Daily Archives: October 17, 2015
Coast Guard airlifts sick man 85 miles from Nantucket, MA
BOSTON — A Coast Guard helicopter rescue crew medically evacuated a man from fishing vessel, Friday, about 85 miles from Nantucket. Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England received a call from the crew aboard the Alexis Martina stating their captain was ill and needed medical attention. The Coast Guard flight surgeon recommended an immediate medevac and a helicopter rescue crew from Air Station Cape Cod launched. Once on scene, the air crew safely hoisted the man from the vessel into the helicopter. Watch the video here 13:30
Waldoboro Maine man pleads guilty to elver violations in NY
A Waldoboro man has been found guilty in New York of trafficking in poached elvers, according to that state’s Department of Environmental Conservation. Richard D. Austin, 37, has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of illegal commercialization of protected wildlife, the agency said Friday in a prepared statement. Austin and Tommy Waters Zhou, 40, of Brooklyn, New York, were arrested in March on charges of trafficking illegally harvested undersized American eels. Elvers are what American eels are called in their initial life stage,,, Read the rest here 13:10
No overfishing of bottomfish in US territories of American Samoa, Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
The Scientific and Statistical Committee, a group of renowned fishery scientists who advise the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, concluded its two-day meeting in Honolulu this week by setting the 2016 and 2017 acceptable biological catches (ABCs) for bottomfish in the US territories of American Samoa, Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). The ABCs are the amount of fish that can be harvested annually by the fisheries over time without causing overfishing of the stock. Read the rest here 12:30
‘Everything I ever had, I had to build or rebuild’
Story, Photo by Dwight Caswell
A commercial fisherman who lives in Bay Center, Washington, Horne has built or rebuilt boats, a truck, and even the off-the-grid house he lives in with his wife, Jazz. Rick Horne was born on “the island,” the high part of Bay Center that is almost an island in the middle of Willapa Bay (the other part is known as “the flatlands”).,, The 56-foot hull came with an engine but no wiring, no rudder, and not much of anything else a commercial fishing boat needs. But after five months of work, the Double Eagle was launched. “It was kind of a major undertaking,” Read the rest here 2 more photos 12:00
95 years on, Marine archaeologists find shipwreck off Point Reyes
Robert Schwemmer and James Delgado, marine archaeologists, sat in front of two screens aboard the Fulmar. It was like watching live color television. It was clear there was something in the water, just above the pebble-strewn bottom of the ocean, 200 or so feet down. It was ghostly, dark and covered with sea plants. “Closer,” Schwemmer said, directing Poissonnet, who guided the robot sub. “Move it up. Come left.” His voice rose. “Yes,” he said. “Yes! That’s it.” Read the rest here 10:03
Fishing Partnership Support Services mission is to keep fishermen safe
Eighteen fishermen from around New England took to the seas of Hyannis Inner Harbor on Friday for free training put on by a nonprofit group called Fishing Partnership Support Services. “You don’t want to be doing this stuff for the first time when you’re out on the water,” said the organization’s safety training coordinator Luis Catala, a veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard. “This is a great chance for them to practice and learn.” Read the rest here 09:32
Shell cuts capping timeline for N.S. offshore – They don’t say how much time, though.
The controversial timeline that allowed Shell Canada Ltd. to take up to three weeks to cap a subsea blowout off the coast of Nova Scotia will be reduced. The company submitted a revised plan to the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board on Thursday that would see the time it would take to deploy a vessel and capping system reduced from the current 21-day period. “We’re still reviewing it as we speak, but it will be quite a bit less than 21 days,” said board CEO Stuart Pinks. Read the rest here 08:57
