Westport

Seafarer Albert Docuyan, right, presses his passport and other documents to his head while Richard Zambales, left, and Reyner Dagalea, center, look on as the group has a call with the Philippine consulate general at a temporary rental house in Lacey, Wash., on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024. They are among the two dozen Filipino crew members confined to tuna fishing vessels for months last year without U.S. visas in Westport, Wash. while waiting for backpay from their employer, McAdam's Fish, and recruitment agency Pescadores International.

Sailors stuck in Washington state, and around the globe, highlight a surge in shipowner abandonment

The Associated Press

The United Nations over the last decade has logged an increasing number of crew members abandoned by shipowners around the world. That’s left sailors aboard months and sometimes years without pay.

Westport is a surfing destination in Grays Harbor County. The Surf Shop offers them community.

Going Places

Going Places special edition: Westport surf shop creates community for wave riders

Geoffrey Redick

WESTPORT, WASH. — Drive as far west as you can in Grays Harbor County, and you’ll meet the ocean in Westport. Waves roll into the beach there, next to a…

Environment

Low Coho Returns Have Wash. State Considering First Full Closure Of Salmon Fisheries Since 1994

Bellamy Pailthorp

Salmon returns in the Northwest are on many people’s minds this week as fisheries managers meet in Vancouver. They’re considering what might be the first…