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National Fisherman
U.S. commercial fishing industry trade press
National Fisherman is a trade publication owned by Diversified Communications, a Maine-based family media company, covering the U.S. commercial fishing industry with a professional rather than political orientation. Its coverage focuses on regulations, markets, fleet news, and policy as they affect working fishermen and the seafood supply chain. On administration policies, it reports factually on regulatory changes—including the Trump administration's deregulation of marine monuments and removal of fishing restrictions—without clear editorial advocacy for or against the administration.
Owned byDiversified Communications, a privately held, third-generation family business based in Portland, Maine, owned by the Hildreth family (founded by former Maine Governor Horace Hildreth Sr.)
LeaningU.S. commercial fishing industry trade press
On the administrationmostly neutral
7average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun