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F/V Scandies Rose: Family of missing fishermen mourn but pledge to keep fishing
Fishing runs deep in the DNA of the Cobban family so they know as well as anyone how dangerous the profession can be. Four generations of commercial fishermen from the family have fished out of Kodiak. On New Year’s Eve, members from two generations were lost when their vessel capsized off of the Alaska Peninsula near Sutwik Island. On Wednesday evening, the Coast Guard called off the search for five of the crew members who weren’t located during the initial response. That’s left family members coming to terms with the fact that their loved ones likely won’t be coming home. >click to read< 07:08
