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January
• Taste test: Do wild salmon actually taste better than farmed product? We’ve sponsored a taste test in New York City to find out, and you’ll be pleased with the results.
• Buyer/processor soapbox: We’ll give 200 words for free to all buyers/processors who want to talk directly to the fisherman.* [top]
February
• Herring roe: More fish, but how’s the market?
• Shipyards: We print your nominations for the 10 best shipyards (for boats under 90 feet) on the Pacific.
• Ice machines: They’re now small enough for gillnetters and get bigger from there. [top]
March
• Financing your new boat – or new power: Some tips from the money men.
• Fisherman’s soapbox: Now that the buyers have had their say, we’ll let you talk back: 200 words for free to get it off of your chest.*
• Navigation roundup: What’s beyond the GPS.
• More readers: An iconoclast’s view of the Boston Seafood Show. [top]
April
• Salmon season forecast: From California’s golden bear to Alaska’s brown bears to the Russian bear.
• Fuel subsidies: The farm-pond boys get federal help, will you?
• Fuel prices: Our monthly fuel price survey begins tracking trends in Pacific fishing ports. [top]
May
• Eye in the sky: Do satellite services give you a better look at the fishery?
• The oddballs: There actually is a guy who catches hagfish on purpose, and he’s found a market. We survey the other innovators and odd fisheries in the Pacific. [top]
June
• On-board processing equipment: Small is beautiful.
• Squid: They’re abundant. How to find them, catch them, treat them and sell them – while staying politically correct. [top]
July
• The Pacific Salmon Treaty 20 years later: We ask a Canadian and a Yank for impressions from each side of the 49th parallel.
• Pot shrimp: Tough to find, tough to catch – but are they tough to sell? [top]
August
• Seafood marketing boards: How much they cost. How much they’re worth.
• King crab rationalization: After two seasons, we examine the results. [top]
September
• Repowering: New environmental regs may not do the trick, but what about lower fuel costs?
• Taxes: Prepare to pay this year’s and build new tax strategies for 2008. [top]
October
• Oil pressure alarms – Are they worth the bother?
• Hydraulics: What has been considered “mature” technology is up to some new tricks to meet environmental and performance demands.
• Foul weather gear: An annual look at the best-dressed deckhand. [top]
November
• Personalized weather forecasts: A good investment or whistling into the wind?
• Man overboard alarms and engine-killers: Do they save lives?
• More readers – Extra circulation at the Pacific Marine Expo, plus a look at new products there. [top]
December
• New bleeding requirements: Do they make marketing and fish-boat sense?
• The changing Japan market: How much power – financially and politically – do the Japanese have these days? [top]
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