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▲ Kvichak district, Bristol Bay, AlaskaDeckhand Cole Steffens celebrates a 10,000-pound haul of Bristol Bay sockeye on the gillnetter Annie, out of Juneau, Alaska.

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▲ Prince William Sound, AlaskaCrew member Nathan Widmann preps a home pack of fresh silvers on the seiner Orion out of Cordova, Alaska.

▲ Wanchese, N.C.Young Capt. James Ruhle outgrew his first trawler before commissioning the Laurins Pride, which he hopes will let him fish more efficiently. “Now I can go fishing and not bump my head all the time. I even have a lock to keep my little sister out of my wheelhouse!”

▲ Hawk Inlet, AlaskaThe crew of the Obsession out of Petersburg, Alaska, seining for pink salmon on a particularly jelly-fishy day. Porter Treadway (in the skiff), Jesse Birchell, Marlon Mountjoy and Stephen Halbrook.

▲ Chatham, Mass.Pete Ervin with bugs on the Lost, owned by Chatham lobsterman Nick Muto.

▲ Morehead City, N.C.Mike Richmond, skipper Gilbert Mathis and ZZ Atkins get ready to unload a nice haul of vermilion snapper from the Atlantic Runner.

▲ Davisville, R.I.Evan Goodwin brooms Illex squid onboard the family-owned Persistence.

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▲ Southeast AlaskaDusty, 13, and Blu Keim, 10, put these troll-caught silvers to bed on the Norzone while their parents, Kipp and Dawndi, steam toward the tender.

▲ Kodiak, AlaskaDaniel Canaga and Steven Koechel put on their big-boy shorts to fish for cod and pollock on the Grumpy J.

▲ Sitka, AlaskaLevi Danielson smiles with silvers on the Lady Linda.

▲ Lamoine, MaineDonna Callahan and son Corey Robbins enjoy their first season aboard the 38-foot lobster boat Julie Ann, owned by David Herrick Sr.

▲ Cook Inlet, AlaskaDeckhand Travis Semmens, skipper Peter Micciche and deckhand Nate Grinnell drifting and dreaming in Cook Inlet on the Inlet Raider.

▲ Seward, AlaskaJason Hansen, Kyle Kain, Nick Broughton and skipper Mike Gruinheil of the salmon seiner Tenacious.

▲ Yarmouth, Nova ScotiaLongliners Gerald Boudreau, skipper Yvon Boudreau and Eric Vacon prop up a 140-pound halibut caught in June on the Miss Chatrina II.

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▲ Kodiak, AlaskaChris Sargent, Stan Sargent, Julian Ramirez, Ron Shand, Casey Twohy and George Sargent on the halibut longliner Tanusha.

▲ Naknek, AlaskaAlex Webster holds a 25-pound king salmon surrounded by sockeye aboard the Bristol Bay gillnetter Kukak.

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▲ Naknek, AlaskaWith 6,000 pounds already in the hold of the Goatroaper, rookie crewman Patrick Erstadt and 12-year veteran Tom Lansing celebrate a nick-of-time roundhaul of Bristol Bay sockeye in the Naknek/Kvichak District.

▲ In the Aleutians, AlaskaRamone Morales, Bryson Morrow, Kurt Leithhead, John Matzick, Ken Treat and Jon Edwards with blackcod trophies on the longliner Judi B out of Dutch Harbor, Alaska.

▲ Near Annette Island, AlaskaCo-captains Clifton and Herbert Guthrie run for another set of salmon on their 34-foot gillnetter Northern Lights out of Metlakatla, Alaska.

▲ Dutch Harbor, AlaskaThe crew of the freezer-longliner U.S. Liberator fishes mostly for Bering Sea P-cod. On deck: Nate Holstrom, Mark Gustafson, William Rivera, Ricardo Flores, Daren Shoemaker, Stephan Martin, Melo Santana, Jose Recinos, Jesus Garcia, Carlos Rodriguez, Santiago Lopez, Amador Manriquez. Above: Sergio Abundiz, Mike Bondora, Nelson Cruz, Brian Walker, Angel Rodriguez, Nick Munoz.

▲ “The Hell Hole,” Georges BankCrewmen Rodney and Noah Atwood (along with skipper Michael Atwood) fish out of Clark’s Harbor, Nova Scotia, hooking bluefin tuna with rod and reel on the Martin & Michael.

▲ Aleutian Islands, AlaskaKeith Bell, Claire Laukitis and Emma Laukitis get lucky longlining on the Lucky Dove out of False Pass, Alaska.

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▲ Shinnecock, N.Y.Samantha Makis loves picking squid on the Terri Sue.

▲ Hudson CanyonJames Harris Jr. and son J.P. Harris III, a third-generation fisherman, steam toward the Hudson Canyon Closed Area to top off with 500 pounds of scallops on the Abracadabra, a Cape May, N.J., single-dredge scallop dragger.

▲ Georges BankTim Malley, Devin Chouinard and Zach Grigg catch a 303-pounder on the last day of an early-season survey on the pelagic longliner Iron Maiden, based in Boston.

▲ Unalaska, AlaskaBilly Guitard gaffs a sizable rockfish on the Orchrist, longlining off Unalaska’s Cape Kovrizhka.

▲ Stonington, MaineJustin Limeburner and Rob Hutchinson haul lobster pots on the Jackie O.

▲ Piankitank River, Va.Fifth-generation Chesapeake Bay waterman Braden Hunley has been crabbing since he was 2 years old, which makes him an old hand at culling blues with his father, Jimmy, and his uncle aboard the 42-foot deadrise Jamie Lynn of Mathews, Va.

▲ Cook Inlet, AlaskaThe Homer-based Paragon’s skipper Dan Anderson and Todd Kinn pose with the last set on deck as time expired in the Cook Inlet drift salmon season.

▲ Naknek, AlaskaIt’s a family affair for skipper-owner Brent Paine (second from left) on the Katsitsna Bay. His crew is Lars Borson-Paine (son), Alec Springer (stepson), and Gavin Klein (nephew) in Bristol Bay.

▲ Southeast AlaskaPete Hall displays a nice bycatch specimen of lingcod on the Sitka-based Sedna in northern Southeast for the July king salmon troll opener.

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▲ North of Boon Island, MaineOscar Kwok, 12, aboard the Mary E out of Perkins Cove, Maine, before tossing back this oversized lobster.

▲ Southeast AlaskaHelen, Gig and Sig Decker delight in a king salmon on the Wrangell, Alaska, gillnetter McCrea.

▲ Matagorda, TexasJohn Bryant may get to eat his weight in grouper bycatch aboard the Susan Nell.

▲ Provincetown, Mass.Alex Brown fishes for lobster, shellfish, skates and dogfish on the Bay-Star.

▲ BostonSkipper Eric Hesse of West Barnstable, Mass., unloads live Gulf of Maine cod from his longliner Tenacious II for Boston’s Chinatown market.

▲ Hingham, Mass.Skipper Bill Doherty fishing lobster traps on the Ishmael out of Hingham, Mass.

▲ Nakat Inlet, AlaskaJoshua Thynes, 11, with a sturgeon caught and released alive from the Nocona out of Petersburg, Alaska.

▲ Lake MichiganEric Petersen fishing whitefish with live trap nets on the Petersen Bros. out of Muskegon, Mich.

▲ Mission Bay, Calif.John Law maneuvers a gopher rockfish and a few brown rockfish in the chop on the Wild West. The fish are handled with care for the local live market.

▲ Southeast AlaskaSalmon seiners Jason Crosby, Will Jennings, Orion Carlson, Chris Pinnfield on the Cape Flattery out of Seattle.

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▲ West of Fort Bragg, Calif.Ben Platt, skipper of the Seastar out of Half Moon Bay, Calif., trolls for August albacore.

▲ Off Cape Cod, Mass.Rob MacGregor ready for skates on the Great Pumpkin out of Chatham, Mass.

▲ Near Annette Island, AlaskaSpencer, Melvin and Bernie Guthrie, the crew of the Odin out of Metlakatla, Alaska, getting their share of Annette Island gillnet herring.

▲ Bristol Bay, AlaskaJoshua Cloud on the salmon tender Raven out of Warrendale, Ore.

▲ Steaming from Seattle to Dutch HarborThe O’Hara Corporation’s Enterprise called deckhand Raul Vargas back from Mexico for two trips on an unexpected perch opening.

▲ So. Chatham Strait, AlaskaCharlie and Esther Bower hack up male chums for halibut bait on the longliner Teasha out of Port Alexander, Alaska.

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▲ Craig, AlaskaKatrina Anne Peavey and her father, Matt, offload salmon from the Anne Louise during the 2011 troll fishery.

▲ Matinicus, MaineNo Worries’ Skipper Noah Ames with Jen Banow, Ben Banow and their 6-year-old son, Mason, on 800 pounds of lobster after a long day out.

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