Hurricane damaged Seattle company’s Alaska-bound factory trawler in Florida shipyard
Hurricane Michael ripped the almost-built Alaska factory trawler North Star from a shipyard mooring in Panama City, Florida, and left it lying on its starboard...
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Netflix’s ‘Battlefish’ follows the adventures of tuna fishing boats off the Washington-Oregon border
While the fisheries of Alaska and New England have had their day on the screen, the new, bingeable Netflix docuseries “Battlefish” — following the men and...
Washington man gets prison for overharvesting sea cucumbers, must pay $1.5M
The illegal harvest amounted to nearly 20 percent of the total allowed harvest of the sea creatures statewide, said U.S. Attorney Annette Hayes, and did...
800,000 more farmed Atlantic salmon coming to Puget Sound before industry’s permits expire
The juvenile fish will be placed in pens this fall, more than a year after thousands of fish escaped from a Cooke Aquaculture facility.
For crew of 2,100-passenger cruise ship, frenetic ‘turnaround day’ in Seattle starts and ends the journey
It may be a leisurely 7-day vacation cruise for passengers, but for the staff it begins with a race to load 147,500 pounds of fresh...
Bitter legal fight roils Harley Marine Services, a big player on Seattle waterfront
Accusations are flying in courtrooms on both coasts between the founder of Harley Marine Services and its biggest investor, the global investment firm Macquarie.
Freezing spray probably sank Seattle-based Destination, NTSB finds
The crab boat Destination sank in 2017, killing all six crew members in the biggest disaster in more than a decade for the Bering Sea...
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