How to Kill a Fish

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The Japanese chef Junya Yamasaki mastered a butchery technique that results in tastier seafood—and he’s taught some Southern California fishermen how to do it, too.The ray-finned saltwater fish known as the bonito is also called, by some fishermen I know,…

America Is the World’s Most Abundant Source of Wild Salmon — Why Are We Still Eating Farmed?

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Wild salmon is abundant in Alaska and coveted by chefs — but most Americans eat the cheaper, milder farmed kind. Journalist Kim Cross set out to learn why — and how to cook the real thing right.

King Charles’s Crony Catches the Salmon of the Year

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A Park Avenue finance guy goes fishing with a royal nanny and hooks a fifty-two-pounder.Unless you’ve been living under a rock submerged in Norway’s Alta River and have gills, you probably missed the news announced in a press-release-style note last…

‘Kings of the world’: The last of the horseback shrimp fishers

Oostduinkerke, Belgium – A few hours after dawn one late July morning, the sound of Gregory Debruyne’s horse Kelly trotting through the verdant lanes of Oostduinkerke echoes through the quaint coastal village in west Belgium.

Catching Fish with Ancient Archaeology and Ocean Tides

Rachel Feltman: What do you think of when you hear the word “archaeology”? Maybe your mind goes straight to Indiana Jones. Or perhaps you picture real-world academics in the field—ones who handle their dusty desert dig sites and crumbling artifacts with far more care.

The Mayday Call: How One Death at Sea Transformed a Fishing Fleet

The call from the Atlantic Ocean sounded over VHF radio on a midsummer afternoon. “Mayday, mayday, mayday,” the transmission began, then addressed the nearest U.S. Coast Guard command center. “Sector Delaware Bay, this is the vessel Jersey Pride. Come in.”

Fishing for Scallops When the Scallops Are Nearly All Dead

Mike Tehan pilots a fishing boat called Nibbles out of Shelter Island. An hour before sunrise on the first day of scallop season in November, as he unwound the ropes, started the outboard motor and piloted the 25-foot fiberglass boat from an island cove into the open waters of Peconic Bay, Mr.

Salmon are vanishing from the Yukon River — and so is a way of life

Grist

Serena Fitka sat in the cabin of a flat-bottomed aluminum boat as it sped down the Yukon River in western Alaska, recalling how the river once ran thick with salmon. Each summer, in the Yup’ik village of St. Mary’s where Fitka grew up, she and her family fished for days on end.

Masters of Bass

Sports Illustrated Longform

ear Bryant, bronzed beneath his houndstooth hat, stands eternally outside the convention center in Birmingham, pointing across the street to the Sheraton, and possibly to the future: to the boys (and girl) of the Montevallo High School fishing team, the blue-shirted Bulldogs—the g in B

The Lure of Urban Fishing

The New Yorker

Last year, when the journalist Esther Wang was approached by some friends who were starting a local news organization, she agreed to join them, on two conditions. First, she didn’t want to do any podcasting.

They Caught the Fish but the $3.5 Million Prize Got Away

If you want to hear about the day the guys aboard the fishing boat Sensation landed a giant marlin and danced to Tina Turner because they were sure they had won $3.

North American lobster industry confronts ‘ropeless’ traps after whale entanglements

Reuters

MONHEGAN ISLAND, Maine, June 7 (Reuters) – An emerging technology to fish for lobsters virtually ropeless to prevent whale entanglements is exciting conservationists, but getting a frigid reception from harvesters worried it will drive them out of business and upend their way of life.

Dolphins and Humans Work Together to Catch Fish in Brazil

Smithsonian Magazine

In southeastern Brazil, local fishers wade into murky waters in search of migrating mullet. On their own, it would be tricky to find the silvery fish. But the humans get help from an unusual ally: wild bottlenose dolphins.

Keith Davis: He was protecting the oceans – then he disappeared

Keith Davis disappeared at sea thousands of miles from home. His body has never been found. Now the mystery of his death has shone a light on a maritime world that is largely hidden from view, writes Rachel Monroe. At my local grocery store in Texas, I can buy a can of tuna for less than a dollar.

Three Seafarers Contend with the Trauma of a Five-Year Kidnapping in Somalia

The New Yorker

Em Phumanny comes from the lush province of Kampong Chhnang, north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital. He’s thirty-nine years old, a new father, and now lives on the outskirts of the city for the sake of a job in a Chinese garment factory.

At Poole’s Fish Market, a Summer Job Offered a Lifetime of Learning

The Vineyard Gazette – Martha's Vineyard News

In the early 1970s, I spent summers working at Poole’s Fish Market in Menemsha. Everett Poole, the son of a fisherman, began buying and selling fish from a handcart when he was 13 years old, not long after the hurricane of 1938 wiped out the docks.

Fishing communities on the up and up

oceanbites

Research reviewed: Richmond, L., & Casali, L. (2022). The role of social capital in fishing community sustainability: Spiraling down and up in a rural California port. Marine Policy, 137, 104934. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104934

Voyaging Tips, December 2021

Ocean Navigator

Catching dinner from a sailboat on passage is completely unlike sport fishing from a stationary boat. The goal is to get a fish on board for the grill and dinner. On passage the sails are up and you’re making the best possible speed, so stopping the boat to fight a fish is not much of an option.