Discovery of a body and an empty life raft add to the mysteries of a fishing boat sinking
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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
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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
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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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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
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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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