Along the Coast,  Bearin’s,  Classifieds,  Coming Events,  Editorial,  FISH SAFE,  Guest Columns,  Lobster Market Report,  Maine Line,  New Boats,  News Catch,  Shop Talk

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Featured News Articles:

• Jonah, rock crabs – To be or not to be regulated?
• Butterfish plentiful, harvest quotas soar
• Yellowtail video survey – Q&A with pioneering SMAST team
• Lobster assessment preview:  No surprises
• Scalloper Kelly S – Ray Starvish reflects on industry
• Machine shop legend Arthur Hancock • 28

Plus the Editorial and much more...

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Featured News Articles:

• Research vessel Gloria Michelle undergoes major overhaul
• Council sponsoring inshore scallop workshop in RI
• Wheel Watch - Tim Toppin:  Veteran of the diesel wars
• Fish Safe - To tow, or not to tow
• INSIDE: YEAR OF NEW BOATS 2015 REVIEW - Special Supplement Sponsored by Furuno 

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Featured News Articles:

• SHOW ISSUE – Maine Fishermen's Forum
• Wheel Watch – AccuTech Marine Propeller:  15 years and growing
• New Boats – Two for the show 
• Progress report from the Maine Lobster Marketing Cooperative
• CFN Shakedown Cruise – A Sargent-finished Dixon 45
• CFN Field Test – Grundéns Sedna line for women
• Inside!  NOAA fisheries navigator
• Ask the Lobster Doc – A Year in the Life of a Lobster Lobsters in Spring, Part 3 in a series

   

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Featured News Articles:

• MAINE LOBSTER LANDINGS SET RECORDS AGAIN
• CFN Shakedown Cruise - Simmons Boatworks’ new Calvin Beal 44
• Wheel Watch - Taking on the Seven Napkin Burger
• Photo gallery - From this year’s Maine Fishermen’s Forum
• Gloucester launches “branded” fresh seafood campaign
• NMFS rolls out new National Bycatch Reduction Strategy; Proposed rule sets SBRM requirement
• Councils to select prelimary preferred options for monitoring of mackerel, herring fisheries

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Featured News Articles:

• New scalloper for New Bedford – Monomoy gears up for maiden trip
• There and back – More great tales from Tommy Porter
• CFN Shakedown Cruise – Jamien Hallowell’s Mitchell Cove 35
• Collaborative research update – Three separate initiatives engage fishermen, science
• Also this Month's NOAA Fisheries Navigator

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Featured News Articles:

• A chat with William Faulkingham: An MVP of Downeast boat building 
• CFN Shakedown Cruise - Nathan Barrett’s new Wayne Beal 46
• Annual lobster settlement index- A predictor of more decline in Downeast landings?
• New Boats - Four spring launches hit the water
• Industry based GOM cod survey now In progress
• Wheel Watch - Two anniversaries and a prodigal son returns to Cape Fishermen’s Supply 

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BIG FISH FOCUS: 

• Bluefin research seeks to unlock mysteries of the migrators
• Tightline’s Dave Mason has paid his dues
• ICCAT meeting first step toward setting 2017 bluefin quotas
  

More Featured Articles:

• CFN Shakedown Cruise – Sargent brothers craft a South Shore 38 tuna chaser
• Off Course – Jacalwa:  Ready to work; ready to run
• Wheel Watch – Stew Tuttle turns the page on a new chapter
• New Boats – Six launches just in time for summer fishing
• ALSO - NOAA Fisheries Navigator

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MARINE POWER 2016 - CFN’s Annual Marine Diesel Engine Directory

• Wheel Watch – Art Stanley:  Still grinning; still busy
• Off Course – The vindication of the Wild, Wild West
• New Boats • 34-35

More Featured Articles:

• Lobster Market Report – Lots of shedders, but not enough bait?
• Bearin's – Cappy Sargent was a good man

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and Featuring WOMEN IN THE FISHERIES – 

• Linda Greenlaw - An emotional return to Gloucester
• Therese Sauvageau - Half a century a lobsterwoman
• Wheel Watch - Rest in peace Bigger Dirls
• Guest Column - A much needed revolution in fishery stock assessment
• New Boats - Another pair of launches 

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and Featuring: 

• CFN Shakedown Cruise – A Taylor-finished Osmond 47
• Sharing stories with Paul McFarland – Remembering the O’Hara fleet of the 70s, 80s
• Fish Safe – Winter’s coming, good time to get things in order
• Open Mic – Jon Campbell’s  “Chamois Off the Dew” 
• Also Inside!  NOAA fisheries navigator

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