Scandies Rose / Sanitation: Heads Up / Scalloper Launch May / 2021
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Bycatch Cutters New nets and high tech keep unwanted catch out of midwater hauls
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National Fisherman / May 2021 / Vol. 102, No. 01
Weak links in the Bering Sea crab fleet
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No. 15 for Nordic
Cover Story \ Lights, camera, excluder New nets and digital monitoring technology help pelagic trawlers beat back bycatch.
Features / Boats & Gear
On Deck 06
Northern Lights
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Editor’s Log
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Fishing Back When
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Mail Buoy
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A Letter from NMFS
Dock Talk
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Gulf of Maine wind research is an ‘array’ indeed, and not in a good way.
Around the Coasts & Market Reports
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Permit News
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Last Set / Dutch Harbor, Alaska
Larry Chowning
Shared values are one way to connect with your seafood customers.
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Around the Yards A Maine-built longliner for the West Coast; landing craft doubles in salmon and crabs; gillnetter returns to Carolina birthplace.
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Duckworth Steel Boats delivers another scalloper for the Nordic Fisheries fleet.
Product Roundup Turbo toilets; Headhunter’s latest MSD; DeckHand Pro’s new electronic logbook system.
Reader Services 40
Classifieds
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Advertiser Index
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Duckworth Steel Boats
Katherine Hellen-Schneider
The Scandies Rose investigation looks at stability, icing regs and more.
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