Daily Archives: August 19, 2021
Three boys find a message in a bottle sent from Canadian Crabber off the coast of Kerry
Brothers Oisín, and Eoghan O’Doherty from Greencastle along with Odhran O’Sullivan discovered a message in a bottle while holidaying in Co. Kerry. The boys noticed the bottle lodged into the rocks along the coastline, after help from a relative the bottle was eventually recovered and the message inside was found. The message inside the bottle was written by Canadian fisherman Craig Drover while he was at sea off the coast of Newfoundland onboard his vessel F/V Artic Eagle. The message reads: “This bottle was tossed over the side of the F/V Artic Eagle on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, Canada while fishing for snow crabs.” >click to read< 22:18
Retired Commercial Fisherman Terry L. Huff of Juneau, Alaska, has passed away
Terry was mostly raised in the Coos Bay, Oregon area where he attended school. After high school in 1975,Terry joined the US Army. After he was released from the Army he returned to Coos Bay and attended SWOCC for Automotive Repair. Terry then went to work in the commercial fishing industry. He worked on the docks in Charleston and eventually went to sea and worked as a deckhand. He then for the next several years, skippered Korean boats off the coast of California. Terry eventually made his way to Craig and then to Juneau, Alaska where he continued in the commercial fishing industry. He lived there for many years. Terry’s health declined and he was forced to retire. >click to read< 21:17
Coast Guard medevacs crewman off commercial fishing vessel 130 miles from Cold Bay, Alaska
A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew, forward-deployed to Cold Bay, medevaced a mariner Thursday from the fishing vessel Alaska Victory, approximately 130 nautical miles north of Cold Bay. The aircrew safely transported the adult male to Cold Bay, where they conducted a wing-to-wing transfer with a LifeMed crew, who then transported him to further care. >click to read< 17:22
California Coastal Commission OKs world’s longest fiber optic cable from Eureka to Singapore
Stretching from Eureka to Singapore, the 10,000 mile long cable will bring enhanced broadband connectivity to Humboldt County and beyond as soon as 2023. RTI plans to install four steel pipes extending from a landing site in Samoa approximately 3,600 feet offshore to serve as conduits for two submarine fiber optic cables. Additional cables may extend to Australia and Japan as well. North Coast commercial fisherman Kevin Collins expressed concern for the trawling fishermen who, he feels, will be “the primary group impacted by the cable.” Humboldt Fishermen’s Marketing Association was not looking to oppose or delay the installation of this cable but wished to express “grave concerns California fishermen have over the flawed process taking place for the mitigation” of the project. >click to read< 13:45
Waterfront businesses’ lawsuit against New Bedford and Port Authority dismissed
Marine Hydraulics and Nordic Fisheries sued the city in January, alleging it was breaching a 99-year lease contract and misleading the companies regarding the expansion of the North Terminal, located on the west side of the harbor. Nordic Fisheries bought Marine Hydraulics’ assets and lease in 2015 according to court records, but both companies filed the lawsuit. The city filed a motion to dismiss it in March. The businesses stated in their complaint that much of their work depends on immediate access to the water to haul, service and store vessels, and that without direct access, their companies would be irreparably harmed. >click to read< 10:05
New fishing vessel Orion completed by Macduff Shipyards
Macduff Shipyards has recently signed over its latest new build fishing vessel Orion (BF 432) to owner Brian Harvey and his two sons Andrew and Simon. The boat replaces their previous fishing vessel of the same name, which was built by the yard in the early noughties and is intended to fish around the coast of Scotland, predominately in the North Sea. Orion was originally planned to be built from the yard’s previous 24.50 m hull model but during the early design phase a decision was taken to remodel the vessel’s bow based on the preliminary results from a tank testing program which the yard and Macduff Ship Design were running for another project. photos, >click to read< 08:54
Maine Marine Patrol revs up its fleet
The Marine Patrol recently launched P/ V Endeavor, a 42-foot-long lobster-style patrol boat made by Farrin’s Boat Shop in Walpole. The boat’s hull is from Calvin Beal Boats, part of SW Boatworks in Lamoine, according to a news release. The Endeavor is home-ported in West Boothbay and replaces P/V Monitor, a 22-year-old, 35-foot-long Young Brothers boat that was damaged by an electrical fire in 2019. The new vessel will provide a safer, more stable platform for Marine Patrol officers while hauling and inspecting lobster gear in both near-shore and offshore locations,,, >click to read< 07:41
