Update: Coast Guard, local agencies search for a person in the water in Mobile Bay, Alabama

The Coast Guard and local agencies are continuing their search for a person in the water in Mobile Bay, Alabama, Friday.

Of the three mariners reportedly aboard the commercial fishing vessel when it sank, one crewmember was rescued by a Good Samaritan vessel earlier and another was found deceased by rescue divers. The other crewmember has yet to be found.

Currently involved in the search:
Coast Guard Station Dauphin Island Response Boat-Small boat crew
Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans MH-65 Dolphin-Helicopter crew
Daphne Search and Rescue
Alabama Department of Marine Resources
Alabama Law Enforcement Agency
Fort Morgan Search and Rescue Divers
Fort Morgan Park Rangers
Bon Secour Fire Department
Mobile Marine Police
Coast Guard Cutter Ridley
North Baldwin Sheriff’s Search and Rescue
Mobile Sheriff Flotilla
Coast Guard Air Station Mobile HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircrew

Anyone with information that may help is asked to contact the Coast Guard Sector Mobile command center at (251) 441-6211.

The cause of the incident is under investigation.

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Office: (504) 671-2020
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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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