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The Pack Horses and Mules of White Pass Trail
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Corey Forrest: Fishermom
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Mollie Walsh: The Angel of White Pass
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How to Kill, Cook, and eat dungeness crab
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A Life on the Water: Brett Fitzgerald and the Angler Action Foundation
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Filson Food: Surf & Turf Alaskan Style
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Uni Butter Surf & Turf
Chef Chachi Thomas, has become local Seattle favorite with his string of celebrated pop-up restaurants across the city. We recently shared a meal, and he shared his take on PNW...
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The History of Wool Sweaters at Sea
Worn by sailors for centuries, the wool sweater is one of the most significant garments in clothing history.
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The Schooner Adventuress
A National Historic Landmark, the Adventuress has seen many lives in her century at sea. She now resides as a vessel for maritime education with the nonprofit Sound Experience in...
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Casting Comedy and Conservation: Eeland Stribling
For fisherman, outdoorsman, and comedian Eeland Stribing, comedy and fishing are very similar. Creating a joke and making a cast both take thoughtful preparation, the perfect setup, and impeccable timing...
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Newport News Marine Incident Response Team
Housed inside Firehouse 1 in downtown Newport News, the twenty-four firefighters of this unique team spend large portions of their time out on the water helping those in need. As...
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Oceans Initiative: on a mission to protect marine life
Conservation scientist Erin Ashe, PhD, says we all have a “cetacean story”: the moment in our lives when we realize that whales and dolphins—the spellbinding mammals she studies—exist. Ashe was...
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Profiles
Bringing the Ocean’s Bounty to Market in Southeast Alaska
Barnacle, by producing food products that require large amounts of kelp, and purchasing that kelp from the communities who are farming it, is helping to build not only a business,...
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The Fabric of the Sea: Artist Cristina Maria Melito
“In your work I can taste the magic of undersea. You are in touch with the beauty of the world’s wildness alive in all things and people, the endless non-linear...
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Subsea Hunter: Freedive Spearfishing with Lucas Murray
As many land hunters can attest to, part of the reason they choose to hunt is to get in touch with an instinctual, ancestral aspect of themselves. There is something...
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The Bering Strait Crossing
In the northernmost reaches of the world, just a few clicks south of the arctic circle, Russia and Alaska are separated at their closest point by just 55 short miles...
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Anacortes Junk Co.
Marine Supply? Hardware? Antiques? Museum and gift shop? It’s a bit of all of these. Wander over wood floors that creak like the deck of a ship to find less...
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Rum, Sailors, & Pirates: the dark history of booze on the High Seas
The spoils of captured merchantmen vessels often yielded large cargos of rum, wine, and ale, which pirate crews put to good use. Ironically, these periods of mass intoxication would last...
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Profiles
The Ocean's Top Predator: Puget Sound Orcas
Black fins sliced the water and rose higher and higher, close to our boat. With a puff and a blow, the orcas surfaced: members of J pod, the southern resident...
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