Icy Bay, Fishing Vessel, Alaska to Seattle Ballard Locks for a Lift into the Canal, end of summer dodging wacky canal yachties underway, Commercial Fishing Boat Photography By: Salty Dog Boating News, Salty Dog Maritime Marketing The Pacific Northwest to Alaska Marine Traffic Underway Source, The 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 open in the canal its salt and peppered with Alaska salmon tenders, trawler, yachts, superyachts, workboats, AK crabbers, draggers coming and going. For the green boater stay alert and get the heck out-of-the-way from commercial boats that are trying to back in, swinging the boat in Fishermen’s Terminal, Pacific Fishermen Shipyard, Trident Seafood Old Yard, Ocean Beauty, Icicle Seafoods facedock hip tie and so on, wake up and watch out all boats, the canal is action packed and plenty of fishermen are ready to hit the dock hot and see their friends and family.

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SHIP CANAL: August – End of Summer! Alaska to Lower 48 Homecomings…..& Shipyard Action Underway – Boats already gearing up for fall fishing in the PNW & AK Bering Sea!

Commercial Fishing Boat Photography By: Salty Dog Boating News, Salty Dog Maritime Marketing, www.saltydogmaritimemarketing.com The Pacific Northwest to Alaska Marine Traffic Underway Source, Inquiry to: [email protected] [email protected] Salty Sea Gal life on water, world’s best lab lookout best friend catching all who come and go, run uphill and downhill. God Bless all our PNW and AK Fishing Fleets!

 

F/V ARCTIC RAM, Trident Seafoods, Trawl Catcher Vessel, 87 ft. Got A New HOUSE – outbound to the Ballard Locks, Commercial Fishing Boat Photography By: Salty Dog Boating News, Salty Dog Maritime Marketing The Pacific Northwest to Alaska Marine Traffic Underway Source – Looking Good Arctic Ram, after a while at Trident Old Yard

F/V Arctic Ram, Trident Seafoods, Trawl Catcher Vessel, at 87 ft. The Arctic Ram has been over at Trident Old Yard most of the summer getting her new house fabricated on with a refit, in late August on a perfectly sunny Seattle afternoon she made her way westbound to the Ballard Lock for a drop into the Puget Sound for a drop in the Puget Sound to stretch her lets with her new good-looking house and new fine paint job.

Commercial fishing vessels in the greater Seattle and Pacific Northwest region, while a good grip of the lower 48 fleets are jogging downhill in August, some are already running back up hill and or aggressively on top of their shipyard as they will be running up hill to the Bering Sea of Alaska by September and very early October; as Alaska King Crab season is October 15th!

Pacific Fishermen Shipyard in Ballard WA just east of the Ballard Locks, well the yard is always a bit light on boats during the summer as a majority of the fleets spend summers up in Alaska to take part in salmon fishing and salmon tendering. Bristol Bay still holds the title as the ‘world’s largest salmon run.’ This summer of 2017 had highliner grinning from ear to ear, some of the less aggressive, slow out of the gates fishermen are crying a bit of the blue’s, bla, bla… such as every season in fishing per usual.

F/V Seymour, Century-old schooners, AK to PNW Fleet, Fishermen’s Terminal, Welcome Home Boyz! Commercial Fishing Boat Photography By: Salty Dog Boating News, Salty Dog Maritime Marketing The Pacific Northwest to Alaska Marine Traffic Underway Source

F/V Seymour, pulling into Fishermen’s Terminal in the Ship Canal. Seymour is in the fleet of century old schooners who are Seattle-based boats that still run up hill to Alaska to fish for halibut. A bit more than a decade ago, reforms for the Alaska halibut fishery were put into place that are to date far safer and much more lucrative for these modern-day fishermen who call the Pacific Northwest their home port! Welcome Home Boys!

Pacific Fishermen Shipyard & Fishermen’s Terminal – Commercial Fishing Vessels

F/V Royal Atlantic, Pacific Fishermen Shipyard, United Catcher Boats Member PNW, Commercial Fishing Boat Photography By: Salty Dog Boating News, Salty Dog Maritime Marketing The Pacific Northwest to Alaska Marine Traffic Underway Source NW

F/V Royal Atlantic, Pacific Fishermen Shipyard, United Catcher Boats Member – just in from Alaska. Late summer shipyard work is in full swing, it will be nice to see the greater Pacific Northwest  Shipyards start to hurry up and fill up. Of course it’s just about that time to hurry up and need everything done yesterday for the next season!

Fishermen’s Terminal in the WA Ship Canal is usually home to F/V Traveler and her sister boat F/V Mark 1, no sign of Mark 1 yet in the lower 48. F/V Traveler is best known as a Seattle-based boat that fishes in Alaska for Pollock and Cod Fisheries up the hill. Good to see familiar boat making it back home safe after this fast summer season.

F/V Traveler, AK Pollock, Cod Fishery, Fishermen’s Terminal Perfect Summer Afternoon, PNW Commercial Fishing Boats Homecoming and Home Safe in the Lower 48, AMEN! Commercial Fishing Boat Photography By: Salty Dog Boating News, Salty Dog Maritime Marketing The Pacific Northwest to Alaska Marine Traffic Underway Source NW

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