Coast Guard searching for overdue shrimp trawler with 2 people aboard near Cape San Blas, Florida

NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard is searching Tuesday for an overdue vessel with two people aboard near Cape San Blas, Florida.

Missing is Michael Redman and Jimmy Mallory. There is currently no description available for the mariners.

The Coast Guard began searching Monday evening after Coast Guard Sector Mobile watchstanders received a phone call from the owner of the 54-foot shrimp trawler F/V Capt. Ken-Wil who reported his vessel disabled and without power with two people aboard. The last known estimated location of the vessel was in the vicinity of Eagle Harbor, north of Cape San Blas, Florida.

Involved in the search are:

Coast Guard Sector Mobile
Coast Guard Aviation Training Center Mobile
Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater
Coast Guard Station Panama City
Coast Guard Cutter Dolphin
Air Force Rescue Coordination Center
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
Gulf County Sheriff’s Department

Anyone with information is requested to contact Coast Guard Sector Mobile at 833-MOB-USCG/833-622-8724.

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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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