Coast Guard medevacs crewman off commercial fishing vessel 130 miles from Cold Bay, Alaska

JUNEAU, Alaska — A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew, forward-deployed to Cold Bay, medevaced a mariner Thursday from the fishing vessel Alaska Victory, approximately 130 nautical miles north of Cold Bay.

The aircrew safely transported the adult male to Cold Bay, where they conducted a wing-to-wing transfer with a LifeMed crew, who then transported him to further care.

Coast Guard Sector Anchorage Command Center watchstanders received a report from the Alaska Victory crew at approximately 8:30 p.m. Wednesday reporting the man was suffering from respiratory distress.

The helicopter crew arrived on scene at approximately 3:30 a.m. Thursday morning and hoisted the patient for transport.

“Good communication with the Alaska Victory, the helicopter aircrew, and command center personnel, we were able to conduct the medevac efficiently so the patient could receive a higher level of medical care,” said Lt. Joseph Wineke, 17^th Coast Guard District command duty officer.

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U.S. Coast Guard 17th District Alaska
Contact: 17th District Public Affairs
Office: (907) 209-8731
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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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