Fishing Back When

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.

The Apollo reigns over the Paci c as the world’s largest tuna seiner. 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 rst to succumb included crabs, clams and oysters.

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On the cover: The trawler Miss

Leona out of Blaine, Wash., hauls back during a Polish joint venture off the Oregon coast. Massachusetts Rep. Gerry Studds introduces a federal bill that would require the New England Fishery Management Council to draft a ground sh rebuilding plan. Options for the plan include a permit moratorium and buyout program. The North Paci c council votes 9-2 to allocate 100 percent of the pollock and 90 percent of the cod in the Gulf of Alaska to the eet delivering onshore.

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On the cover: The crew of the

F/V Siren purse seines for Alaska salmon.

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 sherman and NF Highliner Bill Webber Jr. reports that his bowpicker F/V Gulkana is lost at the start of the fth Copper River salmon opening while crossing the Kokenhenik Bar.