Daily Archives: February 20, 2022

Cortez Fishing Festival returns after pandemic cancellation last year

February 20, 2022   Gulf of Mexico

The Cortez Commercial Fishing Festival is back. The event was canceled last year due to the pandemic. This is a very important event for the commercial fishing industry. The festival runs Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. It promotes the working fishing village that produces a lot of seafood people eat all over Florida. Organizers call this authentic Florida event a “party with a purpose.” photos, >click to read< 12:32

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Sole survivor of Galway Bay fishing tragedy among those feared drowned off Newfoundland

February 20, 2022   Canada, International News

One of the fisherman feared dead when a Spanish fishing vessel sank off the Newfoundland coast earlier this week was the sole survivor of another maritime tragedy in Galway Bay over two decades ago. In October 2000, Ricardo Arias Garcia, a native of Marin in Spain, was plucked from the Skerd Rocks in outer Galway Bay by the Irish Coast Guard helicopter operating from Shannon. Last Tuesday, he was one of 24 crew on board the trawler Villa de Pitanxo when it sank 280 miles off the coast of Newfoundland in rough seas. Named by Spanish media as one of the fatalities, Mr Arias Garcia lost all of his fellow crewmates when the F/V Arosa sank in a storm off Galway Bay on October 3, 2000. >click to read< 11:06

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What is the payment for a life of sacrifice? Working at sea is not as profitable as before

February 20, 2022   International News, National

In the instability of the ship, he sinks into longing. In the one that evokes family, friends… Maybe he won’t get back in time to see the birth of his son, or the wedding of his sister, who before leaving to the tide already had promised. The work to be done on board brings his thoughts back to the reality of the ship at a stroke. But only temporarily. Insomnia in his break time, caused by the need to be alert at all times, will bring those ideas back to his head, just thinking about being able to catch a good catch to bring his family as much money as possible, and that his sacrifice has meaning. >click to read< 09:20

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