ON DECK
Fishing Back When September By Jessica Hathaway
1991— High Seas Hit and Run: The four-man crew of the 42-foot F/V Carrabe survives a sinking after a freighter blew through the longliner on a moonless night.
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Maine lobstermen drive hard up Moosabec Reach between Jonesport and Beals Island for the title of World’s Fasted Lobsterboat.
On the cover: The trawler Miss Leona out of Blaine, Wash., hauls back during a Polish joint venture off the Oregon coast.
On the cover: The crew of the F/V Siren purse seines for Alaska salmon.
The Apollo reigns over the Pacific as the world’s largest tuna seiner.
Massachusetts Rep. Gerry Studds introduces a federal bill that would require the New England Fishery Management Council to draft a groundfish rebuilding plan. Options for the plan include a permit moratorium and buyout program.
The most severe outbreak of red tide in the Gulf of Mexico since 1947 is affecting roughly 500 square miles of gulf waters around Florida’s Tampa Bay, killing at least 1,300 tons of marine life. Adult mullet, one of Florida’s leading commercial species, are among the hardest hit. The first to succumb included crabs, clams and oysters.
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The North Pacific council votes 9-2 to allocate 100 percent of the pollock and 90 percent of the cod in the Gulf of Alaska to the fleet delivering onshore.
Gulf of Maine, Maine Lobster and Gulf Wild follow the lead of the globally successful Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute’s Alaska Seafood brand to promote regional harvests, touting traceability and sustainability to hungry markets around the world. Alaska fisherman and NF Highliner Bill Webber Jr. reports that his bowpicker F/V Gulkana is lost at the start of the fifth Copper River salmon opening while crossing the Kokenhenik Bar.
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