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Don't believe the Discovery Channel show, "Deadliest Catch." The most dangerous fishing is done off New England and the Mid-Atlantic states for groundfish and scallops, not in Alaska's Bering Sea for crabs, according to a report by the federal Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
"Of those fisheries for which average annual fatality rates could be calculated," two DCD researchers reported earlier this summer, "the Northeast multispecies groundfishery had the highest rate, 600 deaths per 100,000 full-time employees, followed by the Atlantic scallop fleet, including the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, 425 deaths per 100,000 full-time employees. Read the complete story from The Gloucester Times.
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33 Fishing Community Members Say Permit Bank, Giacalone are pluses for Gloucester
This permit bank is a true local treasure for our fishing community and related businesses. Its existence has been one of the only positive things to come to this fishing community in decades.
