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National Fisherman / December 2020 / Vol. 101, No. 8

Kai Raymond

In this issue

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Cover Story \ Expo Online & Show News We look at impending developments on the Pebble Mine, offshore wind power, vessel design, workforce development, the maritime forecast, and much more.

Eugene Evans finally gets around to building his waterman’s dream boat.

Features / Boats & Gear

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Expo product listings From acoustic equipment to wire ropes, you can find all the fishing supplies and suppliers you need.

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Around the Yards Tangier Island deadrise rebuilt; Oregon crabber after accident; Maine marine patrol gets a Calvin.

Product Roundup New personal gear stands up to traps; salmon chews for teething babies; Cox diesel outboards.

Northern Lights The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute’s All Hands on Deck goes online Nov. 10-13.

A wave of new technology choices make it easier than ever to phone home.

Boatbuilder’s own: the Rose Marie

MOB Safety Falls overboard account for 30 percent of fishermen deaths — and are the most preventable.

Editor’s Log

Fishing Back When

A Letter from NMFS

Mail Buoy

Around the Coasts

Market Reports

Permit News

Last Set / New Bedford, Mass.

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Editor’s Log

Stay connected Jessica Hathaway Editor in Chief jhathaway@divcom.com

ational Fisherman, Pacific Marine Expo and the Port of Seattle have a long-standing partnership that enables us to bring a robust education program to Expo every year. This year may be very different in almost every way, but our mission to deliver critical and specialized, industry-specific information has not changed. Expo Online this year includes daily panel discussions on the same topics we would have covered at a live, in-person event. Our three mainstage sessions are Offshore Wind Power, Pebble Mine, and Innovations in Boatbuilding and Gear Technology. In addition to that, our partners at the Port of Seattle have produced a pair of workshops for growth and expansion in

working waterfront jobs. In addition to the Maritime Industry Career Fair and Workforce Development workshops, the port and the Seattle Propeller Club have collaborated to broadcast the annual Maritime Economic Forecast Breakfast. These sessions, workshops, panel discussions and the breakfast will all take place Nov. 17-19 and be available through the NF website. Get more details and robust reporting on these topics from our editors starting on page 36. But wait, there’s more! Our show and editorial staffs are currently working at a feverish pace to add some fun to Expo Online. In addition to our three-day education program, we will be posting and hosting the following:

On the cover Deckhand Savannah Lisherness hauls a Dungeness crab pot over the side of the F/V Payback with Captain Sean Dwyer in Washington’s Puget Sound, October 2020. Bri Dwyer photo

• Symphony of Seafood update • FisherPoets performances • Interview with the Salmon Sisters • Reports from associations: – Genuine Alaska Pollock Producers – Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute – Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association – United Fishermen of Alaska – Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations • Seafood 101 Q&As And after all is said and done, you can find more Expo Online coverage to come in December and into 2021, including: • Diesel Emissions Reduction Act with Ocean Strategies • Direct Marketing, Ocean to Plate • Onboard Safety, Running Drills with AMSEA • 2021 Season Forecast • Finding the Right PFD • Ask an Old Salt • Ocean Health: Reducing Plastics I look forward to seeing you online this fall and beyond. And one day, hopefully soon, we’ll all be face to face again.

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Fishing Back When December By Jessica Hathaway

1990 — Maryland watermen parade through Baltimore’s inner harbor to protest dredge spoils dumping of contaminated sediment to a “clean spoils” site.

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Expert crewmen aboard the New Bedford dragger Ellen Marie prepare to dump their nets on deck while fishing on Georges Bank. The life of the New England deep-sea fisherman is depicted with great authenticity and feeling in a new book, “The Dragger,” with photos and text by William Finn.

Maine’s Lobster Advisory Council discusses trap limits on Oct. 12. David Cousens, vice president of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association, says the association is likely to endorse the proposition because “we’re wicked overcapitalized,” noting the cost of traps at $50 apiece.

Deckhand John Do Mar stars the job of breaking ice aboard the American Beauty after steaming to the Bering Sea pollock fishing grounds during a winter gale.

Fisheries management makes a move at the federal level. The Interior Department’s Bureau of Commercial Fisheries will become the National Marine Fisheries Service under the Commerce Department. Director Philip M. Roedel will transition with the agency.

The Magnuson Act didn’t push foreign boats out of Alaska waters immediately. A tiered allocation system prioritized domestic processing, then joint ventures and finally foreign boats. The first U.S. factory trawler was operating in the North Pacific in 1980. By the end of 1990, there would be about 70.

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Trawl survey estimates of the Bering Sea king crab biomass show a lack of young males recruiting into the fishery, resulting in a 14.8 million pound quota, down from 16 million. Maine boatbuilder Peter Kass launches the 24-foot Joanna A., his own wooden lobster boat, at his John’s Bay Boat Co. in South Bristol, Maine. Kass has been hauling traps from a 15-foot skiff for about 16 years.

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Senators: Start the surveys [The following is excerpted from a Sept. 30 letter to NOAA Acting Administrator Neil Jacobs from 19 U.S. senators.] n May 2020, NOAA Fisheries started canceling research surveys to protect the health of its crews and personnel at sea on account of the covid-19 pandemic, and we understand that the agency has yet to resume its usual operational tempo. Fishermen and communities across the country rely on these surveys as a basis for their livelihoods. We recognize that the pandemic has created unprecedented challenges and are grateful for NOAA’s efforts to supplement the lost 2020 survey data through other methods. As we adapt to overcome the obstacles created by the pandemic, however, we fully expect NOAA Fisheries to successfully execute its research surveys in 2021. Fishery and ecosystem research surveys are essential to support the U.S. blue economy and provide valuable fishery-independent data needed to carry out provisions of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. Data collected from NOAA’s research surveys are used to manage commercial and recreational fisheries that contributed 1.74 million jobs, over

$240 billion in sales, and $111 billion in gross domestic product to the U.S. economy in 2017. NOAA must collect these data to help fishermen, seafood processors, restaurants, and guides maximize their profits, maintain sustainable fisheries, and recover from the pandemic that has devastated the commercial and recreational fishing industries. When NOAA was forced to cancel surveys, the agency acted swiftly to supplement the lost survey data by identifying and developing alternative data collection methods. We appreciate this response, but recognize that these methods are not sufficient replacements for the typical large-scale, longterm research surveys required to sustainably manage fisheries under the MSA. We urge NOAA Fisheries to take an immediate, proactive approach to ensure all research surveys are successfully completed in fiscal year 2021. We encourage NOAA Fisheries to work with other federal agencies and private industries that have successfully conducted research cruises and other operations at sea during the pandemic, including the U.S.

A Letter from NMFS

Bycatch reduction By Chris Oliver

n many fisheries, bycatch reduction is a priority for NOAA Fisheries, and a key component in managing and maintaining sustainable fisheries and supporting America’s coastal communities. Recently, we announced $2.3 million to fund 13 innovative bycatch reduction research projects. This year’s projects support bycatch reduction research across the country and focus on reducing impacts on a variety of species, including whales, turtles, sharks, sablefish and flounders. NOAA Fisheries and our partners have worked collaboratively to find creative approaches and strategies for reducing bycatch, seabird interactions, and post-release mortality in our federally managed fisheries.

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Navy and Coast Guard; identify successful strategies for minimizing risks; and develop a proactive plan to protect the safety of scientists and crew while ensuring NOAA can complete its core survey mission in FY21.We request that you provide our offices with a clear, written plan for FY21 surveys before Dec. 15, 2020. If NOAA requires additional resources to successfully execute research surveys in FY21, we urge you to notify Congress immediately. Thank you for your continued efforts to support U.S. fisheries and protect NOAA personnel during the covid-19 pandemic. We look forward to working with you to ensure that NOAA’s normal scientific operations proceed without disruption in FY21. Sens. Lisa Murkowski; Doug Jones; Dan Sullivan; Edward J. Markey; Richard Burr; Elizabeth Warren; John Kennedy; Margaret Wood Hassan; Rick Scott; Jeffrey A. Merkley; Roger F. Wicker; Jack Reed; Cindy Hyde-Smith; Angus S. King, Jr.; Susan M. Collins; Sheldon Whitehouse; John Cornyn; Christopher A. Coons; and Brian Schatz

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NOAA Fisheries staff, working side-by-side with fishermen on their boats, have helped develop effective solutions to some of the top bycatch challenges facing our nation’s fisheries. Among recent successes, researchers in the Northeast developed an enhanced communication network and real-time maps to allow longfin squid fishermen to avoid butterfish “hot spots” and reduce bycatch by more than 65 percent. On the West Coast, researchers found that using LED lights can reduce bycatch of the eulachon by up to 91 percent in the ocean shrimp trawl fishery. I am very pleased to see the successes of this program over the past decade and am confident this year’s projects will continue that success.

Chris Oliver is the director of the National Marine Fisheries Service. Oliver oversees the federal agency responsible for recreational and commercial fisheries.

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All Hands — online By Jack Schultheis

ach year the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute extends an open invitation to participate in its annual All Hands on Deck meeting. During this meeting, ASMI’s program operational committees, species committees and governor-appointed board of directors publicly present and discuss current marketing efforts, strategies and challenges facing the industry. It 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 raising the value of Alaska seafood. ASMI truly depends on the eyes and ears of the industry for guidance, especially in this year of unprecedented challenges. We pride ourselves on the transparency and accessibility of ASMI’s All Hands on Deck meeting process. Typically held in Anchorage (with the ability for the public to call-in), it has been an important occasion for people from across the globe and the seafood sector to shake hands face-to-face and collaboratively get down to work. However, for the safety of our families, industry and home communities during the pandemic, we decided to shift All Hands on Deck to a virtual event Nov. 10-13. Held online at www. alaskaseafood.org/all-hands-on-deck, the four days of meetings are specifically catered to remote attendance. Anyone with a phone or Internet access is able to participate, and we look forward to this year’s gathering being perhaps the most accessible yet. There are challenges to holding such a robust event online. However, ASMI is working hard to create a smooth, efficient platform to share valuable resources and support productive discussion. There are some advantages to moving to an online event, allowing for more interactive presentations, and a one-stop-shop platform for all program reports and resources. There will even be a seafood cooking demo with Sodexo Global Director of Culinary, Chris Follari. Perhaps the greatest advantage is that these materials and presentations will all be available for download and viewing long after the event is over. Bells and whistles aside, the most important staples of All Hands on Deck will be executed with ASMI’s model transparency and dedication. Contributions from these meetings provide 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. General Session — Hear from ASMI leadership on the last year and a look forward, learn from economists how covid-19 has affected the Alaska seafood industry, and listen to the ASMI Consumer Advisory Panel talk about what they are seeing on the ground in the seafood trade around the world. Species Committee Meetings — Committees of fishing and industry members discuss the current challenges and opportunities 8 National Fisherman \ December 2020

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for salmon; halibut and sablefish; whitefish; and shellfish. These meetings are ideal for anyone wanting a wider view or to add their voice to what is going on in their fishery and markets. ASMI listens very carefully to the highlights, concerns and direction of each species in order to develop their marketing strategy. Operational Committee Meetings — Taking place after the species committee meetings, the operational committees, which guide the Domestic Marketing, International Marketing, Seafood Technical, and Communications/Consumer PR programs, each take what they’ve heard from industry and combine it with their own marketing expertise to create a marketing strategy moving forward. These are excellent opportunities to listen and learn exactly how and what ASMI is doing to market Alaska seafood. From social media to retail campaigns and promotions to fleet outreach, learn how they all combine to build consumer preference for Alaska seafood. ASMI Board of Directors Meeting — On the final day, the operational and species committees present to the board. The board also discusses the budget, and other industry and agency issues. To the public, this session also serves as an overview of the prior three days. There is important work to be done Nov. 10-13 in steering our efforts to support industry moving forward. So much has changed since we last met in Anchorage, making it more important than ever for all ASMI stakeholders to pull up a seat at the table — from wherever that table may be. We are very much looking forward to your engaged participation. More information can be found at www.alaskaseafood.org/all-hands-on-deck.

Jack Schultheis is the general manager of Kwik’pak Fisheries in Emmonak, Alaska, chairman of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute’s Board of Directors, and a National Fisherman Highliner.

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Let’s not go overboard By Chris Woodley

shift in our responsibilities when we step onboard, we can ensure that more of our crew comes home safe. So let’s start a conversation

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very month, more than one fisherman dies from the most preventable accident in the industry. Accounting for 30 percent of industry fatalities, falls overboard occupy the strange position of being both the easiest risk to solve while simultaneously being one of the most persistently stubborn causes of death. According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 220 commercial fishermen died after falling overboard from 2000 to 2016. That may not seem like a huge number — just under 14 fatalities a year. But most of those fishermen lost at sea could have come home safely had their captains implemented an inexpensive and simple change in behavior. If all of us in the industry make this small

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about falls overboard. Not surprisingly, FOB fatalities are highest in cold-water fisheries occurring off Alaska and the Northeast. However, even in the warm Gulf of Mexico waters, they account for 27 percent of industry fatalities. The issue isn’t a lack of gear — manufacturers have done a remarkable job developing a huge variety of PFDs that are lightweight, comfortable, and are designed with the rigors of commercial fishing in mind. Similarly, there is a wide range of commercially available gadgets to recover people from the water — including deployable devices, such as life slings and life rings; and fixed devices, like recovery ladders that attach to the rail or hull of a vessel. For the high-tech crowd, there is even an assortment of alerting systems and alarms that will immediately notify the wheelhouse and crew if someone goes overboard. For the lower tech, do-it-yourself crowd, there is huge number of locally developed devices to

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get people out of the water quickly. While safety training infrastructure may be more limited in some ports and regions, robust training programs from the Alaska Marine Safety Education Association and North Pacific Fishing Vessel Owners Association can export their training and expertise across the country.There are also outstanding online resources, such as NIOSH’s falls-overboard page, which provides a deep dive into the topic, including training videos, compelling survival stories, and PFD comparison guides. So with all these resources, equipment and training options out there, why are falls overboard still such a pervasive problem? Well Captain, to put it bluntly that answer lies with you.This is your show, and the crew is your responsibility. If you don’t think the threat is real, then I hope we can get your attention. We’re interested in learning about you, so we can help get the right resources into the right hands.

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What will it take to convince you that the time has come to reduce one of your biggest operational risks and threats to your crew? What will it take to persuade you to have your crew wear PFDs on deck? What will it take to implement regular FOB drills and practice recovering a person from the water? Does it take a gentle nudge? Does it take family and peer pressure? Does it take a 2x4 to your backside? If you answered “yes” to any of the above — you are in luck. As a way to keep a focus on what is the easiest safety problem to solve, industry safety leaders are partnering with NF to run a series related to falls overboard in 2021, highlighting the issue in different U.S. fisheries and regions, focusing on types of PFDs and recovery gear options, and reviewing approaches to training and outreach programs. I am hopeful that by keeping this issue in the front of your mind, you will come to recognize what your parents, your spouses, your kids, and your friends already know — the

best way to prevent fatal falls overboard is to wear a personal flotation device when on deck and to practice your drills. More than any other industry, fishermen are exceptionally skilled at using their knowledge, experience, ingenuity to recover something from the water. If you can figure out how to catch fish, crab, shrimp, scallops, eels to the extent that you can do it practically in your sleep and make it look easy, I know you can figure out how to keep people from going overboard and how to quickly and safely recover them if and when they do. I am looking forward to hearing your stories and learning from you — so let the conversation begin. Chris Woodley is executive director of the Groundfish Forum, a United Fishermen of Alaska board member, and chairman of the Commercial Fishing Vessel Safety Advisory Committee.

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AROUND THE COASTS NEWS FOR THE NATION’S FISHERMEN

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“Industrial finfish aquaculture facilities harm wild ecosystems, risk coastal economies and threaten local fishermen’s livelihoods.” — Rosanna Marie Neil, Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance

Senate bill would set U.S. offshore aquaculture rules Lawmakers and the Trump administration push forward to establish fish farming zones

bill introduced in the Senate would establish a federal regulatory system for offshore aquaculture, opening a pathway to large-scale fish farming in the U.S. exclusive economic zone — after federal judges again said Congress must explicitly grant NMFS that authority. Sponsored by Sens. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), bill S-4723 would clear the way for the Department of Commerce in its drive to create new aquaculture zones — an effort so far 12 National Fisherman \ December 2020

stymied by the federal courts. In an Aug. 3 decision, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a 2018 lower court ruling that the Department of Commerce and NMFS lack legal authority to issue permits for aquaculture in the Gulf of Mexico. “If anyone is to expand the 40-yearold Magnuson-Stevens Act to reach aquaculture for the fi rst time, it must be Congress,” according to the court’s opinion. The so-called AQUAA Act rises to

that challenge, directing the Commerce Department to undertake a six-month program to develop a new body of regulations and seek input from states, tribes and other stakeholders. The bill’s opening language declares an intent to “support development of a sustainable marine aquaculture industry in the United States and enhance access to investment capital… to complement sustainable fi sheries and ecosystem management.” Another goal is to “clarify the federal regulatory regime for sustainable off shore aquaculture and safeguard the marine environment, wild fi sh stocks and/or coastal communities.” The bill is being referred to the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. An alliance of fi shing, environmental and food activists that successfully blocked Gulf of Mexico plans in court was fast out of the blocks to oppose the bill. “For decades, various administrations have attempted to push off shore marine fi nfi sh aquaculture — through numerous failed federal bills, agencies overreaching authority to make regulations and most recently, through executive orders,” according to a statement from the Don’t Cage Our Ocean Coalition. Forceful public opposition and courts have prevented the industry from developing since the 1980s. “Industrial fi nfi sh aquaculture facilities harm wild ecosystems, risk coastal economies and threaten local fi shermen’s livelihoods,” said Rosanna Marie Neil, policy counsel for the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance, one of the coalition groups. “Instead of supporting the corporate takeover of our oceans, lawmakers should safeguard the economic livelihoods of fi shermen and coastal residents who are already struggling and would be disproportionately harmed by industrial aquaculture.” In a joint statement the Senate sponsors and Stronger America Through Seafood, an industry campaign in support of federal aquaculture planning, said there is now strong bipartisan support for it. “Growth of the American aquaculture industry would create new jobs, provide www.nationalfisherman.com

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U.S. captain out on bail during BVI court trial Longliner faces jail and loss of vessel

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new business opportunities and grow our economy as our country recovers from the covid-19 pandemic,” said Bill DiMento, president of the campaign and vice president of Corporate Sustainability and Government Affairs at High Liner Foods. “Because of the opportunities that aquaculture can provide American communities, there is growing bipartisan support and momentum for federal action on aquaculture.” “Hawaii leads the nation in modern and traditional aquaculture practices,” said Sen. Brian Schatz, whose home state is base for Ocean Era, the company that wants to pioneer fish farming in the Gulf of Mexico EEZ off Florida’s west coast. “With this bipartisan bill, we can expand aquaculture opportunities, opening suitable federal waters for responsible growers. It will create new jobs, spur economic growth in our coastal communities, and ensure our oceans are managed sustainably now and in the future.” — Kirk Moore

the salmon fishery at Chignik on the Alaska Peninsula. What transpired in the years since Marifern acquired it was a stretch job, which brought it to 53 feet. “We went back to Delta to look for a 53-footer, and we couldn’t find one,” he says. “So we lengthened it.” But Marifern says the stretch job,

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he and his crew were approached by BVI authorities and instructed to follow their boat in. Under the impression that he was getting customs clearance, Foy was taken into custody by officers at the dock and the Rebel Lady impounded. For Foy’s defense, lawyers obtained NMFS vessel monitoring system records and other data that the Rebel Lady is required to carry to comply with U.S. regulations

for pelagic longline fisheries. At an Oct. 9 court hearing, Magistrate Christilyn Benjamin threw out the prosecution’s illegal fishing charge as having insufficient evidence. The Rebel Lady’s crew meanwhile were confined to a Tortola hotel. The captain’s brother Joe Foy said their situation was unclear, but it appeared BVI authorities were prepared to deport them. — Joey Waldinger and Kirk Moore December 2020 \ National Fisherman 13

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Alaska / Pacific

“The Pebble Tapes make one thing very clear: The Pebble Limited Partnership will stop at nothing to build their disastrous mine, even if it means lying on their permit application, deceiving their investors, or possibly perjuring themselves in front of Congress.” — Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.)

Pebble panic as videos cast cloud over mine backers After Pebble CEO resigns, calls for feds to investigate and politicians to come clean

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he release of recorded video calls revealing plans for a vast future expansion of the Pebble Mine venture forced the resignation of company CEO Tom Collier and unleashed a new political storm on Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy and other allies. “We expect to be represented by our elected leadership, and to date we have been failed by that leadership,” said Alannah Hurley, executive director of the United Tribes of Bristol Bay, during a press conference following the Sept. 21 release of tapes by the Environmental Investigation Agency activist group. “The Alaska senators need to address the content of these tapes, and their silence is support of Pebble Mine,” said Hurley. “We need them to show leadership for Alaska, that the behavior of this mining company is unacceptable. We need them to condemn the entirety of the content of these tapes, and they need to take action now.” Collier testified at a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing in October 2019 that “Pebble has no current plans, in this application or in any other way, for expansion.” The tapes, however, “reveal Pebble’s apparent plans to use the infrastructure included in its mine plan to open up other expansive [swaths] of western Alaska to mining, including through the activation of the Donlin Mine, a project that already has federal permits and could become economically viable overnight if the Pebble project is approved,” said the agency’s press release. The tapes — obtained by activists posing as potential investors — also showed Collier and Northern Dynasty President and CEO Ronald Thiessen describing Alaska’s senators as quietly siding with the mine’s investors

Pebble's former CEO Tom Collier resigned after recorded calls exposed discrepancies in mining plans and congressional testimony.

while holding critics at arm’s length, and using Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy as a foil for direct access to the Trump administration. “The unethical manner in which these tapes were acquired does not excuse the comments that were made, or the crass way they were expressed,” said Thiessen. “These tapes just illustrate the level of deceitful practices that these folks have been engaged in and quite frankly the Army Corps of Engineers Alaska Division has been complicit to,” said Norm Van Vactor, CEO of the Bristol Bay Economic Development Corp. “So how can they be trusted? They absolutely cannot be trusted at this point in time.” The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released a short statement: “We are aware of the Environmental Investigation Agency’s recorded conversations. Upon review of the transcripts, we have identified inaccuracies and falsehoods relating to the permit process and the relationship between our regulatory leadership and the applicant’s executives.” Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) called for a Justice Department investigation of the testimony and documents submitted by Collier and other Pebble executives. “The Pebble Tapes make one thing

very clear: The Pebble Limited Partnership will stop at nothing to build their disastrous mine, even if it means lying on their permit application, deceiving their investors, or possibly perjuring themselves in front of Congress,” said Cantwell in a statement. In response to the Pebble Tapes, Alaska Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan denied silently acquiescing to the project. Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy said Collier and Thiessen had “embellished their relationships with state and federal officials.” Alaska Reps. Bryce Edgmon (D-Dillingham) and Louise Stutes (R-Kodiak) urged the state’s top executive not to stand with the Pebble Limited Partnership as it seeks to advance its permit with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In a letter to Dunleavy, the legislators laid out details and documents of the administration’s history of working with the mine’s investors, including evidence from the leaked calls. “Our concerns are not hypothetical,” the legislators wrote. “To this point, you and others within your administration have worked with [Pebble Limited Partnership] to advance a proposed mine that has no basis in reality and has no place in Bristol Bay.” In an Oct. 6 reply, Dunleavy insisted his “role is to ensure that each project is subject to a fair and rigorous review process, and that every opportunity to create thousands of jobs is fully explored.” — Jessica Hathaway

Forest Service poised to end Tongass protections Would open 9 million acres to logging

final environmental impact statement indicates the Forest Service plans to remove Roadless Rule protections from Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. If finalized, the rule change would repeal conservation measures for more than 9 million acres of the forest, making protected lands available for expanded industrial clear-cut logging of old growth trees and construction of expensive and highly subsidized logging roads. The Tongass produces more salmon than all other national forests combined. As the largest national forest in the country at nearly 27,000 square miles, it covers most of www.nationalfisherman.com

Southeast Alaska. The intact forest supports robust fishery and tourism sectors that account for more than 26 percent of jobs in the region. A 10-year study showed that from 2007 to 2016, the Tongass and the adjacent Chugach (at half the size) together contributed 48 million salmon on average each year to commercial fisheries, with a dockside value of $88 million. In October 2019, the service published its draft environmental impact statement, followed by a 60-day comment period. Public comment overwhelmingly supported retaining the roadless rule and protections for fish and wildlife. “This reprehensible move disregards years of collaborative work in favor of moneylosing taxpayer giveaways to an industry that was shutting down before the Roadless Rule went into place,” said Tim Bristol, executive director of SalmonState. Trout Unlimited reports that more than

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The Tongass National Forest produces more salmon than all other national forests combined.

80 project proposals have been granted exemptions in Alaska’s roadless areas, including mining, energy and utility projects; transportation roads; and community

infrastructure development. The service was expected to release its Record of Decision as soon as Oct. 26. — Jessica Hathaway

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Gulf / South Atlantic

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USDA goes big on gulf shrimp — and Northeast fish Covid-19 funding expands commodity seafood buying, a big boost to industry

$30 million purchase of Gulf of Mexico shrimp is one of the latest buys for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Section 32 commodities program, aimed at supporting both the seafood industry and covid-19 emergency response. The USDA buy came amid pleas from state officials in Louisiana and Mississippi to stave off collapse in shrimp demand and prices, under intense pressure from restaurant closings during the pandemic. The impact of hurricanes Laura, Sally and Delta magnified the gulf fleet woes.

Along with big buys of gulf shrimp and Northwest pollock products, the USDA is bringing East Coast seafood back to the commodities program for the first time in decades. All of the processed and frozen product will be distributed to food banks, schools, nonprofit institutions, needy households and emergency relief efforts. One of the first East Coast suppliers is Blue Harvest Fisheries, with a $4.4 million award from the USDA Commodity Procurement Program to buy haddock, ocean perch and Atlantic pollock, with deliveries from the

Blue Harvest Fisheries will land some of the first East Coast seafood purchased for the USDA commodities program in decades.

Blue Harvest facility in New Bedford, Mass., Oct. 1 through Dec. 31. “Given the uncertainties surrounding the seafood market during the ongoing pandemic, this order will help ensure that the groundfish industry at the New Bedford waterfront can continue working, while providing food security for those who need it most,” Blue Harvest CEO Keith Decker said in a prepared statement announcing the purchase.

Snapshot Who we are Bert Jongerden / Portland Fish Exchange

n 1986 Portland, Maine, became the home of

Jongerden returned to the exchange

America’s first all-display fresh seafood auction —

the Portland Fish Exchange off Commercial Street,

groundfish landings were declining

general

manager

2007,

built in the 1850s on top of old piers to accommodate the

dramatically. Many Maine fishing boats

growing needs of the working waterfront.

and businesses were consolidating or

Bert Jongerden started working at the Exchange in 1991

relocating to other parts of New England.

as the operation manager, after working for scallop exporter

In 2008, Jongerden helped the exchange transition to an

Seatrade. After five years, he left to pursue other opportunities,

Internet-based platform. Up until then, the exchange had

including working for Prospect Harbor’s Stinson Seafood,

hosted a traditional outcry auction, its mechanism for moving

Lewiston’s Emery Warehouse, and Hannaford grocery chain, but

seafood since its inception in the ’80s. Jongerden also helped

returned to the exchange again in 2007 as the general manager.

support the exchange by finding other opportunities to diversify

After a solid 40 years in the seafood industry, this winter

its income stream, including leasing space and warehousing

he is retiring. Jongerden says working with the fishermen and processors has been one of the things he has liked most about working at the Exchange. “It’s never dull, considering each point of view is very different,” he says. Jongerden was born in the Netherlands and came to Portland

lobster bait. When asked what he is going to miss the most about working at the exchange, Jongerden says he has enjoyed “working with individuals and organizations that are doing their best to maintain and ensure commercial fishing continues here in Maine.”

with his parents in the 1960s. In the ’80s, he began his career in

And while he has enjoyed his time at the Portland Fish

seafood sales and production while working on Hobson’s Wharf

Exchange and has been instrumental in supporting it through

in Portland.

both profitable and turbulent times, he says there is one thing

He has spent most of this life working in seafood trades, experiencing the highs and lows of the business. When

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he will not miss: “Low fish prices.” — Monique Coombs

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The company’s groundfish business line focuses on less-utilized fisheries with Marine Stewardship Council certifications. Mayor Jon Mitchell said the USDA commodities purchase is “supporting fishermen by purchasing seafood from the Port of New Bedford, the nation’s top commercial fishing port, during a pandemic that has affected every sector of the economy.” — Kirk Moore

Atlantic seismic permits expiring as clock runs out Oil exploration ‘back to square one’

lready under intense political pressure in a presidential election year, the Trump administration’s goal of opening more offshore areas to oil drilling will take a major legal hit as permits for Atlantic exploratory seismic surveys expire Nov. 30. In a federal court conference Oct. 1, lawyers for the government and offshore exploration companies acknowledged that

key permits to allow seismic surveys — high intensity acoustic probes of the seafloor to detect potential oil resources — will expire that date without a mechanism to renew them. Called incidental harassment authorizations, or IHAs, the permits are a requirement under federal law protecting marine mammals. Environmental groups, allied with fishing, coastal and tourism industries in the Carolinas and Georgia have fought the permits in federal court for years. The highly endangered northern right whales, now numbering only around 400 animals, are at special risk, those critics say. The whales use seasonal feeding and calving grounds off the Southeast coast and are already at high risk from ship strikes and fishing gear entanglements in their range from Canada to Florida. In a joint statement environmental groups said the court conference yielded agreement that seeking new IHA permits “would move the lengthy process back to square one,” with

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A survey vessel tows an airgun array during an offshore seismic survey.

the immediate effect that survey companies will not conduct any cruises in the near future. “This is a huge victory not just for us but for every coastal community that loudly and persistently protested the possibility of seismic blasting,” said Catherine Wannamaker, a senior attorney at the Southern Environmental Law Center. “There will be no boats in the water this year, and because this resets the clock, there will be no boats in the water for a long — Kirk Moore time.”

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Atlantic

“I urge the council to devise a program that accounts for the cost of trip monitoring and does not place that financial burden on the industry.” —Massachusetts Gov. Charles Baker

New England council adopts full observer coverage Goal is contingent on federal funding — or fleet foots bill for 40 percent coverage

he Northeast groundfi sh fleet will move toward 100 percent observer coverage — so long as full government funding if available, the New England Fishery Management Council decided in approving Amendment 23 to its multispecies plan on Sept. 30. While most fi shermen dispute the need for blanket coverage — whether by atsea observers or electronic systems — the fi nal amendment offers some respite, in specifying that costs will be 100 percent reimbursed by federal funding for the fi rst four years.

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Christopher Brown on the Proud Mary out of Rhode Island sorts fish under EM cameras.

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coverage. In the third year of the program, the council will review results and could reset the requirements for year five. It’s expected the amendment, if approved by NMFS, could take effect in 2021. The compromise devised by council members came a day after Massachusetts Gov. Charles Baker wrote to council chairman John Quinn, urging a solution to monitoring costs. At around $700 a day, requiring full monitoring on every trip would drive much of the fleet out of business, fishermen had warned. “The decision made by the council stands to have long term impacts on the fishing industry at a time when it is essential to protect the Commonwealth’s working ports and fishing families,” Baker wrote. “For that reason, I urge the council to devise a program that accounts for the cost of trip monitoring and does not place that financial burden on the industry.” Jackie Odell, executive director of the Northeast Seafood Coalition, said the fishermen’s group “feels the council punted.” “High levels of monitoring is not the concern,” she said. “It’s the fact that the analysis never clearly quantified bias to a level that would justify selecting a specific coverage rate that met the goals and objectives of the action and fulfi lled Magnuson requirements. The benefits vaguely promised did not justify the costs.” Federal funds to support groundfi sh monitoring “will end sooner rather than later” and the council will still in the future need to “address the critical affordability component that this action didn’t,” said Odell. The Environmental Defense Fund said electronic monitoring should be the way to go. “Broader use of electronic monitoring presents a great opportunity to costeffectively meet monitoring needs while reducing public and private cost burdens. Electronic monitoring has been piloted in New England and its expanded use should be a cornerstone of effective monitoring going forward,” said Eric Schwaab, senior vice president of the group’s oceans — Kirk Moore program. www.nationalfisherman.com

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Council sets aside quota for Gulf of Maine scallops Aims to protect resource, small boats

three-year effort by the Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association and allies culminated when the New England Fishery Management Council approved new regulations setting scallop quota for the northern Gulf of Maine. The package of rules in Amendment 21 to the sea scallop plan “ensures that there will be a scientifically set limit on scallops harvested from the Gulf of Maine and meaningful investments in science and accountability to ensure the resource continues to grow,” the association said in a statement following the decision. The trends of climate shift that have brought bad news to Maine’s fi sheries — like the decline of northern shrimp — are also bringing sea scallops northward. That’s set off a scramble for access,

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Jim Wotton captures his crew on the F/V Overkill in the Northern Gulf of Maine Scallop Management Area in 2018.

including from the fleet’s bigger operators based in southern New England and MidAtlantic ports. The council voted to set aside quota specifically for smaller federally permitted fi shing businesses in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. The northern Gulf of Maine scallop fi shery “was established with the goal

of preserving a diverse fi shery. This decision from the council does that by allowing small boats to benefit from the recovery of the scallops off the Maine coast while still allowing access for bigger fi shing businesses once the resource can support that level of catch,” said Togue Brawn, owner of Downeast Dayboat and a longtime advocate for Maine’s scallop fi shermen. “Small boats matter. We don’t often get a win, but after 10 years of persistence, we did today.” “Fishermen and community members came together to make sure that the resource would be protected and that Maine fi shermen could continue to land local scallops,” said Ben Martens, executive director of the Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association. “This decision and opportunity will help support vibrant working waterfronts and fi shing communities in Maine.” — Kirk Moore

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MARKET REPORTS

AT L A N T I C

G U L F / S O . AT L A N T I C

Surf Clams

Swordfish

With restaurant sales in the doldrums, processors shift focus to retail

Domestic effort down in tight market; Canadian landings push down prices

onsumer demand for Atlantic surf clams and ocean quahogs has shifted in the past six months. Chris Shriver, general manager of Atlantic Capes Fisheries, a large processor headquartered in Massachusetts, says covid-19 has affected markets. “A lot of our product does sell to the restaurant sector, wholesale, and to chains. All were impacted, due to the closures and limited seatings.” Shriver says some states are starting to open up a little, and that clam products from Rhode Island were still able to be sold locally in fry shacks and take-out establishments. “But we’re all fearful for the next shoe to drop,” Shriver says. While Atlantic Capes does not produce canned products, they have substantial retail and soup manufacturing markets. The upshot is “there has definitely been an uptick in the retail sector.” But, adds Shriver, it is difficult to make up for the lost restaurant markets. Landings for surf clams, ocean quahog and Maine quahog are short of what they were at this time last year. By mid-September 2020, 32.5 percent of the surf clam quota (3.4 million bushels) and 25.5 percent of ocean quahog quota (5.33 million bushels) was harvested. “The theme of depressed demand due to the pandemic is across the board, as far as I can tell,” says José Montañez, a fishery management specialist with the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council. At New Jersey-based La Monica Fine Foods, vice president of sales Steve Zevitas says sales are still off from last year, but that LaMonica is always looking toward the future. “It has been very tricky. We’re lucky, in some sense,” Zevitas says. While the foodservice market is down, retail products like breaded clam strips, which go to supermarkets all over the country, and ocean clams in white and red clam sauces, and canned clams and juice, are all doing well. Zevitas adds that current consumer preferences have moved beyond canned clam chowders and strips. “Tastes have changed, and people want more and more convenience — bowl meals, like rice with shrimp or pasta bowls with clam, shrimp and sauces. That is our future — we can change the marketplace and build that part of the business. I am optimistic about the future, and to use clams in new and different recipes.” Shriver of Atlantic Capes also lands on the optimistic side. “Clams are a good product, and I think people will embrace them when we can start harvesting again. It’s New England — people want their clam cakes, fried clams and chowder.” — Caroline Losneck

ndustry members blame the coronavirus pandemic for stomping on the market for swordfi sh caught in the South Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. Historically, the lion’s share of the swordfi sh catch has been sold to restaurants, but with most eateries either closed or operating at limited capacity, “this year is worse than it’s ever been,” according to Scott Taylor, operator of Day Boat Seafood in Fort Pierce, Fla. Taylor says boat prices are hovering as low as 70 cents per pound from lack of domestic demand and over-production by Canadian fi shermen, who he claims are harvesting swords they can’t sell. “It’s getting worse week to week,” Taylor says. “There’s no place to go with the fi sh. They’re dumping the fi sh on us, and the U.S. isn’t doing anything about it. Nobody is interested in the fi shery. I have 14 boats and nine are sitting at the dock. I’m not letting my boats catch any swordfi sh. I can’t sell fi sh at those prices.” According to NMFS’ commercial landings estimates, U.S. fi shermen harvested a little more than 408 metric tons (dressed weight) of swordfi sh between January and July. That’s about 31 percent of the federal quota of roughly 1,319 metric tons. In the same period last year, the harvest was about 462 metric tons. But Taylor believes only about 20 percent of the annual quota will end up being landed by year’s end. Pompano Beach, Fla., swordfi sherman Cappy Cheshier, who operates three buoy-gear boats, says he’s down to fi shing only one boat. “There’s really no market for the swordfi sh right now,” Cheshier says. “The market is getting hit hard by the coronavirus. So far swordfi sh (catch) numbers are down. It doesn’t seem like the swords are in the Florida Straits right now.” He says he recently caught some swords in the gulf well offshore of Naples, Fla. “But we can’t afford to do a 20-mile run. No way can we do a 120-mile run,” Cheshier says. He says he’s lucky to get $4.50 per pound for swords over 100 pounds and has begun diving for lobster to generate income. — Sue Cocking

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PA C I F I C

ALASKA

Herring

Salmon

San Francisco fleet weighs fishing as demand, biomass stay slumped

Annual harvest down, as expected; sales hot for self-marketed fishermen

ith declining biomass and waning interest for salted herring roe in the Japanese market, the San Francisco fleet put the 2019-20 season on hold. Though there remains some interest among a few buyers, the industry in October wasn’t willing to commit to fishing in the fishery, which kicks off in January. Even then, the fleet was expected to number fewer than a dozen boats. “We’re down to about five boats,” says Larry Collins of the San Francisco Community Fishing Association. “They take a look at it every year, and they decided not to do it last year.” The precipitous decline in biomass continues. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife combines data from annual dive surveys, midwater-trawl surveys, spawn deposition surveys and inseason harvests to calculate a spawning biomass estimate each year. The annual historical average since biologists began collecting data in 1979 hovers at more than 47,491 short tons, but population estimates put herring biomass for 2018-19 at 8,030 tons. That’s down by nearly half from the 15,300 tons of 2017-18. The northeast Pacific’s warm-water Blob and the lack of rain has been blamed for the most recent decline. “The San Francisco Bay Pacific herring spawning stock biomass estimate for the 2019-20 season was only 6,427 short tons, the second lowest estimate on record,” says Tom Greiner, environmental scientist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife in Santa Rosa. “The quota for the 2020-21 season has not been set, but the department’s herring team will be recommending a zero-ton quota.” Even if the stocks were to rebound, the primary market for San Francisco’s salted roe remains soft, especially with Alaska’s huge contributions in volume. In the far west area of Togiak, the biomass stands at more than 215,826 tons, and the 2020 quota was set at 43,165 tons. Low interest and the covid-19 pandemic reduced the fleet to just three boats and one floating processor there. With fewer than five vessels, the harvest data remains confidential, but it’s a safe assumption that Japan got a surplus volume of roe. In recent years, efforts to introduce the San Francisco herring in local and regional restaurants as an alternative market have met with minimal success. — Charlie Ess

laska’s preliminary statewide salmon harvest came in at 113.56 million fi sh, down sharply from last year’s 199.98 million fi sh and ranking it 34th largest on record. As predicted by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, the harvest of pink salmon this year was expected to drop by around 68 million fi sh from last year; so there were no surprises when the fi nal pink tally came at 57.91 million. As for the harvest of other species in 2020, fleets landed 7.89 million chums, 2.14 million silvers, 249,000 kings and 45.38 million sockeyes. In Bristol Bay, about 70 percent of the gillnetters showed up to fi sh as the season got underway in late June. Fishermen and seafood plant workers were quarantined in some cases, and drift fi shermen were confi ned to living on their boats out on the water for the season instead of tying up to the docks during fi shing closures. In all, the Bristol Bay fleet landed 39.25 million sockeyes for 90 percent of the state’s sockeye harvest. Major processors offered 70 cents per pound, with many bumping prices upward of a dime for refrigerated fi sh. As for the markets, the onset of covid-19 spurred demand for canned salmon. “Going into the season, even before covid, the market was hot,” says Garret Evridge, a fi sheries economist with the McDowell Group, in Anchorage. “There was already going to be an emphasis on canned before covid came along.” As another dynamic, Evridge notes that the Bristol Bay harvest was compressed in its pace, while many processors were understaffed or had limited capacity in observance of state-sanctioned covid protocols. “Processors were not able to produce as much volume of higher end product,” Evridge says. As a result, much of the salmon pack went into frozen H&G product rather than fi llets or other value-added product forms. Evridge adds that the market “skyrocketed” for fi shermen with a web presence in March as consumers flocked to the stores to hoard toilet paper and other commodities. “It prompted the question, ‘Where does my food come from?’” — Charlie Ess

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BAY BARGE ON ICE Summer storm turns into a setback for Bristol Bay innovator Northline Seafoods By Brian Hagenbuch

late summer storm dealt a tough blow to Northline Seafoods, a Bristol Bay upstart trying to revolutionize the way fish are processed in the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery. On the night of Sept. 3, gusts up to 80 miles per hour tore across the Nushagak River and snapped the anchor line on a barge belonging to Northline. The six people onboard attempted to set backup anchors, but winds snapped those, as well. The gale pushed the vessel onto the beach not far from the fishing village of Ekuk, where a person familiar with the incident said the boat “mashed for six hours” on the flats.

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The crew escaped unscathed after an undoubtedly harrowing experience, but the barge did not: The top unit on the $7 million vessel had crumpled onto the deck. Northline president and CEO Pat Glaab told local radio station KDLG that the hull went undamaged, and he expects the processor to be ready to roll next season. It is safe to say the fishery will be pulling for them. Glaab and his partner, Ben Blakey, dreamed up Northline several years ago as a way to freeze fish quicker and turn out the freshest fillets possible. Before starting Northline, Glaab built 10 onshore processing facilities around Alaska, including the Leader Creek facility in Bristol Bay’s Naknek, and

Northline Seafoods launched its barge to revolutionize salmon processing in Alaska’s Bristol Bay. A strong storm and snapped anchor lines put a snag in that plan.

knows things could be done better. “I’ve spent my entire working life in the fisheries, and I’ve seen this huge gaping hole in how this fishery operates versus how it could operate. It’s like going to a country that doesn’t have cell phones and being like, ‘Gee, you guys would be much better off if you had cell phones,’” Glaab told NF last year. No one denies that Bristol Bay has made massive quality strides over the past couple decades. Most of the boats have RSW units, and fishermen are more tuned in to proper handling; many are bleeding now and most have cushioned deck mats.Very little of the sockeye coming out of the bay goes to cans anymore, with most destined for higher value fillets. But despite these changes, Glaab said the fishery has yet to eradicate the vestiges of the old ways. “The current system is what developed organically when we were just stuffing everything in a can and had no other options. It’s a holdover from those systems. It was just cheap www.nationalfisherman.com

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Pat Glaab and Ben Blakey built and launched the floating processor in Sitka, Alaska, in 2019.

protein before.You were just harvesting to feed World War II, or the Depression-era,” he said. And even improvements like RSW are flawed, Glaab said. Big sets, common in the bay, can overpower RSW systems, heating

refrigerated water and prolonging the cooling of fish. Northline uses slush ice instead, and both Glaab and Blakey are fervent about its advantages. “It’s a complete fallacy that RSW is even

as close to as good as ice. There’s no comparison,” Glaab said. Blakey — a third-generation fisherman whose dad ran the Snopac processor in Bristol Bay — pointed out that Alaska’s highest value fish, like those coming out of the Copper River, are iced at catch. Tenders pose a problem, too, according to the Northline executives. After fish sit in the holds of gillnetters for up to eight hours, they are delivered to tenders, where Glaab says large numbers of sockeye in huge holds can stall the cooling of fish for up to 24 hours. “Now you’re talking a day, day and a half that these fish are warm. And when you’re dealing with ice, these fish are going down to 32 degrees within the hour,” he said. Fish can then sit on tenders for up to five days until they are driven upriver to be pumped onshore, bounced along a conveyor belt, butchered, and finally frozen to be shipped out. The barge, equipped with ice-making and

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flash-freezing capacity, was meant to correct this process. Northline fishermen leave with a thick slurry of slush ice in their holds and return to the barge at most six hours later, where fish are closely monitored for quality and then quickly frozen whole. “We can freeze a whole sockeye down to minus 20 core temp in less than three hours, which is very fast, and that’s the key. Whole fish, if you don’t freeze them all the way through, it produces a subpar product,” Blakey said. It all adds up to a future, Glaab and Blakey hope, where fillets that have been properly treated earn fishermen more money. “We’re getting $1.20 or $1.35 a pound or whatever, and thinking it’s pretty good. But if you’re getting quality fish — and this is not talking your way into it, this actually delivering on high quality fish — and making $2.50 a pound, fishermen can make their own decision on that,” Glaab said. The now-crumpled barge, of course, was the foundation of that future, which they hoped would expand into a fleet of barges to fan out around Bristol Bay and remote fisheries like the Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim Region. The future of the first of that fleet is in a holding pattern for now. Despite the obvious damage from the winter storm and beaching of the barge, Northline Seafoods’ CEO Pat Glaab says the hull is intact and the floating processor should be back at it next summer.

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The Rose Marie was built to work in Chesapeake Bay’s blue crab and oyster fisheries.

hen Eugene Evans, 67, of Crisfield, Md., was growing up in the isolated fishing village of Rhodes Point on Smith Island, Md., his life dream was to become a commercial waterman. As a youth, Eugene spent summers working with his father on the family boat, Twilight, harvesting peelers and soft-shell blue crabs and messing around with boats. At an early age, it was apparent, he could come up with ingenious ways of fixing anything related to boats. Evans married his childhood sweetheart, Rose, in 1970. And at age 17, he went to working the water full time. With decline in the seafood industry, the couple moved off the island in 1973 to Crisfield on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Evans continued to work the water, but more and more he was receiving calls from commercial fishermen wanting him to work on their boats. Over time, he was spending more time working on boats than fishing. In 1980, the couple started Evans Boat Repair. He built his first fiberglass boat in 1983, a Smith Island crab scrape boat, known on Tangier Island as a barcat. The style of boat evolved over time specifically to pull a dredge by hand for blue crabs in

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the grassy shoal waters of Tangier Sound. The boat style goes back to days of sail and wind power. Evans’ father, John, owned a 22-foot barcat built during the sailing era. When Evans decided to use it as a mold to build a fiberglass version, it still had the slotted centerboard, which had been plugged when the first engine was installed. “I actually took her and turned her upside down and used her as a plug to build my first fiberglass boat,” he says. “She was an old boat, but she had features that worked good for working the waters of Tangier Sound. “She was a slow-going boat because she had a sailing-style tuck stern. I squared the stern up on my (fiberglass) version and put a tunnel in her for the shaft and prop. The tunnel made her able to work in 12 inches of water on a soft bottom,” he says. “When we got her done, I soon built and sold two more to a father and son. I had no intention of becoming a full-time boatbuilder. I ended up building five boats that first winter,” says Evans. The next year, 1984, a waterman requested a 30-foot barcat. “I got (Smith Island boatbuilder) Joe Kite to build a 30foot traditional wooden crab scrape boat, and I used it as a plug to build my fiberglass boat,” says Evans. Kite was paid by

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the hour to build the wooden boat and came daily to Crisfield from Smith Island to work on the boat in Evans’s boatshop. The 30-foot fiberglass barcat was a successful endeavor for Evans Boat Repair and he built and sold several more that year. Kite stayed around for the launching of the first fiberglass 30-foot barcat. He was later featured in the article “C-flex System sparks Maryland builders’ shift to fiberglass” in NF June 1989. “When Joe saw our finished product, he called (the late) Dave Sintes (of Seemann Fiberglass) and had him design him a boat. After that time with me, Joe didn’t build many boats out of wood. It was all fiberglass,” says Evans. In 1985, Evans began getting requests for larger, more traditional deadrise boats. He teamed up with a Trappe, Md., boatbuilder, the late Gene Travers, to design and produce the well-known fiberglass Somerset 35- and 42-foot boats. Over the years, the firm built deadrise fiberglass boats for commercial fishermen up to 50 feet long. Evans says his business success has been “strongly tied” to his family, with Rose, his wife; Christina, his daughter; David, his son; and his grandson, David Jr., all working together in the business.

Working the water Growing up in that Smith Island fishermen’s culture, Evans’ heart and soul was strongly tied to working the water. In 2017, he turned over the day-to-day operation of the boatshop to his son and grandson, and went back to working the water. He is crab-scraping in the warm-weather months, and dredging and patent tonging for oysters in the winter. “What is great about all this is that I’m doing what I want to do (work the water) and making two or three dollars in the process,” he says. “When I was a young man I loved working the water. Now that I’m old, it is just great to re-experience the feeling that you get when you have had a good day working the water.” In 2017, he converted an Evans 30-foot pleasure boat, that he had built a decade or so before, into a commercial fishing boat. The main change was to install a new inboard engine.The boat had been powered by two outboard engines mounted to the stern. Evans To subscribe, call 1-800-959-5073

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installed an inboard 320-hp 3208 Caterpillar diesel engine. While working the boat over the past three years, Evans found out its limitations. The draft on the 30-footer limited access to some shoal waters when scraping for crabs and house/pilothouse was not large enough to accommodate living conditions during the oyster season. When dredging oysters on St. Mary’s River, on the western shore of Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay, Evans, who lives on the Eastern Shore, had to motor the boat across the bay and have someone bring his truck and camper across the Bay Bridge for overnight stays at a campground. “This was not particularly comfortable, and it was expensive,” says Evans. “I needed a larger boat with less draft to accommodate my fishing needs.”

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Rose Marie Over the winter, when he was home from oystering, he built himself a new solid glass 40' x 12' x 28" fishing vessel. He named the boat Rose Marie, after his wife of 49 years. “When Rose and I were first married I had (the late wooden boatbuilder) Maylon Green of Deltaville built my first boat, and I named it Rose Marie,” says Evans. “The first 50-footer we built here at the shop was on speculation and I named that boat Rose Marie. The man who ended up buying it changed the name. “I figured this boat is going to be mine for a long time so I named it Rose Marie,” he says. “The first and last boat I’ve owned are named for Rose.” The Rose Marie is, to say the least, nontraditional as Chesapeake Bay style boats goes. It took a creative mind and an experienced December 2020 \ National Fisherman 27

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boatbuilder with time, means, shop and boatlift availability and a willingness to experiment, a bit. That boatbuilder had to be Eugene Evans! Several years ago, a firm in Oklahoma City, hired Evans Boat Repair to design and build a fiberglass flat-bottom “scow style” tour boat for a zoo to carry a maximum of 50 passenger on a lake. “I designed it and built a mold for it, and we built a couple of boats for them,” says Evans. “When I started thinking about the Rose Marie, I knew I needed a larger hull size for more house space. I also needed a shallower draft boat for crabbing and a boat with a 12foot beam.” An attractive part of using the scow design to Evans was the 12-foot beam because his boat slip cannot handle a wider boat. “I could have used one of my standard 38-foot deadrise hulls, but the beam is 13.5 feet, and I can’t get that in my boat slip,” he says. “I also thought I could improvise to make the scow style hull work for me.”

Eugene and Rose Marie Evans of Evans Boat Repair stand beside his new boat named for her.

At the start of the project, Evans added a slight V into the flat-bottom. Historically, Chesapeake Bay commercial fishing boats require a deadrise V in the bow to cut through the bay’s choppy seas when underway. Evans also installed what he refers to as a “Deltaville hump.” On wooden deadrise boats, the

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Evans glassed this V-bottom hull from an old Chris Craft to the bottom of the Rose Marie.

This side angle shows how the Chris Craft hull was glassed to the bottom.

The V in the bottom provides added stability and a smoother ride when underway.

Rose Marie draws 6 inches less water than the smaller 30-foot boat that he was working before. After completing the boat, however, test runs revealed there was considerable pounding coming from about 10 feet back of the bow, and the boat had a tendency to “blowoff ” from a dock. “I knew right away I had to modify the bottom,” says Evans. He looked about his yard and spotted an old Chris Craft hull about ready for the dump. He took that hull and cut 15 feet out of the V-bottom and glassed it to the bottom of the Rose Marie. He also added a skeg to the bottom that runs from the bow 12 feet aft to keep the boat steady in blowing winds and seas. The new vessel is powered by a Cummins

diesel engine rated at 210 hp working through a 2:1 502 Twin Disc reduction gear. During the first test run in May, before adding more V in the bottom, the boat reached a high speed of 22 mph. After the new V-bottom was installed, the boat lost 5 mph. This prompted Evans to rebuild a used 250-hp Cummins diesel, and he was planning to install the engine over the summer. “It’s not just speed I’m after,” he says. “I need a little extra power going through the water when I’m pulling my dredge and patent tongs.” The new hull style enabled him to increase the height of the sides, which along with an enlarged trunk cabin, gave him more space down below. “I’m 6' 2" so I need some height below

(in the cabin),” says Evans.To create even more standing room height in the cabin, there is no ceiling (raised floor) where the V-berth, galley and head are located. “When I step down into the cabin from the pilothouse, I’m standing on the bottom of the boat. For comfort, I need all the height I can get.” The house on the boat is filled with home comforts, as Evans has installed a head and shower, hot and cold running water in the galley and head, a twin mattress bed, and an oil furnace, along with a heater that works off the engine to keep him warm in the winter. “When I go to St. Mary’s River to oyster next winter, I want to be comfortable,” says Evans. The Rose Marie has a hardtop fiberglass

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Alongside decades-long policies to preserve its coast and ocean environment, California has more recently committed to seeking 100 percent renewable power sources. “We realize that we’re anywhere between a year and three years behind what’s going on on the East Coast,” said Mike Conroy, executive director of Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations and an early member of the RODA Pacific committee. “In terms of raising awareness, it’s been invaluable.” Like East Coast fishermen, Conroy said the Pacific fishing community were surprised by the surging interest in developing offshore wind energy. But in the last few months, the RODA committee has been able to establish contact with federal and state regulators. The group has been invited by the federal Bureau of Offshore Energy Management and California state officials to discuss the central coast area being considered for leases, he said. In summer 2019 the BOEM was poised to issue a positive environmental impact statement on the Vineyard Wind project until NMFS’ Greater Atlantic office balked. Motivated by fishermen’s alarm and their own scientists’ concern that more studies were needed, NMFS refused to sign off on the environmental report. That led to Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt ordering a fuller re-examination

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The trawler Virginia Marise from Point Judith, R.I., near the Block Island Wind Farm.

of Vineyard Wind, and of the potential “cumulative impacts” of building turbine arrays from Massachusetts to the Carolinas. “I think the Vineyard Wind EIS opened up some eyes out here,” said Conroy. A final report is due Dec. 18. But in the meantime, presidential election politics have thrown more doubts into the picture. With Southeast states now seemingly in play, President Trump has been shoring up support there with a 180-degree turnaround from his 2018 goal of opening all U.S. offshore waters to energy development. Starting at a Sept. 8 campaign stop in Jupiter, Fla.,Trump announced a 10-year moratorium on energy leasing in federal waters off Florida, Georgia and South Carolina — and on Sept. 25 extended that to North Carolina, and hinted Virginia waters may be next. The offshore energy industry based in the Gulf of Mexico protested. “An offshore moratorium that stretches from the Eastern Gulf of Mexico to the top of North Carolina’s offshore areas needlessly jeopardizes our nation’s long-term economic and national security,” said Erik Milito, president of the National Offshore Industries Association. “The announcement also casts tremendous uncertainty on the outlook for wind offshore off North Carolina.” Existing offshore wind leases are not affected, and the Trump orders leave open the possibility of new offerings in the Northeast. The pre-election maneuvers left skeptics on all sides. Frank Knapp Jr. of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce, a group allied with environmental activists and other offshore drilling opponents, foresaw a post-election double-cross. “But if Trump wins re-election in November, his motivation for issuing the moratorium — which is to make an electionyear appeal to voters — will no longer exist,” Knapp wrote in the Myrtle Beach Sun News. “There will be nothing to stop the president from reversing his Executive Order and instructing his agencies to move forward with his long-term goal, which is to open up the Atlantic for oil drilling.” Meanwhile, BOEM and other agencies in the Trump administration forge ahead with planning for offshore wind developments. In early October the federal Economic www.nationalfisherman.com

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looking out at least five years” before a West Coast pilot project,” said Conroy. That’s why RODA’s organizing the industry now has been so vital, he said. The clock is ticking. In October the U.S. Department of Energy, working with BOEM, deployed two research buoys off California for the first time, to gather weather and oceanographic data for planning offshore wind energy areas. The Expo Online panel discussion on Tuesday, Nov. 17, will review where offshore wind development stands from coast to coast and what the next steps are for advocates across the spectrum of U.S. maritime industries. You can find that discussion at NationalFisherman.com/expo-online.

Dominion Energy’s Virginia-based two-turbine wind energy pilot project was installed in June.

Development Administration released a $2.16 million grant to Maine to develop wind power in the Gulf of Maine. “If you believe the BOEM folks, we’re

Pebble Mine

On shaky ground

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By Jessica Hathaway ould the proposed Pebble Mine and its earthen containers of toxic byproduct stand up to Alaska’s seismic activity? This was the question on many minds at the beginning of the year, following a 3.6-magnitude quake in the Bristol Bay region in late January and a documented increase in earthquakes in the state over the last two years. A study funded by the Bristol Bay Defense Alliance concluded that the seismic reports used in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ draft environmental impact statement were outdated and that the stability analysis was inherently flawed and understated the risk of tailings pond failures. One month before that January quake, the bay’s communities got rocked by a CNN report documenting evidence that Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy had been lobbying on behalf of the Pebble Limited Partnership. CNN obtained letters that showed “Dunleavy forwarded requests, on behalf of

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the state of Alaska, that were ghost-written by the Pebble Partnership to the White House, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Environmental Protection Agency asking them to do away with the EPA’s proposed protections for Bristol Bay and to fast track the Army Corps’ environmental assessment,” said a joint press release from the United Tribes of Bristol Bay and Commercial Fishermen for Bristol Bay on Dec. 20, 2019. The letters also indicated that the Pebble

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Workforce Development: Resources and Partners 2 p.m. Pacific Time This workshop is an opportunity to learn about regional workforce training programs and partnership opportunities, including programs that will pay for your apprenticeships; accessing student training programs; engaging communities of color and women. Sponsors: Youth Maritime Collaborative, Port of Seattle and Seattle Propeller Club

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Partnership had advance knowledge of EPA’s decision to eliminate Clean Water Act protections. Tom Collier, then-CEO of the Pebble Partnership, had denied any such knowledge at a U.S. House hearing in October 2019. “I want to adamantly state that we had no such advance knowledge at all of the decision,” Collier said in his testimony to the House Transportation Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment. “Nor did we know what the decision was.” It would not be the last time Collier was accused of lying to Congress before he resigned abruptly on Sept. 23, 2020. Two days before his resignation, the Environmental Investigation Agency published a series of recorded video calls showing Collier and Northern Dynasty President and CEO Ronald Thiessen boasting about access to Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s office, the White House chief of staff, the Army Corps of Engineers, as well as the partnership’s plan to deceive the public through the permitting process and open a back door to a massive mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region. The scale of Pebble’s plans quickly became the focus of a push to investigate. Collier testified at the House hearing in October 2019 that “Pebble has no current plans, in this application or in any other way, for expansion.” The tapes, however,“reveal Pebble’s apparent plans to use the infrastructure included in its mine plan to open up other expansive [swaths] of western Alaska to mining, including through the activation of the Donlin Mine, a project that already has federal permits and could become economically viable overnight if the Pebble project is approved,” said the agency when it released the tapes. On Tuesday, Sept. 29, Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell called for a Justice Department investigation into possible discrepancies between comments made by Collier and Thiessen in the recorded calls and the project’s scope and plans in legally binding federal documents. “The Pebble Tapes make one thing very clear: The Pebble Limited Partnership will stop at nothing to build their disastrous mine, even if it means lying on their permit application, deceiving their investors, or 38 National Fisherman \ December 2020

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Washington’s Sen. Maria Cantwell has called for a federal investigation into Pebble Mine.

possibly perjuring themselves in front of Congress,” said Cantwell in a statement. “The Department of Justice should investigate what is disclosed in these disturbing Pebble Tapes.” Meanwhile, in Alaska, local Reps. Bryce Edgmon (D-Dillingham) and Louise Stutes (R-Kodiak) penned a Sept. 29 letter to Dunleavy, asking the state’s top executive not to stand with the Pebble Limited Partnership as it sought to advance its permit with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. “Our concerns are not hypothetical,” the letter declares. “To this point, you and others within your administration have worked with PLP to advance a proposed mine that has no basis in reality and has no place in Bristol Bay.” The reps laid out the administration’s “welldocumented work… on behalf of the PLP,” noting that public records and media reports

contradict the administration’s dismissal of the allegations resulting from the tapes. “It appears that you and other members of your administration, including your resource agency commissioners and staff, are working with PLP on a compensatory mitigation plan for the proposed Pebble mine that would implicate uses and activities on State land in Bristol Bay,” the letter reads. The governor responded on Oct. 6, noting that his “role is to ensure that each project is subject to a fair and rigorous review process, and that every opportunity to create thousands of jobs is fully explored.” “Regardless of the fate of the Pebble project, let me be absolutely clear: I will not stop fighting for the people of the Bristol Bay region who continue to suffer from an acute lack of economic opportunity,” Dunleavy wrote. On Oct. 15, Alaska’s Sen. Murkowski spoke at the annual convention of the Alaska Federation of Natives calling Pebble the wrong mine in the wrong place, a rallying cry of the mine’s opponents and an echo of the late Sen. Ted Stevens. Our Expo Online panel discussion on Thursday, Nov. 19, will review where the Pebble Mine permit stands and the next steps for advocates of Bristol Bay communities and fisheries. You can find that discussion at NationalFisherman.com/expo-online.

Fishermen’s Terminal

Innovation station

By Peter Steinbrueck magine a place where maritime industry partners work to adopt advanced technologies, stimulate entrepreneurship, promote knowledge transfer, incubate businesses and advance workforce development. At or around the third quarter of 2022, you won’t have to imagine it. It will be a reality at the Port of Seattle’s Fishermen’s Terminal,

where planning and design are underway for the Maritime Innovation Center, or Minc. The Minc will be located in the former Seattle Ship Supply building, which has been vacant for two decades. The port is working with architecture firm Miller Hull to design a building that will meet the requirements of the Living Building Challenge, a green building certification program and sustainable design framework. The Minc is part of a partnership between www.nationalfisherman.com

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Rendering of the Maritime Innovation Center at the Port of Seattle’s Fishermen’s Terminal.

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the Port of Seattle, the Washington State Department of Commerce and other partners, called Washington Maritime Blue. The goal is to ensure that the state of Washington is home to a world-class, thriving and sustainable maritime industry through 2050 and beyond. Although the Minc isn’t built yet, programming is underway. In December 2019, the port announced its first cohort of 11 companies participating in the Maritime Blue Innovation Accelerator Program. Beam Reach catalyzes marine research and education about the oceans, bioacoustics, and sustainability across the critical habitat of endangered orcas — Northern California to British Columbia — with a focus on Puget Sound and the Salish Sea to empower future generations to protect our orca population. Discovery Health MD offers a suite of services to improve health at every stage of a mariner’s career, reduce an employer’s risk exposure, and alleviate the fear and anxiety of delivering medical care at sea. EcoSPEARS is a cleantech solutions company using green, NASA-developed environmental technology for cost-effective, sustainable, and permanent extraction and destruction of persistent environmental toxins. eOceans is building data and analytical software to make sure ocean science keeps pace with business, society and ocean change. Equll’s digital platform helps eliminate waste and inefficiencies through technological solutions that directly connect truck owner/ operators and shippers by automating the entire process with no hassle. Net Your Problem provides fishing gear recycling services to fishermen and fishing companies.The collected gear is upcycled into

Moderator Paul Molyneaux, National Fisherman Boats & Gear editor Seattle is home to the North Pacific fleet and the future home of an innovation incubator.

raw plastic that’s transformed into a variety of products such as kayaks, bathing suites, carpets, and office furniture. oneTank markets, sells, assembles, tests and delivers oneTank: the simplest, smallest, lowest consumption, and lowest-cost ballast-water treatment system. OneForNeptune is changing the food industry with healthy, high-protein snack foods made from sustainable seafood products. Pure Watercraft develops high-performance electric outboard motors and battery packs to enable a new era of enjoyable, accessible, environmentally friendly boating. SPBES provides high power lithium-ion energy storage to hybridize or electrify heavy industrial equipment. Purpose-engineered for the rigors of the commercial maritime industry. SPBES is safer and longer-lasting than any other product on the market. MER Equipment is building a new engine exhaust gas after-treatment system, which reduces fuel consumption while also decreasing nitrogen oxides as particulate matter. This technology is a lighter, smaller, less costly alternative to diesel engines. Across the companies, this cohort will focus on advancing decarbonization, environmental remediation, maritime workforce protections, sustainability, electrification, digitization, and conservation education. These founders come from a variety of stages in their startup journey, from pre-launch to launched to high growth. More than 30 percent of the companies are founded by women, and 70 percent are headquartered in Washington state. Peter Steinbrueck is president of the Port of Seattle Commission.

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Maritime Economic Forecast Breakfast 8:30 – 10 a.m. Pacific Time This annual event is one of the hottest tickets at Pacific Marine Expo. Join free online to hear maritime and seafood industry leaders discuss the year ahead for the Port of Seattle and beyond. Sponsors: Seattle Propeller Club and Port of Seattle

Day Three Thursday, Nov. 19 Pebble Mine: What’s Next 11 a.m. Pacific Time This year has been a bumpy ride for critics and supporters of the proposed Pebble Mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay. We’ll talk about how we got here, where the plans stand, and what to look for next. Moderator & Host Jessica Hathaway, National Fisherman editor in chief

Fishing Industry Career Fair 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Presented by the Seattle Propeller Club and Port of Seattle with Seafood 101 industry partners

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Bay fisherman and boatbuilder Tom Aliotti has built nine boats with twin FPT 6.7-liter engines.

“Some of our techs are actually Bristol Bay fishermen,” Roeser said. And while Roeser pointed out that FPT is not new to Alaska, he said it has gained momentum. Part of that, according to MSHS sales specialist Torsten Schmitt, is not just growing service support, but also better access to FPT parts and service, especially in remote fisheries like Bristol Bay. “Lack of spare parts has been part of the resistance to foreign brands, but that is no longer the case. For this area specifically, Alaska Air Cargo’s GoldStreak reaches a lot of the common fishing grounds within 24 hours. Plus, increased local service points, which

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carry spare parts and even stock engines, make FPT a solid choice now,” Schmitt said. To hammer out a niche in a diesel engine market crowded with respected, well-known brands, FPT had to offer fishermen tangible advantages. Schmitt points to the FPT’s fuel economy, reliability, and strong size-to-power ratio, which are advantages that fishermen who use the engines echo. Tom Aliotti is a Bristol Bay fisherman and the head of Aliotti Enterprises, one of the bay’s most innovative and respected boatbuilders. Aliotti has now built nine boats with twin FPT 6.7-liter N67-550 engines, which run 500 hp at 3,200 rpm. FPT engines are a bit cheaper than some other brands, but Aliotti said that was not why he chose them. “I researched a lot and found that they had been around on the East Coast for a long time and were very reliable. The lobster guys use them, now the tuna guys use them. I just couldn’t find many people who had problems with them,” Aliotti said. The small footprint and strong size-topower ratio is also a draw for Bristol Bay fishermen, who are constantly looking to ditch weight for shallow fishing and save space on cramped vessels. Aliotti, who will put another three new boats on the water in Bristol Bay next summer, said he had just ordered a round of FPT’s new N67-570 EVO, which now feature 530-hp commercial rating at 3,000 rpm. Aliotti pointed out that the engine is 400 pounds lighter than comparable 9-liter engines. Yakov Basargin of Jackson Marine in Homer, Alaska, is another FPT believer. He said he has tried many engines over the years and has settled on FPT not just because of the engine’s performance and reliability, but also because of the good service. Basargin said he ordered some of the new 15.9-liter C16-1000 engines last March and, despite complications from the covid pandemic, received them on time and did not miss a minute of fishing. “The level of commitment sold me to continue using FPT. I also used some FPT C90s for local repowers. My customers are super happy, love the performance, quietness and low fuel burn,” Basargin said. Brian Hagenbuch is the Products editor for National Fisherman www.nationalfisherman.com

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Marport Americas, Inc. Notus Electronics Ltd Seaman Electronics - Electronica Naval SA Seatronx Ship Electronics Inc Simrad Fisheries SI-TEX Marine/Koden Electronics Sonic Corporation WESMAR - Western Marine Electronics

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Engine Components ABB Inc Alamarin Jet/ Motor-Services Hugo Stamp, Inc. American Vulkan Corp Cummins Inc. Finning Power Solutions Inc Governor Control Systems, Inc. Harbor Marine Maintenance Hatton Marine HDI Marine JMP Corporation John Deere Power Systems Motor-Services Hugo Stamp Inc/ Baudouin N C Power Systems National Marine Exhaust Inc Pacific Power Group RDI Marine Shailesh Industries Stanley Parts & Equipment Co, Inc.

Engine Rebuilding & Repair Alamarin Jet/ Motor-Services Hugo Stamp, Inc. Arrow Marine Services Belzona Technology Northwest LLC Cummins Inc. Dr. Diesel Technologies Finning Power Solutions Inc Hatton Marine HDI Marine John Deere Power Systems Motor-Services Hugo Stamp Inc/

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Environmental Services 1 - Call Alaska LLC ABS Alaska Chadux Corporation Enviro-Tech Diving Inc Glosten Kleen Pacific Resolve Marine Group SalmonState Wager Company

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Filtration & Separation BIOBOR Fuel Additives Cummins Inc. Delta Western, LLC Fisheries Supply Company Governor Control Systems, Inc. Hatton Marine Kleen Pacific Marine Systems Inc. Mascott Equipment Company Miller-Leaman, Inc. Motion & Flow Control Products, Inc. Pump Industries Inc Spencer Fluid Power Stanley Parts & Equipment Co, Inc. Technical Marine & Industrial, LLC

Financial Services Alaska Division of Economic Development - Investments CFAB - Ak Commercial Fishing and Agriculture Bank Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Mountain Pacific Bank Northwest Farm Credit Services Peoples Bank Thomas USAF Group, LLC

Fire Fighting/ Supression Equipment 1 - Call Alaska LLC Alexander Gow Fire Equipment DA West DASPOS USA Inc Datrex Inc Resolve Marine Group

First Aid Bellegrove Medical Discovery Health MD

Fish Buyers International Marine Industries Inc Whittier Seafood

Fish Handling Equipment Bonar Plastics Brand of Snyder Industries Bristol Bay Brailer, LLC DACO Corporation Flexahopper Plastics LTD Macondray Fish Company NOMAR

Freight Forwarding

Saeplast Americas Inc. Seattle Tarp, Inc. Western Group (The)

Alaska Central Express DSV Air & Sea Inc Lynden Inc Northern Air Cargo Samson Tug & Barge

Fish Hooks & Systems Gaski Marine Kumho Fishing Tackle Co Macondray Fish Company Mustad Autoline Inc Rena International

Fuel/Fuel Additives BIOBOR Fuel Additives Delta Western, LLC Eco Star Collaborative Inlet Energy Kleen Pacific North Pacific Fuel Northern Air Cargo Petro Marine Services

Fish Pumps Beckwith & Kuffel Ryco

Fisheries Management

Galley Equipment

Alaska Department of Fish and Game Alaska Division of Economic Development - Investments Alaska Marine Conservation Council Coastal Trollers Association Deckhand Electronic Logbook Deep Trekker Inc. International Pacific Halibut Commission NCP Coatings Inc. Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission Washington Trollers Association

Fishing Equipment Asano Metal Industry Co., Ltd. Bekina Boots Bristol Bay Brailer, LLC Bulletproof Nets Inc Deckhand Electronic Logbook Egersund Heroy AS Electric Fishing Reel Systems, Inc. Gaski Marine Greenline Fishing Gear A/S Homer Marine Trades Assoc/ Port of Homer Integrated Marine Systems Inc ITSASKORDA Lee Shore Boats Inc Longsoaker Fishing Systems MacGregor Rapp Marco Products / Smith Berger Marine, Inc. Mustad Autoline Inc NET Systems Inc Ocean-natives Supplies Pacific Net & Twine Ltd Rena International S & W Wilson Inc Samson Rope Technologies Seattle Marine & Fishing Supply Co Seattle Tarp, Inc. Thyboron Trawldoor Williamson & Associates

Forklifts Kropf Industrial Inc. Marine Travelift - Kendrick Equipment North Pacific Fuel

NOMAR Sure Marine Service Inc

Gauges Branom Instrument Co. HANSA-FLEX USA Kaman Fluid Power/ Western Fluid Components NAG Marine Standard Calibrations Inc

Gears Hatton Marine Karl Senner, LLC. Konrad Marine Marine Systems Inc. RDI Marine Twin Disc Inc. WEG Electric Corp.

Generators Cascade Engine Center LLC CETS LLC Christie & Grey Inc CITEL, Inc. Cummins Inc. Finning Power Solutions Inc Harbor Marine Maintenance HDI Marine John Deere Power Systems Kubota Generators and TDI Air Starters Marine Systems Inc. MER Equipment, Inc. N C Power Systems Northern Lights Pacific Power Group RDI Marine Shailesh Industries Stanley Parts & Equipment Co, Inc. Tacoma Diesel and Equipment Inc WEG Electric Corp.

Gillnetting Alaska Net & Supply Inc. Bristol Bay Brailer, LLC Fishtek Marine Ltd. Gannet Nets Kinematics Marine Equipment Inc LFS Marine Supplies Maritime Fabrications Inc Ocean-natives Supplies Pacific Net & Twine Ltd Seattle Marine & Fishing Supply Co

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Gloves

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Color Graphics Continental Western Corporation Dexter-Russell Inc ElectricalHub.com Guy Cotten Inc Macondray Fish Company SHOWA Atlas Gloves

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Grading & Sorting Equipment Ryco

Grinding & Wastewater Beckwith & Kuffel Environmental Marine Inc Pump Industries Inc Urschel Laboratories, Inc. Vogelsang USA

Habitability Dex-O-Tex Marine by Crossfield Products Corp HACCP Products & Services DACO Corporation

Hardware Asano Metal Industry Co., Ltd. Bulletproof Nets Inc ConGlobal Industries ElectricalHub.com Greenline Fishing Gear A/S Hydrasearch Company Laclede Chain Manufacturing Company N-Nine Enterprises Ltd PTLX Global Samson Rope Technologies

Hatches AdvanTec Marine Anchor Hatches Baier Marine Company Bomar/Pompanette LLC FabTek Industries Fraser Bronze Foundry Inc Giddings Boat Works Marine & Construction

Gaski Marine HOSTAR Marine Transport Systems Kolstrand by InMac Yaquina Boat Equipment

Health/Medical Bellegrove Medical Discovery Health MD LifeMed Alaska

Heat Exchangers Aquamarine Tech Services LLC Case Marine Duramax Marine LLC Marine Systems Inc. R.W. Fernstrum & Company Teknotherm Refrigeration WCR Incorporated

Heating Equipment AMC-Cliffv’s Dometic Sears Home Improvement Products Inc. Sure Marine Service Inc

Hoses & Fittings Alexander Gow Fire Equipment ARG/Pacific Rubber Inc Ben’s Cleaner Sales Inc. Bridgestone HosePower Coastal Fluid Power ERIKS Fluid Design Products HANSA-FLEX USA Hydrasearch Company J&L Hydraulics Inc. Kaman Fluid Power/ Western Fluid Components Maximum Performance Hydraulics Motion & Flow Control Products, Inc. PAC Stainless Ltd Pacific Pipe and Pump, LLC Spencer Fluid Power

Hydraulics Alaska Net & Supply Inc. Altra Industrial Motion Corp American Chemical Technologies Inc ARG/Pacific Rubber Inc Bridgestone HosePower Coastal Fluid Power DA West Discount Hydraulic Hose.com Eltorque AS ERIKS Fluid Design Products HANSA-FLEX USA J&L Hydraulics Inc. Kaman Fluid Power/ Western Fluid Components LFS Marine Supplies Maritime Fabrications Inc Maximum Performance Hydraulics Motion & Flow Control Products, Inc. Naiad Dynamics

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PAC Stainless Ltd Pacific Pipe and Pump, LLC Paratech Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-op PYI Inc. Seattle Marine & Fishing Supply Co Spencer Fluid Power TorcUP NW Wilkes & McLean, Ltd Yaquina Boat Equipment

Jigging Equipment

Ice Making Equipment

Dexter-Russell Inc Seattle Marine & Fishing Supply Co York Saw & Knife Co

Bonar Plastics Brand of Snyder Industries Cold Sea Refrigeration Inc Dometic Integrated Marine Systems Inc MAJA Food-Technology Inc North Star Ice Equipment S & W Wilson Inc Teknotherm Refrigeration

Impellers JMP Corporation NAMJet LLC Shailesh Industries

Electric Fishing Reel Systems, Inc. Gaski Marine

Knife Sharpening Equipment Dexter-Russell Inc

Knives

Labor/Employment Services Tradesmen International

Licensing Clatsop Community College/ MERTS Campus Pacific Boat Brokers Inc University of Alaska Southeast

Life Rafts

Inflatable Boats

Datrex Inc Survitec Viking Life Saving Equipment

Allied Marine Crane Survitec

Lighting

Infrared Systems ComNav Marine Ltd FLIR Systems Inc.

Insulations & Soundproofing Dex-O-Tex Marine by Crossfield Products Corp Distribution International National Marine Exhaust Inc Performance Contracting Inc TRIM-LOK, INC. West Coast Insulation Wilkes & McLean, Ltd

Insurance ABD Insurance & Financial Services Bristol Bay Fishermen’s Association Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Sea-Mountain Insurance

Interiors Distribution International Llebroc Industries Slumber Ease Mattress Factory

Jet Propulsion Alamarin Jet/ Motor-Services Hugo Stamp, Inc. Driveline Service of Portland Inc Glendinning Marine Products Hamilton Jet Marine Jet Power Motor-Services Hugo Stamp Inc/ Baudouin Naiad Dynamics NAMJet LLC Thrustmaster of Texas Inc

Britmar Marine Ltd Eco Star Collaborative Elmore Electric/HIghliner LIghting Fisheries Supply Company Glamox Aqua Signal Corporation Imtra Corp McDermott Light & Signal MER Equipment, Inc. North Coast Electric PTLX Global Scurlock Electric LLC Ship Electronics Inc Western Technology

Lobster Gear FT - TEC USA Corp. Longsoaker Fishing Systems

Longlining Equipment Asano Metal Industry Co., Ltd. Fishtek Marine Ltd. Kinematics Marine Equipment Inc LFS Marine Supplies Marco Products / Smith Berger Marine, Inc. Marine Instruments S.A. Mustad Autoline Inc North American Fishing Supplies Rena International Wilkes & McLean, Ltd

Lubricants American Chemical Technologies Inc BIOBOR Fuel Additives Delta Western, LLC Inlet Energy Kleen Pacific North Pacific Fuel

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Panolin America Inc Petro Marine Services Summit

Machinery Bronswerk Marine Inc - HVAC&R DA West EAM-Mosca Corporation IBERCISA Mitsubishi Turbocharger and Engine America, Inc. Naiad Dynamics Rogers Machinery Company, Inc. Strapack Washington Machine Works

Mattresses/ Bedding Slumber Ease Mattress Factory

Metals AJR Marine Windows Inc American Chemical Technologies Inc Farwest Steel Corp Millner-Haufen Tool Company WCT Marine & Construction, Inc. Western Group (The)

Midwater Trawls/ Bottom Trawls NET Systems Inc Praxair Distribution Inc WESMAR - Western Marine Electronics

Monitoring Systems 1- Call Alaska LLC Aquakob Systems Inc. Branom Instrument Co. DASPOS USA Inc Eco Star Collaborative Governor Control Systems, Inc. Industrial Marine Power Engineering Group ioCurrents Kobelt Manufacturing Co Ltd Marel Maretron Marine Exchange of Alaska Marine Exchange of Puget Sound Marine Instruments S.A. Marport Americas, Inc. NAG Marine Ocean Systems Palmer Johnson Power Systems Resolve Marine Group S3 Maritime LLC. Seatronx Simrad Fisheries South Coast Electric Standard Calibrations Inc

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Odor Control

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Wager Company

Jensen Maritime Consultants Inc Metal Shark Boats Resolve Marine Group

Navigation Aids Big Bay Technologies Britmar Marine Ltd Cali-optics Importer ComNav Marine Ltd FLIR Systems Inc. Glamox Aqua Signal Corporation Marine Exchange of Alaska Marine Exchange of Puget Sound McDermott Light & Signal Nauticomp Inc Nobeltec

Nets/Trawls Egersund Heroy AS Gannet Nets Greenline Fishing Gear A/S ITSASKORDA Marport Americas, Inc. NET Systems Inc North American Fishing Supplies Notus Electronics Ltd Ocean-natives Supplies Williamson & Associates

Non-Profit Organization Alaska Chadux Corporation Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation Alaska Marine Conservation Council Alaska Marine Safety Education Assn Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute Bristol Bay Fishermen’s Association Coastal Trollers Association Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Council DNV GL Oregon Fishermen’s Cable Committee Prince William Sound Regional Citizens’ Advisory Council SalmonState Seattle Fishermen’s Memorial United Fishermen of Alaska Washington Sea Grant Washington Trollers Association WEfish

Nozzles Hydrasearch Company Michigan Wheel Olympic Propeller Thrustmaster of Texas Inc VM Dafoe Machine Shop

Puget Sound Pipe & Supply Spears Manufacturing Company Technical Marine & Industrial, LLC Viega W&O Supply

Oil Spill Control Equipment

Pneumatics

1 - Call Alaska LLC Alaska Chadux Corporation DA West Delta Western, LLC Inlet Energy Kleen Pacific Resolve Marine Group Rozema Boat Works Inc Seattle Tarp, Inc. Vogelsang USA

Ballard Industrial Eltorque AS Paratech Propulsion Systems, Inc. Rogers Machinery Company, Inc.

Ports & Harbors

Oily Water Separators Ben’s Cleaner Sales Inc. Case Marine Mascott Equipment Company Summit Technical Marine & Industrial, LLC

Outboard Motors Boatswain’s Locker Inc Cascade Engine Center LLC

Packaging & Machinery DACO Corporation EAM-Mosca Corporation Optimar U.S.,Inc Rena International Strapack York Saw & Knife Co

Paints Jotun Paints Inc NCP Coatings Inc. PYI Inc. Seattle Marine & Fishing Supply Co Sherwin-Williams

Permits Alaska Maritime Documentation Dock Street Brokers Pacific Boat Brokers Inc

Pipe Fittings Discount Hydraulic Hose.com Fluid Design Products Industrial Resources Inc PAC Stainless Ltd Pacific Pipe and Pump, LLC Puget Sound Pipe & Supply Spears Manufacturing Company Viega

Piping/Pipe Joints Ballard Industrial Coastal Fluid Power Fluid Design Products JAG Alaska Inc- Seward Shipyard Kaman Fluid Power/ Western Fluid Components Kami Tech Inc. Klinger IGI Mascott Equipment Company Pacific Pipe and Pump, LLC

Aleutians East Borough Cordova Port & Harbor Homer Marine Trades Assoc/Port of Homer Kodiak Shipyard and Harbors Oregon International Port of Coos Bay Port of Bellingham Port of Port Angeles Port of Port Townsend Port of Seattle – Fishing and Commercial Operations Port of Seward Wrangell Port & Harbors

Processing Machinery/ Equipment Aquamarine Tech Services LLC Industrial Resources Inc Kami Tech Inc. MAJA Food-Technology Inc Marel Miller-Leaman, Inc. Strapack Urschel Laboratories, Inc. WEG Electric Corp. Western Group (The) York Saw & Knife Co

Propellers Michigan Wheel Ocean-natives Supplies Olympic Propeller Pacific Marine Equipment LLC Propulsion Systems, Inc. Rice Propulsion Schottel Inc Sound Propeller Services Spurs Marine Manufacturing Inc The Prop Shop ZF Marine

Propulsion Alamarin Jet/ Motor-Services Hugo Stamp, Inc. Altra Industrial Motion Corp American Vulkan Corp Boatswain’s Locker Inc Cascade Engine Center LLC Coastwise Corporation Columbia Industrial Products Deflector Marine Rudder Driveline Service of Portland Inc Drivelines NW Finning Power Solutions Inc Glendinning Marine Products Hamilton Jet

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Industrial Marine Power Engineering Group JMP Corporation John Deere Power Systems Karl Senner, LLC. Konrad Marine Lignum Vitae North America Logan Clutch Corporation Marine Jet Power Michigan Wheel Mitsubishi Turbocharger and Engine America, Inc. Motor-Services Hugo Stamp Inc/ Baudouin N C Power Systems NAMJet LLC On Site Alignment Pacific Marine Equipment LLC Rexnord Centa Rice Propulsion Schottel Inc Seaspan Shipyards Ships Machinery International Inc Sound Propeller Services Spurs Marine Manufacturing Inc Steyr Motors Tacoma Diesel and Equipment Inc Thrustmaster of Texas Inc Twin Disc Inc. VM Dafoe Machine Shop ZF Marine

Publications Alaska Department of Fish and Game Alaska Marine Safety Education Assn Alaska Sea Grant College Program Boats & Harbors Dr. Diesel Technologies Fishermen’s News Marine Yellow Pages National Fisherman NIOSH Pacific Fishing Magazine Pacific Maritime Magazine Philips Publishing Group Washington Sea Grant Western Mariner Magazine Western Maritime Inc

Pumps AMC-Cliffv’s Ballard Industrial Beckwith & Kuffel Ben’s Cleaner Sales Inc. Cascade Machinery & Electric Case Marine DA West Environmental Marine Inc Glide Bearings & Seal Systems JMP Corporation Kobelt Manufacturing Co Ltd Miller-Leaman, Inc. Pump Industries Inc Rogers Machinery Company, Inc. Spencer Fluid Power Technical Marine & Industrial, LLC Vogelsang USA

Quality Systems RINA USA Inc

Radio Buoys Marine Instruments S.A.

Raingear

Washington Sea Grant Western Mariner Magazine Western Technology Whistle Workwear

Color Graphics Grundens Guy Cotten Inc Transport Systems and Products Inc Whistle Workwear

Sanitation

Refrigeration & Freezing

Satellite Communications

Alaska Net & Supply Inc. Bronswerk Marine Inc - HVAC&R Cold Sea Refrigeration Inc ConGlobal Industries Dole Refrigerating Co Integrated Marine Systems Inc Northern Lights Optimar U.S.,Inc Pacific West Refrigeration Performance Contracting Inc S & W Wilson Inc Sure Marine Service Inc Teknotherm Refrigeration Western Group (The)

Rope/Twine Bulletproof Nets Inc Continental Western Corporation Egersund Heroy AS Gannet Nets Greenline Fishing Gear A/S ITSASKORDA Ocean-natives Supplies Pacific Net & Twine Ltd Samson Rope Technologies

Safety & Survival Alaska Marine Safety Education Assn Alaska Sea Grant College Program Alexander Gow Fire Equipment Bekina Boots Bender Inc. Cali-optics Importer Clatsop Community College/ MERTS Campus Continental Western Corporation DASPOS USA Inc Datrex Inc FLIR Systems Inc. FT - TEC USA Corp. Globalstar Grundens Guy Cotten Inc Kent Safety Products Network Innovations NIOSH Palfinger Marine Paratech PTLX Global Roxtec Seattle Fishermen’s Memorial Spurs Marine Manufacturing Inc Stearns Survitec Training Resources Maritime Institute US Coast Guard 17th CG District Viking Life Saving Equipment

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AMC-Cliffv’s Aquamarine Tech Services LLC Environmental Marine Inc Scienco/FAST - a subsidairy of BioMicrobics, Inc.

Alphatron Marine USA AST Americas Deckhand Electronic Logbook Globalstar KVH Industries, Inc. Lunde Marine Electronics Inc Mackay Marine - Div. of Mackay Communications, Inc. Network Innovations Ron Smith Inc Sea-Tech Systems

Scales Cheyenne Scale Company MAJA Food-Technology Inc Ryco

Seafood Processing Equipment Bonar Plastics Brand of Snyder Industries Cheyenne Scale Company CITEL, Inc. Cold Sea Refrigeration Inc Continental Western Corporation Flexahopper Plastics LTD Integrated Marine Systems Inc Kami Tech Inc. MAJA Food-Technology Inc Marel North Star Ice Equipment Optimar U.S.,Inc Pacific West Refrigeration Rena International Ryco Saeplast Americas Inc. Strapack Urschel Laboratories, Inc. Western Group (The) York Saw & Knife Co

Seafood Processor Homer Marine Trades Assoc/ Port of Homer Trident Seafoods dba The Fork & Fin Whittier Seafood

Searchlights Britmar Marine Ltd Glamox Aqua Signal Corporation Imtra Corp Williamson & Associates

Seating Bentleys Mfg Inc Bostrom Company, H.O.

Freedman Seating Company Imtra Corp Krempel USA Llebroc Industries NOMAR Slumber Ease Mattress Factory

Seining Equipment Asano Metal Industry Co., Ltd. Bulletproof Nets Inc Gannet Nets ITSASKORDA LFS Marine Supplies Marco Products / Smith Berger Marine, Inc. NET Systems Inc Notus Electronics Ltd Yaquina Boat Equipment

Services & Supplies Alaska Maritime Documentation Alexander Gow Fire Equipment Belzona Technology Northwest LLC Color Graphics Cordova Port & Harbor Deckhand Electronic Logbook Discovery Health MD Dock Street Brokers Elmore Electric/HIghliner LIghting Enviro-Tech Diving Inc Hockema Whalen Myers Associates Hotel Nexus, BW Signature Collection/ 360 Hotel Group Klinger IGI MacGregor Rapp Marel Marine & Construction Supplies, LLC PFI Marine Electric Platypus Marine, Inc. Port of Port Angeles Port of Seattle – Fishing and Commercial Operations Propulsion Systems, Inc. Sherwin-Williams Siltec USA, Inc. Viking Life Saving Equipment

Shaft Components American Vulkan Corp Deflector Marine Rudder Driveline Service of Portland Inc Drivelines NW Duramax Marine LLC Foss Shipyard Hydrasearch Company Lignum Vitae North America Olympic Propeller Pacific Fishermen Shipyard & Electric PYI Inc. Rexnord Centa Rice Propulsion Simplex Americas LLC Sound Propeller Services Spurs Marine Manufacturing Inc Thordon Bearings Inc VM Dafoe Machine Shop

Shipbuilding & Repairs ABS

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All American Marine Armstrong Marine USA Aurand Manufacturing & Equipment Co Bronswerk Marine Inc - HVAC&R Coastal Fluid Power Coastwise Corporation Columbia Industrial Products Farwest Corrosion Control Company Foss Shipyard Giddings Boat Works JAG Alaska Inc- Seward Shipyard Jo-Kell Inc JT Marine Inc Kodiak Shipyard and Harbors Little Hoquiam Shipyard Mare Island Dry Dock Mavrik Marine Menzies Marine Metal Shark Boats Nauticomp Inc Nichols Brothers Boat Builders Pacific Fishermen Shipyard & Electric Pacific Pipe and Pump, LLC Platypus Marine, Inc. Port of Port Angeles Port of Port Townsend Port of Seattle – Fishing and Commercial Operations Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-op Rice Propulsion RINA USA Inc Rozema Boat Works Inc Seaspan Shipyards Simplex Americas LLC Stabbert Marine & Industrial LLC Strongback Metal Boats Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors LLC Tradesmen International Transport Systems and Products Inc Ulstein Design & Solutions Vigor Washington Machine Works WCT Marine & Construction, Inc. West Coast Insulation Wrangell Port & Harbors

Shipping Coastal Transportation DSV Air & Sea Inc Everts Air Cargo Green Worldwide Shipping, LLC Lynden Inc Samson Tug & Barge

Signals Datrex Inc McDermott Light & Signal Survitec

Sonar Deep Trekker Inc. Furuno USA, Inc. Gannet Nets Garmin USA Lunde Marine Electronics Inc Notus Electronics Ltd Olex AS Ship Electronics Inc

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Simrad Fisheries WESMAR - Western Marine Electronics

Steering Systems Deflector Marine Rudder Glide Bearings & Seal Systems Hamilton Jet Industrial Marine Power Engineering Group Jastram Engineering Kobelt Manufacturing Co Ltd Palmer Johnson Power Systems PYI Inc. Ships Machinery International Inc South Coast Electric Twin Disc Inc. W&O Supply

Stern Drives Glide Bearings & Seal Systems Konrad Marine On Site Alignment Thrustmaster of Texas Inc

Stern Tube Seals Deflector Marine Rudder Drivelines NW Duramax Marine LLC Glide Bearings & Seal Systems KEMEL USA Inc Lignum Vitae North America Olympic Propeller On Site Alignment Pacific Fishermen Shipyard & Electric PYI Inc. Simplex Americas LLC Thordon Bearings Inc W&O Supply

Storage/Cold Storage Aleutians East Borough Bekina Boots Bonar Plastics Brand of Snyder Industries ConGlobal Industries Lynden Inc North Pacific Fuel North Star Ice Equipment Pacific Marine Center Pacific West Refrigeration Pac-Van Inc Port of Seattle – Fishing and Commercial Operations Teknotherm Refrigeration

Surveyors ABS Alaska Maritime Documentation DNV GL RINA USA Inc

Tanks Environmental Marine Inc Little Hoquiam Shipyard Modutech Marine Inc Pac-Van Inc Rogers Machinery Company, Inc. S & W Wilson Inc Saeplast Americas Inc.

Tools

Longsoaker Fishing Systems

Aurand Manufacturing & Equipment Co Ballard Industrial Discount Hydraulic Hose.com Dr. Diesel Technologies Dustless Blasting ElectricalHub.com Millner-Haufen Tool Company PAC Stainless Ltd TorcUP NW

Trawl Doors

Training & Education Alaska Marine Safety Education Assn Alaska Sea Grant College Program Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute Center of Excellence for Marine Manufacturing and Technology Clatsop Community College/ MERTS Campus Fishermen’s News Governor Control Systems, Inc. Great Lakes Maritime Academy Maine Maritime Academy NIOSH Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding Pacific Lutheran University Continuing Education Pacific Maritime Magazine Philips Publishing Group RINA USA Inc Seattle Maritime Academy Summit Training Resources Maritime Institute University of Alaska Southeast USCG District 13 Seattle Washington Sea Grant Western Mariner Magazine

Transmissions Altra Industrial Motion Corp Harbor Marine Maintenance Karl Senner, LLC. Logan Clutch Corporation MER Equipment, Inc. Pacific Power Group Palmer Johnson Power Systems Tacoma Diesel and Equipment Inc Twin Disc Inc. ZF Marine

Transportation Alaska Central Express Aleutians East Borough Coastal Transportation Cordova Port & Harbor DSV Air & Sea Inc Everts Air Cargo Green Worldwide Shipping, LLC HOSTAR Marine Transport Systems JT Marine Inc Lynden Inc Maine Maritime Academy Northern Air Cargo Ryan Air Transport Systems and Products Inc

Trap & Trap Stock

NET Systems Inc North American Fishing Supplies Thyboron Trawldoor

Trolling Equipment Electric Fishing Reel Systems, Inc. Kolstrand by InMac Pacific Net & Twine Ltd Williamson & Associates

Turbochargers ABB Inc West Coast Insulation

Underlayments Dex-O-Tex Marine by Crossfield Products Corp Underwater Acoustic Fishing Equipment Mackay Marine - Div. of Mackay Communications, Inc. Olex AS Simrad Fisheries

Underwater Videos Deep Trekker Inc. Enviro-Tech Diving Inc Ocean Systems Williamson & Associates

Valves & Fittings AMOT Controls Corp ARG/Pacific Rubber Inc Ballard Industrial Eltorque AS ERIKS Fluid Design Products Hydrasearch Company Kaman Fluid Power/ Western Fluid Components Klinger IGI Motion & Flow Control Products, Inc. PAC Stainless Ltd Puget Sound Pipe & Supply Pump Industries Inc Spears Manufacturing Company Spencer Fluid Power TRIM-LOK, INC. Viega W&O Supply Wager Company

Ventilation Systems Dometic

Vessel Management ABS Alaska Chadux Corporation Auto-Maskin LLC Eco Star Collaborative ioCurrents Marine Exchange of Puget Sound NCP Coatings Inc. Network Innovations Oregon International Port of Coos Bay Stabbert Marine & Industrial LLC

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EXPO PRODUCT LISTINGS

Vibration Analysis Glosten Rexnord Centa

Cheyenne Scale Company Marel

Welding

Vibration Control Christie & Grey Inc Discount Hydraulic Hose.com Driveline Service of Portland Inc Drivelines NW Governor Control Systems, Inc. TRIM-LOK, INC. Wilkes & McLean, Ltd

Watermakers AMC-Cliffvâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cascade Machinery & Electric Case Marine Dometic Fisheries Supply Company Harbor Marine Maintenance S3 Maritime LLC. Technical Marine & Industrial, LLC Watermakers Inc

Weather Instruments

Arrow Marine Services Bay Weld Boats CETS LLC Farwest Steel Corp Giddings Boat Works Industrial Resources Inc Kami Tech Inc. Lee Shore Boats Inc Little Hoquiam Shipyard Mare Island Dry Dock Miller-Leaman, Inc. Modutech Marine Inc National Marine Exhaust Inc Platypus Marine, Inc. Seaspan Shipyards Snow & Company Strongback Metal Boats Vigor

Winches & Windlasses

Globalstar Maretron

Baier Marine Company IBERCISA

Weighing Equipment

Kinematics Marine Equipment Inc

Laclede Chain Manufacturing Company MacGregor Rapp Maximum Performance Hydraulics Praxair Distribution Inc Ships Machinery International Inc

Windows AdvanTec Marine AJR Marine Windows Inc Bomar/Pompanette LLC FabTek Industries

Marine & Construction Supplies, LLC Motion Windows Sears Home Improvement Products Inc.

Windshield Wipers & Blades

Work Boats Alaska Chadux Corporation All American Marine Allied Marine Crane Armstrong Marine USA AST Americas Boats & Harbors Coastwise Corporation Discount Hydraulic Hose.com Giddings Boat Works Kodiak Shipyard and Harbors Lee Shore Boats Inc Little Hoquiam Shipyard Mavrik Marine Modutech Marine Inc Palfinger Marine PFI Marine Electric Rozema Boat Works Inc Snow & Company Stabbert Marine & Industrial LLC Strongback Metal Boats Thordon Bearings Inc Western Mariner Magazine

Imtra Corp Marine & Construction Supplies, LLC

Wire Ropes Greenline Fishing Gear A/S ITSASKORDA

Kolstrand by InMac

Branom Instrument Co.

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The science is clear and the people have spoken. Pebble Mine will devastate Bristol Bay’s people and salmon industry. Yet our elected leaders have stood by in silence.

Our elected leaders have the power to stop this corrupted process. Senators Murkowski and Sullivan must get oﬀ the sidelines.

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F/V PHONE HOME Satphones, apps, text-only and emergency options expand for fishermen in an increasingly connected world By Paul Molyneaux

or most fishermen, calling home is essential. For decades fishermen used VHF to call a marine operator who would patch them into a phone line. By the late 1990s cell phones made that service obsolete for nearshore fisheries. And for fishermen in remote and distant waters, satellites have become the link to home. A number of companies, including Inmarsat, Iridium, Globalstar, Thuraya and Garmin, are using a variety of satellite constellations and offering a wide range of equipment and service plans from low-priced text-only systems to satellite smartphones. Many small-boat fishermen, from Bristol Bay to the Gulf of Maine, are choosing the Garmin inReach technology. “It’s great! I love it,” says Tora Johnson, whose husband, Chris Mullen, spends every

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summer gillnetting sockeye in Bristol Bay. “It sends texts and location via satellite. It has emergency contacts and an SOS feature.” Johnson uses inReach to communicate almost daily with her husband when he is out of cell phone range. “This season was tough. Chris was getting nervous because the fish were so late. I’m here at command central with internet, and it’s easy for me to monitor the sentinel fishery and what scientists are saying.” Johnson kept in touch with biologists at the Port Moller test fishery and as a scientist herself, studied the graphs and data. “I had to talk Chris down off the ledge all summer. ‘The fish are coming,’ I’d tell him, and he would communicate with other boats in his little group and let them know. This is our second season with inReach, and it’s been a game changer.” Garmin makes a few different devices

that connect with the Iridium low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation. Iridium has 66 satellites orbiting the earth every 70 to 90 minutes at altitudes of 400 to 700 miles. Because the satellites can hand off calls as they pass out of range of a phone, Iridium claims it can deliver seamless coverage anywhere in the world. According to Natalie Miller, Garmin’s media relations specialist, the company offers several devices, including the mini (which weighs only 3.5 ounces) and the Explorer. “But fishermen might be especially interested in our new inReach mini marine bundle, or the explorer with the nautical map download.” According to Miller, prices for monthly plans can go as low as $12 per month. “That gives you 10 messages a month, and you can preset messages so you only have to hit one button.” A query on Facebook’s Commercial www.nationalfisherman.com

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Fishermen Only page yielded overwhelming endorsement of inReach for value and reliability. But some fishermen need more than text messaging capacity. For them, the options include Globalstar, Inmarsat and Iridium satellite phones. Thuraya, a company based in the United Arab Emirates, offers some great products and services — including hybrid devices that can switch from GSM to satellite sim cards — that are not yet available in North America. Iridium, which owns the 66-satellite constellation that inReach uses, has its own satellite communications options, including the Iridium Go!, and options available using its Certus broadband system with equipment built by Cobham,Thales and Intellian. “It’s the only global LEO satellite constellation that offers coverage worldwide, even in the polar regions,” says Jordan Hassin, communications and PR director at Iridium. “It’s like having a cell phone tower in the sky.” According to Hassin, signals transmit from the user’s terminal and from satellite to satellite to a ground station connected to land-based communications systems. “But if both users have Iridium phones, that signal never touches the ground, it goes directly between the satellites and the phones.” Iridium offers its original Iridium constellation technology like the Iridium Go!, which is a small, handheld hotspot that can connect to up to five users smartphone for voice calls, emails, text messaging, as well as To subscribe, call 1-800-959-5073

downloading weather files. However, for larger fishing vessels, Iridium Certus offers a more complete range of communications capabilities through small form-factor antennas and terminals that offer speeds up to 704 kbps. “These can provide primary ship comms and crew welfare services, including voice, data, internet, SMS, use of apps like WhatsApp and more,” says Hassin. For ship owners seeking additional safety measures, Iridium now has GMDSS (Global Maritime Distress and Safety System). “Historically, smaller vessels not mandated to carry GMDSS equipment would find it cost prohibitive to have the additional safety of life functionality onboard,” says Hassin. “But Iridium has changed that with our partner Lars Thrane.” According to Hassin, Lars Thrane has built a new satphone terminal that includes a GMDSS distress button at no additional cost. “You literally push a red button, and it connects you to emergency responders. Just about any size vessel has to have a voice and text communications, why not get the one

that includes the GMDSS, a feature that could save your life?” Globalstar, another American satellite communications company, is based in New Orleans and operates an LEO satellite constellation for satellite phone and low-speed data communications. Globalstar’s second-generation constellation consists of 24 satellites that primarily provide connections for two devices, the Spot, a small personal safety device similar to the inReach mini, and a voice satphone, the Qualcomm GSP-1700, which resembles an early cell phone with its antenna and small screen. The Spot, at around $150 with an annual airtime fee of about the same amount, is a low-cost safety device for fishermen operating outside cell phone range. It is a GPS tracking device that can send an SOS or

Iridium is the only satellite company to offer global coverage for large and small boats. The Iridium Go! can provide voice and text communications for up to five phones.

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Globalstar’s GSP 1700 can make calls from device to device without using terrestrial systems.

pre-programmed check-in messages. With the Globalstar GSP 1700 phone, calls can go from the phone to a satellite, to

a gateway, and then back to a satellite that sends the call to a receiving phone without using terrestrial systems. Annual plans range from $960 to $2,400 for unlimited calls. While prices for text-only devices can be pocket change, voice calling plans generally cost between 80 cents to $1.50 per minute. Globalstar comes in on the low end here, according to an online review of satphones, with its mid-range plan costing customers 50 cents per minute. Inmarsat has long been a big name in satellite communication. While the company is focused on it Fleet Express broadband systems, it offers its own sat phones, particularly the IsatPhone 2. Unlike the LEO satellite constellations, Inmarsat’s system relies on geo-stationary satellites that are much higher altitude. Currently, Inmarsat owns and operates 13 satellites in geostationary orbit 22,236 miles above the Earth, and provides global broadband voice and data communications over

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environment, and boasts fast network registration and long battery life with 8 hours’ talk time and up to 160 hours on standby. Inmarsat’s website touts the salient features of its IsatPhone2, among them voicemail, text and email messaging; an assistance button that send GPS location; tracking; texts to preset emergency numbers, and 45-second satellite registration. “We stock the IsatPhone,” says Harold Whittlesy, owner of Satellite Technical Services in Seattle. “It has good price points, and is a reasonable choice if you know where you are going to be using it. Because they use geostationary satellites if you have to see it.You need good southern exposure. If a consumer knows where they plan to use it, and they’re sure they won’t be going to Alaska or Greenland, it’s a good option.” One product Whittlesy is enthusiastic about is the Zoleo Satellite Communicator, a short-burst data device similar to the Garmin inReach. “Zoleo crushes the competition,” says Whittlesy. “It’s cheaper, it has better utility, better service — I could go on all day.” According to Ron Wright, western U.S. sales manager for Zoleo, the company’s satellite communicator has a number of desirable features, including the capacity to switch from satellites to cell towers when possible, saving user data. “You download the app on your phone, and it connects to the communicator,” says

Wright. “You get a dedicated U.S. phone number and an @zoleo.com email address. Anyone can download the app and communicate with the person who has the unit, though this can cost data.” According to Wright, users texting from app to app can send messages up to 950 characters. “The lowest price plan costs $25 a month for 25 messages. The unlimited it $50 a month.” Like other devices, the Zoleo has an SOS button. “Once you hit that, all your messages

are carbon copied to GEOS, the response service ambassador for low bandwidth devices.” Prices for satellite connectivity are going down, as Whittlesy at STS points out. “The market is changing,” he says. “It’s becoming more consumer oriented and giving more people access to satellite communications.” Paul Molyneaux is the Boats & Gear editor for National fisherman and the author of “The Doryman’s Reflection.”

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Smith Island yard repairs Crockett-built deadrise; Virginia railway runs maintenance on wooden boats

The 42-foot crab and oyster boat Miss Lynette had six bottom planks replaced at Smith Island Drydock at Rhodes Point, Md.

mith Island Drydock at Rhodes Point, Md., is a boatyard that’s off the beaten trail but located in the very heart of the Chesapeake Bay commercial fishing region. Smith Island is 10 miles from Crisfield, out in the bay with but a ferry and boats to connect the two. The men of Smith Island traditionally make their living commercial fishing in the bay and Tangier Sound. Chris Marshall’s boatyard at Rhodes Point is in a prime location for the business of repairing and maintaining workboats. The yard stays busy! The most recent repair delivery was the wooden 42' x 12.5' deadrise workboat named the Miss Lynette, built in 1988 by the late Bobby Crockett of Tangier Island. Miss Lynette is owned by Smith Island waterman Olden Bradshaw, who uses his boat to crab in the spring and summer and to dredge oysters in fall and winter months. The boat was hauled for a paint job and routine maintenance in August but ended up on the hard for two weeks as six bottom planks had to be replaced with 2-inch-thick fir boards. Crockett built deadrise workboats on Tangier Island in 1970s, ’80s and ’90s. His boats are noted for having pretty lines. In

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a 1989 NF interview Crockett said he had been crabbing in the summer and working on an oyster dredge boat in the winter when he decided he’d rather try his hand at boatbuilding. Crockett went to Deltaville, Va., to learn the trade and worked for a week with the renowned deadrise boatbuilder, the late Grover Lee Owens. “He taught me as much in a week as it would have taken me a year to learn on my own,” said Crockett.

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The 64-year-old pound net boat Miss Dottie at Reedville (Va.) Marine Railway.

Owens started out as a cabinetmaker and switched careers to building boats. He built some of the prettiest wooden deadrise boats on Chesapeake Bay, and Crockett’s boats are similar. The yard also recently completed a fuel tank repair job on a fiberglass Parker 25. “We drained the fuel tank and removed it,” says Marshall. “We flushed the tank with soapy water, sanded the stainless steel 60-gallon tank to bright metal, and applied two layers of fiberglass matt and gel-coated to the outside of the tank.” The deck was cut open to remove and repair the tank. “After the tank was repaired and installed, we repaired the deck and gave it a fresh coat of gel-coat,” says Marshall. The Parker 25 is owned by Jamie Taylor of Frenchtown, Md., who uses the boat in his pile-driving business. Moving across the bay, Stan O’Bier had the 44' x 12' x 3.6' wooden deck boat Miss Dottie at Reedville Marine Railway in Reedville, Va., for annual maintenance and painting in August for C.W. O’Bier & Sons, T/A Pride of Virginia Seafood of Callao. The 64-year-old Miss Dottie was built in 1956 by the late Charles Herbert Rice on Cockrell Creek just a short distance from the Reedville railway and the fish house where the boat is moored today. Pride of Virginia Seafood sells crab, lobster and eel pot bait to commercial fishermen and chum to recreational fishermen. Miss Dottie is used to catch baitfish from pound nets in Chesapeake Bay. “Since she was built she has worked in the bay’s pound net fishery,” says O’Bier. “She started out as an open trap boat and was later decked over to what she is today.” Ed Rice of Reedville, whose father built the boat, says Miss Dottie was first built for E. Barlette “Spider” Haynie to fish pound nets. “Make sure to use the nickname Spider because no one around here knew him by anything else,” says Rice. Miss Dottie was named for Spider’s daughter, Dorothy Haynie. Rice says Haynie sold the boat to Reedville Oil and Guano, which is known today as Omega Protein. The firm rebuilt the boat into a deck boat with the pilothouse aft at its boatbuilding yard at Mundy Point. Continued on page 59 www.nationalfisherman.com

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Oregon yard still fixing crabber after Coos Bay crash; Alaska boatbuilder offers alternative to monohull By Michael Crowley

t’s been 14 years, but if you watched Season 2 of the “Deadliest Catch,” you might still recognize the Aleutian Ballad that was at Giddings Boatworks in Coos Bay, Ore., this September. Only today she’s not the Bering Sea crabber she was on the show. The Aleutian Ballad, operating out of Ketchikan, Alaska, has her deck fi lled not with crab pots when she leaves the dock, but with people. The former crabber is now a tour boat with ex-Bering Sea fi shermen as crew, telling up to 150 guests in stadium seating on the main deck what life on a 110-foot fi shing boat is like and showing them how to set and retrieve longline gear and crab pots, all in a three-hour tour that includes some favorite eagle sites. They call it the Bering Sea Crab Fisherman’s Tour. The Aleutian Ballad was at Giddings for a new bow thruster, two Fernstrum keel coolers to replace skeg coolers, a new fi re protection system, new hull plating, sand blasting 90 percent of the hull and

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painting. A much smaller crabber and blackcod boat, the 50-foot Ginny G was also in to be blasted and painted. Some hatches need repairing, as does the bow’s anchor roller. The 45-foot crabber Darean Rose has

the hammer but a crack had developed in the glass and he smashed it with his fi st until the glass broke. “They were taking their last breaths of air,” he remembered, before pulling the three men out of wheelhouse. Then they sat together on the bow. John Schumacher at Distinctive Finishes in Haines, Alaska, sent two Snowballs out of his shop last June. One was a 40-foot gillnetter that was repowered, had the deck replaced and new fi sh holds added; the other was a 28-foot sternpicker that got three new fi sh holds. Other than a

At Distinctive Finishes this 30-foot catamaran is in the beginning stages of being turned into a 33-foot salmon troller powered by a pair of 250-hp Tohatsu outboards.

been at Giddings Boatworks for almost a year. She was sponsoned 2 feet 6 inches on each side, giving her a 19-foot beam. In early September, the yard crew was installing all new mechanical and electronic systems to replace what was destroyed in what will undoubtedly be a story told for a long time around the docks of Coos Bay and the Pacific Northwest. The story started the afternoon of Dec. 26, 2019, when the Darean Rose, loaded with crab pots, hit a sand bar off a fuel dock and turned on its side, as she was heading out to set the fi rst pots of the season. Curtis Green, operations manager of the fuel dock, saw the wheelhouse was full of water and inside were three people “beating on the glass,” according to The World, a local newspaper. “They couldn’t get out because the crab pots blocked the back door,” Green told the paper. Then Green, hammer in hand, jumped in the water and swam to the boat. As he beat on the wheelhouse glass, Green could “see the whites of their eyes.” Then he lost

39' 11" gillnetter that was in to be painted, work ceased once the salmon season started. Salmon season ends Oct. 1, and then Distinctive Finishes might have a salmon boat in for a new engine, some tearing apart and a new cabin. That seasonal lull in the boatbuilding business is not uncommon, but Schumacher has an income-generating idea for fi lling the void, which currently happens to be on his shop floor. That would be a fiberglass catamaran he is turning it into a troller for himself. “When not busy I can be out trolling and making money catching salmon,” he says. That’s one possibility. The other is using the catamaran as a working platform that would take him to a boat that needs repairing during the fi shing season. “Pull up to a boat and have everything ready to go.” Additionally, by his use of the catamaran as a troller, he hopes to start fi shermen thinking that maybe a catamaran would work for them, and with the hull molds in Continued on page 59 December 2020 \ National Fisherman 57

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Marine patrol boat will replace one that burned; Downeast boatyard finishing off Canadian hull By Michael Crowley

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The 36-foot Robin Lyn was hauled at Farrin’s Boatshop to be repowered and overhauled.

arrin’s Boatshop in Walpole, Maine, recently rebuilt two older Maine lobster boats. One was the Trudy Lee, a 34-foot Calvin that Farrin’s Boatshop built 14 years ago for a lobsterman in South Bristol. The other was the Robin Lyn, a 36-foot H&H out of Boothbay. The Trudy Lee came in with a 375-hp John Deere that Farrin’s Boatshop pulled out and replaced with a 500-hp Cummins 8.3. All the hydraulics were gone over, the wiring was updated, new windows put in the wheelhouse, some decking was replaced near the lazarette, and a 30-inch trap rack went on the transom. Overall, the Trudy Lee “was in good shape, mostly,” says Farrin’s Boatshop’s Bruce Farrin. Though after 14 years there was UV damage, so the hull was gelcoated and painted. The boat’s owner was originally thinking about having a new boat built. “But the way times are,” says Farrin, “he decided to fi x the old one up and have better resale value when things straighten out.” The 36-foot Robin Lyn was also repowered with a new Cummins; only this was a 450-hp, 9-liter engine that replaced a 400-hp Cummins. The marine gear was rebuilt at Billings Diesel in Stonington,

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while Farrin’s Boatshop replaced the shaft and prop, upgraded the hydraulics, and rebuilt the below-deck lobster tanks, as well as much of the cockpit deck. The hull and house were repainted. Both the Trudy Lee and the Robin Lyn left in mid-July. Farrin’s Boatshop started building a boat at the end of August that Maine fi shermen might encounter now and then. It’s a marine patrol boat for the Maine Department of Marine Resources. Based on a 42 Calvin hull, the patrol boat is a replacement for

the 35-foot Monitor that caught fi re on Feb. 24 while at the Department of Marine Resources’ dock in Boothbay Harbor. At the time it was reported that the fi re seemed to have been caused by an electrical failure. An 800-hp MAN will power the boat. For marine patrol work, there will be a 17-inch hydraulic pot hauler and a winch to pull a 14-foot infl atable boat on deck through the open transom. Accommodations will be for four officers. Farrin expects the patrol boat to be completed in late spring or early summer. However, and this might affect more than just the Maine Marine Patrol. “We may have to make some substitutions down the road” for marine hardware, Farrin says. A lot of people are still on unemployment, thus marine hardware companies may not have the staff to manufacture requested equipment. Sargents Custom Boats in Milbridge, Maine, began finishing off a Canadian hull for a Vinalhaven, Maine, lobsterman at the end of August. It’s a 45 Dixon out of Lower Woods Harbor, Nova Scotia. It’s the second Dixon hull Sargents will have completed. Sargents is adding its own custom split wheelhouse to the Dixon hull. It won’t be pushed as far forward as the standard Dixon house and will “look more like a Downeast-style house,” says Sargents Custom Boats’ Joe Sargent. Back aft will be an open transom with a 4-foot aluminum

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“Reedville Oil used her to work pound nets,” says Rice. “I do not think she has ever worked in another fishery.” O’Bier says the boat has been in his family for many years. His great-uncle owned it for a while, and O’Bier bought the boat from his father-in-law. “It has trickled down through the generations to me,” he says. George Butler, owner of Reedville Marine Railway, says Miss Dottie is an example of what he used to see all the time at the railway — “annual arrival of the same boats coming back year after year.” “The Miss Dottie has been coming here for years,” says Butler. “When we see a wooden boat up on the rails every year we can locate small problems before they become major problems. “She has not come here every year, but she has been coming here fairly regularly since she was built in 1956. She has lived most of her life right here on Cockrell Creek,” says Butler.

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Haines, a new hull would not be a problem. “It would be great for crabbing,” says Schumacher, with plenty of room on the back deck for a crabber or shrimper to hold pots. Schumacher is in the process of lengthening the boat from 30 to 33 feet by adding to the stern. The back deck will be rebuilt, and up forward he’s adding a trunk cabin and gutting the interior. So it will accommodate bunks for two or three, a galley, head and a shower. A pair of 250-hp Tohatsu outboards will be on aluminum outboard brackets with a 15-hp “kicker” in between. The 250s should get the catamaran up 48 knots. “They’ll get you to the grounds fast and then you can troll all day with the 15 horsepower. You’ll probably use about 3 gallons a day just trolling.” Schumacher says he has talked to “some commercial guys about (the catamaran) for crabbing, and they said it would be an excellent way to fi sh.” To subscribe, call 1-800-959-5073

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Tough new trap gear Grundéns’ Ironclad stands up to a thrashing By Brian Hagenbuch couple years ago at Pacific Marine Expo in Seattle, representatives for Grundéns were having a good time showing off their new SuperFabric, a ceramic polymer coated polyester layer that would hold up to vigorous slashing from a serrated Victorinox. Back then, they had put sheaths of SuperFabric over wear areas on their popular nylon Weather Watch gear for a new line they called Super Watch. They thought the lightweight and breathable yet durable gear would be a hit with trap fishermen. But they ran into a hitch. “It just wasn’t executed properly,” said Grundéns representative Cory Lowe. Lowe explained that the SuperFabric did not bond properly to the base layer, and

the gear had a tendency to leak. Fast forward two years and Grundéns had revamped their Weather Watch to the new, beefier FullShare. They tried again with the SuperFabric, this time adding it over the FullShare, to create the new Ironclad line, getting it right this time. “We feel very confident in the Ironclad. It’s much better executed with much better material and overall it’s just a very solid piece,” Lowe said. The base layer is burlier, too — made of thicker nylon with a film laminate and Teflon. And the SuperFabric guard plates are as bombproof as ever. “It’s really abrasion resistant and hard to cut.You can drag a thousand lobster traps across the front of it, and won’t get a single hole in

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Sockeye for baby teeth Native tradition inspires Bambino’s new Alaska Sockeye Salmon Strips By Brian Hagenbuch nchorage, Alaska-based Bambino’s Baby Food drew on Native tradition to produce its new Alaska Sockeye Salmon Strips, which are designed to soothe pain from teething while providing high levels of omega-3 fatty acids and vitamins like A, B-12, D and E. “I’m honored to share Alaska Native traditions with families across the U.S. with our wild-caught, omega-rich sustainable Alaskan Sockeye Salmon Strips that promote brain function, soothe gums while teething, and provide a fun, healthy anytime snack,” said Zoi Maroudas, president and founder of Bambino’s Baby Food. Maroudas, who was born in Greece, added that the fish strips are also inspired by the heart healthy Mediterranean diet.

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BOATS FOR SALE 21’ BOSTON WHALER 21’ Boston Whaler Outrage - includes boat, motor + trailer 150 mariner trailer workboat - solid workboat, no seats, 92 motor, 87 trailer, 77 boat.

Price: Asking $3,000 Contact: Call Bob 631-672-5327

43’ CHESAPEAKE BAY - 1973 Build (1973) wood- Port Haywood, VA. “Margaret-Mary” documented. “Fishery”. Draft 5” – Net tons 13-17 GRTPower – Detroit, V8-71 235 HP, F.W.C., 2 ½ to Trans: 2” 5/5 shaft – 4 blade brass, enclosed head. Tow-Bir 6’ 5.5. open stern aluminum Tower Hydraulic – steer Diesel fuel tanks-100 gal-each (200.) Windlass/Bow 12 knots – 8 GAL/ HR. Strong. Multi-use – Year 1991-2015, on hard restoration, fish plates. New “oak” keel – end – cutlass- skeg keel shoe. Rudder assembly rebuilt. R/E tow boat. Fishing Parties. Cruise. Mooring details. Recreational. Search and rescue. Needs Navigational electronics, Buzzards Bay, MA. Price: $68,000 Contact: Earl 508-994-3575

50’ LEDFORD SEINER 50’ Ledford Seiner Includes power skiff, 2 salmon seines and many extras. Complete turn key operation, step on and go fishing.

Price: Asking $800,000 Contact: Call Hugh 651-253-4344 hlwisner@yahoo.com.

LE BLANC CRAB / LONGLINER LL-288 1999 Le Blanc Crab / Longliner Hull Material: Fiberglass Dimensions: Length: 44.11’ Beam: 18.7’ Draft: 6’ Capacity : Fuel: 2,000 Gal. / Water: 700 Gal. / Speed: 10 Knots Gross Ton: / Net Ton: 30 / Hold: 10 K Live Machinery : Engine: 3406 CAT / Gear: TD 2 to 1 TD RSW 5 Ton System - Sleeps 3 / AC Unit / Pull Master H 14 Winch / Rope Hauler / F/Deep Water Trap Fishing. Price: $217,000 Contact: Call John 321-784-5982 62 National Fisherman \ December 2020

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BOATS FOR SALE 1984 36’ TIFFANY YACHT ONE OFF CUSTOM BUILD 15’ beam, completely refurbished in 2007 from the keel up. New plumbing, wiring, engines, electronics. Re-fiberglassed hull, New teak coverboards and cockpit, Two air conditioners/heat pumps, Power assisted hynautic steering, Too many extras to list. Call for details. Price: Please call for price. Contact: Bob 804-450-4480

55’ GILLNETTER Cat 3406 with a twin Disc 514 4.5 to 1 ratio. Recently rebuilt motor and transmission. Not many hours since rebuild.

Price: $85,000 Contact: Brian 781-724-4960

2005 NORTHERN BAY 650 Volvo D 12, ZF gear, Island berth galley down,Closed head, separate shower, two steering stations, Split Wheelhouse, stainless pot hauler, On demand hydraulic system, Interior is mahogany, 12 swivel rod holders, live well, 4 man life raft, EPIRB 3000 watt inverter

Price: $375,000 Contact: Call Shaun 617-694-7454

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Tradition Mariner LLC is looking for qualified Mates and Chief Engineers to serve aboard their fleet of 1000 ton to 1400 ton capacity High Seas Tuna Vessels for extended voyages at sea. For more information, please visit our website:

www.traditionmariner.com Seeking potential US Licensed Chief Engineers and Mates That have experience operating and maintaining large scale tuna purse seiners operating in the South Pacific. Carrying capacity of the vessel is 1600MT of Tuna and trip lengths vary from 30 to 60 days. Contract is on a trip by trip basis.

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**LOOKING FOR A USCG LICENSED CHIEF ENGINEER** For an uninspected fishing vessel, a Tuna Purse Seine operation with 4000HP and 1500 MT Cargo Capacity. Must hold a current USCG Engineerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s License, have a minimum 3 years experience with this type of operation. This Full Time position operating out of American Samoa and several other Western Pacific Ports and Requires experience and working knowledge of EMD and CAT engines, R717 Refrigeration / Freezing system, Hydraulic Systems, etc.Please submit Resume and license info to PPFisheries@gmail.com

HOW TO PLACE A CLASSIFIED AD? South Pacific Tuna Corporation is currently seeking qualified and experienced individuals for the following positions aboard a Class Six purse seine fishing vessel: MASTER CHIEF ENGINEER CHIEF MATE For details, please refer to our webiste www.sopactuna.com or contact: Robert Virissimo bobbyv@sopactuna.com

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F/V HAYLEY ANN SEABAG

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Includes shipping 14” h x 6” w x 18” l All proceeds will support MFCA on Honor Capt Joe Nickerson and his crew that perished at sea while fishing on the F/V Hayley Ann. Joey’s daughter, Hayley designed these bags to honor her father’s legacy.

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TWIN DISC MARINE TRANSMISSIONS, CATERPILLAR & CUMMINS ENGINES & PARTS. New and rebuilt, Biggest selection of used ENG & Gear parts in the world. Worldwide shipping. Best pricing. Call Steve at Marine Engine & Gear 781-837-5424 or email at twindiscgears@verizon.net

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Commercial Fishing Gloves Oysters, Clams, Lobster and Crab Regular and insulated Lining Sizes S-XL 12”-26” Long Washer Dryer Safe, Waterproof 100% Nitrile Synthetic Rubber Cut Resistant with Non-Slip Grip Cheaper By the Dozen, Dealers Wanted

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FOR SALE 1997 Volvo TAMD72 430 HP 6,912 hrs Oil change every 100 hrs since 2003 Repowering no reverse gear Available @ Billings Diesel Stonington ME

MARINE GENERATORS Save Fuel Run Cooler Last Longer

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(New) SpinClearView S-300 Commercial grade marine clear view 12V window. Used on yachts, fishing, police, military, commercial vessels. The SpinClearView S-300 keeps a glass disk free of rain, snow and sea water by a nearly silent and fast rotation of 1500 rpm. $1,795.00 view more on tinyurl.com/ycob7ruh Cell/Tx: 707-322-9720 or Contact: david@satinbiz.com

These lifelike, beautifully detailed coarse bristled mats will catch any-one’s eye on home/business doorstep, dock or cockpit. Ideal for fisherman, • Fluke (brown, black) small (30”) $19.95 Large (43”) $36.95 • Stripers (38” grey, black) $27.95

• Red snappers (43” red, black) $28.95

• Largemouth bass (43” green, black) $29.95 • Scallop (24” brown, black) $27.95

• Blue Claw Crab (blue, black) $36.95. Send check or MO to A. Mc-Donald, 629 Main St. Greenport, NY. 11944 - MC or Visa accepted - Add $5.95 S&H to all orders - $10.95 Gulf/West Coast, AK, HI Retailers welcome.

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SERVICES Wanted To Buy. Offshore Live Lobsters. Top Dollar $$ Paid. Call Pier 7 (located on Gloucester waterfront)

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Shooting seals and sea lions is against the law. Shooting a seal or sea lion may result in: • • • • •

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ADVERTISER INDEX Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute .................CV3

Marine Hydraulic Engineering Co Inc ..................32

Boatswain’s Locker Inc ..........................................3

Marine Medical Systems ......................................59

Bostrom, H.O. Co Inc ...........................................17

Marport Americas Inc ........................................CV2

Duramax Marine LLC ...........................................15

Motor-Services Hugo Stamp Inc .........................41

Eastern Shipbuilding Group ...................................5

National Fisherman ..............................................31

FPT Industrial .........................................................7

Naust Marine USA Inc ............................................9

Fraser Bronze Foundry Inc ..................................17

NET Systems Inc ..................................................28

Furuno USA .......................................................CV4

Oceanmax .............................................................25

H & H Marine Inc...................................................59

Pacific Marine Expo ................................. 34+35,50

Imtra Corp .............................................................30

Fishermen’s Terminal............................................55

KEMEL USA Inc ....................................................32

Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-Op .....................23

Klassen Diesel Sales Ltd. .....................................19

PYI Inc ...................................................................23

Kodiak Shipyard ...................................................24

R W Fernstrum & Company ...................................9

Kongsberg Maritime Inc., dba Simrad Fisheries

SW Boatworks ......................................................59

North America.......................................................11

TWG Canada - LANTEC & Pullmaster Brands ....19

KVH Industries Inc ................................................29

United Tribes of Bristol Bay .................................51

La Conner Maritime Service ................................54

Walker Engineering Enterprises...........................10

Lignum-Vitae Bearings .........................................28

Westec Equipment Int Ltd ...................................54

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NEW BEDFORD, MASS. Lifelong fisherman Luis P. Fidalgo from the F/V Hustler out of New Bedford dumps baskets of hake into the takeout tank at Bergieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Seafood. Photo by Phil Mello

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