Safety
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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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Lubchenco has one easy way to help local fishermen by Hoff Stauffer
At a meeting with local fishermen last week, NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco said: "We have a lot of work to do ... We can make it better."
She has at least one option for making it better right away. She can increase the 2010 annual catch limits by 33 percent, simply by redressing the balance on the National Oceanic and Administration's treatment of uncertainty.
