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    Discovery of a body and an empty life raft add to the mysteries of a fishing boat sinking
    A beachcomber spending a Saturday morning collecting seashells on a remote North Carolina beach came across a body, but it only deepened the mystery of the last hours of the fishing vessel Sea Tractor.
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    Crews' daily double trips keep gillnet owners afloat
    Six owners of federally-permitted Gloucester gillnet vessels have each adapted to today's groundfish laws, ebbing fish prices, flowing expenses, and year-round cod abundance off Gloucester by working two vessels in that fishery with just one crew, who often double-trip daily.
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    LORAN-C service ends on February 8
    Effective Monday February 8, 2010 The US Coast Guard will cease transmission of the United States Long Range Aids to Navigation (LORAN-C) signal. The Coast Guard is urging all mariners to have a GPS navigation system onboard their vessel and become familiar with it prior to Feb 8.
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    Thanks, Coast Guard
    This has, in many ways, been a tragic year for Gloucester fishermen — from the January sinking of the F/V Patriot and the loss of its crew, to the loss of lobsterman Jaime Ortiz in October.
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    Maine searchers find sunken fishing boat in ocean
    An official with the Maine Department of Marine Resources says finding the wreckage of a fishing boat that sank last March could help determine why seven fisherman and two vessels have been lost in the area in the last year.
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