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USCGC Polar Star to assist vessels in Antarctica

January 4, 2014 National

ALAMEDA – The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star is responding to a Jan. 3rd request from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) to assist the Russian-Flagged Akademik Shokalskiy and Chinese-Flagged Xue Long that are reportedly ice-bound in the Antarctic. The Russian and Chinese Governments have also requested assistance from the United States. Read more@uscgnews 18:51

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F/V Unicorn Takes on Water; Volunteers Rally to Save Her

January 4, 2014 New England

F/V Unicorn nearly sank Friday night in Menemsha after a cracked valve caused the docked boat to take on gallons of water. A crew of volunteers worked into the night in below freezing temperatures to pump out water from the hull and safely secure it. Read more@vineyardgazette 16:14

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Trying Very Hard To Die: The Preventable Disease in Commercial Fishing – Is it the work, or the workers?

January 4, 2014 Canada, National

Yesterday, the New York Times published an outstanding piece of journalism – A Speck in the Sea by Paul Tough. But what struck me most wasn’t Aldridge’s will to live or the harrowing details of his survival; it wasn’t the incredible search effort to find him, either. It was that Aldridge, like so many commercial fishermen before him, seemed to be trying very hard to die. Read more@gcaptain 10:59

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Gentlemen, and Ladies, Wear Your PFD All the Time, says NIOSH

January 4, 2014 Canada, National

Fishing is one of the most dangerous jobs in the United States. Last year the Bureau of Labor Statistics ranked fishing as the second most dangerous profession, behind logging, based on the number of fatalities. Between 2000 and 2012, there were 623 commercial fishing related deaths nationwide, according to a database run by the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety. NIOSH has been studying the incidents that led to those deaths carefully, and believes hundreds of lives might be saved if more people would wear their PFD’s. Read more@kdlg 01:09

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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.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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