UPDATE: Coast Guard search continues for overdue fishing vessel 80 miles off Brunswick, Georgia

CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Coast Guard continues to search for an overdue 31-foot fishing vessel and its three crew members, Saturday, 80 miles offshore Brunswick, Georgia.

Missing are Dalton Conway, Caleb Wilkinson and Tyler Barlow.

On Friday, Coast Guard Sector Charleston watchstanders received a report from the owner of the fishing vessel Carol Ann stating he hired a crew of three people that failed to return on Wednesday as scheduled. The owner stated the crew extends fishing trips to maximize their catch but was growing concerned due to their last communication with the crew being six days ago.

Sector Charleston watchstanders continue to attempt contact with the vessel via VHF-FM marine radio without results.

Watchstanders received a report from a good Samaritan who stated he may have seen a vessel matching the description of the Carol Ann on Wednesday.

Involved in the search are:

Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater
Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City
Coast Guard Air Station Savannah
Coast Guard Station Brunswick
Coast Guard Cutter Ibis
Georgia Department of Natural Resources

Anyone with information that may assist search efforts should contact Sector Charleston at 843-740-7050.

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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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