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Island Life Jay Fleming captures the communities of Chesapeake Bay, where slow to change never means standing still

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Cover Story \ ‘Island Life’ Chesapeake Bay photographer and writer Jay Fleming documents the not-yet-lost world of Tangier and Smith islands, and the people who live there.

Features / Boats & Gear

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Gannet Nets Puget Sound’s fisherman-founded company keeps seiners

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Around the Yards Lobster boat racing has its return season; PVC for wooden workboats; Petrzelka Brothers wrap it up.

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Product Roundup

Remote monitoring and artificial intelligence take their turn at the helm.

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Wheelhouse electronics move to the cloud

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A Letter from NMFS

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Editor’s Log

Summer 2021 underscored the need to prepare for climate change.

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Fishing Back When

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Mail Buoy

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Around the Coasts & Market Reports

Northern Lights

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Last Set / Fairhaven, Mass.

In person and online, All Hands on Deck brings together the Alaska seafood community.

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Editor’s Log

Going live Jessica Hathaway Editor in Chief jhathaway@divcom.com

here’s something humbling about seeing your own cover story headlining in Fishing Back When. Ten years ago was my first trip to Alaska for NF. I had the pleasure of spending a full week in and out of the fishing hamlet of Petersburg.

A lot of Americans put Alaska on a bucket list, but there’s so much to see in this one state with more than 33,000 miles of shoreline (including its islands) that one trip hardly seems adequate.

I’ve been lucky to visit almost every year (before 2020 *insert cry emoji*), sometimes twice, and see new places almost every time.

Yet still, I have a long list of fishing villages to be checked out before I can say I’ve had the Alaska experience.

This year, the Alaska Seafood Marketing

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Institute celebrates 40 years of industryfunded promotion work that has made the Alaska Seafood brand the gold standard for wild fisheries.

Although the All Hands on Deck annual meeting will be taking place virtually again this year (Nov. 9-11), I look forward to seeing familiar faces as we gather for three days of an industry deep dive and critical decision-making.

The Northern Lights column this month (page 6) is from Alaska’s Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer, who will be attending All-Hands as a new ex-officio member of the ASMI board of directors.

Our cover story is a different kind of deep dive. Fishing photographer and writer Jay Fleming spent five years immersing

On the cover Smith Island waterman John “Crantz” Tyler pulls a crab scrape into his workboat Beth Amy in Tangier Sound, Md. Crabbers in Maryland and Virginia target peeler and soft-shell blue crabs by dragging scrapes through the shallow grass beds.

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himself into island culture in two offshore, isolated working waterfront communities of Chesapeake Bay. The result is his second book, “Island Life.”

Although less than 15 miles of water separate the islands from the mainland, centuries of isolation have preserved their unique culture, which is closely tied to the rich waters that sustain a time-worn way of life. See more from “Island Life” on page 26.

In changing times, some will adapt and others will be left behind — whether we like it or not. But the success or failure of the leap we must take to the next step can be all about timing.

In this issue, Boats & Gear Editor Paul Molyneaux gives an update on designing boats for hybrid power. The fishing industry, Paul notes, is lagging a bit behind other industries. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Read more about what to expect next, starting on page 20.

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Fishing Back When November

By Jessica Hathaway

1991— Salmon prices tank as Alaska production soars along with the success with farming in Norway and Scotland. In Bristol Bay, base prices plummet to 45 cents a pound for sockeyes from $1.05 in 1990. And Prince William Sound seiners are on limits for pinks to the canneries.

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The 82-foot fishing schooner Lister of Sherburne, Nova Scotia, looks right at home on Carters Creek in Weems, Va., where it’s relocated for an overhaul at Humphrey’s Railway.

On the cover: Bristol Bay gillnetters ride a wild wave of salmon in Alaska’s rodeo fishery.

On the cover: A replica of the Viking ship Valhalla and the Bojer Wikan Fishermen’s Memorial in Petersburg, Alaska, stand in tribute to the town’s commercial fishing and Norwegian heritage.

Maine’s Bailey Island hosts the first landing of a swordfish at Mackerel Cove in some 30 years with a 397-pounder harpooned by Levi Gilliam with Dane Allen at the wheel.

Hurricane Bob sank the Nomad, a 47-foot trawler, off the coast of Massachusetts on Aug. 19, taking with it the life of her captain, Brett Baker, 35.

Robert Cutting, 24, was lifted from the water the next day and survived. Both were from Kittery, Maine.

Salmon tenders and gillnetters at the mouth of the Naknek River awaiting the return of salmon to Bristol Bay. Also catch a preview of the fifth annual Fish Expo to be hosted in the historic port of Boston!

Southern shrimpers work to develop usable finfish excluder devices and other gear (in addition to turtle excluders), as well as to collect data on the extent of bycatch in their fisheries, before the 1994 regulation comes into play.

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NF honors Allen D. “Mike” Brown, a.k.a.

Cap’n Perc Sane, author of nearly 50 years of stories from Saturday Cove, Maine, after his passing at age 81 and a celebration of life in Belfast, Maine.

The Bering Sea pollock fleet gets some relief with a rollback of American Fisheries Act and North Pacific council limitedentry regulations for rebuilding and replacing vessels in the sector.

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Whale rules: Maine problem [The following is a letter to Maine Lobstermen’s Community Alliance from the Maine Lobstermen’s Association on Sept. 3, 2021.] n Aug.31, the National Marine Fisheries Service released the long-awaited final rule which outlines measures for the Northeast lobster fishery to reduce the risk of entangling right whales by 60 percent.

The Maine Lobstermen’s Association is committed to action to recover the North Atlantic right whale, but the species cannot rebuild without a conservation plan supported by scientific evidence and comparable measures implemented in Canada and the U.S.

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shipping industry. The MLA remains extremely concerned that NMFS is placing an unwarranted burden on the Maine lobster fishery.

The U.S. lobster fishery implemented new regulations more than a decade ago which have reduced known right whale entanglement in U.S. lobster gear by 90 percent.

“According to NMFS data, the Maine lobster fishery has not had a documented entanglement with a North Atlantic right whale in over 17 years and has never been known to kill or seriously injure a right whale,” said Patrice McCarron, executive director of the MLA. By comparison, an historic number of right whales have died in Canadian waters over the past five years, and Canada has yet to implement protections

A Letter from NMFS

Prepped for change

By Janet Coit

his past summer brought extreme weather, highlighting changes that we are experiencing on land and in the water. We are seeing more evidence of changing ocean conditions and the corresponding effects on the location and productivity of fish stocks, as well as the fishing industry’s interactions with bycatch, protected species, and other ocean users.

Fish stocks could become less productive or move out of range, which can cause social, economic, and other impacts on fisheries and fishing-dependent communities. As a result, fishing industries and coastal businesses can face significant challenges in preparing for and adapting to changing climate and oceans. There is much at risk — marine fisheries and seafood industries supported more than $244.1 billion in economic activity and 1.74 million jobs in 2017.

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comparable to the U.S. Moreover, the most current, best available scientific evidence documents a change in right whale migration patterns away from Maine waters and into Canada and other areas.

NMFS’ analysis justifying the final rule inexplicably underweights risk to right whales in Canada by ignoring observed trends in right whale mortality.

NMFS cannot point to evidence that the required measures will achieve the intended goal because they have not properly assigned risk from the sources of harm to right whales.

“NMFS has mandated that Maine lobstermen reduce risk to right whales by an additional 98 percent over the next 10 years based on the worst-case scenario instead of using best available data and realistic assumptions,” noted McCarron,“The final rule is just the first round of economic impacts and future restrictions will likely destroy Maine’s iconic lobster fishery.” The MLA does not believe the scientific record supports implementation of the 10-year federal plan.

Continued on page 8

To reduce impacts, increase resilience, and take advantage of new opportunities, NOAA uses the best available science to evaluate fisheries management strategies in the face of climate change. We are exploring potential approaches, such as ecosystem-based fisheries management, and have identified challenges and recommendations for improving science and management.

In partnership with the regional fishery management councils, interstate marine fisheries commissions and states, we are taking steps to assist the fishing industry prepare for and respond to changing climate and ocean conditions, including ensuring fish stocks are well-managed with sustainable biomass and stock structure as well as using climate vulnerability assessments to better understand a stock’s sensitivity to changes and using this information to support management action.

It will require collaboration and a holistic view of the entire ecosystem to effectively assess the health of our fisheries, and I look forward to the progress we will make together.

Janet Coit is the assistant administrator of the National Marine Fisheries Service. She oversees the federal agency responsible for recreational and commercial fisheries.

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Northern Lights VIEWS FROM ALASKA

Sea the world

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The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute’s All Hands on Deck meeting will be hosted virtually from Juneau, Nov. 9-11.

By Alaska Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer

e recognize that responsible seafood sourcing has both environmental and social implications, and it’s important that we find transparency in our seafood supply chain.

What a time it’s been, these past 20 months.We have seen every sector of society turned upside down and inside out.

We have adapted and overcome many of these challenges, and still look forward to the future as optimistically as possible.

Part of that optimism is demonstrated by getting back to business together and looking ahead to the future.

Every year the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute holds its annual All Hands on Deck meeting, a three-daylong public conference bringing together all ASMI staff, contractors and seafood experts to present and discuss current marketing efforts, as well as strategies and challenges facing the industry, with the ASMI Board of Directors and the ASMI species and operational committees. The event is free and open to the public. Registration is not required.

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board, I am excited to participate in my first All Hands on Deck meeting. Typically held in Anchorage (with the ability for the public to call in), it has been an excellent opportunity for people from across the globe and the seafood sector to shake hands face to face and collaboratively get down to work. Like last year’s successful event, this year’s event will also be fully virtual.

All Hands has always been an excellent opportunity for anyone from the fleet, processing sector, or other interested groups to be involved in ASMI’s approach to its mission of increasing the positive awareness of the Alaska Seafood brand and raising the value of Alaska seafood.

Established via Alaska state statute in 1981, ASMI has spent the last four decades bringing together knowledge and expertise across all aspects of this quintessential Alaskan industry to navigate changes at home and abroad and ensure this resource retains its competitive advantage in global markets.

Soon after ASMI began, farmed salmon was gaining market share at an

alarming rate, driving values down for Alaska’s fishermen. Through ASMI’s work and partnership with industry efforts, the quality of Alaska’s worldclass seafood shined through, building a brand that consumers love and trust.

ASMI was an early champion of Alaska’s legendary responsible and science-based fisheries management systems, recognizing and deploying this message and trend long before sustainability was a common market term. This has positioned Alaska as a world leader in sustainable seafood.

Today, ASMI continues to look ahead at ways to support and champion the Alaska seafood industry’s efforts to navigate the challenges ahead, whether that’s pivoting to digital marketing support during the global pandemic, building new markets for species that have seen their traditional markets shift as a result of trade barriers, or working with industry to develop new products and tastes for species the world hasn’t discovered yet.

Representing all major species of commercially harvested seafood in Alaska, ASMI ensures there is always a trusted, quiet power behind the word “Alaska” around the world.

The most important parts of All Hands on Deck will be the contributions from these meetings, providing ASMI program staff with strategic direction, constructive feedback on program tactics, provide market and species insight, and represent the best interest of the Alaska seafood industry as a whole.

The 2021 All Hands on Deck event will be hosted online Tuesday, Nov. 9 – Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021.

There will be challenges to holding such a robust virtual event, and ASMI is working hard to create a smooth, efficient platform to share valuable resources and support productive discussion.

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sectors, from key geographic markets, including the United States, United Kingdom, China and Japan. They will address consumer trends and how the Alaska seafood industry can best position itself to respond to the impacts of the pandemic and continue to drive consumption.

Species and Operational Committee Meetings The species committees take a deeper dive into discussions on the market challenges and opportunities and needs of specific species groups.

The species committees then share their updates with the operational committees to help in the annual planning in support of ASMI’s program areas, including International Marketing, Domestic Marketing, Communications and Consumer PR and Seafood Technical.

Board of Directors Meeting & Networking All Hands on Deck brings together a unique cross-section of industry participants, including fishermen, processors, seafood trade members, government representatives and other groups from across Alaska and the world.

There is critical work to be done Nov. 9-11 in steering our efforts to support the industry moving forward. So much has

“ASMI was an early champion of Alaska’s legendary responsible and sciencebased fisheries management systems, recognizing and deploying this message and trend long before sustainability was a common market term.” changed with the Legislature and federal funding, it is more important than ever for all ASMI stakeholders to pull up a seat at the virtual table and engage with their unique ideas and perspectives.

While we look forward to the opportunity to meet in person in the future, we welcome your participation, which is made safer, and in some ways more accessible, by hosting the event online. More information can be found at www. alaskaseafood.org/all-hands-on-deck-2021.

Kevin Meyer is Alaska’s 14th lieutenant governor.

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Mail Buoy Continued from page 5 The MLA has three overarching concerns with the final rule. First, the Lobster Management Area 1 Seasonal Restricted Area is much larger than it needs to be to reduce risk from the Maine lobster fishery. Second, NMFS has made drastic, lastminute changes to the gear marking requirements for Maine, which will likely require lobstermen to purchase a second set of buoy lines to fish legally marked gear. Third, the final rule lacks the flexibility for lobstermen to innovate and propose equally protective yet less costly approaches.

The MLA wrote to NMFS and met with the White House Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in late July to urge the federal government to tailor the size and duration of the Area 1 closure, streamline the approval process for conservation equivalencies, and not make last-minute changes to Maine’s gear marking system.

The MLA’s concerns were echoed by the Maine Department of Marine Resources and Maine’s Congressional delegation.

MLA is disappointed none of these reasonable requests were accommodated.

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gear marking without any input from Maine lobstermen, and that the closure is much larger than it needs to be to protect right whales. According to the state, reducing the size of the closure in December and January would have a negligible impact on conservation benefit to right whales,” noted McCarron.

The MLA is committed to supporting both the continued viability of the Maine lobster fishery and the recovery of the North Atlantic right whale through management measures that cost-effectively address documented risks based on the best available science. Maine lobstermen are world leaders in conservation and stewardship. They take pride in their longstanding sustainable fishing practices, which include more than two decades of implementation of successful measures to protect whales. Since NMFS formed the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Team in 1997, the MLA has been fully engaged in work to reduce the potential risks to right whales from entanglement in fishing gear.

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AROUND THE COASTS

Gulf/South Atlantic Hurricane Ida wrecks Louisiana bayou fleets

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Long recovery ahead until southeast parishes recover road access, power grid

Ports in southeast Louisiana were heavily damaged and many vessels sunk when Hurricane Ida made landfall with sustained winds of 150 mph on Aug. 29.

uch of the stricken southeast Louisiana coast remained nearly inaccessible in September as Hurricane Ida response efforts continued.

“We’ve just been waiting. They won’t let us out there,” said Ngoc Tran of St. Vincent Seafood Co., who was in Cut Off, La., waiting for the road to

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open to the company’s dock at Golden Meadow about 20 miles away.

One of the company’s trawlers lay on its side, kicked over by Hurricane Ida’s 150-mph gusts. Tran said she was searching for arrangements to get towing assistance to help right the boat.

“It’s bad where we are, I’m sure up close and personal it’s even worse,” she

MARKET REPORT: Gulf Coast Oysters Shortages after Hurricane Ida strike amid market upswing

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s Hurricane Ida plowed into south-

impact extending far beyond the region was

east Louisiana and on to the North-

sudden shortages and escalating prices for

east, another storm surge of sorts

oysters.

said. “We’ll look for tugs to pull her out.”

Commercial fishermen who had secured their vessels in tried-and-true storm refuges found many capsized or washed away by Ida’s winds blasting across the southeast coast.

Reports continued to come in of heavy damage, but quantifying it remains difficult, said Julie Falgout of Louisiana Sea Grant.

“There’s major damage at Dean Blanchard (Seafood Co.)” in Grand Isle, “boats sunk, a couple they can’t fi nd,” Falgout said from Houma a few days after Ida’s Aug. 29 landfall at Port Fourchon.

“It’s unbelievable, and I can’t even get down to the bayous,” said Falgout.

Freezer plants and fuel docks knocked out mean even fishermen who can get out don’t have support, she added.

“There’s no capacity, there’s so much trash in the water, they won’t be able to fish close to shore,” said Falgout.

After marching to the Mid-Atlantic, Ida dumped 7 inches of rainfall on New York City Wednesday night, triggering an unprecedented flash flood emergency in the city as subway stations and basement apartments were inundated and cars and buses stranded.

City officials reported 10 deaths in

place. It took out everything in Lafourche, Terrebonne and Plaquemines” on up to St. Bernard, said Nelson. “All those folks out there, I really feel for them.”

Before the storm, “the markets have been fairly strong,” said Nelson. “Some facilities

swept through seafood markets, a brutal

“There’s just no supply coming off the

are coming back, but supply is a challenge,”

putdown to the industry’s slow pandemic

Gulf Coast,” said Chris Nelson of Bon Secour

and Louisiana had to restart water testing to

recovery.

Fisheries in Bon Secour, Ala., who buys from

clear waters for harvest.

With heavy damage to local fleets,

across the region. In mid-September off-bot-

The impact was felt as far north as New

hard-hit Lafourche and Terrebonne parish

tom oyster farms in Alabama and Florida were

York City, where the famed Grand Central

bayou communities were cut off from power

still working, but they put out “really negligible

Oyster Bar — on the verge of reopening Sept.

through the end of September, hobbling ef-

production” compared to what usually comes

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forts to repair docks and bring back ice and

from leased bottom in Louisiana, he said.

vid-19 pandemic — pushed that date back

shrimp packing.

Frozen shrimp supplies kept that market supplied for the time, but one immediate

That’s right where Ida came ashore at 150 mph.

“It could not have gone in at a worse

two weeks.

“Due to unforeseen operational issues and delays caused by Hurricane Ida, the

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Boat of the Month Vansee

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flooded apartments, and the toll was 30 dead in New Jersey.

Blasting onshore on the 16th anniversary of Katrina, Hurricane Ida sent its immense storm surge coursing over southeast Louisiana, with gusts up to 172 mph reported at Port Fourchon.

Docks in Dulac were heavily damaged, and Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes “are devastated,” said Falgout. In Houma, “my house is totaled, the whole roof is off, and everything soaked,” she said.

“We have more boats affected than in (Hurricane) Laura” last year, she said. “We didn’t think anything could beat Laura, but we just saw something that did.

“We’ll build back. But everyone is tired.”

“It’s bad all over,” agreed Acy Cooper of the Louisiana Shrimp Association.

“Lafourche and Terrebonne got pretty much wiped out.”

“The fishing industry has taken a real beating. The (shrimp and ice) plants are going to be knocked out for a while, said Cooper. “They weren’t making a whole lot of money to begin with, with competition from imports and everything else.”

— Kirk Moore

were the topics making news when the F/V Vansee starting fishing for halibut in Alaska. When current skipper Shawn McManus and crew left the Gulf of Alaska headed for Bellingham,

Odegaard’s son, also Nils, now crews. And

Wash., in early September of this year,

while the Odegaard’s multi-generational

it marked the 108th straight season for

story with the centurial boat has a romantic

the 87-foot schooner, which also fishes

side, Per’s feelings about the old boat are

blackcod now. Built by John Strand out

tempered by a healthy dose of realism.

of a single Douglas fir in Seattle’s Ballard

The Vansee, Odegaard said, has helped

neighborhood, the Vansee was finished in

him avoid the highly leveraged situation

1913. It once toted six dories that were

many modern fishermen find themselves

sent out with longlines, but the dangerous

in, saying it would cost at least $3.5 million

dory fishing was banned in the 1930s.

to build a new steel boat to fish for halibut

Hauling gear was installed, and other

and blackcod.

than the recent blackcod slinky pot

McManus and crew split a seam in

revolution and a bunch of new electronics,

some rough weather in late August and

not a whole lot has changed in what

pulled into Seward, where by chance they

McManus calls something of floating

tied up next to the F/V Lindy, another old

museum. Current owner Per Odegaard

schooner.

retired from skippering 10 years ago but

The Lindy just happened to have an

still runs the business side of the Vansee.

old-time expert aboard, who helped the

“Guys have been working their entire

Vansee out, driving cotton and then oakum

careers on this thing since 1913. Just

into the opened seam with irons, then

look at all the people who have been on

covering the freshly packed seam with a

reopening of the Grand Central Oyster Bar

there, who have made house payments

layer of quick-setting concrete.

has been postponed two weeks until the

and sent their kids through college, done

“He had much more experience corking

week of September 20,” according to a

what are considered normal American

than any of us and was instrumental in

statement from restaurant management.

things,” said Odegaard.

getting it done. There’s a camaraderie with

Heavy rains from Ida “certainly shut

The Vansee has been in the Odegaard

these old boats. We’ve become such a

down most of the East Coast” for oyster

family since the early 1960s. A partial

minority that we all kind of stick together

production, said Robert Rheault, execu-

owner since the late 1960s, Odegaard

and help one another out,” McManus said.

tive director of the East Coast Shellfish

bought out his father Nils in 1982, and

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Nation/World American Seafoods fighting $350 million fine U.S. officials allege Jones Act violations in companies’ pollock supply via Canada

merican Seafoods and other companies associated with the company’s supply chain are in federal court trying to beat back $350 million in fines proposed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection over use of an intermodal rail facility in the Canadian province of New Brunswick to transport Alaska seafood to the U.S. East Coast.

On Sept. 2, American Seafoods subsidiary Alaska Reefer Management and the company that operates the New Brunswick facility, Lineage Logistics subsidiary Kloosterboer International Forwarding, asked Judge Sharon L. Gleason in the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska for emergency injunctive relief that will help them

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American Triumph is one of six freezerprocessor trawlers American Seafoods operates in the North Pacific and Bering Sea.

resolve issues in their supply chains created by the fines.

American Seafoods operates a fleet of six at-sea catcher-processor vessels in

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the Bering Sea and the North Pacific Ocean and holds around 17.5 percent of the total quota for Alaska pollock.

It also fishes for several Native Alaska corporations, which are allocated a quota but do not directly fish in the Bering Sea. Andreassen said the company has around $400 million in annual sales. Approximately 13 percent of its total pollock catch — representing 90 percent of its U.S. sales — is shipped to the U.S. East Coast via the so-called Bayside Program, which has been placed in jeopardy as a result of the Customs enforcement.

“Without intervention, we believe we will lose sales this year and incur higher costs, and we anticipate our customers will also lose sales this year if they run reduced volumes on factory lines due to product shortages,” he said.

“We are struggling to calculate the cost and loss of revenue associated with this incredible level of disruption, but we can estimate that if 10 percent of our U.S. targeted product gets delayed, we are looking at over $5 million in lost revenue this year, plus all of the costs described above (some transportation quotes we are receiving are suggesting double the current cost to ship). If we have to let our U.S. customers down, we will have to deal with that fallout.”

According to Andreassen’s statement, American Seafoods customers include High Liner Foods, Channel Fish Processing, and Eastern Fisheries, who “generally further process the fish and then sell branded and private-label products into retail and foodservice,” including retailers Walmart, Kroger and Costco; major restaurant chains including Arby’s, Long John Silvers and Burger King; and foodservice distributors serving schools and momand-pop restaurants.

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Atlantic Offshore wind sees ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’

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RODA seeks court challenge to Vineyard Wind as BOEM surges new reviews

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam addressed the International Partnering Forum Aug. 25 in Richmond, Va.

aying the Northeast fi shing industry has been “systematically marginalized in the permitting process,” the Responsible Offshore Development Alliance sued the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Monday over its July 15 approval of the Vineyard Wind off shore wind energy project.

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The group, a coalition of fi shermen and coastal communities, fi led a petition for review in the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals challenging the permit for the 800-megawatt project off southern Massachusetts.

“This is a precedent-setting decision by BOEM, and it is critical that they get it right so that future projects

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are following a trusted roadmap instead of a fl awed and dangerous example,” said Anne Hawkins, RODA’s executive director. “Unfortunately, this lawsuit is the only recourse fi shermen have to ensure the fi shing communities’ concerns are addressed.”

Hawkins said this is the fi rst court challenge to a BOEM off shore wind construction and operation plan approval. The plaintiff s decided to go to the federal appeals court because offshore oil and gas cases are brought at that level.

“A construction and operations plan looks a lot like an oil production plan,” she said.

RODA and other fi shermen have consistently engaged for years in talks with BOEM and wind developers but are not seeing the concerns addressed in the agency’s decision making, according to RODA. “The project design approved by BOEM would endanger fi shermen by placing turbines too close together for fi shing vessels to safely navigate in inclement weather or heavy seas,” the group said. “Based on their understanding of the connectivity of marine systems, fi shermen have also repeatedly requested a cumulative impact assessment of off shore wind

“Their range has contracted, but they aggregate in schools, and they can still be found and caught at a high rate; a good fish-

t is almost certain that Maine

lot of shrimp on his boat the De Dee Mae II. “I

erman with some luck and some years un-

shrimp will not be on any menus,

was very good at it... I hate to say it. I figured

der his belt will know where to look,” says

or in markets this year.

out where they go.” Alexander feels there are

Hunter.

The Maine shrimp (pandalus borealis

shrimp populations out there, waiting to be

But a high catch rate does not mean the

— also known as northern shrimp and pink

caught. “I hope we have a season,” he adds.

stock is abundant, cautions Hunter. While

shrimp) had its last commercial season in Maine in 2013.

But things are not looking promising.

the current moratorium on Maine’s fishery is

While northern shrimp in the Gulf of Maine

set to expire in 2021, regulators are unlikely to support a reopened fishery this year.

Back then, dealers paid fishermen an

are not extinct, says Maggie Hunter, lead

average of $1.81 a pound. But since then,

shrimp scientist at Maine’s Department of

“The only new data we have at this time

the fishery has been closed, aside from a few

Marine Resources, they have declined in

are from the fall 2020 Maine-New Hampshire

years of limited catch for research purposes.

abundance by 90 percent (the total biomass

Inshore Trawl survey,” says Hunter, “which

“I used to get three-fourths of my pay

index average for 2014-19 was about 10 per-

had the lowest abundance in that survey’s

catching shrimp,” says Marshall Alexander,

cent of the 1984-2013 average, according to

time series, and very little recruitment from

75, a fisherman out of Portland who caught a

a 2019 report).

the 2020 year class.

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Changes finalized for right whale protections Lobstermen say restrictions unjustified

C holder negotiations, NMFS published apping years of court orders and stake-

its final rule to modify the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan, instituting sweeping gear modifications and other requirements for the Northeast lobster and Jonah crab fisheries to reduce the danger of whale entanglement.

The gear modifications go into effect May 1, 2022, at the start of the fishing year. But other changes to seasonally restricted areas off New England will go into effect in 30 days.

The nearly 200-page rule document lays out the new measures in detail, including new gear marking to introduce state-specific colors; reducing vertical lines by requiring more traps between buoy lines; weak insertions or weak rope in buoy lines so whales have a better chance to break loose; and modifying existing seasonal closure/restricted areas to allow experimentation with ropeless or pop-up gear.

Lobstermen fear for their future with the plan.

“According to NMFS data, the Maine lobster fishery has not had a documented entanglement with a North Atlantic right whale in over 17 years and has never been known to kill or seriously injure a right whale,” said Patrice McCarron, executive director of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association.

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development to fi sh and protected resources.”

“We do want to work with the agency,” Hawkins said. The future posed by Vineyard Wind is still a problem for the industry, despite “hundreds of hours” spent in meetings and hearings, she said.

“If you show up, and show up, and show up… they (fi shermen) expect to see some accommodation,” she said. “We had long discussions among our board members and decided this (court action) was the way to go.”

At the International Partnering Forum conference in Richmond, Va., Aug. 25, Liz Burdock, president and CEO of the Business Network for Off shore Wind, spoke of the budding industry’s big moment.

“In the U.S., we only have eight years to reach the Biden administration’s goal of 30 gigawatts,” Burdock told the audience. In Europe, the cradle of a now-burgeoning global wind industry, it took 30 years to achieve that power output, said Burdock.

“We have to scale up… the industry needs help,” she said.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced the Port of Virginia is leasing 72 acres to support the Coastal Virginia Off shore Wind project, with an eye to becoming the East Coast hub for wind construction. Ørsted and partner Eversource could start their 132-megawatt South Fork wind project east of Montauk, N.Y., next year after BOEM and the partners resolve issues like preserving critical bottom habitat for fi sheries by shifting turbine and cable locations.

“At Ørsted we’re trying to do right by all stakeholders,” said David Hardy, CEO of Ørsted Off shore North America.

“We want to do it with an eye toward the long-term sustainability of the business,” said Hardy. “There’s been tremendous progress in the last eight months, but this is still a once in a lifetime opportunity.”

— Kirk Moore

Patrice McCarron is the executive director of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association.

Meanwhile, “a historic number of right whales have died in Canadian waters over the past five years,” and the Canadian government has not yet put in protections comparable to U.S. rules, according to an MLA statement.

NMFS’ analysis justifying the final rule, calling for a 60 percent reduction in entanglement danger for right whales, “inexplicably underweights risk to right whales in Canada by ignoring observed trends in right whale mortality,” the association says..

“The final rule is just the first round of economic impacts to us, and future restrictions will likely destroy Maine’s iconic lobster fishery,” McCarron said of the 10-year plan.

“We are extremely frustrated by last-minute changes to gear marking

“The Maine lobster fishery has not had a documented entanglement with a North Atlantic right whale in over 17 years.”

— Patrice McCarron MAINE LOBSTERMEN'S ASSOCIATION

without any input from Maine lobstermen, and that the closure is much larger than it needs to be to protect right whales. According to the state, reducing the size of the closure in December and January would have a negligible impact on conservation benefit to right whales,” said McCarron.

NMFS and Massachusetts state officials hope so-called ropeless or pop-up gear — remotely controlled buoys and vertical lines that deploy on command from fishing vessels — will in the long term be a viable solution to entanglement danger.

NMFS opened a scoping process Sept. 14 to begin the next phase to reduce entanglement risks, focusing on East Coast pot and gillnet fisheries.

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Alaska EPA renews protection promise for Bristol Bay

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Reversal of 2019 decision will restrict mining discharges in region, protect watershed

Alannah Hurley and Mae Syvrud hosted President Barack Obama in Alaska's Bristol Bay in September 2015, shortly after the EPA proposed permanent protections.

n Thursday, Sept. 9, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it will reinstate a clean water protection proposal for Alaska’s Bristol Bay. The EPA will vacate its 2019 decision to withdraw proposed protections for Bristol Bay and reinstate the agency’s 2014 proposed determination under section 404(c) of the Clean Water Act. If

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finalized, the protections would restrict mining in the region to protect the watershed by limiting the amount of wastewater and mine waste discharge that could be released into waters in the Bristol Bay region.

“This announcement is a historic step forward in the long fight to protect Bristol Bay, our fishery, and our people,” said Robert Heyano, president of United

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Tribes of Bristol Bay. “The people of Bristol Bay are counting on the EPA to listen to the science and finish the job of protecting our lands and waters.”

The announcement comes after a recent ruling from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and as the result of a lawsuit filed by Tribes, fishermen, conservation organizations, and others against the 2019 withdrawal decision.

“The people of Bristol Bay are very clear: We want the Environmental Protection Agency to take action to protect our watershed,” said Alannah Hurley, United Tribes of Bristol Bay executive director, in the days leading up to the announcement.

President Obama visited Bristol Bay in 2015, calling it “critical” to “protect this incredible natural resource.” But the effort to provide EPA protections was halted under the Trump administration.

President Biden had promised protections during his campaign.

“Bristol Bay needs certainty that our salmon fishery and the economy and way of life it supports will continue to support generations to come,” said Katherine Carscallen, executive director of Commercial Fisherman for Bristol Bay. The difference between the 2014 proposal and today’s is that the Pebble

the decision to shift to surimi block production very logical,” he says.

Japan remains the top export market

laska’s pollock fleet enjoyed in-

Pollock surimi production through Aug.

for U.S. produced surimi. Most recent his-

creased production as bottlenecks

15, 2020, stood at 124,031 metric tons, and

torical information suggests that Japan

in delivering, processing, shipping

through Aug. 21, 2021, it added up to 152,087

takes around 37 percent of Alaska’s surimi,

and distributing opened up earlier this year.

metric tons. During the second quarter of this

with South Korea coming in close behind at

However, besides competition from surimi

year, production of 32,804 metric tons more

around 33 percent.

made elsewhere in the world, consumer de-

than doubled the 14,912 metric tons of 2020.

As the impact of the covid-19 pandemic

mand for other pollock products will deter-

According to Craig Morris, CEO of Genu-

escalated through the second quarter of

ine Alaska Pollock Producers in Seattle, mul-

2020, exports to Japan fell from the 49,369

tiple factors are in play for the 2021 season.

metric tons of 2019 to 38,821 metric tons and

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mine production in the coming year.

Like many other industries in the United

has since recovered slightly to 39,791 metric

States, the labor component hobbled nearly

“With surimi block production being

every facet of the industry. By the third quar-

less intensive from a labor perspective and

ter of this year, latent labor shortages still lin-

younger age class fish working well into suri-

As for the health of the surimi market in

gered, but the production of surimi appeared

mi block production — and having this strong

the year ahead, multiple factors come into

to be gaining.

global demand for surimi block — it makes

play.

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tons for the second quarter of 2021.

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“The people of Bristol Bay are counting on the EPA to listen to the science and finish the job of protecting our lands and waters.”

Snapshot Who we are Hill Family / Key Largo, Fla. / Lobster, crab

Partnership has since filed a permit and been denied by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The legal action that led to the 2019 reversal called the EPA’s 2014 Clean Water Act protections a preemptive veto because they were issued prior to a permit application.

In the filing, the EPA also acknowledged that the withdrawal of the proposed determination did not meet the court’s standard for appropriately considering the devastation a mine like Pebble would cause in the Bristol Bay watershed.

“This is a smart and significant step toward putting more durable safeguards in place for Bristol Bay’s fish, clean water, communities and businesses,” said Nelli Williams, Alaska director for Trout Unlimited, which joined in the lawsuit.

“This is an important layer of protection that makes it much more difficult for the Pebble Partnership, or any other companies in the future, to mine the

or

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— Robert Heyano

nearly

50

years,

four

generations of the Hill family have owned and operated Key

Largo Fisheries — one of the most successful

and we’re passing the torch to another family.”

The new owners — Summit KLF, doing business as Key Largo Fisheries — are Bob Charney and his

commercial

partner, Marc Andersen,

fishing operations in

who both live in the

the Florida Keys.

Established 1972

by

Upper

in

Keys,

Charney’s

Jack

and Dottie Hill,

and

it has grown into

brother-in-law.

shipping

an excellent family-

market,

run business in the

product

Keys where we have

around the world; a a

bustling outdoor café; a

busy

commercial

Andersen’s

“We recognized

a wholesale and retail

and

brother

presence,”

Charney

said. “We thought our family

and

recreational marina; and a purveyor

could help the Hill family transition it for

of rigged bait — all under the steady

the next 50 years. We’re not looking to

leadership of their sons, managing

change anything. We’re just looking to

partners Tom and Rick Hill.

continue the growth and supporting the

But last June, the Hills agreed to

local fishermen and customers.”

sell the business to another family who

Tom Hill said he initially resisted when

owns and operates marinas and other

Charney approached him about buying

commercial real estate in the Keys and

the business. But he says he believes

New England for an undisclosed price.

the partners will “take Key Largo

They will stay on as advisers to the

Fisheries to the next level” and he’s

new owners for at least the next few

glad to be their mentor while reducing

“Looking back at 2020 vs. 2019, we

months. Key Largo Fisheries harvests

his work week from 70 hours to a more

know that frozen seafood and especially

and sells lobster, stone crab, shrimp,

normal 30 to 40 hours.

products made from Wild Alaska Pollock

and fish, as well as rigged ballyhoo and

PBO and Deep-Skinned Fillet blocks en-

bait shrimp.

“The purpose of our selling is to get some time off,” Hill said. “Sometime

joyed strong demand as covid-related

“This crew is desirous to keep it a

around November-December, it will turn

purchasing funneled consumers into the

working waterfront. It’s really one of the

into a 30-to-40-hour work week — until

frozen food aisles of grocery stores as

last of its kind in Florida,” Tom Hill said

they feel like, ‘Yeah, Tom, I got it. Go

well as the drive-throughs of quick ser-

of the new owners. “We’ve been here

home.’”

vice restaurants,” says Morris.

almost 50 years. It’s a family tradition,

— Sue Cocking

“So, all things equal and assuming that the fish age class move back more towards historic levels — and labor issues are addressed — I would be surprised if we didn’t see a shift by the industry to more PBO Fillet Block production in the next year.”

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Pebble ore deposit.”

Bristol Bay Tribes and communities celebrated the announcement that the Environmental Protection Agency will resume work on permanent protections for the Bristol Bay watershed that could safeguard the region.

“The fifteen federally recognized Tribes of the United Tribes of Bristol Bay who call this region home, have worked for decades to protect our pristine watershed that sustains our sacred indigenous way of life,” Heyano said.

— Jessica Hathaway November 2021 \ National Fisherman 17

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West Coast/Pacific NMFS approves plan to restrict king salmon fishing

NMFS

Pacific council recommended maintaining salmon for endangered killer whales

NMFS approved a plan to restrict fishing when king salmon numbers decline.

almon fishing could be cut back from Puget Sound to Monterey Bay if king salmon numbers fall too low to feed the 75 endangered Southern Resident orcas, under a plan approved Sept. 14 by NMFS. Non-tribal fishing would be restricted when salmon numbers appear to be heading toward that threshold — a key recommendation from a working group convened by the Pacific Fishery Management

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Council, including representatives from West Coast states and tribes, as well as NMFS. In late 2020, the council adopted the work group’s suggestions, including limiting commercial and recreational fishing in certain places off California, Oregon, and Washington when estimated king salmon numbers north of Cape Falcon, Ore., fall below a certain level of abundance.

That level would be set as the average

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of the seven lowest years of forecast salmon abundance off the northern Oregon and Washington coasts, currently estimated at 966,000. In recent years king salmon numbers held above that level, and 2007 was the last year when forecasts would have fallen below the threshold.

The concern remains that a drop in abundance will make it harder for orcas to find food, leading to a decline in their health, reproduction and survival.

“The goal of the proposal is to reduce impacts on chinook salmon fisheries that meet the prey needs of Southern Resident killer whales when prey abundance is low, while still providing fishing opportunities,” according to a NMFS summary from June 2021.

Two of the three pods of Southern Resident orcas spend much of the winter and spring foraging for multiple runs of salmon and other species off the West Coast as far south as Monterey Bay, Calif., and as far north as Southeast Alaska.

A third pod forages more in inland and Canadian waters, and also relies on a mix of salmon stocks from West Coast rivers.

Potential new conservation measures if low salmon abundance looms would include: Reduce fishing quotas north of Cape Falcon, Ore.; Close areas off the Columbia River

high-end seafood again,” says Scott Adams,

Live buyers are back, frozen stocks down before peak U.S. sales

general manager of Hallmark Fisheries, in

est Coast Dungeness crabbers got

a fleet after the covid-19 pandemic hobbled

there was, and some fishermen got as much

off to a late start after price nego-

markets in 2020.

as $10.25 per pound.”

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Charleston, Ore. “The live market took what

tiations with major processors de-

Last year’s catch wound up frozen and sit-

With the relatively small harvest and

layed the harvest by a few weeks. As of Aug.

ting in cold storage facilities as domestic out-

cold-storage reserves depleted, retail prices

25, the fleet had put in 28.15 million pounds,

lets shut down and brought the widespread

to the consumer have bounded up to $50 per

and better yet, average ex-vessel prices hit

closure of restaurants and crab shacks.

pound and could go even higher during peak

$4.96 per pound, according to data with PacFIN.

With the reverse in that regime this year, cold storage holdings have been liquidated

Dungeness consumption periods between Thanksgiving and Super Bowl Sunday.

Crabbers in January went fishing after

and live buyers returned. Wholesale prices

According to data from PacFIN, this

agreeing to a base price of $2.75 per pound.

for the various crab packs have skyrocketed,

year’s harvest fell significantly below the

Though the final harvest numbers and

which translated to this year’s ex-vessel of-

46.59 million pounds of 2020. With the av-

the ex-vessel values for the season will take

fers more than double what they have been

erage ex-vessel prices running at $4.97 per

a few months to catch up (the season closed

in recent years.

pound this year, West Coast revenues hit

Aug. 15), the 2021 season brought hope to

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“It seems like everybody wants to eat

$135.07 million.

— Charlie Ess

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and Grays Harbor to all but tribal treaty fishing until June 15; Delay the ocean commercial troll fishery between Cape Falcon and the California/Oregon border until April 1; Close areas off the Klamath River and Monterey Bay in California to recreational and commercial king salmon fishing from Oct. 1 to March 31.

The council will also reconsider established conservation objectives for Sacramento and Klamath River fall-run king salmon that contribute substantially to West Coast fisheries. The goal would be for higher salmon returns that could benefit the endangered Southern Residents — and the fishing fleet.

In August the Biden administration extended critical habitat designations for the Southern Resident population from Washington south to Point Sur, Calif., maintaining the Puget Sound protected region, — Kirk Moore

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customers have informed ASC that their U.S.-based businesses are in jeopardy due to demands from their downstream customers, which have increased substantially since the onset of the covid-19 pandemic,” Andreassen said.

The supply-chain freeze also threatens the USDA commodity procurement program, which has purchased millions of pounds of pollock this year to help feed families and children in need across the United States.

“Most of this seafood product is converted to consumer-friendly seafood products in the Eastern U.S., which means that any delay in the raw material supply will prevent needy families, and reopening schools from receiving this

healthy protein,” Andreassen said.

The crisis facing the entire supply chain for Alaska pollock has been exacerbated by the covid-19 pandemic, which has resulted in higher demand for seafood along with severe strains on global transportation infrastructure.

“Due to constraints in cold-storage facilities and other viable ways to transport ASC’s seafood products to its customers in the Eastern U.S., if ASC is unable to continue using its current transportation process for delivery of its seafood products to the Eastern U.S., ASC will be compelled to divert the seafood products slated for its American business customers to Europe,” he said.

Without the prompt release of this product and lifting of Customs’ threat of continued enforcement action, the entire domestic market for U.S.-sourced pollock may disappear, Andreassen said.

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DESIGNING FOR HYBRID

FULLY CHARGED The market for hybrid propulsion systems heats up, and designers are ready

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ybrid and full electric power are lively topics in the boatbuilding industry, not just for commercial fishing vessels, but tugboats, ferries and other workboats, and recreational boats, as well.

“We are not getting requests from the fishing industry,” says Will Ayers of the Elliot Bay Design Group, naval architects in Seattle. “I think fishermen, wisely, are letting other industries do the R&D before they adopt hybrid power.” According to Ayers, Elliot Bay is deep

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Sam Devlin built the Wayward Sun, a prototype electric boat, using a stitch-and-glue method—marine plywood and epoxy.

into designing hybrid and electric ferries that can be charged in between runs. “I can see where very coastal fisheries could use it, but the boats I’m looking at from my office all go up to Alaska.”

Ayers is right, while some big trawlers are using hybrid power in various applications, it is smaller, nearshore vessels that are looking more closely at the potential of hybrid power.

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Electric boats need lightweight hulls. Sam Devlin thinks his stitch-and-glue style would suit some fisheries, like trolling or diving.

Boatbuilder Sam Devlin, in Olympia, Wash., recently built a 27-foot stitchand-glue solar powered vessel, the Wayward Sun, that made it from Bellingham, Wash., to Glacier Bay, Alaska, in 170 hours. “The big thing with this is a proof of concept,” says Devlin. “The technology works.”

The crew made the trip “using the sun as the only power source in an area known more for cloudy skies and rain than bright sunny days,” said a press release from Devlin Designing Boatbuilders. “On the roof were 12 flexible Solbian solar panels, providing a total of 1,730 watts of power. Torqeedo was of great help with the voyage, providing the Cruise 4.0 pod drive, and the six Torqeedo 24-3500 lithium batteries.”

But Devlin notes there are issues that will slow fishermen from adopting the technology. “Some trollers have flirted with it,” he says. “But the design uses To subscribe, call 1-800-959-5073

The Torqeedo system in the Wayward Sun used six 24-3500 lithium batteries and other components for battery management.

“The big thing with this is a proof of concept. The technology works.”

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pods with little 14-inch plastic composite wheels. Fishing kind of forces you to go to a conventional shaft and propeller.”

Devlin also notes that the solar panels take up more space than a fishing vessel can spare. But while fishing vessels may not be able to go full solar, they could easily go hybrid.

“Most have gensets and batteries. It’s not a big reach to get bigger batteries,” says Devlin, who believes he could build those vessels. He has built boats up to 65 feet using a stitch-and-glue November 2021 \ National Fisherman 21

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system of basically sewing plywood panels together and sealing them with West System epoxy. “I think wood and epoxy construction could suit the fishing industry,” says Devlin. “Especially the trolling fleet.”

Devlin points out that his stitch-andglue vessels might be ideal for hybrid power. “The biggest thing is they can’t have heavy burdensome hulls, but you have to have to able to bolt the engine down securely, because with electric engines you get full torque.”

Devlin’s boats might fit those requirements, but he points out another limiting factor: the price tag. You have to do the math. The Torqeedo 24-volt, 3,500-watt batteries are $2,999 each, he says.

According to Devlin, if the fuel savings over 10 years will exceed the cost of going hybrid, it’s a no brainer. “I’m surprised there’s not more interest,” he

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says. But there is increasing action in and out of the fishing industry that could lead to more fishermen looking at hybrid vessels, and designers meeting their needs.

Among the innovators, Sue Molloy, president of Glas Ocean Electric, built a hybrid lobster boat in Nova Scotia, and is currently designing a full electric production boat for

the aquaculture industry. “Electric and hybrid development is about to explode,” says Molloy.

The key to that explosion is battery technology, according to Molloy. “The general feeling I have is that there is not much movement in power density, which is around 12 to 15 kWh per 100 kilograms. Where the progress is is in battery life.” Molloy points out that a team at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, had been working with Tesla and developed a million-mile battery that could make its way onto fishing vessels.

Another battery maker that Molloy likes is the SPBES, Sterling Plan B Energy Systems. With its main office in Vancouver, British Columbia, SPBES has offices in seven other countries, including the United States. SPBES builds high-capacity, liquid-cooled batteries.

“The transition to battery hybrid and battery electric propulsion is already occurring in the marine industry,” says SPBES. The company notes that what started with hybrid and electric ferries is now spreading across the maritime industry — including hybrid fishing boats.

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SPBES has a goal of zero emissions on the water, and only the cells need to be replaced in the end of a Plan B battery’s life.

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the system. “The systems are adaptive to cell chemistry and currently include High Power NMC, Energy NMC and LTO Titanate configurations. With advances such as CellSwap, CellCool and E-Vent, Plan B energy storage systems are known as the most optimized and safest high power systems on the market,” says SPBES. “They offer cooling and venting,” says Molloy. “They are a battery company that wants you to succeed.”

Battery cooling has proven important

Transfluid’s turnkey systems include the company’s signature LiFePo4 batteries that boast a 3,000-cycle lifespan.

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vessels hauling longlines, gillnets and other gear, also use a dynamic positioning system — the person at the helm, — but the power needs are similar, and hybrid designers are developing turnkey systems for small vessels.

Besides the Torqeedo system that took the Wayward Sun from Washington to Alaska, Transfluid, a company based in Italy, is working with some Sitka fishermen who received carbon reduction grant money to help convert to hybrid power.

Transfluid offers industrial-scale systems, developed in different sizes, from 8 up to 75 kW of electric power — 10 to 100 hp — enough to for most small vessels to hold position and run hydraulics while hauling gear.

Transfluid sells turnkey systems, with electric motors, transmissions, LiFePo4 SPBES has a global presence and manufactures a water cooled, batteries, electronic vented battery for large and small vessels. management and control for some innovators. One Alaska systems, and a global assistance netlongliner, gillnetter Fabian Grutter, has work. The LiFePo4 batteries are based reported frying his homemade hybrid on lithium (Li), iron (Fe), phosphate system earlier this year, as a result of (Po) cells, a technology with an integrated battery management system to charge control problems.

Without the resources of the mul- maintain the cells to be equalized and tinationals, Grutter had his batteries efficient. Transfluid batteries boast a custom built in China. But he has also 3,000-cycle lifespan, and fast charging considered the potential of used Tesla to increase the daily available energy.

These are just few of the increasing batteries that may have a lot of life left number of players in the hybrid electric in them.

One of the places SPBES is focusing system providers for fishing vessels.

While many of the new developits attention is the use of hybrid power for vessels using dynamic positioning ments are coming from other industries, fishermen are, as Will Ayers notes, systems.

“A workboat, such as an offshore wisely allowing others to bear the supply vessel or cable layer, uses a dy- R&D costs and picking up the technamic positioning system to hold po- nology when numbers make it a smart sition relative to the rig despite wind, business decision. waves and currents. The vessel is able to respond to variations in load (wind Paul Molyneaux is the Boats & Gear editor and waves) as they happen, on battery for National Fisherman and author of “The power alone,” says the company. Fishing Doryman’s Reflection.” www.nationalfisherman.com

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Clyde Pruitt unloads wild oysters, caught while hand scraping in Tangier Sound, onto the Delvin K, Tangier Island’s oyster buy boat.

his fall, National Fisherman contributor Jay Fleming releases his second photography book, “Island Life.”

Following the publication of his first book, “Working the Water” — an indepth documentation of the Chesapeake Bay’s fisheries — Fleming narrowed his focus to Maryland’s Smith Island and Virginia’s Tangier Island, the last two inhabited offshore islands in his home waters of the Chesapeake Bay. Although less than 15 miles of water separate Smith and Tangier from the

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mainland, centuries of isolation have preserved the unique way of life of these island communities, making them feel worlds apart from mainland living.

Residents of these two islands have a deep connection to the water, with seafood being the primary driver of their economies. After documenting the islands’ iconic blue crab scraping fishery for “Working the Water,” Fleming quickly became enamored with the islands and eventually came to know many island residents. Over the course of five years, Fleming lived on the islands for month-long stints in every season to fully immerse himself in the island life.

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Island kids Peyton and Maddie Pruitt play on ice near the crab shanties in Mailboat Harbor on Tangier Island, Va., during the freeze-up of January 2018.

Morris “Goodman” Marsh leans on the engine box of his crab scraping boat Darlene in Tangier Sound, Md. At 81, Morris is the oldest working waterman on Smith Island.

ways in which isolation from the mainland and reliance on the bay’s bounty have preserved a rare feeling of nostalgia in these unique communities.

Fleming dedicated more than onethird of the pages in “Island Life” to the commercial fisheries of the islands. In documenting the island harvest, Fleming photographed the salt-hardened watermen, home-grown crab pickers, iconic seafood and distinct workboats that sustain the islands’ working waterfronts. While shooting for his book, Fleming also photographed and wrote “Buying Time,” our February 2019 cover story about the Smith and Tangier islands buyboats — the last of their kind James “Ooker” Eskridge, a working waterman and the mayor of Tangier, lifts a peeler pot into his workboat Sreedevi in Cod Harbor, Va. 28 National Fisherman \ November 2021

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Jay Fleming put himself right in front of the action in his kayak while photographing Smith Island waterman Allen Marsh patent tonging for wild oysters in Tangier Sound, Md. He also spent time underwater. Missy Evans photo

still buying and hauling seafood on the Chesapeake.

Fleming’s documentation of the island communities comes at a pivotal time for Smith and Tangier. Since his first trip to the islands in 2009, Fleming has seen remarkable changes to the islands’ landscape and communities.

Cemeteries are washing into the water, acres of marshland are disappearing, and the populations are in decline. Fleming felt a sense of urgency to document the islands’ iconic working waterfronts, as the very forces that sustain them also threaten to take them away.

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SpaceX Starlink and other satellite constellations connect Carling Technologies’ and other vessel monitoring systems to distant analysts.

WHEELHOUSE IN THE CLOUD Technological advances are moving marine electronics into the world of remote monitoring and artificial intelligence

By Paul Molyneaux

heelhouse electronics have evolved with increasing speed in the 70 years since World War II, when technologies like radar, sonar and radio communications began to make fishing more efficient and safer.

As disruptive technologies enter the wheelhouse, that evolution is going places few fishermen ever imagined.

Wheelhouse electronics are leaving the wheelhouse.

On most boats, crew members still get woken up to stand wheel watches when steaming to and from the fishing grounds. They watch the radar, the sounder, the plotter and the gauges. But new technologies are adding layers of redundancy that can make boats safer and more efficient.

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Sensors and systems capable of monitoring things like fuel burn, engine performance, battery charge levels, refrigeration variables and rudder angle, are no longer just sending that information to the wheelhouse.

Onboard communications and satellites can now send that information to a captain or engineer if they are in their bunks with an iPad, or to fleet managers thousands of miles away.

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Carling Technologies’ Maretron brand vessel monitoring system allows users on or off the boat to pay closer attention to engine performance and other systems.

key, and the cloud services are very secure.”

Carling owns the brand Maretron, which makes sensors and monitors for marine engines and other systems. “Engines often use J1939 — a communication standard. Our Maretron system uses NMEA 2000.

It’s a language we use to transmit and receive information.”

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“The use of disruptive technologies in fisheries and aquaculture may not be widespread now, but a look at three disruptive technologies that were not on the sector’s horizon a few years ago — blockchains, sensors, and automatic identification systems (AIS) — demonstrates the potential of disruptive technology to change the processes, profitability, and sustainability of the sector,” the report said.

“We still have our gauges,” says Osman Colak of Teknotherm, a refrigeration company that utilizes remote monitoring of its equipment as a service to clients. But captains can just as easily monitor systems on wheelhouse computers, and some aspects of systems can be controlled as well as monitored remotely. “We can do some control from land,” adds Colak. “But with high-pressure and dangerous gases, you need manual controls.”

Remote control via satellite communication also opens the door to possible hacking of systems. But the companies putting the technology together are confident they can keep it secure.

“We’ve done a good job with security,” says Scott Johnson of Connecticut-based Carling Technologies. “You need a license

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The Maretron sensors attach to a backbone that sends readings to the wheelhouse and just about anywhere else customers need it to go.

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According to Johnson, the Maretron configuration of sensors can monitor a variety of onboard systems and display that information on a PC or tablet, or send the information ashore via satellite.

“We have a number of fleet management companies using our hardware and software right now,” says Johnson. He explains the system as starting with a backbone, which is then connected to sensors and gateways that allow users to display information on or off the boat. Users can monitor fuel burn, GPS readings, run indicators for electric devices, bilge and smoke alarms, engine room and refrigeration temperature, catch weight, and other measures.

“We have the J2K, which translates information from J1939 engines, so we can get a lot of the parameters out of that. We can get generator information, tachometer, hours, coolant pressure, water temperature, oil pressure, a lot of information, and these are just the gateways we have. And we have ways to get that November 2021 \ National Fisherman 31

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“Expert Insight is a predictive maintenance service, where an expert in a Wärtsilä Expertise Center follows up collected operating data from the assets in scope (e.g., engines) and provides recommendations.”

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Wärtsilä’s Expert Insight system uses experts to analyze information transmitted from a vessel.

They then make recommendations for increasing efficiency and pre-emptive maintenance.

download a program called N2K builder that enables them to build their own network. “It allows you to take the devices and put them on the network, and it only allows you to build a certified solid system. It allows you to check your calculations and do a design for your boat, and then it kicks out a bill of materials. Naval architects use this tool as well.”

The Finnish marine propulsion and energy company Wärtsilä has its own system: Expert Insight.

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information off the boat through our internet protocol gateway and other devices.”

Johnson notes that the primary role of the Maretron system is in monitoring, pointing out that there is some functionality for controlling systems. “We don’t use it to control the engine,” he says. “It’s more for if you want to turn the lights on or off or something like that.”

According to Johnson, Maretron gives customers the ability to

Wärtsilä’s Expert Insight uses AI and other emerging technologies to help improve engine performance for new factory fishing trawlers.

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“Expert Insight is a predictive maintenance service, where an expert in a Wärtsilä Expertise Center follows up collected operating data from the assets in scope (e.g., engines) and provides recommendations based on the findings highlighted by the Expert Insight detection system,” says Tiejo Hiito of Wärtsilä.

“The value for the customer is in reducing unplanned maintenance,” says Hiito, who notes that experts support customers proactively and aim to resolve issues before breakdowns happen, or before the fuel bill is significantly impacted. “With these methods, Wärtsilä Expert Insight also plays an important role in decarbonization,” he says.

“The data is analyzed using two underlying detection systems: A rule-based detection system with thresholds for each sensor based on internal knowledge and knowhow, and an AI-based system using machine learning,” says Hiito. He points out that the intention of these detection systems is to analyze the operating data, and detect possible deviations and anomalies indicating potential failures.

Both of these detection systems, Hiito notes, highlight the findings to the Wärtsilä expert, who then evaluates, investigates and recommends actions to the customer by opening a case via an online environment, called Collaboration www.nationalfisherman.com

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The company’s Collaboration app facilitates communication between the Wärtsilä expert and the customer, and assesses operating data via remote monitoring.

This cloud-based application is accessible online by logging in with the provided credentials.

“In addition to a conversation with the Wärtsilä expert and follow-up of cases, the customer can also see trends in operating data, see process views of different onboard systems, read alarms and events, and see different dashboards related to the connected equipment,” says Hiito.

Hiito adds that the data is collected in a cybersecure way, and is read-only — so we do not have any remote control functions in place with this service.

“Expert Insight is sold as part of a Lifecycle agreement, and it is applicable for 4-stroke and 2-stroke engines,” says Hiito. “Quite often Expert Insight is sold together with Wärtsilä Operational Support, adding round-the-clock expert support, whenever there is an operational problem and remote expert assistance is needed.”

For smaller boats, a number of companies, such as Actisense, NoLand and Dragon Marine are building analog gauge converters that can convert gauge readings into more accurate digital readings on hardware built by most marine electronics companies, Simrad’s IS42, for example. The digital information can be connected to alarms that can alert the boat owner onboard or remotely.

“The remote connection to Actisense products, like the EMU-1, across the NMEA 2000 network from Toolkit allows the user to set the parameters for their specific gauges, alarms and RPM information,” says Actisense.

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company’s national sales manager, Matt Wood.

“We have remote monitoring via Ethernet and are starting to offer a

subscription service via web and satcoms to better enable remote service diagnostics for our own service network and for owners,” says Wood.

“This partially leverages NMEA 2000, but deep-draft/oceangoing fleets are not really fully onboard with NMEA 2000 yet. When OneNet becomes a full-fledged standard, we will likely see some uptick in commercial carriers embracing it.”

The information that once went from analog gauges, and radar, sounder and plotter observations in the wheelhouse, to the captain’s log, is now digitized and available anywhere on or off the boat.

As the technology ramps up, more vessel owners are expected to use artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data to more efficiently manage their fi shing operations from the wheelhouse and beyond.

Paul Molyneaux is the Boats & Gear editor for National Fisherman and author of “The Doryman’s Refl ection.”

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Fisherman-focused Gannet Nets helps fleets seine strong

By Brian Hagenbuch ounded by longtime fisherman David O’Neill, Gannet Nets aims to provide premium gear by way of deliberate, data-driven development. Far from the bustle and board rooms of larger suppliers, O’Neill runs a three-person affair based on Washington’s Vashon Island with a focus on innovative gear for purse seining.

The birth of Gannet can be traced back 35 years to the beginning of O’Neill’s fishing career. That journey took him from his native Scotland to Norway and eventually to Alaska, where he cut his teeth as a crewman and sonar operator. He then spent several years at Seattle Marine and later a decade with Garware before founding Gannet Nets in 2010, which he now runs with the help of Matthew Camardo and Ezra Blake.

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board to justify anything. I’m focused on designing successful products, and it’s part of why fishermen enjoy working with me.

They don’t sense that I’m after their last dollar,” O’Neill said.

Speaking from Louisiana, where he was field testing a new product, O’Neill said his process involves close contact with fishermen on the water, a relationship that

“Often my ideas come straight from the fishermen.”

— David O’Neill, GANNET NETS

O’Neill said his company is very small next to industry’s major players, which allows him to work closely with fishermen and develop niche products that truly fit their needs.

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stretches from inception to manufacture.

“Often my ideas come straight from the fishermen. Captains are full of them, but they don’t usually have access to someone like me that can make it happen,” he said.

Once an idea hits the water for testing, Gannet leverages aggressive data collection

to refine the efficiency of his products.

“I use net sensors, and I use data to base my decisions on where I’m going with a design. That’s helped me a lot, and I don’t see anyone else doing it,” O’Neill said.

Another secret to O’Neill’s little guy approach is strategic manufacturing collaborations with industry mainstays like Garware, Duralite, Asano, Itsaskorda and Fluoron. It all adds up to a suite of one-ofa-kind products.

“I have some very unique products that have been in the field long enough under real conditions that I can say they have proved themselves. I’m the only place you can get these products,” O’Neill said.

Among Gannet’s proven products are high-performance seine webbing containing some materials that O’Neill introduced to the Alaska seine fleet while he was working with Garware. In partnership with Spain’s Itsaskorda, Gannet has also developed new cork and leadlines that use ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene, along with other materials. The corklines are so strong that O’Neill had to make new corks to match their strength.

“The weak part was becoming the float itself. So I worked with Duralite Industries to improve the floats, and now I’ve got a better all-around setup, line and float,” he said.

Gannet’s other niche products include floating purse rings manufactured by Fluoron, a special awl designed to work on Gannet’s new lines, and a stainless steel needle that O’Neill made in collaboration with the Japanese stainless steel masters at Asano.

“The needle is tool that I take with me everywhere. Everybody who uses one, buys one,” O’Neill said, adding that it provides unprecedented seizing strength when used with UHMWPE line.

And while O’Neill’s strong line of products have built him a following in the industry, he is far from done. He is out testing and developing constantly, and has a host of products in the pipeline that he hopes to roll out on the coming months.

Brian Hagenbuch is the Products editor for National Fisherman. www.nationalfisherman.com

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50-footers are a big seller for one Maine boatbuilder; lobster-boat races end with tugs tearing down the lane

Wesmac Custom Boats launched the Sarah B, a 46-foot tuna boat, at the end of August.

here’s no shortage of boats being built at Wesmac Custom Boats in Surry, Maine. “We have many, many to build,” says Steve Wessel, owner of the yard, adding that Wesmac is booked through next summer.

One of those is the Sarah B, a 46' 3" x 14' 7" tuna boat launched the afternoon of Aug. 26 for Gavin Boucher out of Harwinton, Conn. She has a 55-gallon bait hold, a fish hold, and “everything up forward,” says Wessel, referring to bunks, a shower, galley and head. The Sarah B is powered with a 1,000-hp Cat C12.9.

“We are selling a lot of 50s,” Wessel says, referring to the Wesmac 50 and the Wesmac 54. Both have a 17-foot 6-inch beam and 6 feet of draft. One of the 50s is a lobster boat for Matt Huntley of Machiasport, Maine. The hull was being laid up at the end of August and should be completed in late fall.

Another Wesmac 50 with a 1,600hp Caterpillar C32 will be trucked to the West Coast and launched as a commercial tuna boat and a sportfishing boat for Robert Pedigo, probably in the fall of 2022.

Among the mix of 50-footers are several 40-footers. That includes two tuna boats, one at 42' x 14' 6" and the other at 46' x 14' 6". Both should be launched next June and will be powered by 1,150hp Scania diesels. Wessel says it’s a new model Scania — D116304M. “I brought the first two into this country.”

The 42-footer is for Chris Peterson in Freeport, Maine, whose previous boat was the Mojo. This will be the Mojo 2.

The 46-footer is going to Cedric and Tricia Vohden in Oceanport, N.J. Both

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boats will have a fish hold and bait tank.

Up forward will be bunks, a galley, shower and head.

Among the boats being built, the only one under 40 feet was a 38-foot passenger boat for the Coast Guard that will be based out of Laurel Hollow, N.Y., but operate out of Montauk. “We don’t do small boats very often,” noted Wessel.

Due to be launched in December is a Coast Guard-certified 54' x 17' 6" clam dredger going to Bridgeport, Conn.

For power there’s a 1,000-hp Caterpillar main engine, while a Nanni 4.5 will power the dredge pump.

All the above-mentioned boats have Northern Lights generators — 9, 15, 16 or 20 kW. The weekend before the Sarah B was launched and about 100 miles to the southwest, Maine’s lobster boat racing season ended with races at Long Island on Saturday and Portland on Sunday. At the conclusion of the Portland races, 645 boats had traveled to the 11 races that began June 19 in Boothbay.

This year’s numbers would have been higher if the Friendship and Harpswell races hadn’t been hit with heavy rain and choppy racing conditions, and if the weatherman hadn’t announced, “Hurricane’s coming!” for the Portland race, says Jon Johansen, president of Maine Lobster Boat Racing.

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PVC is the choice material for one Virginia builder; new version of a classic Chesapeake style

The 1925 Chesapeake Bay buyboat Peggy is getting a new 56-foot waist, made from PVC sheets.

ric Hedberg of Rionholdt Once and Future Boats of Gywnns, Va., swears by PVC sheets and planks as a viable substitute to wood in boatbuilding and for maintenance of wood boats.

The Chesapeake Bay’s wooden boat commercial fishing fleet is aging, and quality boatbuilding wood is getting harder to find. Hedberg has persuaded some bay watermen to try PVC as a substitute to wood. He has built several 20foot and over deadrise-style boats out of PVC sheets and planks.

“You can bury a boat made from PVC in the ground and dig it up 20 years later, and it would be as good as new,” says Hedberg. “PVC takes the issues of moisture and wood rot in wooden boats off the table.”

Hedberg says the material is also good for repair of older wooden boats. He recently installed a waist made from PVC sheets on the deck boat Peggy. The boat was built in 1925 to work in the bay’s pound net fishery.

The Peggy’s new 56-foot-long waist butts up to the stem and extends to the stern. Each waist is 3" x 4" at the base.

The upright portion is 1.5" x 8" and it has a 3/4" x 2" PVC cap that fits over the top of the upright piece. The two waists are attached to the deck with 50 stainless

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steel bolts bolted into the wooden sides and deck of the Peggy.

“I built and installed the wooden waist that was on the Peggy myself 10 years ago with the best kiln dried fir we could find. It did not hold up,” says Hedberg. “They won’t be pulling this (PVC) waist off in 10 years.”

Hedberg says he has been using PVC to repair pilothouse roofs and window frames and other top work on older wooden workboats. “Watermen are having me use PVC in areas where there is not as much wear and tear,” he says. “I think as time goes on, they will see that

Attached turning frame that will be used to flip the John Swain over.

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complete and ready to turn over.

Back in 2015, Jim Drake and his wife, Brooke, let us know they were building a 46-foot Chesapeake Bay deck boat, also called buyboats. NF has been following the project in this column. (See ATY South, June 2019).

The boat is named for John Swain because of the couple’s admiration of the Chestertown, Md., boatbuilder. Swain is renowned as the main builder of the Sultana, which is a reproduction of a 1767 Boston-built merchant vessel that served for four years as the smallest schooner ever commissioned in the British Royal Navy.

Traditionally, Chesapeake Bay wooden deadrise hulls are built upside down and flipped right side up for the top work and decking to be installed.The challenge is to flip the boat over without damaging the hull. Drake has constructed an adaptation of a method used by Reuel B. Paker to flip hulls as described in Paker’s book “The New Cold-Molded Boatbuilding.”

Drake has installed two four-sided “turning frames” that encircle and wrap

A crane will come soon to flip the 4.5-ton hull of the Chesapeake Bay deck boat John Swain.

PVC will hold up in areas where there is more stress.”

Moving up to Maryland, a six-year boatbuilding project at Mt. Airy, Md., is moving forward as the hull of a 46-foot deadrise deck boat, the John Swain, is

around the hull from sheer to sheer. The turning frames are made of three layers of 2" x 12" Douglas fir boards and joined at the corners with gussets and braces. The two frames are positioned so that each Continued on page 41 November 2021 \ National Fisherman 39

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AROUND THE YARDS

Wash. boatshop closing up after 44 years; boatyard specializes in aluminum crabbers

Petrzelka Brothers

By Michael Crowley

Petrzelka Brothers’ last commercial fishing boat was the Thunder, a 32-foot Bristol Bay gillnetter.

fter 44 years of building, repairing, fi nishing off and outfitting commercial fishing boats, Petrzelka Brothers ( Joel, Jon and Paul) in Mt. Vernon, Wash., has completed its last commercial fishing boat. The only boat left in the shop is a pleasure boat that will be completed by the end of the year. And when that’s gone, the doors will be shut for good.

That last fishing boat was the Thunder, a 32' x 19' Bristol Bay gillnetter built by Madden Metal Works in Bellingham, Wash. The Thunder has a pair of 800-hp MAN diesels matched up with two Thrustmaster jets, a Pacific West RSW system, and it packs more than 20,000 pounds. Petrzelka Brothers did some outfitting and interior work to fi nish her off, but not a lot. “The interior was sparse. He wanted to keep it light, so it would go fast. She did around 35 knots,” says Jon Petrzelka.

“By far it was the largest boat we’ve ever done and the largest boat up there (Bristol Bay) that I can think of.” He’s referring not only to the 19-foot beam but to the 18- to 20-foot height of a

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“fairly tall cabin and a flying bridge.”

Thinking back over the past four decades, Petrzelka reflected on how Bristol Bay gillnetters have changed over the years he and his brothers have been in business. For one thing, most of the boats in the 1970s and early ’80s were fiberglass, and “very few of the Bristol Bay boats had refrigeration. It was ice or nothing.” Of course, fish could be delivered to a tender, which had refrigeration, but it might be several hours

before the delivery took place. “Now you want to cool them as quick as you can, almost before they die.”

Back then it was shafts and props that provided the thrust. When waterjets started to be part of a gillnetter’s propulsion system, you could go up shallow and not worry about chewing up nets, “but you probably lost 20 to 30 percent of horsepower as far as thrust,” says Petrzelka. “Jets have become so much more efficient.”

In general, the electronics package on a Bristol Bay gillnetter started pretty simple before becoming more complicated. All you had was a couple of radios, then crude lorans, then GPS and plotters.

Once the doors close, not only is boatbuilding a thing of the past for the Petrzelka brothers but so, too, is the Copper River fishery they worked in the summer.

Velocity Marine and Fabrication in Sedro-Woolley, Wash., recently completed the Intensity, a 35' x 13' aluminum crabber that is fishing out of Westport, Wash., with a 500-hp Cummins 8.3 diesel.

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came to the 2020 races. That year five races were canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. In 2019, the last “normal” racing year, 813 boats raced.

At Long Island, the fastest races involved Blue Eyed Girl, a Morgan Bay 38 with a 900-hp Scania, and Maria’s Nightmare II, a Mussel Ridge 28 with an 800-hp Nanni. They were matched up in Diesel — Class K, 701 to 900 hp, 28 feet to 40 feet, again in the Diesel Freefor-All and then the Fastest Lobster Boat race. Maria’s Nightmare II took the first race at 39 mph, was edged out by Blue Eyed Girl in the Diesel Free-For-All, and then beat Blue Eyed Girl in the Fastest Lobster Boat Race. Generally, “they were side-by-side all the way up the course,” says Johansen.

The next day Blue Eyed Girl was one of the boats that chose not to race at Portland. So Maria’s Nightmare II easily took Diesel — Class K, the Diesel Freefor-All at 50.1 mph, as well as the Fastest Lobster Boat race. The reason for Maria’s Nightmare II’s different speeds in Long Island and at Portland is “Maria’s Nightmare put a new prop on,” between the races, says Johansen.

Closing out the day, as is tradition in Portland, was the tugboat race.This year it was between three McAllister tugs, who put on their own high-speed display, running neck-and-neck at about 15 mph.

The Portland races usually have a fundraiser, and this year was no different with money raised for college scholarships and trade school scholarships. Some of the money came from selling racing T-shirts and sweatshirts, but the bulk of it came when race winners gave back their prize money to the scholarship fund.

That would be $100 for first place, $50 for second and $25 for third.

“Everybody put back to the scholarship fund,” says Katie Werner who manages the fundraising. She estimates that $4,500 will be raised. Scholarships are to be presented at the Maine Fishermen’s Forum in March.

one roughly divides the mass of the hull into thirds, says Drake.

The frames will be cross-braced to each other to prevent spreading, and braced to the inside of the hull. The lifting side has chain lift points attached with through bolts at the lower corners of the frames, and a crane will be used to “gently” lift the 4.5-ton hull up and roll it over, he says.

Drake built all structural aspects of the vessel’s hull using fir planks laminated together to shape the keel, stem and other structural parts. Cold-molded plywood coated over with Dynel polyester epoxy and cloth was applied for sides and bottom. The boat will be powered by a Cummins diesel engine that Drake had in an old truck. The engine has been rebuilt and is ready to be installed, says Drake.

Several years ago, when attending the Sultana Downrigging and Tall Ships Festival in Chestertown, the Drakes were introduced to Chesapeake Bay deck boats.

Brooke fell in love with the boats, and Jim set out to build her one. In their heyday, (1920s and ’30s) there were more than 3,000 deck boats on Chesapeake Bay.Today there are about 40 left — with a new one on the way!

there will be twin 350-hp Suzuki dualprop outboards.

“We do a lot of outboard crabbers — almost all,” says Velocity Marine’s Rob Smith. The Suzuki combination should have the crabber pushing 50 mph.

The advantages of an outboard are it weighs less, is faster and is easily replaced. “Something happens to an engine, you can just pull the bolts, take it off and bolt another one on the same day.” In addition, outboards aren’t as expensive. Smith says “you can get 700-hp for roughly $50,000, versus a 700-hp inboard diesel that’s roughly $80,000.”

One of the last boats Velocity Marine built has been getting some attention. That’s the Helisa Marie, a 33' x 11' aluminum landing craft that doubles as a gillnetter and a crabber and was fishing Puget Sound in August. “It’s working amazingly,” says Smith, adding that the owner is very happy with it. The landing craft gillnetter/crabber combo also has a pair of 350-hp Suzuki outboards.

At the end of August, Smith said he was talking with a couple of fishermen interested in the same package.

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Modern maintenance Cummins and Siren Marine connect for engine monitoring

By Brian Hagenbuch

hode Island’s Siren Marine is expanding in the commercial market with a Connected Boat collaboration with Cummins. Cummins recently launched PrevenTech, which uses Siren’s cloud-based technology to monitor Cummins’ engines and generators. According to Siren, PrevenTech “uses global connectivity, big data, advanced analytics, and Internet of Things (often referred to as IoT) technology to provide advanced detection, reporting, and diagnosis of potential engine health issues on phones, tablets, and computers.”

One of the main features of PrevenTech is the FleetguardFIT — FIT stands for filtration intelligence technology. Siren calls FleetguardFIT the “first comprehensive, real-time filtration, oil and hydraulic fluid quality monitoring

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“Our partnership with Cummins demonstrates the transformative power of Connected Boat technology in the commercial space. Whether you have a single vessel or manage an entire fleet, keeping your assets online and running smoothly is the key to a successful operation.The technology we’ve developed with Cummins keeps small problems from becoming large ones, and allows marine stakeholders to take a proactive stance on service and maintenance,” said

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Siren has also made inroads in the commercial market with its SirenFleet vessel management portal.

“Our boats are running practically nonstop, so we need to schedule routine maintenance about every eight days. By monitoring engine data and other onboard systems through the SirenFleet dashboard, we’re able to provide mechanics with the intelligence they need to complete services quickly,” said James Freeman, the director of operations for TowBoatUS. PREVENTECH www.cummins.com

Palm pilots Simrad ramps up mobile features in a new app for navigation

By Brian Hagenbuch

n updated mobile app from Simrad gives skippers more handheld control and information than ever before. Available for iPhone and iPad from the Apple Store and for Android from Google Play, this new app features enhanced mapping, with updated C-MAP nautical charts, as well as personal waypoints, routes, and tracks.

According to Simrad, the updated C-MAP charts highlight the most important features in the water, making for an uncluttered view.

Simrad is also touting the app’s handy mirroring feature, which consolidates control of Simrad multifunction displays through a single handheld device.

“The new mirroring feature allows

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you to view and direct your Simrad electronics from anywhere on the boat right from the palm of your hand.This easy integration with companion devices, along with intuitive C-MAP charts and features make the Simrad app a no-brainer for any Simrad user to download and use,” said James Methven, Simrad’s global head of brand.

The app also allows users to register their Simrad devices and get the latest product tips as well as updates on manuals and software. Registration also personalizes and synchronizes waypoints and routes.

The app comes in two versions, premium and “freemium.” The premium version offers stand-alone navigation, as well as enhanced offline maps for those

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fishing in areas with spotty connectivity.

It also offers offline global charts, Simrad Community Traffic, AIS, high-resolution bathymetry charts, recorded tracks with depth shading, GPS navigation data and line, and five-day weather overlays on projected routes.

Methven said the free version also has a host of features, with 24-hour weather overlays and complete weather data that includes sea state and wind data, and information on tides, currents, and water temperatures.

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The SANI/FLEX ODOR SHIELD MARINE HOSE from RARITAN ENGINEERING is a strong, highly flexible, odor-blocking sanitation hose. It is built to minimize the need to change the hoses in the head, while making that task easier when the time comes.

Fifteen times more smell resistant than PVC, the lightweight butyl rubber hose is reinforced with double helix steel wire and textile yarn. It comes in 1-inch and 1-1/2-inch diameters in 10-, 50-, and 100-foot rolls.

FURUNO has released the new SAFEHELM2, an extra sensor for the NavPilot series that adds safety and versatility to the system. The sensor automatically switches NavPilot to manual control mode when it detects a skipper is manually steering while on autopilot. That feature comes in handy when a skipper needs to steer but doesn’t want to turn off the autopilot.

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VERATRON has released the VMH 35, the first in a new line of premium gauges. This small, black-glass gauge is designed for outboards or single-engine inboards. The gauge provides critical boat data in a waterproof package that fits a standard 3-3/8-inch cutout. An NMEA 2000 gateway means the gauge can also send fuel, trim, and tachometer readings to supplementary devices, and analogue inputs make it a fit for older engines. The powerful microprocessor is fast while using just 170 mA of power.

ONEOCEAN has new mobile app from for its DOCMAP program. It allows users a fast and easy way to submit documents and keep records via mobile devices. Over a year in development, the new app is particularly useful for HSEQ (health, safety, environment and quality) management, allowing for near misses, incident reports, and risk assessments to be completed on the go. Available data can also be assessed shoreside to improve safety at sea.

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