Coast Guard assists 5 aboard fishing vessel after collision near Port O’Connor, Texas

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Coast Guard assisted five crew members aboard an 84-foot fishing vessel near Port O’Connor, Texas, Monday.

At approximately 9 p.m., Coast Guard Sector/Air Station Corpus Christi watchstanders received a mayday call over VHF-FM channel 16 from the crew of fishing vessel Aiden Boy reporting a collision with the fishing vessel Joseph Vu approximately 15 miles off Port O’Connor. Neither crew was reportedly in distress.

A Coast Guard Station Port O’Connor 45-foot Response Boat–Medium crew launched to respond. The RB-M crew arrived on scene and confirmed both vessels were disabled due to damage. The crew of Joseph Vu had anchored the vessel and was conducting repairs. Due to fishing nets tangled in the Aiden Boy’s propeller, the crew requested a tow.

The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Pelican, an 87-foot patrol boat homeported in Corpus Christi, launched to assist. The Pelican crew arrived on scene and safely towed and transferred the Aiden Boy to the crew of the fishing boat Miss Juliana, who finished the tow to the Port of Palacios.

“Thanks to the seamless coordination of our Coast Guard units, we were able to quickly respond to and assist the Aiden Boy,” said Petty Officer 1st Class Cynthia Taylor, Sector/Air Station Corpus Christi search and rescue unit controller. “The great teamwork between the Sector/Air Station Corpus Christi watchstanders, the crew of Coast Guard Station Port O’Connor and the crew of Coast Guard Cutter Pelican resulted in a successful response.” >Video, Click to watch<

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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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