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Alaska Fisheries Report, Jobs, Revenue & Impacting the Pacific Northwest To AK, Alaska Six Catch Sharing Programs

Alaska fishing industry is the leader in the bracket of top private employer in the entire state of Alaska. Alaska Fisheries are sustainable, healthy and continue to be the leading provider in jobs, revenue, and economic impact in Alaska and […]

 
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F/V Oregon, Captain Jon Franklin, Trident Seafoods – Captain Sea Stories: Stowaways, Riots on the Beach, Palms Greased…

Alaska Salmon Tender Season is here.  Most have already left early spring to run uphill to Alaska as the fish plan to run early this year in AK waters!  Leave it to Franklin to bring on wild sea stories. Third […]

 
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International WorkBoat Show, New Orleans, Nov. 29 – Dec. 1, 2017, Shipyards, Boat Builders, Maintenance, Port Engineers, Equipment Manufacturers, Marine Surveyors & More….

The International WorkBoat Show presents the WorkBoat Annual Conference curated by the editors of WorkBoat.com, WorkBoat Magazine, and the WorkBoat Content Team. This year’s Conference will be a completely re-envisioned experience, custom designed to provide high level education and networking […]

 
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Wild Salmon Chowder, Perfect Warm Fall Dish, Salty Dog Boaters, Try this Recipe, Eat Fresh, Buy Wild!

Boaters, Try This Recipe: Salmon Chowder. Perfect for stormy PNW weather or anytime, this easy to put together meal can be made by just about anyone. Go for Wild Alaska salmon if you can, as you'll definitely taste the difference in this delicious blend. Scrumptious chowder like this is one of the most satisfying ways to get your omega-3s, and it's a great way to warm up a chilly evening. You can even make it a day ahead for company, reheating gently without boiling.

 
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Pacific Northwest WA Maritime Economic Impact Millions and Billions, Commercial Fishing, Workboats, Shipyards, Boat Builders, Pleasure Craft, Superyachts and Passenger Vessels

The Pacific Northwest, Washington Maritime Economic Impact Studies are positively astounding for the Seattle greater region and throughout Washington state. The Maritime Sector Economic Impact for Washington State – maritime sector directly supported 69,500 jobs, over $4.7 billion in wages […]

 
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Spirit, Amels Motor Yacht 54m, Seattle Ballard Locks to WA Ship Canal Freshwater, PNW Superyacht

Spirit, Amels Motor Yacht, 54m pulls into the Ballard Locks the first week of September 2017 for a lift into the WA Ship Canal freshwater. Spirit was custom built in 2011 by Amels. Spirit yacht has a steel hull with a […]

 
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Alaska Salmon Tenders Return To Pacific Northwest Home Ports, Seattle Homecomings, Eat Fresh & Buy Wild

Alaska Salmon Tenders, Welcome Home to Seattle: end of August means AK tenders trickle into the Ballard Locks and make their way to their home ports in the WA Ship Canal. The Bristol Bay Salmon season for summer of 2017 […]

 
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Antares, 130′ Westport Seattle Superyacht, Summer Sun In WA Ship Canal, Pacific Northwest

Antares 130′ Westport motor yacht, she made her way from the Puget Sound to Ballard Lock for a fresh water lift in the WA Ship Canal, to land on the hip over at Fishermen’s Terminal NW dock. For now Fishermen’s […]

 
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Brenna A. Sean Dwyer, Deadliest Catch Youngest Captain, Alaska Bering Sea Crab Season, just finished up… Crab boats are landing to their home ports! God Bless Our Fishermen & Their Families!

F/V Brenna A. Deadliest Catch, newest Alaska Bering Sea Crabber! Deadliest Catch is rolling away at Season 13, or some Captain’s would rather say 12 + 1 season.   Congratulations Captain Sean Dwyer and to the Dwyer family for getting […]

 
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Alaska Purse Seine Fleet Returns To The Pacific Northwest, Fishermen’s Terminal, F/V Pacific Rose 1st Home, Seine Fishermen DownHill Jog Underway

F/V Pacific Rose, Purse Seine Fishing Vessel, she’s one of the first in the seine fleet to run down hill in this late August. On a perfect Pacific Northwest afternoon she made her way from Southeast Alaska fishing grounds on […]

 
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Ship Canal, Commercial Fishing Vessel, Boat Spotting, Alaska Homecoming In Lower 48 & Shipyard Work Underway, Salty Dog Marine Traffic Pulse

Icy Bay commercial fishing vessel boat spotting end of August, WA Ship Canal commercial marine traffic – coming home from another summer season in Alaska. This time of year, end of summer means jam-packed Ballard Locks, when the gates swing […]

 
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F/V Destination, PNW Ship Canal Summer Fun to Winter AK Bering Sea Missing Crabber, RIP Destination, Salty Dog Boating News, Salty Dog Maritime Marketing, Marine Traffic PNW Source

F/V Destination, Alaska Bering Sea Crabber, 6 missing crew on board. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the crew and their land and sea families. U.S. Coast Guard has suspended the search. I took these photo’s of F/V Destination […]

 
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Arctic Explorer, B&N Fisheries, Fishing Trawler and Research Vessel For Charter, Seattle End of Summer Is Near, Alaska To Lower 48 Homeport, Ballard Locks Lift Into The Ship Canal

Arctic Explorer, B&N Fisheries, getting an assist by Western Towboat tugboat in mid-August; summer is starting to close out and the start of some Alaskan fishing vessels, factory trawlers, seiners, gillnetters, tenders, crabbers and research vessels are starting to trickle […]

 
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Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, FLIBS, November 2017, Fort Lauderdale The Superyacht Boat Show Capital of the World

FLIBS: Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show in Fort Lauderdale, FL is November 1 – 5, 2017. The “Yachting Capital of the World” will host show exhibits at FLIBS ranging from yacht builders and designers to exotic cars and brokerage yachts. A […]

 
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Avanti, Lurssen Superyacht In Seattle, Ballard Locks to Nautical Landing Marina On Lake Union, Pacific Northwest Mega Yacht Cruising Destination

Avanti, Seattle Superyacht the North American summer hot spot – is the Pacific Northwest featuring the world’s best mega yacht cruising grounds. Avanti is sailing under the flag of the Cayman Islands. Avanti was built in 2004, 61m (220 ft.) […]

 
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F/V Destination, Bering Sea AK Commercial Fishing Boat, Missing Off St. George Island, USCG Suspend The Search

F/V Destination, sent distress signal on the morning of Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017, after two days of USCG searching they now ‘suspend’ the search in the Bering Sea of Alaska off the coast of St. George Island. U.S. Coast Guard […]

 
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Fishermen’s Fall Festival, 29th Annual 2017, Survival Suit Races, Special Events & Fresh Wild Seafood

Fishermen’s Fall Festival, Fishermen’s Terminal 29th Annual Event Benefiting Seattle Fishermen’s Memorial, September 23, 2017; 11am to 6pm. Fishermen’s Fall Festival celebrates the return of the North Pacific and Alaska commercial fishing fleets to Fishermen’s Terminal in WA Ship Canal. […]

 
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TrawlerFest, Bay Bridge Marina, MD 2017, Pacific Northwest Cruisers and Trawlers Head Out East To The September TrawlerFest Presented by PassageMaker

TrawlerFest is PassageMaker’s custom and unique series of boat shows designed for cruising enthusiasts with TrawlerFest Boat Shows on both coasts of the USA. Strategically located in key cruising regions nationwide each TrawlerFests features impressive in-water selections of new and […]

 
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Aspen Alternative, Pacific Northwest Superyacht, Trinity Yachts 164ft, WA Ship Canal Mega Yacht East & West Bound Marine Traffic to Lake Union

Aspen Alternative Superyacht enjoys cruising the Pacific Northwest in the warm Seattle Ship Canal summer season. M/Y Aspen Alternative Megayacht is 164ft. custom built by Trinity Yachts. As she cruised east and west bound up and down the WA Ship […]

 
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Captain Hollis, SE AK Fisherwomen Running Her Own Seiner, Trident Seafoods AK Salmon Seine Fishing

Hollis Jennings – F/V Natalie Gail, SE AK Fisherwomen  – today she’s got a newer boat…. FAST FORWARD a few years later….. to present day today… here is a recap below – from Hollis at her 1st year running her […]

 
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Brenna A. Deadliest Catch New Captain Sean Dwyer & Sister Boat F/V Jennifer A. – St. George Marine, Dwyer Family Boats, Pat Dwyer Legacy Lives On! Fight ALS!

F/V Benna A. Deadliest Catch Newest Boat, Captain Sean Dwyer comes on board Discovery’s Season 12 and Season 13 on Deadliest Catch.  The Dwyer family is a seasoned Alaskan fishing family.  The below story was ran a few years ago, […]

 
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TUGBOAT RACES, SALMON, SAILING & SAND BEACHES, OLYMPIA HARBOR DAYS, SOUTH SOUND SUMMER’S PNW BEST

Olympia Harbor Days, 44th Edition of the award winning and free Tugboat Races and Festival, the South Sounds largest maritime festival at the Olympia waterfront, September 1-3, Labor Day weekend. Come out and enjoy Pacific Northwest waterfront fun, this year […]

 
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Deadliest Catch, Best of Seattle, Bering Sea Alaska Crabbers, Time Bandit, Wizard, Brenna A. Wizard, Summer Bay, Saga, Northwestern & Cornelia Marie, Amatuli

Deadliest Catch, Alaska Bering Sea Crabbers, Salty Dog Boating News, Best of Seattle, Alaska Bering Sea Crabbers in the Pacific Northwest, the busy ship canal always heavy and packed with salty AK crabbers coming and going between seasons running up […]

 
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The Locks Centennial Boat Parade, Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, Ballard Locks Boat Parade, NW Tug Boats, Wooden Boats, Sailboats, Historic Vessels Salmon Bay to Lake Union

Locks Centennial Boat Parade, Hiram M. Chittenden Locks Boat Parade; On July 9, 2017, was the commemorative this historic event by re-creating that parade. The historic schooner Adventuress will pass through the locks and lead a marine parade of historic vessels […]

 
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F/V Wizard, Deadliest Catch AK Bering Sea Crabbers, The Heart Of The Storm Fishing At Sea

F/V Wizard, Deadliest Catch, Seasoned Alaska Bering Sea Crabber fishes in the heart of hurricane storm conditions. Deadliest Catch season 13 will soon get to the part where those of us on the west coast already went through the grief […]

 
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Ballard SeafoodFest, July 2017, BeerFest Over 25 Local Beers, Trident Seafoods Smoked Salmon, Live Music Main Stage & Pre-Funk Events

Ballard SeafoodFest, July 7 – 9, 2017, Join the fun, Ballard Breweries, Trident Seafoods Wild Salmon, Live Music, Vendors, Arts and Events!  Ballard SeafoodFest features an annual event, enjoy Trident Seafoods Alder Smoked Wild Salmon, BeerFest is featuring over 25 […]

 
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Bristol Bay Wild Salmon, Smoked Salmon Glazed with Birch or Maple Syrup, How to Smoke Bristol Bay AK Wild Salmon, Salty Dog Boaters, Fresh Summer Recipe

Syrup Glazed Smoked Salmon Bristol Bay, AK Wild Salmon: There’s nothing quite like salmon. Delicate and uniquely textured, it’s no secret why their meat is so prized. But while we can all make salmon in the oven or using other […]

 
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Mayan Queen, 92m Superyacht In Seattle, Alberto Bailleres Owner Of World’s Largest Mining Companies, PNW Mega Yacht Ship Canal Traffic

Mayan Queen, 92m Superyacht in Seattle, she made her way up the WA Ship Canal this afternoon in late May, her massive mega yacht length and size engulfed the canal and bridge lifts eastbound to Lake Union. Not many superyachts dwarf […]

 
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Sea Owl, 203 ft. Feadship Superyacht, Seattle Ship Canal Landing in Lake Union, Pacific Northwest Summer Mega Yacht Traffic

Sea Owl, Feadship Builder, 203 ft, (62 meter) summer means superyachts are making their to the Pacific Northwest, Alaska and the greater Seattle water regions. Sea Owl is a unique hunter green hull known as Burger’s green with a massive […]

 
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Bristol Bay Alaska Commercial Salmon Fishing 2017 Outlook, Fishermen, Tenders, Processors, Five Major Districts Forecast

Bristol Bay, Alaska Commercial Salmon Fishing General Information: to fishermen, processors, tenders, set-netters for those concerning the 2017 Bristol Bay salmon season. Note the general framework for management of each of the five major districts and the 2017 salmon forecast […]

 
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