Coast Guard medevacs commercial fisherman 50 miles east of Charleston, South Carolina

The Coast Guard medevaced a man Wednesday aboard the fishing vessel F/V Crystal C, 50 miles east of Charleston, South Carolina.

A Coast Guard Air Station Savannah MH-65 Dolphin helicopter aircrew transferred John Gary Modin to awaiting emergency medical services at Air Facility Charleston. EMS transported him to the Medical University of South Carolina for further medical care.

A Go Crusader crewmember relayed a message to Coast Guard Sector Charleston watchstanders at 8:21 a.m., via VHF-FM channel 16 stating a crewmember aboard the Crystal C was unresponsive. The communications radio on board the Crystal C was unable to transmit to Sector Charleston watchstanders.

“The skilled aircrew conducted a tough hoist to the bow of the vessel,” said Lt. Sam Ingham, Coast Guard Air Station Savannah, mission commander. “We got the man off safely and into proper medical care as quickly as possible.”

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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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