Fishermen's News is done

Fishermen's News has posted a sad announcement on its website:

"After 80 incredible years of service to the commercial fishing community, Fishermen's News is officially closing its pages."

The San Diego publisher late last year announced the journal was ending its print edition and would be "presented in digital format only." He cited cost pressures for the move.

Now, it appears, Fishermen's News will no longer be available in any form.

Fishermen's News ends print edition, again

Fishermen's News, a magazine covering the North Pacific commercial fishing industry, is ending its print edition and, going forward, will be "presented in digital format only," its publisher says.

Read the announcement in the magazine's December issue.

To our knowledge, this leaves our region with no print publications devoted to covering the commercial fishing industry.

National Fisherman magazine earlier this year went online only, and publication of Pacific Fishing magazine has been suspended throughout 2024.

"While I am a big believer in print publications, and it is my preferred medium for reading magazines, the economics of printing and mailing magazines continues to move in the wrong direction. Our revenues simply cannot keep pace with the ever-increasing costs," Fishermen's News Publisher Dave Abrams writes.

Fishermen's News halted publication in 2020, but Abrams revived it the following year.

Some news on Fishermen's News

Fishermen's News, a Seattle-based commercial fishing magazine, has suspended publication.

Managing Editor Chris Philips, writing in the new July issue, cites "the current economic climate" and the effects of COVID-19 as factors for the suspension.

Fishermen's News has been around for a long time, tracing its founding to 1945.