It started as a dream. Over a decade later, it’s still just a dream. Perhaps no project is closer to the heart of Gig Harbor than its Commercial Fishing Homeport, a public dock that would provide ...

Deacon Dale Fiskes, of the St. Nicholas Church in Gig Harbor, blesses the fishing fleet with holy water during the annual “Blessing of the Fleet” in 2014. In addition to the blessing, the city ...

Rex Parish, 60, was a Gig Harbor resident, Peninsula High School graduate and a commercial fisherman since age 18. He died earlier this month in a fishing accident while squid fishing in San Francisco ...

The Bergen in Bellingham Bay on Friday, a day after a storm yanked it off its mooring. Courtesy Washington Department o In his younger days, Jim Richards saw dollar signs when storms rolled in at the ...

GIG HARBOR, Wash. — The fishing community is a superstitious bunch. Never leave on a Friday. No black suitcases. No umbrellas. No bananas and, of course, no women on board. That changed in the 1970's ...