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Whittier officials say fuel dock operational after closing due to 4th of July fire

July 8, 2023 North Pacific

The fire started on Tuesday, sinking a boat and forcing two people to be medevaced out with injuries. It also resulted in the closure of the dock, the only refueling station for many vessels. It also occurred right before a 36-hour commercial fishing opening in the Prince William Sound on Wednesday. Whittier Harbormaster David Borg says time was of the essence to get the dock ready for fueling. “We knew we had about a 30-hour window to get fuel back down to the dock, just based on the fact that when that 36-hour opener shut down, we would have the fleet coming back to Whittier to offload,” Borg said. “And they take that opportunity to refuel, resupply with food and so forth.” >click to read< 09:22

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Fire at Whittier fuel dock injures 2, sinks boat

July 4, 2023 North Pacific

Girdwood Fire Chief Michelle Weston said that medics evaluated two people who were transported from the scene via LifeMed. Fletcher Morrison, a commercial fisherman who docks his boat at the Whittier Harbor, was in the area when the fire broke out about around 11:40 a.m. He described hearing a bang, then looking out of his vessel to see a boat fueling up at the dock go up in flames. “It happened really quick,” he said. The flames consumed three fuel pumps at the station operated by Shoreside Petroleum, said Whittier Harbormaster David Borg. That has big implications for the city’s commercial fishing fleet, Borg said. >click to read< 21:47

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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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