Branko Boy out of Anacortes, Wash.
▲ Point Judith, R.I.
Skipper Matthew Jackson snapped this
shot of his crew, Gabe Silvia, Sean Lilly and
Craig Huntly, sitting on a 30,000-pound
tow of clean loligo on the whiting and
squid dragger Alexis Martina.
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▲ Sandwich, Mass.
Skipper Brandt Sessoms
and B.J. Lawlor had lots
to celebrate with this big
bluefin they caught on rod
and reel on the Bada Bing.
▲ Kittery Point, Maine
Joey Inman and Matt Huron on the
lobster boat Mary Baker.
▲ Bristol Bay, Alaska
Skipper Dave Casoni and crew on the
lobster boat Margaret M.
Abbie Huddleston, Justin Laird, Aaron Chesnut,
Seth Whitsett, Joe Huddleston and Pete
Huddleston, crews of the Tonano and Oswald H,
are all smiles after a banner year.
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Chesapeake Bay
Steve Retallick and
Kevin O’Neil
on the Dragon
Lady after a
successful day
gillnetting
rockfish
(striped bass).
▼ Bering Sea, Alaska
Ismael Nava and Andrew Bartoldus
work to clear ice from the Raven,
out of Newport, Ore., while pollock
fishing during A season.
▲ North Haven,
Maine
Haven Marves, 10, with
sternman Gabe Mckenzie
aboard the lobster boat
Mistress.
Columbia
River, Ore.
Skipper Robert
Bryant and
his deckhand
and son Caleb
Bryant on
the troller
Lassie out of
Charleston,
Ore.
Panama City Beach, Fla.
The crew of the 28-foot bait boat Big Foot: Charlie Poor,
Paul Hurley, owner Jack Conzelman, Matthew Wright,
Joseph Krawczynski and Michael Salvitelli.
▲ Bristol Bay, Alaska
Logan Branstiter, Bethany
Tennyson and a king salmon
on the drift gillnetter Reeder
Beater in the Nushagak
District.
▲ Port Moller, Alaska
Cody Trader and skipper Patrick Springer on the drifter
Vincenza A, delivering salmon caught at Bear River.
Point Pleasant, N.J.
Gus Lovgren of the stern trawler Kailey Ann with his daughter,
future skipper Lilliana Grace Lovgren.
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▲ Hingham, Mass.
Skipper Bill Doherty, Mike Kohler and Taylor Smith on the
lobster boat Ishmael.
▲ Plymouth, Mass.
Mates Sean Brady and Pat Kearney of the Mary Elizabeth, filling
the fishbox with Buzzards Bay porgies.
▲ Haines, Alaska
Karl Johnson on drifter the
Lookout at Glacier Point.
▲ Abbeville, La.
Skipper Steve Mitchell and mate Adam Moore on the 165-foot
purse seiner Galveston Bay fishing for menhaden.
▲ Cape Cod, Mass.
Leif Sundelin on the Rosie K
out of Barnstable, Mass.
▲ Cook Inlet, Alaska
Colin Ruggiero and Connor
McCarron take a break aboard the
drifter Silent “C.”
▲ Chatham, Mass.
A nice catch of American lobsters are all part of a hard day’s work for Brandt
Sessoms and skipper Kurt Martin on the Time Bandit.
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▲ Boston
Steve Holler sorts bugs on the November Gale.
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▲ Saco, Maine
Skipper Tim O’Brien and first mate Mikey Porper of Mad Dog
bringing in a couple of bluefin tuna.
▲ Haines, Alaska
Gregg Bigsby on the salmon drifter Rustler at Seduction Point.
Cross
Sound,
Alaska
Blu Keim in the
troll pit with a
silver salmon.
Sister Dusty sits
up front of the
Norzone, a
troller out of
Elfin Cove,
run by skipper
Kipp Keim and
Mom/First Mate
Dawndi Keim.
▲ Bering Sea, Alaska
The 167-foot P-cod longliner Bristol Leader out of Kodiak,
Alaska: skipper Richard Thummel, Jonathan Bittner, Steven
Tedrow, Mike Genson, Kevin Curry, Kyle Edgemon, Robert
George, Steven Maloney, Jose Rivera, mate Jim Sjolund, Roy
Kunnuk, deck boss Ryan Smith, Braulio Ineguez, Julio Arias,
Abe Rodriguez, Rogelio Gonzalez, Odilon Lopez, Mitchell Carl,
Miguel Rojas and Robert Guerra.
▲ Sand Point, Alaska
Tom Harrison, Barry McGrath, Clarence Ess, Fred Holmberg Jr.
and skipper Paul Holmberg on the 58-foot salmon seiner
Sea King fishing in Area M.
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▲ Prince William Sound, Alaska
Jan Spurkland, Kali Goodset, Kaya Modelling, Katie Miller and
Fischer Spurkland on the salmon seiner Centurion.
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Last
set
Alaska’s Copper River delta
Michael and Nelly Hand fishing silvers on the
salmon gillnetter Far Away out of Cordova, Alaska.
Photo by Nelly Hand
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