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Charlie Ess
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Charlie Ess is the North Pacific Bureau Chief for National Fisherman.
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Alaska groundfish: Covid’s hangover and bycatch caps slow the season
Boat of the Month: Alsek
Blackcod. Tuna Harbor Dockside Market photo.
Pacific blackcod: Smaller fish mean lower prices, but good future
Alaska pollock. NOAA photo.
Alaska pollock: Alaska product now 86 percent of U.S. consumption
Albacore hooked on a bait pole offshore Oregon. NOAA Fisheries West Coast photo.
Pacific albacore: Trollers look for restaurants to revive fresh prices
The F/V Woodstock, a blackcod and halibut longliner out of Sitka, Alaska. Photo by Joshua Roper/Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute.
Alaska halibut and blackcod: As market recovers from covid, biomass future looks bright
Logan and Bethany Branstiter co-captain the F/V B-Team in Alaska's Nushagak Bay, drift gillnetting sockeye salmon in Bristol Bay. Crew Shots photo
Alaska salmon: With pandemic experience, fleet gears up for expected 2021 harvest
Pacific swordfish: After big 2020 drop, fleet looks to restaurants and Asian markets
Ben Ahrens with his wife Shelby and three sons, Brayden, 11, Colben, 9, and 7-year-old Laeth.
Who we are: Ben Ahrens
Alaska cod: Gulf cod stocks creep back, but Bering and Aleutian still down
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