News Safety
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Coast Guard turns focus to vessel stability |
| Now that commercial fishing safety classes have sharpened fishermen's at-sea safety skills, the Coast Guard wants to build on that knowledge with additional training in vessel stability. | |||
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Fishing safety workshop is last of '09 |
| Commercial fishermen are invited to sharpen their safety skills during hands-on training Friday at UMass Dartmouth's School for Marine Science and Technology. | |||
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Coast Guard suspends search for man who fell overboard |
| The Coast Guard has suspended the search for a Maine man who fell overboard from his fishing boat about 125 miles east of Truro between 12 p.m. and 12:30 p.m. Friday. | |||
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Survival suit from Patriot recovered |
| A survival suit believed to be that of Matteo Russo, whose fishing boat Patriot sank in January under still unknown circumstances, has been recovered off the Cape Cod shore by a lifeguard. | |||
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Senators Maria Cantwell and Olympia Snowe can make fishing-vessel safety a priority |
| Two senators on opposite coasts, each from a state with a rich maritime tradition, are key to passing legislation requiring the first overhaul of standards and inspections for the nation's fishing fleet. | |||
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MELISSA WOOD, NATIONAL FISHERMEN: Meting out the meager
May 22, 2012 - Listening to the New England Council's Groundfish Advisory Panel talk about how that industry is going to pay for monitoring costs is kind of like trying to figure out how to pay your bills when you've just lost your job. Though monitoring is important keeping costs down is critical. As Panel Member Gary Libby pointed out, "If we had 100 percent monitoring we probably wouldn't have an industry."
