UPDATE: 17th Coast Guard District to conduct maintenance on VHF radio system – anticipate intermittent service outages

8:28 PM (20:28) 8/9/2020

During this time the Coast Guard anticipates that there may be intermittent service outages throughout the state as the work is completed.JUNEAU, Alaska – The 17^th Coast Guard District is scheduled to conduct maintenance on its VHF radio system Thursday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Due to technical difficulties, today’s scheduled maintenance was postponed.

The Coast Guard encourages all mariners throughout Alaska to remain vigilant and have a redundant means of communication with them such as:

EPIRBs/PLBs (most highly recommended)
Satellite messengers (second most highly recommended)

Followed by:

Cellphone, when in range
Satellite phone
High frequency radio communications on 4,125 kHz, 6,215 kHz, and 8,291 kHz
DSC-equipped radios that are registered with a Maritime Mobile Service Identity (MMSI) number and have GPS activated

Mariners that are equipped with capable radios can contact the Coast Guard through Communications Detachment Kodiak via high frequency (HF) 4125 KHz.

Mariners can also contact the Coast Guard via cellular or satellite phone: Joint Rescue Coordination Center Juneau at 907-463-2000; Sector Juneau command center at 907-463-2980 or Sector Anchorage command center at 907-428-4100.

Mariners are reminded that Western and Northern Alaska has no VHF-FM coverage. Contact in areas without VHF/FM coverage to the Coast Guard is via Communications Detachment Kodiak on HF or JRCC Juneau by phone. Mariners are requested to relay any unanswered calls for assistance to the Coast Guard.

“The maintenance work being performed will add redundant capabilities into the system and address performance issues identified in late 2019,” said Lt. Cmdr. Gary Mills, District 17 telecommunications division chief.

-USCG-

U.S. Coast Guard 17th District Alaska
Contact: 17th District Public Affairs
Office: (907) 463-2065
After Hours: (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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