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2024's "Best Harbor" Contest Winners Announced
You Voted, and We Have a Clear Winner! Grand Winner, Best Harbor in the U.S. for 2024: Block Island, RI Top 10 Results: Block Island, RI (also 2024’s Northeast regional winner; first time on winners list) Destin, FL (also 2024’s Gulf Coast regional winner; first time on winners list) Padanaram,… Learn More
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Trapped in the Tide of Organized Crime
By Kimberley Brown. How Ecuador’s growing armed struggle is affecting its traditional crabbing communities. Marcos Ruiz is lying face down in the mud, legs splayed and one arm sunk up to his shoulder in a narrow hole. When he finally grabs the crab burrowing in the hole, he pushes himself… SEE MORE
One Great Shot: The Big Eye of the Storm
By Shane Gross. “Calm down,” I told myself as I bobbed in the water off D’Arros Island, within a newly established marine protected area (MPA) in Seychelles. A storm was approaching, but I was snorkeling—camera in hand—because I knew something special was happening. I was on assignment for the Save… SEE MORE
In Celebration of National Lobster Day
By Carli Stewart. Every year on September 25, the United States celebrates National Lobster Day. In 2015, Maine Senators Angus King and Susan Collins established it to recognize the importance of this crustacean to the country’s history and culture. So to further celebrate the lobstermen and women on National Fisherman, we… SEE MORE