Paul Molyneaux

1 week ago | nationalfisherman.com | Paul Molyneaux

On June 18the North Carolina General Assembly’s Senatevoted on an amended House Bill 442 that would ban shrimp trawling in all the state’s sounds, estuaries, and rivers, and within half a mile of the state’s coast. “Now it has to go back to the House,” says Ryan Speckman, owner of Locals Seafood in Raleigh, N.C..

1 week ago | nationalfisherman.com | Paul Molyneaux

Across the U.S. coasts, various organizations offer training programs and apprenticeships designed to help young people secure jobs in the commercial fishing industry. These have largely operated independently and out of touch with each other, but the launch of the National Future Fishermen’s Coalition (NFFC) aims to remedy that disconnect by bringing the disparate programs to one website.  “At NFFC, we’re all about collaboration,” says the organization’s coordinator, Maité Duquela.

2 weeks ago | nationalfisherman.com | Paul Molyneaux

Rising from the ashes of their fiberglass boat shop, Ivan Basargin Sr. and his sons have turned to aluminum. The fire at Basargin Boats in Homer, Alaska, in 2020 took everything. “All our molds, all our tools,” says Ivan Basargin Sr. “We had some boats we were working on in there.”  Ivan Sr had been building and fishing fiberglass boats for decades. “I started working with my uncles,” he says. “When we finished building their boats, they all went fishing.

2 weeks ago | nationalfisherman.com | Paul Molyneaux

At only 24 years old, Devyn Campbell is a historical repository of mid-coast Maine, and so is his boat. You don’t find a lot of young guys fish dragging in wooden boats on the coast of Maine anymore, but Campbell has spent years listening and learning from the old guys around Boothbay Harbor, and is putting the lessons he’s learned to use, both in catching fish and keeping his 45-year-old boat, the Susan and Jessica, in top shape. "I bought the boat in May of 2021,” says Campbell.

2 weeks ago | nationalfisherman.com | Paul Molyneaux

Getting a new sewer hookup isn’t everyone’s thing, but for the port manager of the Port of Toledo, Debbie Scacco, it’s exciting. “We’re getting connected to the City of Toledo system at last,” she said. "And as part of the project, we’re constructing six new concrete workpads for the shipyard with separate washwater and stormwater drainage systems. The hard-surfaced work pads are an improvement over the existing tarped work pads in our gravel yard," said Scacco.