February 10, 2026 — This wave of brutally cold weather is cutting into catches for commercial fishing boats that are now idle along the Jersey Shore.
With boats iced in, Sea Tow Cape May is enduring the biting cold and gusty winds as they help ferry interport pilots to and from the big ships that are out at sea.
This step is vital to keep the supply chain moving along the northeast.
“A five mile wide wall of ice with two, three, four foot high, you know, icebergs sticking out of the water. And the dangerous part about that is you don’t know how much is underneath of them,” Claude Savino, of Sea Tow Cape May, explained. “It can’t stop. That’s goods coming in and out of our country and like, it cannot stop.”