Coast Guard medevacs Skipper from shrimp boat off Freeport, Texas

The Coast Guard medevaced a 60-year-old man from a shrimp boat Monday off Freeport, Texas.

Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston command center watchstanders received a notification at 6 a.m. from the crew of the Barbara Elaine, an 81-foot shrimp boat, stating their captain was experiencing symptoms of a heart attack. Watchstanders consulted with the duty flight surgeon, who recommended a medevac.

Due to fog preventing a Coast Guard helicopter crew from responding, a Coast Guard Station Freeport 45-foot Response Boat–Medium launched to conduct the medevac.

Once on scene with the shrimp boat, the RB–M crew took aboard the ailing man and brought him to emergency medical services personnel waiting at Station Galveston.

EMS transported the man to CHI St. Luke’s Health in Lake Jackson, Texas, in stable condition.

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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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