F/V Aleutian Storm: Unified Command transitions authority of response for the grounded vessel near Bodega Bay

SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Coast Guard and California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Office of Spill Prevention and Response (CDFW-OSPR) transitioned the authority of lead responding agency to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary (NOAA’s GFNMS) Monday.

NOAA’s GFNMS will lead the oversight of salvage operations in coordination with state and local agencies and the vessel’s owner.

The Unified Command determined that pollution removal operations would be unsafe due to weather conditions and the degraded condition of the vessel. With the current safety concerns, the determination was then made to shift to salvage operations.

Efforts to refloat the vessel during the initial days of the response and to relocate the vessel further up the beach before the weekend’s storm were unsuccessful. Prior to the storm, crews were able to remove diesel from one storage tank but it is unknown how much, if any, pollution remains onboard.

Coast Guard and CDFW-OSPR will continue to monitor the situation should crews discover pollution during future salvage operations.

For questions regarding operations to the response going forward can be directed to GFNMS Public Information Officer Jennifer Stock at 415-686-1864 or [email protected].

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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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