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National Fisherman / January 2021 / Vol. 101, No. 9

Perseverance takes shape from a bare hull A young Maine fisherman takes an old 32-foot Novi down to the bones.

Cover Story / Crew Shots 2021 From Jonesport to Dutch Harbor, fishermen send us their best shots. Check out our national fishing family in the spread and on the cover.

Features / Boats & Gear

Northern Lights

S.W. Boatworks

New alliance will open opportunities in Europe and the UK for Alaska seafood.

Around the Yards Maine yard builds a combo tuna/ research vessel; Alabama oyster skiff headed to Virginia; converting a yacht to Alaska crabber.

Product Roundup Better cell phone messaging at sea; new aerosol fire extinguisher online plans for building livewells.

The best of 2020 in Boats & Gear New gas, diesel and electric outboards; digital solutions for trawl nets and fish quality; better safety and sanitation.

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Consequences Improved PFD designs are winning acceptance among Alaskaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bristol Bay fishermen.

Editorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Log

Fishing Back When

A Letter from NMFS

Mail Buoy

Product News

Around the Coasts

Market Reports

Permit News

Last Set / Solomons Island, Md.

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Editor’s Log

Crew life Jessica Hathaway Editor in Chief jhathaway@divcom.com

e usually wrap up our Crew Shots issue right before we hit the Expo floor in Seattle, so we have the pleasure of seeing your faces in these pages and then watching the vitality of this industry flood the show floor for three days, a literal (or at least, not virtual) sea of humanity. There is just nothing else like it. While Expo Online did not come close to offering the same experience (nor was it designed to), I was overwhelmed by its success. This year has been rough for everyone, but for fishermen especially — an industry that thrives on the brutality of natural forces — the task of staying engaged through flat-panel screens feels particularly cruel. The

official color of 2020 (did you know every year gets its own color?) ought to be Screen Glow Blue. And yet, you all conspired to make it feel vibrant. Our live Pebble Mine panel led to a flood of personal messages in the days after the video went live. (Yes, the trolls came out from under their YouTube bridges, too. But the fact that they would even pay attention to the talking heads at a virtual fishing trade show gives me confidence that we’re on the right track here.) The voices of the industry are calling out for what is right. One of my favorites was from an NF Highliner out of a Southern state. He’s had the pleasure of fishing Bristol Bay a few times since attending Expo

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for the awards ceremony. The first time he came out to Alaska and learned about Pebble Mine, he thought the process should play out. He has since gotten to know the culture, fishery abundance and topography of the region, and his experience has changed his mind. He says the flawed process is a failure of Alaska’s congressional leadership and calls, like so many other fishermen who value healthy habitats for wild fish, for permanent protections in Bristol Bay. “You can’t reproduce it,” he writes. “Leave it alone.” This issue is also an anniversary of sorts for me. Ten years ago, Jerry Fraser wrote his last editor’s log, handing the reins off to me. He was confident in my abilities then, certainly more than I was. It’s been a decade of intense education, a process I know will never come to a close. I feel incredibly lucky for this opportunity to take a turn at the helm of this historic ship and will be indebted forever to those of you who have patiently abided my incessant questions. Here’s to the next decade with friends old and new.

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Fishing Back When January By Jessica Hathaway

1991— Following an apparent mutiny attempt aboard the New Bedford-based 73foot scalloper Barnacle Bill, the crew is escorted off in Nantucket.

1 9 7 1 The research vessel Hero, built in Maine, makes her way among the glaciers of the Antarctic Peninsula to do work that may prove to be of keen interest to fishermen and scientists alike. San Diego’s albacore tuna fleet is tied up for the season after sharing in a 25,000-ton West Coast catch that spread from the fleet’s home port all the way up to Washington, making this one an unusual year. Decline in demand for wooden draggers and sardine carriers threatens Maine’s Newbert and Wallace yard.

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2 0 1 1 On the cover: Hauling roe herring over the stern in Togiak, Alaska.

California passes Proposition 132, a death sentence for Southern California’s inshore gillnetters. A carefully crafted, and some say misleading, campaign allows the initiative to pass without the benefit of biological evidence or a demonstrated need to impose the proposed restrictions. Earth Day dawns in Alaska’s Kamishak Bay as Cook Inlet’s sac roe herring fishery gets underway with 75 purse seiners, two dozen spotter planes and 90 tenders and processors at the ready.

Pollock trawlers in the Gulf of Alaska are shocked when their bycatch of king salmon triples the 20year average. As of October, the fleet of roughly 50 boats has caught more than 58,000 salmon. BP pledges to pay the state of Florida $20 million — to be split between testing and marketing seafood in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Seth Wyman, Peter Thorstenson and Scott Hansen take delivery of the 58-footer Robert Magnus from Oregon’s Fred Wahl Marine Construction.

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Trawl bycatch quandary [The following is excerpted from an Oct. 30, 2020, letter to NOAA assistant administrator Chris Oliver:] or the second year in a row, the Bering Sea trawl fisheries are well over their sablefish allocation. In 2019 and 2020, the Bering Sea trawl fleet exceeded its sablefish TAC by 2,453 metric tons (356 percent) and 4,416 metric tons (513 percent) with two months left in the 2020 season. These exceedances amounted to over 11 million pounds in the last two years alone. Bering Sea sablefish (trawl) sector has exceeded its quota for four years in a row. There are also consistent TAC overages in the Central Gulf of Alaska trawl fisheries. Also, for the second year in a row, sablefish quota shareholders and fixed gear organizations asked the council to take action to hold the trawl sector accountable for the overages. North Pacific Fishery Management Council members raised the issue and indicated they might make a motion to address trawl overages at the December 2020 meeting, but no action has been taken to date. Section 303(a)(15) of the Magnuson-Stevens Act requires that fishery

management plans include a “mechanism for specifying annual catch limits... including measures to ensure accountability.” This mandate reflected a primary purpose of the 2006 act, which responded to a need to require adherence to scientifically established annual catch limits. The National Standard 1 Guidelines explain that accountability measures should prevent the exceedances of ACLs, and “correct or mitigate overages of the ACL if they occur.” With the exception of the council “cautioning” the trawl sector, last year’s actions and the FMPs both rely on accountability measures that apply to the entire groundfish fishery instead of addressing overages caused by incidental catch in the trawl sector. It makes no sense to rely on fishery-wide measures when one sector consistently adheres to its catch limit, while another sector demonstrates considerable uncertainty and variability in its catch limit overages, which recur year after year. When a sector repeatedly and substantially exceeds its quota, such as the Gulf of Mexico

A Letter from NMFS

CARES Act funds By Chris Oliver

ack in May, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced the allocation of $300 million in fisheries assistance funding in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, also called the CARES Act. These funds were made available to states, territories and Tribes with coastal and marine fishery participants who have been negatively affected by covid–19. Since then, NOAA Fisheries has been actively working to get assistance to impacted eligible fishery participants as quickly as possible. States, territories and Tribes were required to submit a

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recreational red snapper fishery from 2008-13, it “defies logic” to assume that existing accountability measures and/ or voluntary measures will prevent a recurrence. The trawl sector exceeded the 2020 sablefish ABC/ACL for all Bering Sea sectors by nearly 50 percent.This overage raises a clear need to specify sector-specific AMs, particularly in light of the differences in management uncertainty for the different sectors and the proportion of sablefish take by the trawl sector. We believe NOAA should act immediately to stop trawl sablefish bycatch and to identify appropriate accountability measures for 2021 and beyond. Linda Behnken Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association

Malcolm Milne North Pacific Fisheries Association

Bob Alverson Fishing Vessel Owners Association

Megan O’Neill Petersburg Vessel Owners Association

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spend plan to the agency for approval in order to provide assistance. At the time of this writing, plans for Alabama, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Virginia were approved, and they were beginning their application process. We will continue to work with each state, territory, Tribe and interstate marine fisheries commission until everyone has an approved plan. If you were impacted and eligible, I encourage you to work with your state marine fisheries management agencies, territories, or Tribe to understand the process for applying for these funds. Chris Oliver is the director of the National Marine Fisheries Service. Oliver oversees the federal agency responsible for recreational and commercial fisheries.

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Northern Lights VIEWS FROM ALASKA

By Matt Carle

ne of the biggest challenges facing humanity is how to feed, water, educate and house a growing population on a finite planet. Seafood is key to addressing this challenge. And at Sealaska, we believe enormous social, environmental and economic value is possible when strong, like-minded organizations join forces across the world to make a bigger difference. Our recent alliance with New England Seafood International, a respected London-based importer, processor and supplier of fresh and frozen premium sustainable fish and seafood in the UK and Northern Europe, is all about working together with a global mindset. It’s also about inspiring consumers to buy and eat more seafood, and opening new markets and opportunities for Alaska’s bounty.

New England Seafood International has become known for telling the story of wild Alaska salmon.

Investing in ocean health The scale and international reach of this alliance will build on long-standing dedication to sustainable operations. NESI and Sealaska share a commitment to enhancing results for suppliers, building strong communities, and stewarding our oceans for long-term health. Sealaska is owned by 23,000 Alaska Native shareholders with 10,000 years of shared history and culture, and a strong sense of connection to one another — and to the land and the sea. Alaska Natives have been sustainably harvesting seafood for millennia. This history informs Sealaska’s investment in seafood and in ensuring the oceans that sustain that food source thrive. Sealaska’s Orca Bay and NESI are among the 11 founding members of the Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability, and both are committed to further enhancing the sustainable and ethical credentials of their supply chains.The Marine Stewardship Council has twice awarded NESI Retail Supplier of the Year in 6 National Fisherman \ January 2021

New partnerships build demand for Alaska seafood in the UK.

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The world goes wild the UK, in 2018 and again in 2020. This prestigious award starts with retailer nominations for leaders in sustainability. “Our work in looking after the oceans and being responsible — that’s part of our DNA,” said NESI founder Fred Stroyan. “We were the first in the UK industry to hire someone full-time on the sustainability side.The fact that Sealaska is also focused on ocean health and ocean sciences is a big draw, and very exciting.” Enhancing lives while promoting ocean health “Inspiring more seafood consumption is one way to combat the effects of climate change. Fisheries are among the most energy- and water-efficient sources of protein on the planet, according to the University of Washington. Seafood is also among the most nutritious of proteins. But seafood purveyors need to touch people’s hearts to persuade them to eat more seafood,” said NESI CEO Dan Aherne. “The category has been good at addressing the rational elements, such as that seafood is good for you,” he said. “Unless people have that emotional connection, though, change won’t happen.” Wild Alaska salmon help make that connection with their own fascinating story. NESI has become widely respected for telling it well, especially with its own brands. Leap, which uses the tagline “Free, not farmed,” is one of those. Wild Alaska salmon animate Leap. And NESI has proven that building a brand identity can inspire more people to eat seafood. As premium brands have done for chocolate and wine, so they can for sockeye and albacore. Together, Sealaska and NESI will open more channels and build more demand for Alaskan seafood in the UK, and will give Sealaska a chance to put some of NESI’s innovative thinking to work in the United States. The possibilities are exciting, and we look forward to deepening relationships with fishermen — in Alaska and across the United States. Follow Sealaska on Facebook @sealaska, Instagram @ sealaskacorp and Twitter @sealaska for the latest news. Matt Carle is the senior director of Corporate Communications at Sealaska. He lives in Juneau, Alaska, and serves on the Communications Committee for the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute.

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Overboard and back again By Katie Enslow

f you don’t adhere to the protocols, you won’t crew on my vessel very long,” said Mike LaRussa, captain of the F/V GK and a Bristol Bay Reserve board member. In 2020, Bristol Bay Reserve, a fishermen-owned marine insurance pool composed of approximately 350 Bristol Bay vessel owners, took on the challenge of changing the fleet’s outlook on the use of PFDs by offering incentives to members to purchase PFDs that are suitable for routine use. The concept for the program came from the reserve’s seven-member board of directors — all of whom are vessel owners and operators in the Bristol Bay driftnet fishery.

The leading cause of death in the Bristol Bay driftnet fishery is drowning from falls overboard. Consistent use of PFDs, vessel safety experts believe, would largely prevent fatalities from falls overboard. However, there has been reluctance by vessel operators to implement the regular use of PFDs in their operations. This long-standing resistance is believed to be the result of the “masculine” culture of the fishery and the impracticality of early PFD designs. In partnership with Seattle Marine & Fishing Supply Co., Bristol Bay Reserve offered preselected PFDs for purchase below retail price. As an added incentive, we provided members a discount

on their vessel insurance premium for participation in the program. Seamar distributed the PFDs at its location in Naknek, where members could pick up their PFDs and avoid the logistical challenges presented by restrictions in transporting CO2 cartridges by air. The response to the program far exceeded expectations with nearly 300 PFDs purchased. “We were pleasantly surprised to receive such a large order from BBR,” said Tyler “Stretch” Jaross, general manager of Seamar in Naknek. “Given the number of PFDs ordered, we decided to increase the stock at our store in Naknek in case there was an interest in purchasing PFDs by others. As soon as BBR members started picking up their orders, our store’s remaining supply flew off the shelves. Our entire stock sold out almost immediately. It was incredible. We have since been contacted by other organizations

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in the region interested in coordinating with us on programs similar to BBR’s.” The next challenge is to get more participants to incorporate and promote the regular use of PFDs in their vessel operations on a voluntary basis. “I think the next step for those of us who have PFDs is to promote them to the rest of the fleet by really using them and being seen wearing them every day,” said Darrin Manor, reserve board president and captain of the F/V Sarah J. “I have had my crew wearing PFDs for the past several seasons. As captain, it is crucial to establish when the crew must don one,” LaRussa added. For captains interested in creating PFD policies for their crew, NIOSH provides examples specific to gillnet vessels: “PFDs must be worn 100 percent of the time on deck; PFDs must be worn when climbing the stack; PFDs must be worn when crossing a river bar; PFDs must be

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worn when the weather turns bad.” See PFDs That Work — Gillnetters, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication Number: 2013-107, November 2012. The reserve’s PFD program was successful in raising awareness among the Bristol Bay fleet about the availability of modern PFDs designed for regular use. The long-term goal is to get all fishery

participants to incorporate the use of PFDs into routine vessel operations, which will go a long way toward preventing crew-overboard fatalities. “There are tons of PFDs that can be comfortably worn while working on deck, plenty of effective recovery devices, and the training to recover someone from the water isn’t time consuming or expensive. Reducing fatal falls overboard really comes down to the leadership of the captain,” said Chris Woodley, chairman of the Coast Guard Commercial Fishing Advisory Committee and executive director of the Groundfish Forum. Please visit your local marine supply store to find the PFD that is right for you and your crew. Katie Enslow is the CFO of Bristol Bay Reserve.

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California wildlife officials could use crab gear restrictions and area closures under a new plan to reduce whale entanglements.

Alaska / Pacific “To their credit, they did make some changes that can help keep boats on the water.” — Ben Platt, California Coastal Crab Association

California crabbers brake for whales, once again Dungeness fleet delayed opening two weeks for humpbacks to move on

nother autumn aggregation of humpback whales feeding close to shore — and tough new state rules to avoid gear entanglements — led to a two-week delay of the fall Dungeness crab opener, and no fresh crab for Thanksgiving, a California coast tradition. It was the fi rst pre-emptive delay ordered by the state Department of Fish and Wildlife under the recently fi nalized Risk Assessment and 10 National Fisherman \ January 2021

Mitigation Program, which can shut down the fishery if whales tangle in gear. Delaying the Dungeness crab season off California’s central coast until Dec. 1 would allow enough time for humpback whales to migrate out of the area, said state wildlife officials. The California Coast Crab Association is supporting the delay, which association President Ben Platt called a “prudent decision” to avoid the

possibility of an entanglement causing a shutdown. From a population estimate of 2,900 humpback whales years ago, “it’s been revised to over 7,200,” and the crab association is even considering a petition to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to have the whales taken off the endangered list, said Platt. “We had one confi rmed entanglement last year,” he added. “We’re having zero impact.” However, “we are being held responsible for unknown gear” that may come from longline or even recreational fishing sources, said Platt. More than three entanglement incidents now could shut down an entire season, he said. State officials did make some improvements in the RAMP plan to allow for measured responses, said Platt. “To their credit they did make some changes that can help keep boats on the water,” he said. The agency director can respond to new risk assessments by ordering area and gear restrictions and issuing advisories of whale movements. Those responses can be better targeted now too with the creation of seven management zones, said Geoff Shester, a senior scientist and California campaign director for the environmental group Oceana. He’s also on the committee with fishermen and others who advise the state agency on those plans. “What these rules do is allow the state to continue managing the fishery” without the risk of federal authorities stepping in, he said. That allows for incidental take permits that protect the fishermen from closures.” “I think ultimately this is going to be the saving grace for the fishery,” he added. The new Dec. 1 start date was similar to the 2019 season delay that was inspired by Bodega Bay fishermen’s decision to voluntarily sit out a scheduled Nov. 22 opening to avoid whales concentrated and feeding near Point Reyes and Half Moon Bay. www.nationalfisherman.com

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Scandies Rose owners will pay out $9 million Will go to 4 crew families, 2 survivors

wners of the Scandies Rose have reached an agreement to pay more than $9 million to two survivors and the families of four crew members who died when the boat sank on its way to the Bering Sea crab grounds in Alaska on New Year’s Eve 2019. Five were lost with the Scandies Rose: longtime captain Gary Cobban Jr., 60; his son, David Cobban, 30; Seth Rosseau-Gano, 31; Arthur Ganacias, 50; and Brock Rainey, 47. Two survivors, John Lawler and Dean Gribble Jr., made it into survival suits and a life raft, where the crew of a Coast Guard helicopter found them near Sutwik Island off the Alaska Peninsula. The Seattle Times reported that the agreement is subject to review in Washington’s Superior Court, and the division of funds is yet to be determined. Prior to the settlement agreement, the case was expected to go to trial in the spring. The Coast Guard’s Marine Board of Investigation into the sinking is still under way. Following pandemicrelated delays, public hearings are likely to begin in February 2020. The Coast Guard is still seeking input from witnesses and others knowledgeable about the boat’s general condition, information about the crew, local weather at the time of the sinking and any other information that might be useful in assessing the loss of the boat and crew. — Jessica Hathaway To subscribe, call 1-800-959-5073

Boat of the Month Waymaker

Chauvin, La. / Shrimp or twenty-six of his 59 years, James Blanchard has had a ready and steady partner in his shrimping endeavors, the 63-foot steel-hull trawler named Waymaker. Blanchard began working on the boat when it launched in 1996, and by 2001 was its proud owner. In lakes, bays and open Gulf of Mexico waters, James has guided Waymaker through weather fair and foul, and both skipper and boat have undergone changes over the decades. Blanchard became an active, driving force in the battle for shrimpers to overcome challenges from overseas aquaculture markets, as Louisiana representative for the eight-state Southern Shrimp Alliance; Waymaker was adapted to industry changes through conversion from being a simple ice boat to housing a stateof the-art IQF system. The vessel made it possible to put three children through college, including a daughter who went on to study at Yale University School of Law and is now herself a professor of law. When the boat’s exterior construction was complete, James became its first captain, working under its builder, the late Russell Portier. Blanchard completed the work inside and hired a carpenter to craft its fine Spanish cedar woodwork, while

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“Kind of the same thing is happening now” in the same area, said Platt. “So whales that would be moving south and out of California are hanging around.” “We’re hopeful for Dec. 1,” he said. “We don’t want to lose the Christmas market.” — Kirk Moore

he put finishing touches on exterior features. “I had a lot invested in it, a lot of time in the shipyard with metal and paint work,” he said. “The boat has beautiful lines. I think the shape of the boat is beautiful.” The boat’s name was derived from James’ love of Christian Scripture. “It says in the Bible that Jesus is the Waymaker, so it was named for him,” Blanchard explained. And just like the Bible’s verses, the Waymaker has afforded great learning experiences. “This boat has taught me not to take anything for granted, to always put my faith in God and not to just rely on myself,” he said. “It’s got a special place in my heart for everything I have been able to do in my life. It’s taught me a lot of patience, the understanding that you’ve got to have faith and you’ve got to believe.” —John DeSantis

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Atlantic “These curtains of gear may displace risk to right whales, rather than remove it.”

Right whale numbers downgraded, pressure up

A North Atlantic right whale and calf.

Maine regulators question more fishery restrictions without evidence they would help

he North Atlantic right whale population likely numbered just 366 animals with 94 breeding females in early 2019, a substantial downgrade from earlier estimates and a signal the extremely endangered species is in even more dire straits, NMFS officials warned. The revision came in an Oct. 26 email to the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Team, an advisory panel that confers with NMFS experts on how to reduce accidental injuries and deaths of

whales, the biggest threats being ship strikes and entanglement in fishing gear. Previous estimates, based on biologists’ modeling, experts’ surveys and cataloging of surviving right whales, had pegged the population that migrates between Canada and Florida at 412 animals in January 2018. In U.S. waters, NMFS is looking at lobster area closures offshore of Maine, a move state fisheries experts say would have a sharp economic effect on Maine’s

lobstering communities and do little to protect the species. There have been no fatalities tied to the Maine fleet for more than two decades, while fishermen voluntarily implemented measures to reduce risks. A federal court ruling has given NOAA until May 2021 to come up with a revised plan to better protect the whales, and the agency is considering gear restrictions and area closures as options. The Maine Department of Marine

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— Maine Department of Marine Resources memo to NMFS

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Resources staff has been meeting with the state’s lobster zone councils to come up with “conservation equivalency” measures to better protect right whales — short of area closures under consideration by federal officials. In a Sept. 3 memo to federal officials, the Maine agency outlined what it foresees as the negative effect of closures. “Effectiveness of area closures as a tool for risk reduction is predicated on the assumption that gear from these areas will be brought back to shore. This works best for areas in enclosed areas close to shore, like the one in Cape Cod Bay,” DMR staffers wrote. “In a yearround, offshore fishery, though, the likely result of area closures will be that gear is simply moved to areas adjacent to the closure, creating a ‘curtain effect’ around the closed area. These curtains of gear may displace risk to right whales, rather than remove it,” they wrote. — Kirk Moore

Snapshot Who we are Scot Kandoll / Petersburg, Alaska

n an isolated bay on the west

Kandoll said. “As a fisherman, that’s a

side of Prince of Wales Island

good mentality, when times are bad it’s how are you going to work through

in Southeast Alaska, Captain

Scot

it.”

Kandoll

Outside

gave a crew member a

the

Sisu

casual nod to release

mentality, Kandoll tries to

the seine skiff and set

take his father’s approach

the net on his 58-foot

to fishing, not just the method but a mindset of

fiberglass Delta, the

calm kindness — a rarity

F/V Sisu. The

boat

on the water. Brian Kandoll

Kandoll

has been dubbed by many as

was swapping sets with

the “nicest man in Petersburg,” to

was one he knew well. As he motored the Sisu away from the skiff, his

which Scot Kandoll chuckles.

father, Brian Kandoll, stood a hundred

“My dad’s very calm and levelheaded.

yards away pulling in the purse line from

From him I learned your problems

the deck winch on another 58-foot Delta,

are never as big as you think they are

the F/V Providence.

typically, so you have to able to be calm

Kandoll, 41, grew up fishing out of

and think your way through,” Kandoll

Petersburg, Alaska, for salmon, blackcod

says. “Treating people well is important,

NOAA center studies turbine noise and fish

and halibut on the Providence with his

realizing the crew and people you’re

brother and two sisters, all learning their

working with aren’t interchangeable and

father’s trade while teenagers. Now two

disposable.”

Looks to effects on black sea bass

of his young sons Benjamin, 12, and

Kandoll has been working up to this

Jackson, 9, take turns going out on

purchase since his 20s when he bought

fishing trips before they’ll be old enough

his boat the Iliamna Bay, a 42-foot

to become full-fledge crew. The offer is

Ledford fiberglass pocket seiner, in 2004.

extended to his daughter Ella, 14, and

He ran it for seven years gillnetting and

his youngest child, Henry, still has a few

Dungeness crab fishing. Kandoll even

years to go at only 3 years old.

took it out to Sand Point for Dungeness

cientists at federal fisheries laboratories are investigating how sound generated by the construction of offshore wind turbines may affect black sea bass — a valuable species in the Northeast that is attracted to underwater structures like turbine foundations. “We do know that black sea bass are attracted to underwater structures and have anecdotal information that they move away from noise,” said Beth Phelan, a biologist with the Northeast Fisheries Science Center. Researchers used 20 black sea bass for the study, attaching electrodes to the fish that measured electrical signals generated by their brains in response to recordings of noise generated during pile-driving construction work at the Woods Hole ferry terminal — similar to the sounds emitted when driving piles for wind turbine foundations. — Kirk Moore To subscribe, call 1-800-959-5073

“Being able to take my family out is an

crab fishing for one summer with his

awesome side benefit to the business,”

wife, Rachel. They renamed the Iliamna

Kandoll says. “It’s great having them on

Bay as the Ella K after their first daughter

the water with me, and they like it a lot,

was born. In 2010, Kandoll sold the Ella K and

too.” Kandoll purchased the boat with a

purchased a Bristol Bay gillnetter he

Southeast Alaska salmon seine permit,

named the Ella K. Until this year, he

and halibut and blackcod IFQs from a

would also longline for halibut and

retiring Petersburg fisherman in early

blackcod with his father and his brother

2020 and renamed it the Sisu. He’s from

Matte on the Providence.

a Finnish family, and his grandfather also

Purchasing a seiner and halibut and

had a sport boat named the Sisu, so the

blackcod quota is a huge investment,

name holds familial weight.

and while it seems there’s often doom grit,

and gloom on the horizon, Kandoll

tenacity and hope. It’s basically it’s been

is bullish on the future of fisheries in

described the psyche of the Finnish

Southeast Alaska.

“Sisu

means

perseverance,

people, it’s their national mentality,”

— Nick Rahaim

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Nation / World “For the offshore wind industry, a President Biden is a far more positive development.” — Sarah Vilms, Squire Patton Boggs, law and lobbying firm

Fishing communities, ocean industries await Biden Next administration will make climate, economy and environment priorities

B and tying it to economic stimulus,

an incoming administration under president-elect Joe Biden will bring strong support to the emerging U.S. offshore wind energy industry, likely paving the way for additional federal lease offerings, according to industry analysts. “For the offshore wind industry, a President Biden is a far more positive development,” said Sarah Vilms of Squire Patton Boggs, a law and lobbying firm with offices in Washington, D.C. With his intent to return the nation to the Paris climate agreement vacated by President Donald Trump, climate policy “will be a defining” aspect of a Biden presidency, Vilms said during a Friday webinar hosted by the industry group Business Network for Offshore Wind, on the eve of U.S. media networks calling the 2020 election for the former vice president. If Biden’s policy moves are blocked by a Republican-controlled Senate — now apparently dependent on Jan. 5 runoff elections for Georgia’s two Senate seats — Biden, like former president Barack Obama, will likely resort to his own executive orders, said Vilms: “We expect him to use that power.” That could foreshadow a rerun of dueling executive orders from the Obama and Trump presidencies, as when the Trump administration early on sought to undo Obama orders restricting Arctic ocean energy leasing. Biden might exempt wind power development from President Trump’s executive order, calling a moratorium on ocean energy leases from Florida to North Carolina, announced in the waning days of his re-election campaign.

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Department of Energy

y making climate change a priority

Industry analysts anticipate a Biden administration will boost offshore wind.

Then there might be pressure from environmental groups to revisit the Atlantic Northeast Canyons and Seamounts marine national monument declared by Obama and promised by Trump to be reversed. Alongside climate policy, environmental justice for under-represented communities has been another goal for the Biden campaign, and U.S. fishermen could use that to make their case for a bigger proactive role in planning wind energy areas,Vilms suggested. A Biden administration could bring more outreach to fishing communities, she said: “I see Biden striking a good balance there.” “The environmental justice narrative is something that plays well on the Eastern seaboard of the United States,” LesStrang added. International energy analysts Wood Mackenzie predict a sharp policy pivot after Biden takes office. A new administration will act faster to help coastal states develop wind power, but over time will constrain offshore oil and gas development, according to Ed Crooks, the firm’s vice chairman for the Americas. “There will not be a ban on fracking,

but Biden has pledged to end sales of new leases for oil and gas development on public lands and waters,” according to Crooks. “A ban on new leasing, if permanent, would mean that by 2035 US offshore oil and gas production would be about 30 percent lower than if lease sales had continued.” Similarly, Woods Mackenzie analysts estimate a Biden administration could boost offshore wind turbine construction in U.S. waters by 30 percent by 2030 compared to what a second Trump administration would do. Fisheries management could benefit from Biden climate policy, suggested Jacqueline Savitz, chief policy officer for the environmental group Oceana. “The oceans are not just a resource we must protect, they are also a vital tool in healing our planet from the decades of damage we have caused,” said Savitz. “They are our life support system, and a source of food, that can provide 1 billion people a healthy seafood meal every day if we can manage our fisheries sustainably.” — Kirk Moore

Family Feud: Nova Scotia lobster fight Fishing rights dispute ends in takeover

S when the Canadian Supreme Court

ince the 1999 Marshall Decision,

acknowledged the fishing rights reserved by indigenous tribes in the Canadian Maritimes in 18th century treaties, tempers have sometimes flared between the country’s non-indigenous and Indigenous fleets. Fast forward to 2020, and the Indigenous lobster fishery in southwest Nova Scotia, where non-indigenous fishermen, on Tuesday Oct. 13, resorted to violent vigilantism to try to stop the Indigenous fishery. The non-Indigenous opposition says the season for nonIndigenous fishing is closed, so all fishing should be shuttered. “We were called to a disturbance in New Edinborough,” said Andrew Joyce, spokesman for the Royal Canadian www.nationalfisherman.com

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A fire was set Oct. 13 as lobster fishermen clashed with Indigenous fishermen in Nova Scotia.

Mounted Police. “There were about 200 people there and they were preventing individuals from leaving, and damaging property. Then later in the day there was another incident in Middle West Pubnico.” According to journalist Maureen Googoo, writing on the web service kukukwes.com, a “mob of nonIndigenous lobster fishermen trapped two Mi’kmaw fishermen inside a lobster pound.” One of the Mi’kmaw fishermen, Jason Marr, said the mob had set fire to

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his van and were throwing rocks at the lobster pound. Joyce said no arrests were made at the time because emotions were high and officers vastly outnumbered. According to Arthur Bull, who has helped facilitate various dialogues between Indigenous and non-Indigenous fishermen since the 1999 Marshall Decision, the vigilantes do not represent all fishermen. “It’s a much more complicated situation than what you read in the papers,” said Bull. “In the past, these groups have

worked together. They have a lot more in common than they do differences.” Bull pointed out that the non-Indigenous fishermen are mostly Acadian, and most have Mi’kmaw ancestors. “What I see is that the nonIndigenous fishers are under huge pressure. They are fighting wind farms, resource extraction, and attempts by big players like Clearwater (Seafoods) to take this fishery out of the villages.” A month later, two First Nations communities had partnered to purchase 50 percent of Clearwater. According to Bull, the nonIndigenous lobstermen who are attacking the Mi’kmaw fishermen have cost themselves and all non-indigenous lobstermen the moral high ground in these other battles because one can’t ignore the racism evident in their actions. “It’s unfortunate,” he said. — Paul Molyneaux

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Gulf / South Atlantic “When that is taken into consideration, you would have already served your sentence for illegal entry, so no further imprisonment is necessary.” Jordan Cassoff

— Christilyn Benjamin, BVI Magistrate

U.S. captain freed to leave islands — with his boat Innocent of fishing charges, plea won time served and $4,000 penalty

uring his trial in the British Virgin Islands for the charges of illegal entry, arriving at a place other than a customs port, and operating an unlicensed or unregulated fishing vessel, Michael Foy’s defense attorney argued his client was innocent of all charges. After Magistrate Christilyn Benjamin earlier dismissed the prosecution’s fishing charge, the longline captain entered a guilty plea to the illegal entry and arrival charge — leading to an Oct. 30 ruling that freed Foy to leave the territory after paying a $4,000 fine.

Foy, 60, of Manahawkin, N.J., was arrested in June after BVI officers instructed him to follow them into the port of Road Town on Tortola. Foy’s family and supporters say the captain believed he was legally cleared earlier for entry, as he had done before. The court resolution enabled Foy to leave for Florida with his boat the Rebel Lady — which had been impounded and in danger of forfeiture when the prosecutors sought conviction on illegal fishing charges and a $511,000 fi ne.

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U.S. longline captain Michael Foy was freed by a court in the British Virgin Islands to return to Florida with his boat Rebel Lady.

For the charge of illegal entry, Benjamin decided to forego a fi ne and imposed a four-month custodial sentence, though she counted his four months held in jail awaiting court as time served. “When that is taken into consideration, you would have already served your sentence for illegal entry, so no further imprisonment is necessary,” Benjamin said. Foy’s attorney Patrick Thompson asked that rather than receive the maximum fi ne of $10,000, his client be fi ned the amount it cost to stow his boat during his detainment, which he said amounted to $4,628.27. While handing down her sentencing, Benjamin added that Tiffany Scatliffe-Esprit, the Director of Public Prosecutions, had decided not to forfeit the vessel, the Rebel Lady. During the trial, Crown Counsel Kael London argued that the defendant had broken the law by not receiving permission from the relevant authorities to enter the territory, not alerting any officials to his arrival, and being engaged in fi shing. Magistrate Benjamin threw out that charge Oct. 9. Defense lawyer Thompson meanwhile contended that Foy was protected under provisions in the law that state that one must set foot on land to have illegally entered, and that people in certain distressed situations are allowed into the territory. — Joey Waldinger and Kirk Moore www.nationalfisherman.com

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Sport fishing groups take aim at shrimp fishery

Environmental Quality’s Division of Marine Fisheries violated the federal Clean Water Act in its management of shrimp trawling in North Carolina. But the group has now turned attention to individual trawling companies: Capt. Gaston LLC., Esther Joy Inc., Hobo Seafood Inc., Lady Samaria Inc., Trawler Capt. Alfred Inc., and Trawlers Garland and Jeff Inc. “The Division of Marine Fisheries vigorously protects the resources of

New lawsuit targets trawl companies

he North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries is fielding attacks from two recreational fishing groups, alleging the agency exhibits “abject failure in properly managing the state’s coastal fisheries resources.” Lawsuits filed by the North Carolina Coastal Fisheries Reform Group and more recently the Coastal Conservation Association of North Carolina take aim at the state’s “publictrust responsibilities to manage coastal fish stocks in a way that protects the public-trust rights of the public.” According to Glenn Skinner, executive director of the North Carolina Fisheries Association, these attacks on the state’s fisheries agencies and the commercial industry are nothing new, but he has noted a change. “While none of this is surprising, the number of attacks has definitely increased,” says Skinner. “There seems to be an effort to ‘go for the throat’ lately on multiple fronts. Attacks such as these mirror a lot of what’s gone on in other states, especially regarding the CCA.” The Coast Fisheries Reform Group dropped its initial lawsuit claiming without evidence that the North Carolina Department of

N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries

Sport-fishing groups are suing North Carolina over its shrimp management plan.

this state and its fisheries,” said DEQ Secretary Michael S. Regan. “This dismissal confirms our view from the outset that the claims in this lawsuit were without legal merit and detract from the meaningful efforts of diverse stakeholders working together to ensure we protect our resources for current and future generations.” The shrimp trawl fishery in North Carolina is overseen under a

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Shrimp Fishery Management Plan, adopted by the state Marine Fisheries Commission, which is the rulemaking body for estuarine and marine fisheries management. State fisheries officials say it is an “open and inclusive process through which those who wish to see changes in fisheries management can advocate for those changes.” The Coastal Fisheries Reform Group’s attorney Jim Conner says the dismissal was “purely because of a technicality.” “We did the dismissal because they (state officials) filed a brief saying they’re protected from lawsuits like these by sovereign immunity,” says Conner. Sovereign immunity is a legal doctrine shielding federal and state governments from certain civil suits. “After a round of consultation, we decided to focus on the trawling companies.” But according to the Division of Marine Fisheries announcement, the voluntary dismissal came after the state “moved to dismiss the suit on several grounds,” including that the group “failed to state sufficient facts to support a claim that the division had violated the Clean Water Act.” “Unfortunately there is nothing new in either of these suits,” says Skinner of the commercial fisheries association. “It is simply more unfounded attacks on our state’s fishing families.” — Maureen Donald

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AT L A N T I C

Lobster Despite early covid anxiety, prices stayed strong late into the year 020 has tested the seafood industry in new and unexpected ways. But for a lobster industry rooted in an ethos of resilience, there is room for optimism. In 2019, lobster accounted for 73 percent of all commercial landings in Maine by value. But at the start of the covid-19 pandemic, the fate of the lucrative industry felt uncertain. “There was a lot of panic early on.There were actually people advocating shutting down the season,” says John Norton, president of Cozy Harbor Seafood, a Portland, Maine-based processor and distributor of mostly frozen lobster products. “But we’re fortunate that lobster is a food that is highly regarded (and) has significant markets in both retail and food service,” says Norton. Patrice McCarron, executive director of the Maine

Lobstermen’s Association, agrees: “There was a lot of anxiety and pessimism going into 2020 over the near shutdown of restaurants and the entertainment industry. It was a very sluggish start. Lobstermen were careful not to set more gear than needed, and many waited to set gear this year.” For Steve Train, a veteran lobsterman from Long Island, Maine, “the price was low early in the summer. But as demand increased beyond expectations, it climbed closer to where it should be.” By early fall, live lobsters were about $8 in the wholesale market, in line with previous years. At Harbor Fish, a popular retail market on Portland Maine’s waterfront, co-owner Nick Alfiero says June and July prices of $3.25 to $3.50 were low compared to 2019, then $4 in August and rising to $5 into the fall. He says the next test for the industry is Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s. “My guess is prices will stay strong, as some boats tie up, prices will stay strong,” Alfiero adds, noting that the fall is the end of the season for a lot of inshore fishermen. — Caroline Losneck

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Snapper

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Gulf biomass still plentiful, prices robust; South Atlantic stock healthy, quota low

Strong hauls of restaurant-preferred fish land in cold storage

o one should have any difficulty buying fresh Gulf of Mexico red snapper for dinner anytime in the foreseeable future. “It’s what they call a ‘harvest fishery’ — you go out there, they bite. They’re not hard to fi nd,” said Steve Rash, who owns Water Street Seafood in Apalachicola, Fla. That assessment was confi rmed by the recent Great Red Snapper Count — a two-year scientific study conducted by Texas A&M’s Harte Research Institute. Researchers reported to Congress in October that there are up to three times as many red snapper living in the gulf as scientists previously estimated. Rash says the dozen or so boats operating out of his fish house catch red snapper on nearly every trip, whether it is the target species or as bycatch in the grouper, amberjack, or other reef fisheries. He says dock prices are in the $5- to $5.50-per-pound range, with fishermen who are leasing quota netting about $2 per pound. As of just before Thanksgiving, gulf fishermen had landed about 5.6 million pounds, or 82 percent of the annual quota of 7 million pounds. Rash said sales to restaurants were slow from last winter to early spring as a result of covid-19-related shutdowns. “But when everything opened up, business got really good in northern gulf beaches,” he said. NMFS “needs to raise the quota; that’s what they need to do.” In the South Atlantic, where red snapper are managed separately, populations are similarly abundant, according to Jimmy Hull, owner of Hull Seafood restaurant and market in Ormond Beach, Fla. But fishermen are limited by “a small quota based on a horrible stock assessment,” Hull said. The commercial fishery opened July 13 and closed Sept. 5 after NMFS determined fishermen had fulfi lled their quota. Hull said boat prices were around $6.75 per pound. These days, Hull is buying red snapper from gulf suppliers to sell in his restaurant and market. Meanwhile, he and other South Atlantic fi shermen are depending on vermilion snapper to fulfi ll consumer demand. A smaller but tasty species, vermilions are garnering between $2.75 and $4 per pound to the boat, depending on size. — Sue Cocking

etrale sole trawlers found plenty of fi sh when they plied the waters off the West Coast in October. But with limited regional markets to absorb harvest volume, smaller deliveries maxed out orders destined for restaurant markets, while the rest wound up in cold storage holdings and will be sold as frozen product after the end of the season. “People still eat petrale, even though San Francisco turned into a shanty town,” says Scott Adams, a plant manager with Hallmark Fisheries in Charleston, Ore. “Places are just boarded up. Sales are good but just limited.” Like other species that are typically featured at indoor restaurants, petrale suffered much the same fate with the continuing trend in social distancing. A unique component in the petrale industry is that nearly all sales are to domestic markets with regional strongholds in San Francisco and other ports along the West Coast. Diners who know the taste of petrale have been partial to it for decades. Adams noted in November that the fi sh were plentiful out on the grounds and that many of them were running larger than 18 inches and weighing more than 6 pounds, which makes for sweeter tasting fi llets. Restaurateurs, meanwhile, prefer petrale 15 inches long or larger, as they produce the perfect-sized fi llet portions when the chefs arrange them on plates. “They’re nice big fi sh,” he says. “It’s the perfect time to catch them.” For their efforts, the trawlers had landed 402.6 metric tons of a 3,697.9-metric-ton quota by mid-November. A year ago, they had delivered 1,708 metric tons of a 2,587-metric-ton quota. Though the stock remains healthy, quotas for the trawlers will decrease slightly to 3,242.5 metric tons to satisfy allocation requirements among IFQ holders. As for average ex-vessel prices, they’ve slipped downward from the $1.19 per pound in the 2019-20 season to $1.07 per pound, according to most recent data in PacFIN. — Charlie Ess

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ALASKA

Geoduck & Sea cucumbers Geoduck biomass is down, but cukes continue an upswing outheast Alaska divers splashed to the water in search of geoducks and sea cucumbers in October. This year divers will focus on a guideline harvest level of 523,500 pounds of geoducks and 1.75 million pounds for cukes, which is down from the 1.9 millionpound GHL they saw in the 2019-20 season. Though the GHL appears to have faltered from a year ago, the schedule of dive openings in areas that alternate every other year show that biomass is actually on the rise for cucumbers. The GHL for the same harvest areas in the 2018-19 season had been set at 1.48 million pounds. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game conducts population surveys every three years with cukes, and stock assessments last year revealed strong

young age classes that will recruit into the fishery, according to Justin Breese, fisheries manager with ADF&G in Ketchikan. “There were a lot of young cucumbers in that assessment,” he says. The story isn’t quite as optimistic for geoducks. Though the GHLs vary, based on alternating harvest areas like cucumbers, some dive areas have seen heavy predation by sea otters and high levels of PSP. “There were some areas lost because biomass fell down a bit,” says Breese. “There were some significant areas lost from that.” As for the markets, covid-19 hampered diving for geoducks last spring when live outlets shut down in China. “But when the China market reopened, we fished through the summer which was a first for the fishery,” says Phil Doherty, co-executive director of Southeast Alaska Regional Dive Fisheries Association, in Ketchikan. Ex-vessel prices, however, were softer, Doherty reports, with an average of $4.25 per pound, down from the $6 per pound divers had seen in recent years. — Charlie Ess

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ith the average age of U.S. fishermen in the 50s and trending upward, young people are the lifeblood of the industry. Programs to support young people in fisheries have been launched and lauded on every coast. But for some young folks it’s hardly necessary. They can’t be stopped. When they look at the harbors and the sea, they see “opportunity” writ large, and they are going for it. Elijah Brice of Eastport, Maine, is among them. Brice’s family moved to Maine from New Jersey when he was 7 years old, and he took root like a native plant. At age 15, Brice got his student lobster license and 150 traps. His father helped him buy a 20-foot outboard. “I did about all I could with that boat,” Brice says. “I snapped the davit off twice, one time up in the falls, I was hung down and the tide was running and it was pulling

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us down. My rope cutter blade broke, I couldn’t get to my other knife, and then the davit just snapped. I said, you can have it. I was lucky.” A teenager pushing the limits with a 20-foot outboard in an area with 27-foot tides has to be lucky, the reversing falls of Cobscook Bay have eaten bigger boats than his. Now with 400 traps and gaining 100 every year, Brice has realized he needs to grow his boat if he wants to carry on in the fishery.“Butch Harris had this hull, and I bought it off him. It was built by a guy named Dana Hunter in Tatamagouche, in Nova Scotia. I’m not sure when.” Like Brice, Butch Harris grew up working on the water and has owned a number of boats, including the hulk he sold to Brice. “It was a tour boat over on Campobello,” Harris says of the 32-foot fiberglass Novi hull. “They let it go. The engine was not good. Elijah took it down to nothing but the hull.” www.nationalfisherman.com

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lucky to have a wealth of knowledgeable people around,” he says. “I’d get an idea, and I’d bounce it off different people, and they’d help me figure things out.” Among his mentors, Butch Harris probably spent the most time helping Brice. “I showed him how to fiberglass,” says Harris. “And I helped him figure out how to build up the sides. I didn’t do much really, just tried to answer his questions.” Brice built up the deck with hot-coated 2 x 6 framing and 3/4 plywood that he finished with 1.5-ounce fiberglass mat, a layer of woven roving, and gelcoat. “Every seam has an excessive amount of gelcoat,” he says. Brice has three 2-footsquare hatch covers to access his reduction gear shaft and stuffing box, one is a Freeman and two are Bomar. “I got them off two different boats,” says Brice.

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Originally the Miss Kim, Brice renamed the boat as Perseverance, and rightly so. In December 2019, he moved the hull into a shop Harris owns. But before he could begin working, he had to have hernia surgery. “I started on March 1st,” he says. “I took off the old cabin, and the old deck. They had a 14-inch step up into the cabin! And the cabin trunk was so high, I couldn’t really see from the wheelhouse, so I took that off, too.” Brice stripped the vessel down to virtually nothing but the skin of the hull, as it was when it came out of the mold. Then Brice had to design the boat he wanted, starting with the wheelhouse. “I went up to Cape Breton Island,” says Brice. “There was a guy there with this same hull and a wheelhouse I liked. So I just measured it and built it.” Brice added some touches of his own. “I added the overhang forward, and I extended the port side wall to give my crew more protection.” Brice also cut away more of the starboard wall to give himself better access to traps coming aboard. Novi boats are generally easy to spot, with a high plumb bow that drops steeply to a low, slightly sweeping sheer. But having worked in a low-sided outboard for three years, Brice wanted a change. “I followed the sheer line but raised the sides 14 inches,” he says. “And I raised the deck, so it’s all one level and drains out the stern.” The Perseverance being Brice’s first boat, he did not wing it alone. “I am so

“Those things are expensive. New, they’re like, 2,000 dollars.” For power, Brice picked up a rebuilt 270-hp Cummins JWAC 6BTA. “A guy was going to put it in his boat but changed his mind. I got a really good deal on it. It came with the gear, a Twin Disc MG506, with 2:1 reduction.” Brice transfers that power through a 1.5-inch-diameter shaft to a 23-inch square propeller. “It’s got an old-fashioned stuffing box. I want to go to dripless as soon as I can.” Coming off the front end of the Cummins is Brice’s hydraulic system. “I got the hauler used. It’s 14-inch, and I’m looking forward to that after that 10inch. Everything else is new, the clutch, the pump, the hoses, valves. The pump is made by Metaris.” Brice hauls his gear with a Canadian block, which has rounded teeth on the outer flange to help lift the gear. “It came with the boat,” says Brice. “I’ll try it, see if I like it. Breaking those traps in will wear out your rotor cuff.This makes it a little easier.” The block is used, but the davit and other aluminum work on the boat is brand new. “Steve Cox did it all,” says Brice. “He did the davit, the exhaust system, and the prop cage.” Brice also added a 2-foot overhang off the stern to save on deck space. “He did the brackets for that, too.” The wheelhouse of the Perseverance is equipped with the basics: a new Furuno

Brice took the old boat down to just the hull and rebuilt from there, raising the sides, leveling the deck and adding a new wheelhouse.

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1815 radar, a Furuno FCV-628 sounder, and two VHFs. For deck lights and spot lights, Brice has scavenged LCDs from here and there. “I don’t know what brand they are. That middle one came off my truck.” Brice figures he has about $60,000 into the project, plus his time. “Price out a 32-footer at H&H, and it’s $150,000.With this I’ve got a boat for half or a third of that, and by working by myself and with other people, I’ve given myself an educational experience. I’m grateful to have so many local people with a vast amount of knowledge.” Brice figures he has put in an average of 12 hours a day, and local spectators acknowledge that his truck is always there and the lights are always on in the shop. “Once I started working, I realized what I’d started. It’s a big project compared to what I’ve done before. It’s hard to stay organized, I spend about

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Keeping a low overhead is vital for a lobsterman with only 400 traps, so Brice’s electronics are the bare basics.

Brice is using the toothed Canadian block that he picked up and a used Hydroslave hauler he is very excited about.

20 percent of my time just looking for tools.” Brice can see the light at the end of the tunnel and is eager to get his new boat into the water before the fall run really comes on. “I’ve got tunnel vision for getting this

finished,” he says. But he’s not sure if the Perseverance is a stepping stone, or a boat he will fish for a long time.With so much uncertainty in fisheries, Brice is playing it safe and positioning himself to keep his money in his pocket. “I like fishing, but I

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Brice onboard his newly launched boat. His mother, Manuela, christened her son’s vessel.

don’t know how things are going to go. I may not get a bigger boat, it might not be cost effective.” On launch day, Brice is focused. “I’m waiting for the survey,” he says. “I want this boat surveyed and insured before it leaves this building.”

On Sept. 15, 2020, Elijah Brice has the Perseverance almost ready. He is busy taking the light stand off the wheelhouse. “I didn’t sleep last night,” he says. “Excited and also wondering what I’ve gotten myself into.” As high water approaches, Adam

Thompson of Addison, Maine, arrives and loads the boat aboard his trailer. At the ramp near the Eastport breakwater, a crowd of well-wishers has gathered, among them Brice’s father, Colie, with his camera ready, and mother, Manuela, with a champagne bottle. “You must be proud,” someone shouts. “Just a little bit,” Colie says. Many are amazed that a young man only 18 years old has accomplished this. The boat splashes, but there is a problem with the cooling pump. Elijah gets his new boat to its slip and starts the trouble-shooting that will keep him occupied for the next few weeks. But he is in the water and ready for fall fishing — when the money is made in Maine’s lobster fishery. Paul Molyneaux is the Boats & Gear editor for National Fisherman and author of “The Doryman’s Reflection.”

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Westport, Wash.

Point Judith, R.I.

Stonington, Maine

Cape Elizabeth, Maine

Heidi Heuker works the 2020 king crab season on the F/V Island Mist.

Robert Yucha and Gage Peterson got a surprise while stacking out of the Washington coast Dungeness crab fishery on the F/V Miss Fran. Photo from Larry Conklin.

Derek Pascale fishes lobster and conch with his mate Millie on the F/V Ragged Edge. John Lee photo

Lobster captain and state representative Genevieve McDonald only stops for her family, even on the deck of the F/V Hello Darlin’ II.

Eric Knight Sr. on his son’s boat the F/V Ivy Jean out of Portland, Maine.

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Caden Culbert, Jason Hudkins, Dawson Tucker, Sarah Hudkins, Kaitlyn Steffy, Jordana Coykendall and Gavin Hudkins — setnetting on Salamatof Beach in Cook Inlet, Kenai, Alaska.

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Charleston, Ore.

11 Christina and Natalee Ripley on the power troller F/V Crimson Clover.

12 Kirk Gerbereux cleans up after the 2020 blue crab season on the F/V Pogy.

13 Sophia Anderson, age 3 and a fifth-generation fisherman, is so proud after picking her first salmon of the 2020 season at Salamatof Beach, Kenai.

14 Salmon season in Egegik on the F/V Miss Gina: Amelia Egle, Molly Miller and Taj DeVries.

15 Bryson Burns, Clint Friese, Mike Benitez and Will Smith hauling Dungies on the F/V Coho.

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16 Niki, J.D., and Emma Leggett crew the F/V 12th Man, crab fishing out of Petersburg.

17 Jack Davis and Eric DeShields are all smiles scalloping the Atlantic Open Bottom in July on the F/V Elise G with Captain Mike Cox.

18 James Jones, Kyle Ames, Nicolaus Dammarell, Staale Brekkaa, Brad Clark and Randy Crozier get after red king crab on the F/V Silver Dolphin.

19 Daniel Pallotta, Tracy Saksa and Yuri Nagle on the Kevleen K in Dutch Harbor king crab season. Deb Rhoades photo

20 Christian Quebec, Chris Hawes and Justin Goodwin seining for pogies in Boston Harbor aboard the F/V McCafferey.

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21 Matthew Lavigne with a 75-pound codfish in April 2020 on the F/V Ellen Diane.

22 Zofia and Levi Danielson unload an early morning delivery of salmon on the troller F/V Lady Linda in 2010 at ages 11 and 8 (inset) and this year at 21 and 18.

23 Husband and wife co-captains on the F/V B-Team, Logan and Bethany Branstiter in the Nushagak Bay with beautiful sockeye salmon.

24 Lucas Patry on deck of the F/V Happy Ours fishing for bluefin tuna with the captain, Ean Patry.

25 Andrew Nordtvedt, 13, shows off a king he landed aboard the F/V Grebe during the summer troll opening near Ketchikan.

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26 Alley brothers, Ezra, 6, and Adin,11, catching lobsters on the F/V Urine Trouble. Adin drives the boat.

27 Eli Seibold and Amber Karlsen — mother and son — purse seining on the F/V Dynasty.

28 Fred Squartsoff Jr., J.D. Christiansen, Arlin Skonberg, Tanner Rogers and Chuck Jackson on the F/V Atlantico in the 2020 red king crab season.

29 Asher Molyneaux on the New England Fishmongers’ F/V Finlander II handlining pollock.

30 Alex Stuart, Josh Conn, Trevor McCay and Stew Vick longlining on the F/V Jodi Marie.

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By Brian Hagenbuch

2020

While we may all agree that 2020 was an unforgettable year that we would like to forget, the fishing industry forged forward under adverse circumstances. Industry giants and a host of new innovators kept their shoulders to the wheel to help our fleets increase their catch and quality in the safest, most efficient way possible. Here are some of our favorites from a year that was decidedly not our favorite.

Engines

n 2020, European maker MAN Engines introduced the new D2676 LE426, an 800-horsepower, inline-six engine for lightduty workboats that is an upgrade of its popular 730-horsepower D2676 LE443. MAN’s American division expects the engine to be popular for shallow-water gillnetters in Bristol Bay, as well as lobster boats in Maine and Canada, and crabbers in the Keys. The engine offers a factory-fitted keel-cooling option, a feature that cuts weight by 5 percent over the previous engines cooled by heat exchangers. The LE426 also has a new cylinder head and new injectors that boost the engine’s power density, bumping up the total power by 10 percent over the previous 730 horsepower version and providing plenty of thrust for boats across a number of fisheries. Suzuki Marine also rolled out two new smaller four-stroke outboards, the DF115BG and DF140BG, which have 115 and 140 horsepower. They are the first in their smaller class with drive-by-wire technology, which has proved popular over past years in larger Suzuki outboards from 150 up to 350 horsepower.

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“In addition to drive-by-wire precision, these new outboards provide performance characteristics commercial fishermen will appreciate. For one, they deliver improved fuel economy at cruising speeds when compared to our existing 115- and 140-horsepower models. A higher compression ratio and aggressive gearing provide the robust hole shot needed to get heavily loaded boats up on plane. And these motors’ 40amp alternators provide more charging output at lower engine speeds, to help keep electronics, pumps and other important gear humming,” Suzuki said. Maintenance is easier, too. The oil filter can be replaced by clicking off the engine cover, and a new surrounding Oil Spill Catcher keeps waste oil off the ground and out of the water, while the engine is protected against fuel contamination by a Water Detection Fuel Filter. Other exciting developments came about across the pond, with Norway’s Evoy putting the finishing touches on an emission-free 150-horsepower electric outboard, the most powerful on the market. Battery life means these electric outboards are not viable for most commercial fishermen, but Evoy is worth monitoring as batteries make consistent improvements. UK-based Cox Powertrain completed its first U.S. installation of the new CX0300 Diesel Outboard. The classic fourstroke,V8 engine is the world’s most powerful diesel outboard.

Technology

omputers are everywhere else, so why not stick one in your trawl net? SmartCatch thinks the time has arrived and has spent years developing its DigiCatch, a realtime HD video, lighting, and sensor system that provides immediate, granular feedback from your net. CEO and SmartCatch co-founder www.nationalfisherman.com

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Mark Dahm told NF that the device is all about efficiency. “With digital, it’s realtime and (captains) can make the adjustments to improve their catch per unit of effort efficiency. It makes that standard equation of fuel consumption, labor, and horsepower more efficient,” Dahm said. Adjustments can be made on the fly with point-of-catch video that provides reliable speciation, allowing for shorter test tows and clear bycatch feedback. Dahm and SmartCatch co-founder Rob Terry have been testing and honing the DigiCatch for years on the West Coast and in Alaska, and are gaining traction in groundfish fisheries and midocean pelagics like pollock. Dahm added that DigiCatch’s value lies not in just what it tells us about the fishing, but in the complete data set it provides that can increase efficiencies down the production line. “The biomass of protein has the greatest value, of course, but we believe that as we add more data about the catch and the environmental conditions, that also creates an additional value that can be carried forward to the processor and even to buyers who want to get a forward view on what’s being captured,” Dahm said. Dahm noted that major processors have expressed they could use the technology to get quick, reliable information from the fleet to optimize their equipment for grading and processing before the fish hit the plant. Another company aiming to make the best of our catch is Alaska-based Certified Quality Foods.The linchpin here is the Certified Quality Reader, a handheld device that sends electricity through fish to measure the integrity of cellular walls and determine the product’s freshness. With the CQR as the foundation, co-founder Keith Cox and his team are trying to revolutionize the way the seafood To subscribe, call 1-800-959-5073

industry collects, organizes, and analyzes quality data of fish up and down the supply chain. The company has been working with large processors like Trident Seafoods, as well as independent fishermen and researchers from universities to hone its product and expand its scope. Cox said the CQR represents a leap past industry quality measurements, which depend on organoleptics — simple smell, sight and touch. The CQR can register a number of quality markers more objectively, and new cloudbased software allows users to collate that data across their fleets, providing widespread grading, and allowing for more targeted, informed approaches to improving fish quality, as well opening up possibilities at the point of sale to leverage premium products.

Outerwear

ndisputed champion of foul-weather gear Grundéns continued to lead the way in 2020. Thirteen lines of commercial fishing gear for men and four for women — the latter a quickly growing lineup — provide an ample range for fishermen across the spectrum. Fresh to the Grundéns quiver in 2020 was the new nylon Full Share line, a beefier version of the surprise hit Weather Watch, which was not exactly designed for deck work but took off as a lightweight, breathable, and quick-drying option for milder weather. The Full Share line took the Weather Watch jacket and bibs and added a thicker nylon shell and higher Durable Water Resistant, making them more suitable for the rigors of deck work. Grundéns also increased its base-layer options, rolling out three different weights for the revamped Grundies line. These comfy, warm, and fast-drying layers are a far better option than the ubiquitous cotton hoodies and sweats. The heaviest weight, the Grundies Thermal, is a nylon, polyester and spandex mix,

and has enough thickness to wear around the galley without offending others. The trim-fitting pants have a flat drawcord in an elastic waistband and jogger-style cuffs, and might replace your lucky sweats with a more functional alternative. Upstart Duluth Trading Co. threw its hat into the raingear ring this year with the Resurrection Bay line of polyurethane gear that includes bibs, a full zip coat, and an anorak.This might be the stretchiest gear on the market, and it feels far more active than traditional raingear. While questions about season-to-season durability remain, this stuff is easy to work in, and a brushed polyester interior gives them some warmth and breathability. The boot market continued to find its footing in 2020. Xtratuf still led the charge with its classic Legacy holding ground and a host of new additions, including the new swift-selling Legacy Lace Up line, which now offers men’s and women’s 6-inch as well as a cozy men’s 8-inch insulated boot. The Grundéns Deck Boss boot line was recently repatriated and can claim 100 percent U.S. manufacturing.The line now includes the classic 15-inch, along with insulated and steel toe versions and continues to gain acolytes. Belgian maker Bekina seems to have hit a home run with its first commercial fishing boot, the new StepliteX Stormgrip. These boots incorporate the Legacy’s sleekness and the Deck Boss’ built-out outsole to make for an agile, comfortable, low-profile fishing boot. It still remains to be seen how the Stormgrip will hold up over time, but Bekina may have made the most wearable and functional boots on the market. They run big, so think about ordering a size down. January 2021 \ National Fisherman 35

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Catching

he UK’s Fishtek Marine rolled out two new lights that have proved to improve catch rates across a number of fi sheries and species. Fishtek’s Robert Enever said the PotLight and the NetLight were developed to reduce seabird bycatch but turned up a pleasant byproduct: higher catch rates. “Some guys in a snow crab fi shery we work with noticed that when they used lights in their pots they caught the same amount of crabs while not using any bait. Then they noticed that when they used light along with bait they saw like a 70 percent increase in catch rates,” Enever said. According to Enever, fi sh food like krill and plankton are attracted to the light, creating a halo of a buffet that draws target species into traps. The lights have proved effective not just with crab, but also with species as wide-ranging as cod, hake and lobster. At just $5 and $7, these lights can go down 1,000 meters and fl ip on with an immersion switch at contact with water, saving the replaceable batteries. Another trap fi shery innovation comes in the form of the McGirk Longsoaker, a tubelike canister that provides fi shermen with fresh bait up to five days after pots are set. A sealed basket in the tube is fi lled with up to a pound of bait and then fi xed with a rubber strap. A zinc magnesium alloy release corrodes over time and pops the tube open to expose fresh bait well after the pot has been set. Varying-gauge releases last anywhere from eight hours to five days. Another product to keep an eye on is the Shark Repellent Chum from SharkTec Defense. The chum incorporates necromones — scents emitted by decaying organisms — to ward 36 National Fisherman \ January 2021

off sharks. The company launched this year on the sport side, but testing for longlining has been positive, and SharkTec hopes to make the jump to commercial soon.

Safety and Sanitation

he new ACR Electronics AISLink CB2 Package combines existing ACR technologies to provide quicker, more precise crew-overboard response. This AIS kit communicates with the CB2 transponder as well as boats within five miles to pinpoint the subject. In conjunction, the MOB1 activates an alarm on VHF radio, alerting fellow crew members. Easily integrated into a life jacket, it measures just 134 by 38 by 27 mm, weighs 90 grams, and includes a built-in strobe. Throw in a Fibrelight MOB Recovery Cradles from LRSE to go with your ACR package. This cradle is a very lightweight and versatile crew-overboard recovery system that can be manipulated by a single crew member or can be deployed as a scramble net or ladder, making it handy for both big and small boats. The SOLAS-approved cradle is made of PU-coated polyester webbing that is reinforced by carbon rods and weighs just 3.5 pounds per three feet, far lighter than anything similar on the market. The cradles are available from 6 to 27 feet long. Covid-19 called for keeping things cleaner on boats, and the RinseKit portable shower units provide a nice option. These compact, stowable units come in two models, the RinseKit Pod and the RinseKit Plus. The Pod holds 1.75 gallons of water, while the Plus will hold up to 2 gallons of water and will run up to 10 minutes, depending on the setting. The shower heads have a metal hook on the back to hang them or use as a kickstand, and they make a handy

remote hand sanitizing station.

Oysters and more

ooper’s Island Oyster Co. came out with two new devices this year to streamline oyster production, the Outfeed Tumbler Conveyor and the Hydraulic Bin Tipper. The conveyor bumps up continuous processing of oysters from 300 to tens of thousands by eliminating the need to clear belts or change tubs. The bin tipper , meanwhile, automates the dumping along the production line, from hoppers to conveyors to tumblers. This hydraulic unit does not anchor to the floor, which means it can be moved around the plant floor, and safely lifts 1,500-pound totes. DLBA Naval Architects also rolled out a new design for an Aquaculture Support Vessel. DLBA’s John Garvey told NF that he had an extensive back and forth with shellfi sh farmers to hit on a design that was ideal for the job. The result is a user-friendly ASV aluminum alloy boat that is 30 by 12 feet with a flush, clean deck, free of tripping hazards. Made of thick aluminum alloy plating, the solid, open deck also provides working space for an onboard tumbler, saving trips to shore. The other key to the boat is a ballast tank that provides superior stability and keeps the vessel grounded even when the onboard knuckle boom is extended and lifting heavy blocks. Customers can buy the plans from DLBA and have a local builder put the boat together in around 60 days. Brian Hagenbuch is the products editor for National Fisherman and a freelance writer based in Seattle. www.nationalfisherman.com

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HALIBUT

Market activity has continued through the end of the fishing season, with modest sales of Halibut quota. The most transactions have been in area 3B, with some recent sales in areas 2C and 3A, while 4A, 4B and 4CDE remains negligible. Speculation on next year’s TAC could spur some year-end activity, but we expect the market to remain relatively quiet until 2021 harvest recommendations are released. The latest is as follows:

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2C $41.00/# - $57.00/# - Verly little activity despite reduced asking prices. 3A $35.00/# - $44.00/# - Asking prices remain steady, some recent sales. 3B $20.00/# - $26.00/# - Steady sales, demand for blocked and unblocked. 4A $10.00/# - $15.00/# - Blocked quota available at reduced prices. 4B $10.00/# - $18.00/# - Blocked and unblocked available. 4C - No activity.

$10.00/# - $18.00/#

4D $10.00/# - $18.00/# - Blocked and unblocked available.

SABLEFISH

As we all know, the challenging market conditions for sablefish has been exacerbated in 2020, with limited global demand after pandemic shut downs, resulting in lower dock prices and reduced quota sales. As we look to 2021 with approximately 30% of 2020 quota left in the water at the time of this writing, there are reasonable concerns over another increase in TAC. Speculation could lead to a few last minute sales, but market trends will likely continue until 2021 harvest recommendations are released. The latest is as follows:

AREA

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SE $12.00/# - $17.00/# - Limited activity, IFQ available for lease. WY $14.00/# - $17.00/# - Unblocked available, offers encouraged. CG $9.00/# - $13.00/# - Some activity at reduced asking prices.

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Power Troll

$25k

Area M Drift

$185k

Area M Seine

$165k

Area M Setnet

$55k

Bristol Bay Drift

$165k

Bristol Bay Setnet

$60k

Cook Inlet Drift

$23k

Kodiak Seine

$36k

PWS Drift

$125k

PWS Seine

$140k

SE Dungeness (75 - 300 pot)

Variable - Sellers wanted

Southeast Drift

$67k

Southeast Herring Seine

$100k

Southeast Salmon Seine

$165k

SE Chatham Black Cod

$405k

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California Crab Variable - Call for info The delay in district 10 allowed for some last-minute transfers. Most activity continues to be for 175-250 pot permits. Reduced prices attracting buyers. Call for more information. The latest is as follows: - 175 pot: $30k - $50k range, sellers wanted - 250 pot: $45k - $60k less than 40’. $50k - $100k for 40’ - 60’ + - 300 - 350 pot: $70k - $150k, low availability - 400 - 450 pot: $100k - $280k, value dependent upon length - 500 pot: $250k - $400k+, highest value in 58’ and above CA Deeper Nearshore CA Halibut Trawl California Squid

$35k $70k - $100k Variable - call for info

CA Squid Light/Brail

Variable - call for info

Oregon Pink Shrimp

$50k - $74k - Sellers wanted

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Maine yard sends tuna boat to California; Coast Guard gets a ‘make-believe’ lobster boat By Michael Crowley

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Wesmac Custom Boats built the RV Pilar for a San Diego, Calif., owner as a tuna boat and to be chartered out for scientific research.

teve Wessel, owner of Wesmac Custom Boats in Surry, Maine, describes living in a time dominated by covid-19 as, “crazy. Scary. We are all gun-shy, worried and timid. But as far as the boatbuilding business goes, you can’t build boats fast enough.” Currently the building bays at Wesmac Custom Boats are full with lobster boats, tuna boats and research boats. Two Wesmac 50' x 17' 6" lobster boats are under construction for Maine fishermen. One 50-footer with an 803-hp Cat C18 should be delivered to Stonington this winter, while the second 50-footer, with an 800-hp MAN, will go to Owls Head next spring. Wessel says that even though this year’s price for tuna was down, “tuna fishing was good,” which probably explains the tuna boats being built. The 46' x 14' 6" Sweet Senorita was completed this summer for a New Jersey tuna fisherman. A Super Wide 46 tuna boat measuring 46' 9" x 17' 2" with accommodations for four, a shower and a head is going to Boston. She will be powered with a 1,200-hp Nanni. The largest of the tuna boats measures 54' x 17' 6" and has a pair of Cat C18s putting

out a combined 1,150 hp. It’s being built for a Long Island, N.Y., fisherman. Then there is the RV Pilar, a Wesmac Super Wide 46 for a California owner. It will be used commercially as a tuna boat, but it’s documented as an oceanographic research vessel and will be chartered out for scientific research, primarily to measure the impact of microplastics on giant tuna and other pelagic fish. They will also be using it to PSAT (pop-up satellite archival

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The Regency, a 38 Calvin built by S.W. Boatworks for a Perkins Cove, Maine, lobsterman, finishes her sea trials.

tag) bluefi n tuna to better understand their movement via the Argos satellite system. The RV Pilar will have a 40-foot green stick for tuna fishing, a hydraulic Bandit Reel and a 500-gallon bait tank. A 1,400-hp MAN powered the Pilar to 25.5 knots on sea trials. The Pilar left Wesmac Custom Boats in September for its home port of San Diego. Wessel’s wife, Linda Greenlaw, the swordfishing skipper of the Hannah Boden (from the movie “The Perfect Storm”) and author of “All Fishermen Are Liars: True Tales From The Dry Dock Bar,” delivered the Pilar to Florida, where it was loaded on a freighter and taken to San Diego. Greenlaw wanted to take it through the Panama Canal and deliver the Pilar to San Diego herself, but says Wessel, “the boat’s owner, wouldn’t let her because, he told her, piracy was going nuts over there,” meaning the waters around Central America and Mexico. This past summer, S.W. Boatworks in Lamoine, Maine, completed a 38' x 15' Calvin Beal design with below deck storage and an 800-hp Scania for a Perkins Cove lobsterman. A much larger lobster boat was being fi nished in October for a Vinalhaven, Maine, fisherman. It’s built on a 48' x 17' 6" hull that started out as a S.W. Boatworks Calvin 44 before the hull was cut in half and lengthened by 4 feet in the middle. There will be an open transom with a hydraulic tailgate. Three below-deck fish holds are for storing lobsters. Up forward are V-berths, benches and storage areas. The Vinalhaven lobsterman’s previous boat was a 46 Wesmac. Though the new boat is only 2 feet longer, “it’s a lot wider,” says S.W. Boatworks’ Stewart Workman, going from 14' 8" on his previous boat to 17' 6" for the 48 Calvin. “He’ll be carrying more traps, be more comfortable and (the boat will be) more stable.” A 1,000-hp Cat is bolted to the engine beds. A 34 Calvin that should be fi nished Continued on page 41 www.nationalfisherman.com

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Virginia oysterman switches to an Alabama skiff; full-service yard in Deltaville maintains wooden boats By Larry Chowning

ordy Wright of Wright Built Boats in Irvington, Ala., is building a 22' x 7' glass-over-wood, flat-bottom Mobile Bay oyster skiff for Logan Kellum of Weems,Va. Kellum, 17, is the son of Tommy Kellum of W.E. Kellum Seafood in Weems, one of the largest oyster packing firms in Virginia. The younger Kellum works on private state leased oyster grounds in Cockrell Creek and Great Wicomico River in areas too tight between the shores to drag an oyster dredge. Kellum uses scissor-like hand “shaft” tongs to work the grounds and has been working out of a 17-foot Carolina Skiff that is not a very conducive platform for working hand tongs. Mobile Bay and Chesapeake Bay oystermen work hand tongs standing on the washboards of their boats. Holding onto the shafts, they drop the tong heads to the bottom, grab a tong head full of oysters, pull it up to the surface, swing the tong heads over the gunwales, and drop oysters into the bottom of the boat — all in a smooth motion. Washboards on the Carolina Skiff are too narrow for standing, which means

This Mobile Bay oyster skiff is being built for a Virginia oysterman by Wright Built Boats of Irvington, Ala.

Kellum has to work his tongs standing on the deck floor or on the narrow bow deck. This requires more arm strength to raise tongs up and over the side, and eliminates that smooth motion of ease. The Kellums and Wrights know each other through their oyster businesses. Gordy’s brother, Stan Wright, owner of Wright Brand Oysters-Seafood in Bayou La Batre, Ala., heard about the issues with the Carolina Skiff and suggested switching to a Mobile Bay oyster skiff. The skiff has blunted ends and will have a 3-foot-long fantail built off the stern and around where the outboard

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motor will be located. The fantail provides extra space for carrying payload and allows easy access to the motor “when getting a crab pot line out of the prop,” says Gordy. Mobile Bay oysters are marketed in sacks that hold between 80 and 100 pounds of oysters. There is currently a six-sack day limit. “When they’ve sacked their oysters, they throw the sacks up on the fantail out of the way from where they are working,” says Gordy. The Kellums also plan to use the skiff as a platform for planting seed oysters. The skiff can be converted to a seed barge. Wright is building an aluminum deck cover that will lay flat on the gunwales, spanning the open space from the house located near the stern forward to the bow deck. Seed oysters can be mounded atop the aluminum deck and planted either by shoveling or blowing overboard with a high-pressure water hose. The bottom is made of 1/2-inch fir plywood with 3/4-inch plywood in the stern. The framing and other structural elements are made of salt-treated pine. Stainless steel nails are used as fastenings, and hull and decks will be fiberglassed. The boat is going to be powered by a 50hp outboard. A covered helmsman station will be installed near the stern. “The boat works great on Mobile Bay,” says Gordy. ”It is going to work good, too, in the creeks and waters, where Logan is working on Chesapeake Bay.” Moving up to Virginia, Tony Ferguson of Gloucester County, Va., has his 1971 wooden deadrise up on the hard at Deltaville Boatyard in Deltaville,Va. When boatbuilder Grover Lee Owens built Ferguson’s 34' x 10' deadrise in 1971, there were 21 active commercial wooden boatbuilders in Deltaville, and now all are gone or retired. Deltaville’s location on Chesapeake Bay enhanced its wooden boatbuilding heritage that spanned from the late 1800s to early 21st century. Even though wooden boatbuilding has declined, the location of Deltaville on the bay and the infrastructure associated with a maritime Continued on page 41 January 2021 \ National Fisherman 39

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Yacht exchanges helicopter pad for crab gear; gillnetters get on step with 10,000 pounds

The Lillie M after being lengthened and sponsoned goes back in the water at Fred Wahl Marine Construction bearing its new name, Taryn Rose.

here’s never a dull moment around here,” says Matt Hamilton, Quality/Project manager at Fred Wahl Marine Construction after going over the list of boats currently in for repairs and alterations at the Reedsport, Ore., boatyard. The list includes sponsoning and lengthening, a near total restoration, some bottom-plate work, a repower, a new build, and a yacht or expeditionstyle pleasure craft, as it has been called, that has probably never been near crab pots but will soon be hauling them. The Dynamik is one of the boats being sponsoned and lengthened. She’s a crabber and shrimper that works the fishing grounds off California, Oregon and Washington. When the Dynamik arrived at Fred Wahl Marine Construction, she measured 66' 6" x 22' 7". She’ll go back in the water at 71' 6" x 30' 10". Lengthening and sponsoning the Dynamik accomplishes several things: Stability was improved, more fuel capacity gained and the fish hold’s capacity was increased. The second sponsoning and lengthening involved the Taryn Rose, a Reedsport crabber and longliner, which went from 49' 5" x 15' to 56' 6" x 22' 6".

The added length was obtained with the addition of a new stern. The Taryn Rose also gained a new upper pilothouse. She was previously known as the Lillie M but was renamed with the middle names of the owner’s two daughters. The 98' 1" x 32' 4" crabber Keta came down from Sand Point, Alaska, to gain some length and for a major restoration from the engine room aft. The engine room was gutted and the hull aft of the engine room bulkhead cut off and sent to the scrap heap. Now there’s a new refrigeration system, circulation pumps and a new main engine, a 1,100-hp Mitsubishi. The new stern section stretches the Keta out

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Three gillnetters under construction at Aliotti Enterprises will be almost carbon copies of the Anna Maria, shown here in a 2019 photo.

to 123 feet. That allowed the fish hold capacity to be expanded to 10,000 cubic feet and the fuel carrying capacity to top out at 41,000 gallons. The only new fishing boat being built at Fred Wahl Marine Construction is a 58' x 30' spec boat with a bulbous bow. In early October the hull and wheelhouse had been plated and were ready to be painted. It would make a good combination seiner and crabber or longliner, says Hamilton. When the 70' x 23' Georgia Lee, out of Ketchikan, Alaska, was hauled out on the boatyard’s travel lift, you never would have mistaken her for a fishing boat, not with a very large aluminum cabin taking up the aft deck. It contained two staterooms and on top of the cabin was a helicopter landing pad. At that point the Georgia Lee was a charter boat working in the Pacific Northwest. The aluminum cabin and helicopter pad? “All that’s coming off ,” says Hamilton. In its place will be a working deck with a picking boom and crab block, and below deck will be two floodable fish holds. When the Georgia Lee leaves Reedsport, the Pacific Northwest’s squid, crab and tendering fleets will have a new member. The 165-foot tender Aquila was in for some new bottom plating and will then be stored until spring. The 68' 6" x 30' 2 1/2" Wynona J, a crabber and shrimper out of Newport, Ore., was due for arrival in late October for a repowering. Aliotti Enterprises in Bellingham, Wash., is building three Bristol Bay gillnetters. Two are being built on spec and one is taken. That’s going to Tom Aliotti, the boatshop’s owner, who has fished Bristol Bay for over 30 years. Every year he takes one of his shop’s new boats to Bristol Bay, fishes out the season, then puts the gillnetter up for sale. (Last season’s gillnetter is still available, says Aliotti.) Aliotti appears to have settled on a design that started in 2019 with the Anna Maria and the North Coast, two 32' x 15' 6" gillnetters whose lines are being www.nationalfisherman.com

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followed for the three gillnetters currently under construction, as they were for the four gillnetters built for the 2020 season. A few minor changes have been made mostly in widening the tophouse by 8 inches. The house-forward design features a pair of 500-hp FPT EVO engines matched up to UltraJet 340HT waterjets. Aliotti says the FPT and UltraJet combination gets the gillnetter on step with 10,000 pounds aboard while running at 25 knots. Thirteen fish holds pack a total of 24,000 pounds.The salmon are kept chilled with Pacific West Refrigeration 10-ton RSW systems. These are keel-cooled units, which allows the boats to fish in shallow, sandy conditions. Gillnetters aren’t the only boats Aliotti Enterprises is building. There’s also a pair of 24' x 10' pusher boats for British Petroleum that will be used to move oil booms around. Around the Yards: Northeast Continued from page 38

by late fall has a split wheelhouse and looks like a lobster boat but is being built for the state of Rhode Island as a research boat with a “big winch, gantry system, lots of hydraulics and will be towing a lot of dredges and sonar rigs,” said Workman. He adds that it resembles the Dirigo, a 38 Calvin that S.W. Boatworks built for the Maine Marine Patrol in 2013. Here’s a type of boat that not a lot of boatyards have built. It’s a 36' x 13' 9" Calvin lobster boat for the Coast Guard that’s never going in the water. “We built it like a make-believe lobster boat, no engine, no prop, no shaft,” says Workman. It will be bolted to a steel cradle to spend its life on Coast Guard property in Massachusetts, where it will be used for training Coast Guard crew on how to board lobster boats, go down into the fo’c’sle, and what to look for in hatches.

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Better onboard cell messaging Zoleo fills in gaps for more seamless messaging By Brian Hagenbuch

he Zoleo Satellite Communicator is a small handheld safety and communication device that helps fishermen fill gaps in coverage while they’re on the water. Simple and compact, the device connects to smartphones via Bluetooth and uses available cellular or Wi-Fi networks for connectivity, then switches to the Iridium satellite network when out of range of other signals. Zoleo president Morris Shawn said the Satellite Communicator’s versatility makes for faster, cheaper service. “Obviously speed over cellular is quicker, but the satellite is there when you need it. So it’s sort of the best of both worlds,” Shawn said. Zoleo plans range from $20 a month for 25 messages to unlimited plans for

$50 a month. “With the salmon fisheries in Alaska, a lot of these fishermen are away from their homes and families for six or eight weeks; so there’s the personal element where people are able to send fast, reliable, cost-effective messages home,” Shawn said. The device is equipped with SOS, and has a check-in function that allows users to send a programmed “I’m OK” message along with their location to family and friends with just one touch. The Satellite Communicator comes with its own SMS number and email address, and people contacting from outside do not need the device, just the free Zoleo app, to get in touch. Shawn added it can be shared among several devices onboard.

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ore fishermen are expanding their onboard fire suppression arsenal with aerosol extinguishers that can be activated and thrown into the engine room in case of fire. John Reardon, the general manager for New Bedford, Mass.-based Hercules SLR, is the U.S. distributor for DSPA, a company based in the Netherlands that manufactures the aerosol fire-extinguishing systems. Reardon said fishermen are buying up the DSPA 5M aerosol generator as a backup to handheld extinguishers. The system has already been deployed several times with success, most recently when a fire broke out in the engine room of an East Coast scalloper. “The skipper saw smoke billowing

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out of the engine room, and he threw the suppression device down there. When the smoke had cleared, they went down, replaced the broken hydraulic hose that had caused the fire, cleaned up, and four hours later they were fishing again,” Reardon said. A circular pod with a handle, the DSPA 5M is activated by pulling a pin and then heaved into any room where a fire had started. Once activated, the DSPA 5M functions on its own to release an expanding aerosol cloud that fills the space and quickly knocks the fire down. DSPA’s Marcel Clauzing said most skippers keep the extinguisher on the bridge close to their driving station, where it is easy to grab. While the aerosol cloud is choking

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Japanese maker ASANO — known for its stainless steel hooks and blocks for purse seining — has designed a new clip for gillnetters, the AK HOOK TYPE G. This all-stainless, size 11 clip weighs 290 grams (10 ounces) and has a load rating of 400 kilograms (880 pounds). The clip is rounded on the inside to prevent wear on lines, and a round outside body helps it sit down on the reel, preventing snagging and consequent backlashes. The 23-millimeter gate opening makes it easier to get lines in and out, and the smooth gate latch won’t grab the net.

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SOLOMONS ISLAND, MD. Waterman Tanner Zinn uses hydraulic tongs to harvest oysters near the mouth of the Patuxent River as the sky over Chesapeake Bay comes to life. His F/V Dying Breed is a classic 37-foot Deltaville, Va., deadrise built in 1976 by Willard Norris. Photo by Dan Duffy

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