Fishing Back When

Fishing Back When October

By Jessica Hathaway

1991— Ray Wadsworth has been building diesel-powered seiners in Alaska. But his new Order of Magnitude is a 56-footer with a gas turbine hooked to a water jet. It crossed the Gulf of Alaska at 30 mph.

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The Supersuit is a new survival suit design that borrows from the best of wet and dry suits. It is in atable by the wearer.

Albacore boats crowd the Star-Kist dock in San Diego, Calif., during a peak day of the Southern California run. A joint program designed to nd out more about this shery is slated to begin soon.

F.J. O’Hara and Sons, led by Frank O’Hara, launches two New England ocean perch boats from the Harvey Gamage yard in South Bristol, Maine. Construction was subsidized by the federal Fishing Fleet Improvement Act.

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On the cover: Blue crabbing off Ocracoke Island, N.C. More people are entering the shery, which is easy to learn and inexpensive to get started in. Many new crabbers have dropped out of other declining or heavily regulated sheries. But the glut, along with increasing imports, is ooding the market. Fish Expo ’91 runs at the Seattle Trade Center in October, marking the show’s 25th anniversary, which has alternated between Seattle and Boston. “It’s kind of a big party for the industry. Fishermen come not only to shop, but to see people they haven’t seen since the last Fish Expo.”

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On the cover: Kenton Geer brings aboard a yellow n tuna he caught in June on the Cross Seamount, offshore of Hawaii, onboard the Makana.

As the FDA takes on the potential approval of an application to produce genetically modi ed salmon by AquaBounty Technologies, eight U.S. senators and 15 representatives sound their opposition to the so-called Franken sh.

The Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2010 sets load line requirements for commercial shing boats 79 feet and longer, and classi cation standards for boats 50 feet and up.