Coast Guard medevacs fisherman Saturday near Hatteras Inlet

December 14, 2015 Mid Atlantic

The Coast Guard medevaced an injured man Saturday from a fishing boat near Hatteras Inlet. received a request from the 78-foot fishing boat Daniel Joseph at 10:27 a.m. Saturday to transport a 58-year-old fisherman to shore for medical treatment after he sustained injuries to his fingers while shrimping. A Coast Guard 24-foot Special Purpose Craft-Shallow Water crew from Station Hatteras Inlet launched at approximately 11:17 a.m. Read the report here 16:45

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

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