Skipjack tuna at a fish market in the Philippines Obsidian Soul via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ...

The skipjack, which dredged the bay from 1902 until its captain sold it in 1989, was among the fewer than two dozen survivors in North America’s last fleet of working sailcraft. It is the pride of the ...

For centuries, Chesapeake Bay oysters were harvested by skipjacks, those tall, sleek, singled-masted sailboats. The skipjacks are mostly gone now, replaced by more efficient, less majestic ways of ...

ST. MICHAELS, Md. (WJZ) -- Rosie Parks was built in 1955 and was one of the most famous skipjacks to ever sail the Chesapeake Bay. But now she desperately needs repairs. Ron Matz has more from St.