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14 THE GOLDEN HOUR Surviving at-sea injuries requires preparedness, good neighbors and a little luck on your side.
16 ARMED TO THE TEETH Exploring the delicate, dangerous business of hunting, butchering, and selling sharks.
20 BOAT AFTER BOAT Seeing a huge boatbuilding boom, shipworkers are thriving in Tacoma, Wash.
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THE CLEAN-UP CREW Drama unfolds as Cordova begins to recover from the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Cover: A purse seiner starts to haul gear after making a set during the third and final opening of the 2017 Sitka, Alaska, sac roe herring fishery. Adam McKibben photo • www.adammckibben.com
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32 FLYING FOR HERRING A day in the life of a spotter pilot working the skies over Nunavachak Bay.
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n an overcast day in May, I headed down to the last slip at the end of a dock to climb aboard a federally documented 36-footer and take some notes during a Coast Guard Dockside Safety Exam. The marina property was bustling with traffic that morning. A new building that will soon host a restaurant and bar was getting its first deliveries of food and drink from a series of refrigerated trucks. A fleet of John Deeres whipped around the lots, delivering boats fresh out of shrinkwrap. Once splashed, the boats hustled in and out of the harbor to stretch their legs after a long winter’s nap. Our host captain had a full crew onboard. My co-worker and I were joined by two representatives JESSICA HATHAWAY from Garmin, as well as the Coast Guard inspector, Editor in chief a trainee inspector and, of course, the captain, who graciously made sure we were well supplied with coffee and donuts in between answering the Coast Guard’s questions about his safety gear. The checklist for a documented vessel (above the state-registered threshold of 5 net tons) is long, especially for boats transiting or working in cold water. One of the requirements for all boats operating outside of 3 nautical miles is conducting monthly emergency drills with a certified drill conductor. Ideally, this means the captain has taken a Coast Guard-approved drill conductor course. Otherwise, you will need to enlist a crew member or search for a certified witness to sign off your paperwork. The Alaska Marine Safety Education Association offers drill conductor workshops free to commercial fishermen, with courses running year-round. Other organizations offer them for around $200 or less. Find an updated list of West Coast and Alaska fishing organizations on page 34. It never hurts to have more crew trained for efficiency in an emergency.They say baseball is a game of inches. Anyone who has worked the deck of a smaller boat can relate. And when you’re on the water, the line between living or not may be determined by seconds, as well. A small investment of your time could pay dividends in years on your life.
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NEWS FROM THE WEST COAST & ALASKA
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Promising forecast another test for Bristol Bay values bright outlook for Alaska’s upcoming salmon season keeps getting better. Markets are looking good, the statewide salmon catch forecast of 204 million is up by a million fish, and the world’s biggest sockeye salmon fishery at Bristol Bay is breaking records for chilling its fish. Last year nearly 40 percent of Alaska’s total salmon value came out of Bristol Bay. When its fish fetch a better paycheck for boosted quality thanks to improved chilling practices and equipment, the lift is felt throughout the salmon industry. “The size of the bay harvest has a big impact on salmon prices elsewhere. Typically, it’s 35 to 40 percent of the global sockeye supply,” said Andy Wink, senior seafood analyst with the
McDowell Group. “When the base price in 2015 was 50 cents at Bristol Bay and they had a large harvest, sockeye prices in other areas fell. And we also saw coho prices come way down. It’s a market-moving fishery, and that is why it affects so many other Alaska fishermen.” The 2016 Bristol Bay harvest of 37 million sockeye salmon from the region’s five river systems was the second largest in 20 years, and both drift and setnet harvesters chilled the largest amount of raw product in the history of the fishery. “This is huge for the retail potential of Bristol Bay,” said Rebecca Martello, Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association executive director. “The fleet is making great strides
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to ensure Bristol Bay is a quality product, and this definitely ties into all aspects of marketing and making Bristol Bay the premium brand we know it to be.” — Laine Welch
When is menhaden like a mortgage? hat do forage fish and real estate have in common? Location, location, location. A new study led by University of Washington fishery science Professor Ray Hilborn reveals some surprising relationships between predator success and prey abundance. The paper, “When does fishing forage species affect their predators?” was published in April in the journal Fisheries Research in response to the 2012 Lenfest Report, which set the recent standard for forage fish management by asserting that an across-the-board reduction in the commercial harvest of forage fish would result in higher numbers of fish species 4
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that prey on them. “It looked reasonable that if you appropriate half of the production of a prey species by a fishery that you can’t support so much production of predators,” said Carl Walters, professor emeritus of the University of British Columbia’s Insti-
tute for the Oceans and Fisheries. “That seemed perfectly reasonable. It was just wrong.” According to this study, prey species follow the real estate principle of investing in prime locations. When forage fish are abundant, the research shows, their population spreads over a wider area, creating smaller subpockets around a core reproduction zone. When they’re in low abundance, they retract to the core region. Successful predators keep their breeding grounds close to that core region, maintaining access to food even in times of low prey biomass. “These animals have evolved together, and top predators have somehow developed some strategies of how to cope with the natural variability of these individuals,” said Ricardo Amoroso, professor
Ore.), aims to “clear up inefficiencies and red tape to allow more effective management of alarming predation levels by California sea lions on Columbia River spring chinook and other species.” The bipartisan bill would allow the Warm Springs, Umatilla, Yakama and Nez Perce tribes to cull sea lions that are decimating endangered salmon runs during their return from the ocean to inland spawning grounds. Currently only the states of Oregon, Washington and Idaho can target sea lions along the river. According to the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, approximately 190 sea lions killed more than 9,500 adult spring king salmon within sight of Bonneville Dam last year — that represents a 5.8 percent loss of the 2016 spring king run in just a quarter mile from the dam. The three states have had federal authorization since 2008 to catch and euthanize California sea lions seen preying on salmon, but this program hasn’t worked well enough, say legislators. The bill would remove the requirement that individual sea lions must be identified as preying on salmon before they can be killed. Sea lion populations have exploded since the passing of the Marine Mammal Protection Act, with the California population rising from about 30,000 animals in 1972 to over 300,000. — Samuel Hill
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here’s a new bill on the table that legislators hope will help fight sea lion predation in the Pacific Northwest. The Endangered Salmon and Fisheries Predation Prevention Act, introduced in April by U.S. Reps. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.) and Kurt Schrader (D-
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slew of industry bills are on the table for Alaska state legislators this spring. Mariculture expansion and getting permits into the hands of young fishermen are the big topics. A pair of bills sponsored by Rep. Dan Ortiz (I-Ketchikan) would give an enormous boost to the state’s shellfish and marine plan harvesters. H.B. 76 would set state funds aside to develop a steady supply of seed for plants and shellfish, none of which exist in-state at the moment. H.B. 128 would allow nonprofits to pursue enhancement and restoration projects involving various shellfish species. “Alaskans have been harvesting shellfish for centuries, but the commercial potential of these fisheries far exceeds current levels,” said Ortiz. Supporters of the bills say Alaska needs to support mariculture as the demand for
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of marine and coastal sciences at Rutgers University. “We see periods of high recruitment and then periods of low recruitment, and it doesn’t seem to be related to the stock abundance but more to environmental conditions.” Food, water temperature, upwelling all cause sardines to fluctuate drastically naturally. Past studies have ignored the natural variation of forage fish populations from year to year. “One of the things we did in this study was to collect together a lot of time series patterns of predator abundances and forage fish abundances, and we just didn’t see the correlation. Nor have other scientists that have looked at this objectively,” Walters said. The Lenfest Report was based on the assumption that bigger numbers of prey beget bigger numbers of predators. As Walters said, it’s a reasonable place to start. It just doesn’t turn out to be entirely true. “Major fluctuations in forage fish abundance have been observed and recorded for centuries,” notes a previous paper by Boersma Pikitich et al. “Forage fish can respond dramatically to shifts in oceanic conditions and may exhibit strong decadal-scale variability.” While we can connect events like El Niño with population booms and busts, we are still not close to accurately predicting the severity of those shifts or their effects on forage species. Nor can we show that reduced fishing effort inherently increases biomass of forage fish. — Jessica Hathaway
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— Rep. Dan Ortiz (I-Ketchikan) Alaska products increases — and that the support could add another billion dollars to the state’s healthy seafood portfolio over the next couple decades. Both have passed in the House and were under review of the Senate at press time. H.B. 188, sponsored by Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins (D-Sitka) would develop a program to help young people launch a career in commercial fishing. With the average age of permit holders hitting 50 and many permits being bought by nonAlaska residents over the past 40 years, the chances of an Alaskan operating his or her own vessel at a young age are slim. This bill would gift up to 2.5 percent of the permits in a state fishery to a regional trust that would lease them for up to six years to young fishermen. “Just as people often rent before buying a house, fisheries trusts offer an opportunity to run a boat and gain experience before making the six-figure decision to finance a permit and become an independent small business owner,” said Kreiss-Tomkins. The United Southeast Alaska Gillnetters is opposed to the bill on the basis that it is being promoted as a community aid. “Adding a handful of regionally-leased limited entry permits will not stimulate a local economy,” the group said in a letter to Alaska Rep. Louise Stutes. The bill, introduced this spring, is not likely be see a vote until next year. — Samuel Hill JULY 2017 / PILOTHOUSE GUIDE
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INDUSTRY WAYPOINTS The United Fishermen of Alaska announced the election of four at-large board members and two new executive committee members in April.
Sue Aspelund
Rhonda Hubbard
The organization is welcoming back Sue Aspelund, a former executive director of Cordova District Fishermen United, who represented that group on the UFA board in the early 2000s, including three years as UFA statewide chair and two years as UFA vice president. Also joining the board is Rhonda Hubbard, who shared the title of UFA Fishermen of the Year in 2014 with her husband, Jim. Hubbard longlines for halibut and blackcod and operates Kruzof Fisheries, a catcher processor distribution company. Zachary Hill joins in the at-large position and will continue his role on the executive committee as UFA
JUNE June 5-13 North Pacific Fishery Management Council Meeting Centennial Hall Convention Center 101 Egan Drive Juneau, AK (907) 272-7411 www.npfmc.org
June 7-14 Pacific Fishery Management Council Meeting DoubleTree by Hilton Spokane City Center 322 N. Spokane Falls Court Spokane, WA (509) 455-9600 www.pcouncil.org
June 19-25 Northwest Herring Week Seattle, WA www.nwherringweek.com
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Bruce Schactler
Zachary Hill
Tyson Fick
Sue Doherty
administrative co-chairman. Hill is a CPA and member of North Pacific Fisheries Association, the Seafood Harvesters of America, and the steering committee for the Alaska Young Fishermen’s Summit. Bruce Schactler, winner of the 2013 UFA Fisherman of the Year award will retain his seat as an at-large board member, which he’s held since 1993 and will continue in his role on the executive committee as UFA Marketing chairman. Other new executive committee members include PR & Membership Chairman Tyson Fick of Alaska Bering Sea Crabbers and Sue Doherty of Southeast Alaska Seiners association.
JULY July 8-9 Ballard SeafoodFest Downtown Ballard, Wash. (206) 784-9705 www.seafoodfest.org
AUGUST Aug. 4-6 Salmonfest Kenai Peninsula Fairgrounds, Ninilchik, Alaska (907) 743-1900 info@salmonfestalaska.org salmonfestalaska.org
SEPTEMBER Sept. 8-10 Santa Rosalia Fishermen’s Festival 1 Custom House Plaza Monterey, CA (831) 625-9623 www.festaitaliamonterey.org
Sept. 12-18 Pacific Fishery Management Council Meeting The Riverside Hotel
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Sept. 23 Fishermen’s Fall Festival Fishermen’s Terminal 1900 W. Nickerson St. Seattle, WA www.fishermensfallfestival.org
OCTOBER Oct. 2-10 North Pacific Fishery Management Council Meeting Anchorage, AK (907) 271-2809 www.npfmc.org
Oct. 7-9 Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival 122 N. Lincoln St. (360) 452-6300 info@crabfestival.org www.crabfestival.org
“The cameramen really had a thrill when hurricane-force winds came through the Bering Sea,” said Shaun Andrew, the boat’s captain. “But I think they were more excited when they saw just how pristine the fish were and how fierce the fishing environment is that we work in.” Launched in January 2013, the
• The Environmental Protection Agency reached a settlement with Westward Seafoods to resolve alleged Clean Air Act violations at its Captain’s Bay seafood processing plant in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Westward Seafoods came forward to EPA and to the state of Alaska after the company discovered that three employees had turned off air pollution controls from 2009 to 2011 and falsified records. Westward Seafoods is required to
install a new electronic monitoring system and will spend $1 million on air pollution reduction. • Chinese President Xi Jinping made a brief refueling stop during a trip to the United States in April and took the time to dine with Gov. Bill Walker, Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute Executive Director Alexa Tonkovich and state officials to discuss the state’s top export to China: seafood. Members of Alaska’s seafood industry hope the meeting will lead Chinese President to increased re- Xi Jinping. source exports to China in the near future. Alaska exported $1.2 billion worth of goods to China in 2016, with 58 percent of exports being seafood. • The Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association is
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to increase sales to millennials and make them regular consumers of wild salmon by focusing on product origin and the story of Alaska’s fisheries. Retail partners realized an 8 to 14 percent increase in sales of Bristol Bay sockeye salmon throughout the three months. • In other Bristol Bay news, Sustaining Bristol Bay Fisheries, a new
advocacy group with the goal of protecting and advocating for commercial fishermen and a sustainable future for Bristol Bay fisheries, began accepting members in March. Director Kristina Andrew can be reached at (907) 8430413 or pristinebristolbay@gmail.com. • The Port of Coos Bay Shipyard purchased a 100-metric-ton travel lift in late January, laying the groundwork to accommodate significantly larger boats in the yard. The lift has the capacity to hoist vessels weighing up to 220,000 pounds out of the water, and move them to areas within the yard for upland storage or repair projects. It was purchased with a $600,000 loan from the Oregon Infrastructure Finance Authority. The yard is home to Giddings Boat Works, Tarheel Aluminum and Skallerud Marine Services, all of which specialize in a variety of repair and fabrication services, and the lift is expected to increase business at all three locations.
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OCTOBER 1985
Jim Youngren’s Do-It-Yourself Hatchery
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very man needs a hobby. In that respect, anyway, Jim Youngren, 45, of Orcas Island is no different that any others. It’s just that his hobby — since 1977 the first and still the only private salmon hatchery in Washington state — is a bit unusual, not to mention controversial. It has been successful enough to open the doors for similar efforts by the private sector and propel its somewhat shy, softspoken creator rather reluctantly into political maelstrom of salmon management. Youngren’s Glenwood Springs Salmon Enhancement Project, located on Orcas Island’s Eastsound Bay, is actually well beyond a gentleman’s hobby. While it is too early to assess this year’s returns, last year more than 3,000 chinook and coho returned to Glenwood to spawn, a return rate well over three percent and better than that experienced by many state hatcheries. In 1982 he donated 200,000 fertile eggs to the state, reportedly the first private hatchery in history to do so. Last year he gave the state more than a million eggs and is hopeful of doing the same this winter. Youngren has also decided to phase out coho and concentrate on chinook; states stocks are dangerously low. Hobbies can be expensive and Glenwood seems to be no exception; to date Youngren, an affluent real estate developer and inveterate sportfisherman, has poured over $300,000 of his own money into the project. ‘It’s really no different than donating to the opera or arts,” he maintains. “I just choose to do this.” Glenwood Springs is named after the original homestead located on the 265-acre Orcas spread. The idea for the hatchery “just sort of evolved,” Youngren explained after he and his wife and three children moved to the property in the midseventies. “The land had been used as a state trout hatchery 30 or 40 years ago.
It’s got three year-round springs, access to saltwater… it’s a beautiful setting.” Before the move to Orcas, Youngren had been involved with various stream enhancement projects east of Seattle. For a project the magnitude of Glenwood, however, he collaborated with good friend and engineer Walt Moller, who spent months on technical drawings for the facility. “We wanted something as close to natural setting as possible. We wanted
to build it strong enough to withstand winter storms and flooding but without the industrial-type pens and concrete. We wanted to do right and we had inspirational partnership,” Youngren remembers. The attention to detail paid off with a successful operation that blossomed from a few hundred thousand eggs in gravel incubation box to five rearing ponds, a huge timber-frame hatchery building and the capacity to produce
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Volunteer labor, local knowledge several million eggs in excess of its be done by either capturing wild chineeds. Nobody said being a maverick nook and spawning them in small, lo- private donations of funds and matewould be easy, however; Youngren’s cal facilities like Glenwood, or using rials-and eventually, Youngren hopes, road to success has been riddled with compatible brood stock if no local fish the sale of a portion of the returning are available. The resulting fry would fish — would help defray operation political potholes. “Raising the fish has been the easy be released in nearby streams and riv- costs in the face of dwindling governpart,” he concedes. “Fifty percent of ers. This would go hand-in-hand with ment aid. The concept is based not only on his own exthe difficulties have been periences but similar political.” In many ways YounIt’s really no different than donating to the endeavors in Alaska. Such a program gren’s struggle to firmly opera or arts… I just choose to do this. would have a huge establish a viable private impact on wild chienhancement program is nook populations just starting. It is only re— Jim Youngren in five or six years, cently that the WashingYoungren believes. ton State Department of Fisheries has given Glenwood its bless- rescuing streams and rivers from poor A couple years ago he brought legislaing and cooperation. About five years logging practices and pollution and tion on such a program in front of the Washington House Natural Resources ago, when state officials realized the then maintaining the spawning beds. “There’s no sense spending millions Committee. The bill was shot down, details of his operation, their reaction was both astonishment and skepticism. of dollars to build bigger hatcheries primarily by the state’s concerns over “They just didn’t know what to do that’ll eventually replace native runs how returning fish would be allocated with hatchery fish. If we start small we among the various Indian tribes. The with me,” an amused Youngren said. Youngren envisions a statewide ef- can begin to unscrew what’s gotten so signing last spring of the U.S. Canada fort to rebuild wild chinook stocks in screwed up in the last 50 years,” he ex- treaty finally turned the tides in his favor, and Youngren’s private enhancePuget Sound and the Strait. This would plains.
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ment cause has gained considerable momentum. “The signing of the treaty alone really set the stage for an aggressive enhancement program,” he said. “There’s no money at the state or federal level yet but the timing is good. The focus now is on research.” About a year ago Youngren joined forces with the Northwest Renewable Resources Center, a non-profit corporation formed in April 1984 as a forum for settling conflicts of management of resources such as salmon, timber and farmland among various user groups. One of the Center’s first, roles was that of intermediary between Washington state and the Indian tribes concerning mutually beneficial fisheries management. The Center will help raise funds for the private enhancement program and eventually help set up a non-profit cooperative board composed of commer-
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FEATURES / FROM
MAY 1991
A Tale of Two Injuries By JOE UPTON
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n July of 1986, Ron Peterson was fishing just north of the mouth of the Ugashik River in Bristol Bay. A surprisingly strong run had developed, and Ugashik was known as the “Combat Zone” as some 600-plus boats tried to get in on the action. When Ron towed on the net, his crew would tilt the power roller to the forward or horizontal position so that the towline wouldn’t hang up on the rollers. “I always told the guys, ‘make damned sure you put those little locking pins back in when you put the rollers back up,’ “ said Peterson, a 25-season Bay veteran. The pins lock the power roller in the vertical position. Somebody forgot. When they were hauling in the net, the wind or the tide canted the boat sideways when they stopped to pick a few fish. They started hauling again, and the corkline caught the tip of the roller at a sharp angle, and the whole power roller assembly flopped forward, striking a crewman on the top of the head and opening up a 5-inch gash right over the soft spot. Instantly the man was down on the deck in a pool of blood. “Blood was pouring out — you know how bad head wounds are,” said Peterson. Fortunately aboard the boat was a Ships Medical Chest, put together by pharmacist Barry Lafferty in Ballard. “I ran for the medical kit and got out all the Gelfoam it had. I’d seen how good the stuff was, so I had six packs of it, more than they usually put in the medical kits for the smaller boats. I usually just overkill on stuff like that.’’ Gelfoam, an Upjohn product, comes in roughly 2-by-3-inch rectangles, in sterile packages, and both absorbs and
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coagulates blood. Developed to stop severe bleeding in all but cut arteries, the wound can actually be stitched up over the foam, which will eventually be absorbed by the body. ‘’I thought he was going to die right there on the back deck before we could get the bleeding stopped… The blood kept pouring out,’’ Peterson said. “Finally we used all six of the Gelfoams, and it stopped the bleeding enough so we could stop the rest with newspaper. He must have lost at least a quart of blood.’’ The tide was too low for Peterson to be able to get into Dago Creek, put he was able to pick his way through the bars around Smokey Point and into the river. There a Trident Seafoods tender sent a skiff to take the injured man into Dago Creek, where a plane landed on the beach to fly him to the clinic in Naknek. Pharmacist Lafferty started putting the kits together in 1975, and after giving the first one away to Bill “Hardtack” Jensen, has sold his kits to some 1,600 vessels. His initial kit, for vessels with more than six men and spending long periods at sea, was designed with crabbers and trawlers in mind. Containing some 75 items from Band-Aids to morphine, and a medical text put together by Lafferty from various sources, it sells for $695. After the first kit was out, Lafferty saw a need for a kit for smaller boats, and developed a downsized version that sells for $300. As well as first aid items, the kits contain a number of prescription pharmaceutical items, numbered for easy reference from the included text. Lafferty noted that the Gelfoam in particular had allowed shipboard personnel to control bleeding in a number
of potentially life-threatening situations. By showing a vessel’s papers and identification, a vessel’s master may purchase these kits without having to go to the trouble of getting prescriptions for all the individual items. Lafferty’s Pharmacy is located at 5312 17th NW, in Seattle. Joel Ludwig didn’t have Gelfoam aboard his boat in 1984. He was lucky that the Kemp chopper was aboard the Bering Trader and that he was only a half mile from it when his brother Mark got wound up in the shaft coupling. “We were running along and I noticed that the bilge pump wasn’t working, so I asked Mark to go down and check it. A moment later, I reached forward to throttle back and take the engine out of gear because the bilge pump was pretty close to the shaft coupling.’’ It was too late — the bolts in the coupling grabbed Mark’s oilskins and almost instantaneously pulled his face and arm down against the spinning bolts, lacerating him badly before Joel could take it out of gear. “It was terrible,” Joel said, “he was bleeding really badly, it just opened his chin, cheek and arm right up.” Ludwig and his other crewmember were able to get Mark untangled from the shaft and laid out on the hatch cover, and made an attempt at stopping the bleeding with a towel. Joel realized that Mark had suffered a very bad injury, that he could possibly die if he didn’t get medical help immediately. Looking around, Ludwig saw the Kemp chopper sitting on the stern of the Bering Trader. They were perhaps a half mile from the Trader. Then he smelled gas and looked down into the hold. The spinning pieces of
oilskin had also wrapped around the gas went up right underneath him in case him to get on the next flight from King Salmon to Anchorage. line and ripped it loose from a fitting. he started to fall. Battlefield medics speak of the “gold“All I’d told Kemp was that I had an What little gas was left in their tanks was rapidly draining into the bilge. He put injured crewman who needed a ride to en hour” — that a badly injured soldier’s the boat in gear and started steaming for the clinic in Naknek. They were all kind chances of survival are much greater if the tender, while calling Kemp on the of crowding around the rail when he he can be gotten to an adequate medicame up. They helped him over the rail, cal facility within an hour of being radio to alert them of his situation. wounded. Two hundred Mark was yards from the Berextremely ing Trader, the enIt was too late — the bolts in the coupling grabbed fortunate — gine sucked the last Mark’s oilskins and almost instantaneously pulled his less than half of the gas from the an hour had broken lines and face and arm down against the spinning bolts. elapsed from stopped. Joel got the time Mark up on the bow and was injured to waved frantically to a passing gillnetter who threw him a line but the rest of the onlookers just kind of actually being attended to by the docstepped back in horror — they’d never tor at the clinic. Mark made a full reand towed them the rest of the way. “Then when we got alongside the seen someone injured so bad and still covery and now operates the Bertha B Bering Trader, it must have been 20 or walking, much less climbing 30 feet up a II in Bristol Bay. Ask yourself: If such a serious injury 30 feet up the vertical steel side to the slimy rope ladder.” The chopper took off almost imme- happened on your boat, and you were deck and all they had was a rope ladder and some brailers hooked to the hoist. diately and landed in the parking lot at a long way from the tender, and it was We were thinking about how we could Camai Clinic in Naknek perhaps five too rough or foggy for a chopper evacget Mark into a brailer, when he got up minutes later. There the doctor stabi- uation, how would you handle it with and started up the ladder by himself. I lized Mark, and made arrangements for the equipment you have on board?
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NOVEMBER 1985
Man Bites
Shark BY CLARK MILLER
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orthwest fishermen got the word on shark at Fish Expo and the word is this: Sharks are mean, nasty, crazy, suicidal creatures that have to be treated with tender, loving care. Do everything right, and you might make some money. Do it too right, and there won’t be any sharks left. Thirteen fishermen and scientists from around the country spoke on the subject of shark, stressing the need to maximize quality and avoid overfishing. The consensus is that shark can be a profitable bycatch for the fisherman who knows all the angles. Quality control is essential in a shark fishery.A high urea content in the blood makes the flesh unusually perishable. A shark needs to be caught, stunned, landed, bled, butchered, cleaned, chilled and delivered to market in short order. And with the possible exception of the first step, each of these chores is labor-intensive and peculiar to the species. The perishability of the flesh means several things to the fisherman. First, don’t catch shark for market at the beginning of a long trip — catch them on the way home. Second, if the shark crowd around the vessel, as is their wont, and clamor to come aboard, don’t let greed get the best of you, for two reasons. First, they’re easy to catch, but a big job to process. If you have too many to deal with, your quality will suffer for sheer lack of time. Second, you may wipe out a whole clan for generations to come.
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This basking shark was caught on longline gear aboard the Kristel Lynn during the September halibut opening. Skipper Mike Clemens said he caught it on the last set of the opening: “I thought I had caught the bottom. “He brought it into Seward, where dockside crowds guessed its weight at 2,500 pounds.
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Frank Laufer of Florida said his crew wears out three with fins removed; $1.00 a pound, fins included. Gary Graham, a Texan who fishes the western Gulf of butchering knives per trip on what he calls the “shark rodeo.” The hides are very tough. His crewmen remove the Mexico, had an unusual preface to his talk: “shark fishing is a belly flaps because of their high rate of spoilage and because failure with me.” He stressed quality control through proper it facilitates chilling down the carcass.The flaps aren’t thrown bleeding. Graham keeps the head elevated and cuts off the away, however; dogfish flaps have a big market in Germany, tail, letting the fish bleed into the sea. “It’s nasty work, the nastiest,” Graham said of the butcherwhere they are used to make a popular tavern snack. ing process, “especially when Laufer’s crew also removes you catch lots at once.” He the kidneys to reduce spoilage. Carcasses are put in a Do everything right, and you might uses a shotgun to stun the shark — it’s almost impossibrine tank that holds 3,000 pounds. Sharks that are dead make some money. Do it too right, ble to kill a shark with a gun, since its brain is the size of a upon landing are discarded because of the urea-in-the and there won’t be any sharks left. dime. When he cuts open a female with live young inside, blood problem. Bleeding and butchering a stunned and dying shark can he throws them back into the water — “they may live,” he be dangerous. It takes quite a while for their tremendous said. Graham cuts off the fins and strings them up in the sun to strength to ebb away. Laufer showed a slide of a butchering cage built by one industrious fisherman in Florida. A winch dry. He used to spread them out on the deck, until the day raises the shark into the cage at the side of the boat.The cage a sudden wind swept a thousand dollars worth into the sea. then flops over to the deck. You tie down the shark and go “Don’t cut them straight,” he said. “They don’t cure as well cut straight.” Graham cuts a half-moon curve slightly into to work. Florida shark fishermen enjoy an 8-12 percent hook rate, the fin. The fin is the most valuable part of the shark.The Chinese and generally agree that they need to average 2,000 pounds per set or day to make a profit.They get $0.40-70 per pound, culture values it — to the tune of $35 million a year — as an
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NOVEMBER 1985
MAN BITES SHARK Of the 350 species of shark, only one, the Great White, is a man-eater. All the others prefer to flee rather than attack. The largest shark species, such as the Basking, Whale and Megamouth, are filter feeders. A few, such as the cat shark, are crustacean feeders. But the remainder and majority of sharks are top predators, with large, intimidating size and vicious-looking jaws. While sharks are opportunistic predators and eat
In Alaska, there is little chance of a shark attack; no attacks have ever been recorded. whatever is readily available, humans don’t seem to be one of their preferred foods. In Alaska, there is little chance of a shark attack; no attacks have ever been recorded, and if you ever find yourself overboard, it would probably be wiser to worry about hypothermia than sharks. However, there are number of potentially dangerous shark species in the Alaskan waters: the White, Blue, Tiger, Shortfin, Mako, Salmon, Sevengill, and basking Shark are all large and capable of attacking. The only ones which have ever been known to attack are the White, Blue and the Shortfin Mako. Basking sharks have been known to attack fishing vessels, but not humans. Scientists have been unable to discover exactly what provokes shark attacks. There doesn’t seem to be any consistency, yet scientists don’t seem to think shark attacks are feeding related. Usually the shark doesn’t use the full force of his jaw and often only takes one bite and swims away. Nevertheless, shark attacks do occur with more frequency under certain circumstances. People are almost always attacked on the surface of the water. Scuba and skin divers have been attacked on the surface, but rarely on the bottom of the water, unless they’ve somehow provoked the attack. The shark hot-spots are in areas with large marine mammal populations. Seals and sea lions are one of the shark’s favorite foods, and a person lying stomach-down on a surfboard, paddling with his feet, looks from underneath like a slightly deformed sea lion.
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The scenario is that a shark will spot something that looks like a wounded sea lion, swim up and take a bite. When the shark realizes it isn’t what he expected, he swims away. Considering the number of swimmers and surfers, especially in Southern California, the number of shark attacks is so low that they seem to be more in the nature of freak accidents than intended attacks. For scientists or adventurers who frequent sharkinfested waters, there a number of state-of-the-art shark repellants to choose from. Shark repellants fall into two categories. The first involves weapons, such as bang sticks and CO2 darts which inflict sudden, intense pain and cause the shark to swim away. These are very effective unless the diver is attacked from behind, or surrounded. For the person who anticipates these conditions there are a number of passive shark repellants. Besides the shark cage, which is very restrictive, since the person (rather than the shark) is caged, there are acoustical, electrical and chemical discharges that act as irritants to the sharks and keep them away from a given area. The latest shark repellent, still being researched, is a detergent repellent. A certain species of flat fish was found which secreted a chemical that was so unpleasant, sharks would stop even in mid-bite, and retreat shaking their heads in disgust. Research proved the chemical had amphipathic properties. It was attracted to water on one side, and repellent on the other, which is also a characteristic of ordinary laundry detergent. Although scientists are not exactly sure what causes the reaction, or why it’s so unpleasant, a belt
A lot more sharks are killed by people than vice versa. has been developed and is being tested which uses laundry detergent pellets. The pellets dissolve at various speeds and provide the user with a certain amount of protection, depending on how fast the current washes away the soap. There is no foolproof method to avoid shark attacks, but as is often pointed out, a lot more sharks are killed by people than vice versa. — Sharon Yamanaka
ingredient in various holiday dishes, especially soup. Graham gets $10 a pound for large dried fins, $6 for smaller fins. He says the rear lower fin is the most desirable. Other parts are also valuable.The blood of the Northwest’s salmon shark, for example, is being used for cancer research. It contains an enzyme that seems to arrest the growth of tumors. Last year, a quart was worth $150 if taken from a live shark. Now researchers are interested in scraping the gills of the salmon shark to get the thymus gland, the source of the enzyme. The hides are valuable, although no one offered any details. And the liver has some value — it’s used in Preparation H. Graham wasn’t always a shark failure — he used to sell plenty of it to the Mexicans. They love it and will pay more than U.S. markets. But the strong dollar has ruined this market. Another major theme was the vulnerability of sharks to overfishing. “I’m nervous about recommending shark as a targeted species,” Graham said. “We use shark as a by-catch — you can easily overfish shark.” Fisheries biologist Brian Paust enlarged on the overfishing threat. Shark tend to live in what he called “accessory families,” large groups that are always found in the same places. Since shark are slow-growing and slow-breeding, you can easily wipe out these families. Paust says they never recover.
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Dennis Bedford of the California Department of Fish and Game gave a graphic example of what can happen when a shark fishery catches on. A Santa Barbara fisherman managed to establish his own personal thresher shark fishery in the late 1970s. Once his success became known, others joined in and the fishery peaked in 1982. “They knocked out the middle,” Bedford said. “Now there’s limited entry, with 265 permits, but it came too late — sharks are not an ideal bonanza fish.” Mike Haby, a researcher at Texas A&M University, is developing a new commercial use for shark — shark jerky. He says it can compete commercially with beef and has “110 days of stability on the dashboard of your pickup.” He likened the quality of his first batch to that of “shingles,” but since then has come up with a product that tastes good, is low on oil with no rancidity problem, and can sell for $1 an ounce retail — cheaper than beef. Ron Grulich, an economist at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, used a detailed economic analysis to show that partial on-board processing can significantly increase profits, even though it may entail a larger crew. He also said U.S. fishermen who want to enter the established world markets for cheap fish such as dogfish face almost overwhelming competition. Grulich feels the only solution is to develop new domestic markets.
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FEATURES / FROM
FEBRUARY 1979
Skilled shipworkers are at a premium
ENOUGH CRAB BOAT BUSINESS TO KEEP TACOMA YARDS HUMMING
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BY TERENCE MCLAFFERTY & JOHN PAPPENHEIMER
or two decades the prosperous chase for tuna fired the building of fishing boats in Tacoma. Now, it is Alaskan king crab that is quickening the pulse of at least five of the city’s shipyards. Along the Tacoma waterfront the glare of welding arcs and the clang of metal-on-metal leave no doubt that this concentrated industrial district will launch its share of North Pacific fishing boats. A measure of the change is the announcement by Tacoma Boatbuilding Company — a firm with an impressive reputation for tuna seiners and sophisticated government boats — that they plan to launch the first of a production line of crab boats by the end of the year. Less than a mile down the Hylebos Waterway, Western Maritime opened
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last October for the purpose of building steel boats for the crab fisheries. Not far away two young shipbuilding companies — Marine Industries Northwest and Sea-Tac Alaska Shipbuilding Corp. — are already making their marks in the North Pacific fishing industries with new construction and conversions. Behind the fever and the boom, what has placed skilled shipworkers at a premium in Tacoma is the demand for steel boats. One shipyard reported turning down fifty requests in recent months for major ship construction. ••••••••••• It has been nearly ten years since a fish boat slid down the ways of Tacoma Boatbuilding Company. It may be only
ten months before the next one does. Until the demand for North Pacific fishing boats slacks off, the veteran shipyard anticipates producing a new steel crabber in the 110-124 foot class every 60 to 75 days, according to Dennis Connolly, project manager. For 40 years Tacoma Boat built fishing vessels — predominantly large tuna clippers — for the world fishing market. They opened the doors in the late 1930s with a very small crew. Now, as the building boom reaches farther and farther from the fleet’s traditional home of Seattle, nearly 1,000 craftsmen are on the firm’s payroll, according to company publicity. Connolly has been put in charge of the company’s new crab boat business, and he said last week that the move is in some ways a step away from the technological growth the firm has achieved and a return to more traditional designs and the less complex steel construction. Ever since the early 1970s lull in the
tuna industry, Connolly said, Tacoma Boat has been devoted to government contract work on high speed, high technology aluminum chase and patrol boats, and on modern designs for the Coast Guard. Among the projects that have paid the bills in the last 7-8 years are the multimission patrol ship (PSMM series) and the multi-mission patrol craft (PCMM series) built for the U.S. and for certain allies. The ships are ultra-modern technology aluminum ships with gas or diesel turbine propulsion systems driving 165-foot hulls to more than 40 knots. However, there are no plans to produce 40-knot crabbers, Connolly explains with a smile. No naval architect has as yet been selected to design the Tacoma boats. Connolly took a trip north in late January to consult “with as many crabbers as possible” over styles and systems most sought after by big boat skippers. Most Northwest designers have been dis-
cussed, Connolly added. Regardless of the architect, a steel hull with aluminum house foreword will be the plan. A power scow design will be available at the owner’s choice. Bob Hill, vice-president of marketing for the firm, said earlier that with the recent opening of a new yard on the 30-acre plant site, and the “cost-cutting effects of numerical (computer) controlled burning machines, computerized lofting and other recent innovations, the company has both the capacity to enter the new market and the ability to deliver high quality boats at competitive prices and schedules.” To date the firm has built 63 tuna seiners. ••••••••••• When the doors of Western Maritime opened for the first time on October 16, 1978, “We didn’t have a firm order, but we had some pretty good ideas where
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FEBRUARY 1979
Marine Industries Northwest’s 124-footer: Architect drawing shows the profile of a line of 124' x 32' combination trawler-crabbers being produced by Marine Industries Northwest in Tacoma. The design reflects the combined efforts of Marine Industries NW and Helge Kristiansen. The first off the line, Flying Cloud, has already joined the Alaska crab fleet, the U.S. Dominator has been launched and is being completed for Wilhelm Jensen, Rudy Petersen and Magne Nes, and a third boat is being built for Peter Pan Seafoods.
they’d come from.” maining building will be done probably der, lofting is underway and steel cutting began Feb. 1. The confidence Paul Vertrees, Jack within a year or two. The first boat is a 125' x 32' crabCrocker, William House, Richard TydAt the moment all of the firm’s enerings and Lloyd Matthew felt on that day gies are being directed toward that “first ber with a pilothouse design that perhas already been justified to a large ex- boat,” with a proposed August delivery. mits 360-degree vision. She will carry tent, House said this month. The second carries a December prom- a boom for deck and hold work and a For Tacoma’s newest shipyard already ise and the remaining four being con- picker crane for loading. All machinery and engines on the has 2 firm orders, probably four more sidered now are for delivery in the 1980 boat will be well forward. She will sleep back by “letters of intention,” and a king crab season. waiting list growing daily. Currently there are 33 workmen on nine in the first model and eleven in the But, adds House, a man with the the payroll, with another dozen to be second. According to money and a clear idea House, the second of what he wants, may boat is being built for still find the shortest Behind the fever and the boom, what has the St. George Tanacq line in town leads to placed skilled shipworkers at a premium in tribe of natives located the Western Maritime on St. George Island front door. Tacoma is the demand for steel boats. in the Pribilofs. They That door sits halfwill use the ship to way back from Matrain men for the fishrine View Drive to the Hylebos Waterway, a little less than hired within two weeks and a projected ery, and will carry two apprentices on a mile south of Tacoma Boat. The yard staff of 80 on board by April. If the sec- outings. The ships will have 9500 cubic feet encompasses 10 acres. On the grounds ond wave of four boats is a certainty by are a 220' x 60' manufacturing building, then, House says a full crew of maybe tanks carrying roughly 22 pounds of a ways, a 150' pier that may be expand- 110 men will be employed by early crab per cubic foot (200,000 pounds overall). They will be powered by Cat ed to 500' and an office complex. summer. Although the configuration of faciliWestern Maritime plans to build D339TA engines, one each, rated at ties is 10 years old, House says, “We are boats designed by Jack F. Crocker, vice 1125 horsepower driving 4-blade lucky in that there is not already a lot of president of engineering and an archi- Coolidge props. Three auxiliaries, screwed up space.” Gradually the office tect whose independent firm has done “probably 3406 Cats will be on board. will be moved to the front of the prop- boats for local yards and others. Steel Mast de-icers, strengthened hulls,” and erty and extensive remodeling of the re- and engines for the first boat are on or- JT-400 Omnithrusters for bow posi22
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construction. And following the successful construction of the 154' x 42' Jeffron, Baker says, the entire crew carries new feelings of confidence and satisfaction, especially in work on the “little” 125-footers now underway. At the moment, the twin 125s are the only new hulls in construction. The first is slated for Aug. 1 delivery, Baker says. At 125' x 34', she will be powered by a single 399 Cat, with 3406s powering twin 210 kw generators and a single 55 kw for “hotel” power. Each boat will carry 10,000 cubic feet of hold space, good enough for up to 240,000 pounds of crab. Each will have conventional screws. “In the next few days,” Baker said, the yard will begin conversion work on another offshore oil supply boat for Norskau. Changing it into a crabber will take a “leisurely” three months, Baker said. The second Norskau boat (first for Sea-Tac), the North Command was converted in only two and a half ••••••••••• months. In addition, Baker recently leased anIn their three years of operation, Maother several hundred feet of dock space rine Industries Northwest has comalong Blair Waterway, north side of 11th pleted several major conversions for the Avenue to tie up a pair of huge Pan North Pacific fisheries and developed a Alaska processing ships. One, the Royal line of 124' x 32' combination crabberSea, has received a full aft shelter deck trawlers. to house more crew members, and the Already the firm’s president, Don second, the Royal Venture, is getting a Slater, is looking ahead to developing a bow to front-of-the house shelter deck line of larger boats. He sees 140'-150' as required 600,000 pounds of steel. an optimum length for a catcher procesThe yard is “still sor under 200 tons and interested” in govwith onboard processernment work, Baker ing limited to heading At Western Maritime’s yard they found steel said, adding that ships and gutting. companies so eager to get in on things that one of up to 225' may be The firm started up accommodated. Payin 1976 on the site of offered to roll and shape a great deal of the hull roll has reached 240 a former Navy yard men when the gov(Pier 24). They conplates and deckwork free of charge. ernment contract verted a 186' buoy work has been added, tender to the processor he said. Galaxy for Universal Surprisingly, Baker says that boom Seafoods and then went on to the con- the FV Jeffron, launched and “prospectversion of a YF to the much publicized ing” for Tanner crabs outside of strike- or no boom, steel is still available from bound Kodiak Baker’s 200-person crew a variety of local suppliers. At Western catcher-processer Northern Aurora. In 1978, Marine Industries NW is spreading out into nearly a half-dozen Maritime’s yard they found steel companies so eager to get in on things that launched the first of its line of 124' x simultaneous Alaska projects. “Only 40 percent of our work is in- one offered to roll and shape a great 32' combination boats, Flying Cloud, for Egil Ellingsen and Leif Nordbo. The tra-company.” Explains Baker. The bal- deal of the hull plates and deckwork second boat now being finished in the ance includes government repair work free of charges and to deliver to the water is the U.S. Dominator built for on tugs, barges and coastal ships, conver- yard ready-to-weld panels as an inSeattle fisherman Wilhelm Jensen, Rudy sions and independent owner crab boat ducement to buy from them.
tioning have also been decided on. Deck equipment and electronics are owner options, House said. The men who established Western Maritime have a broad base of experience in boat building and support. Vertrees was a chief engineering for Tacoma Boat. In recent years he headed up their program in Korea to build and supply support facilities for the gunboats Tacoma Boat built for that country. House was with Aerojet General, known primarily as a rocket and airplane plant. However, his responsibilities there included leadership work on an 83' x 43' surface effect ship that floated on a cushion of air and attained speeds in excess of 80 knots. Four Lycoming gas turbines powered her. Tydings was with House on the SES project at Aerojet, and Matthew was an associate of Tydings, and is referred to by House affectionately as “our money man.” He is an accountant.
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Petersen and Magne Nes. Marine Industries NW combined with Helge Kristensen on the design of the single-chine 124-footers. The aluminum pilothouse is designed to give the skipper 360 degree vision. The shaft alley is high enough to allow access back to the lazarette from the engine room with enough room for the installation of crab pumps, related piping and refrigeration equipment for the dry hold. Both the second and third boats in the series are powered by 10 cylinder B&W Alpha diesels producing 1,450 hp and driving controlled pitch props through Kort nozzles. The electronics package for the third boat in the series is being supplied by Sound Marine Electronics Inc. Among the innovative electronics going aboard is a C-Tech Omni Sonar with a high speed circular scan and a NJA 900 dual frequency signals for high definition in shallow ranges and greater depths in the lower ranges. A 12-inch paper can display both frequencies simultaneously. A 400-watt, 100-channel synthesized HFSSB Electro Nav EN-400 was installed programmed to automatically tune the antenna with each change in channels for optimum output. The demand for boats out of Sea-Tac Alaska Shipbuilding may be described very briefly, Vice-President Terry Baker said last week: “Phenomenal.” With the yard’s first new construction,
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Kodiak Salmon
Fun with a Futu By LAINE WELCH
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odiak kids are learning there’s a lot more to salmon than just going fishing. Because it’s such an important part of the island’s culture, history and economy, studies of salmon and their life cycle have long been a required component of every Kodiak school’s fourth-grade curriculum. But another program has taken salmon education a big step farther, and by all accounts, it’s been a success. The Summer Salmon and Science Camp last summer finished its second year, and enthusiasm for continuing and expanding the unique program continues to grow. The impetus-behind the SSSC comes from the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, the Kodiak Area Native Association and a long list of local groups and businesses. Major funding is provided by the “Challenge Cost Share Program” of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which provides 50 percent of the cost for qualifying projects. The remainder comes from “partners” who provide shares in the form of cash, materials or other in-kind services. Twin goals drive the Summer Science and Salmon Camp program: Teach kids more about the salmon resource, and tap lots of unrealized human potential — especially with Alaska natives and other minorities who are not proportionately represented in fisheries management. “There are a lot of people here who have the capacity to become fisheries scientists and so forth, but some of them never go on to higher education. We want them to see they have a variety of
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options — that there’s more than just harvesting fish as a way to make a living from the resource,” explained Diana Brooks, a ranger at the Kodiak Wildlife Refuge. The camp, headquartered at the Buskin Beach House, perched high atop a cliff overlooking the sea, involves between 60 and 100 kids, aged 6 to 14, who meet in three five-day sessions (with some overnight stays) during late July and early August. Every day, the kids are exposed to the kind of science “that’s wearing hip boots and standing in a stream,” Brooks said. “Or if that doesn’t suit their personality or it’s not their ability,” she adds, “they see other jobs that involve statistical or management work that uses computers.” Campers get plenty of hands-on
training in salmon management by using computer programs such as “Fish Banks” that simulate catching fish and teach lessons about the effects of overfishing. Other software programs teach kids to estimate the number of fish in a stream and take them through an entire life cycle in order to predict how many salmon might return. Field trips take the campers to processing plants, the Fish Tech Center and Pillar Creek Hatchery. The kids have built a weir on the Buskin River, walked and mapped out routes of a watershed from top to bottom and then built a model on the beach. This summer, campers were even run off by an immature bear that laid claim to the Buskin River drainage. (“That reinforced lessons in how to behave in bear territory,” a camp counselor said.)
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The kids also had the opportunity to learn about “value added” salmon products, thanks to generous donations by Kake Tribal Council’s processing outlets Health Sea and Kake Dried Foods: Salmon hams, chum sausage with basil and dried sweet tomatoes, winter sausage with lemon pepper, all flavors of salmon jerky, AlaskaBits smoked salmon salad sprinkles and gourmet pink salmon in a pouch (from North Pacific Processors). Every single item drew raves from the kids, who wondered why they couldn’t find the salmon products on local supermarket shelves. The value-added concept sparked their own imaginations. Campers came up with dozens of original ideas for salmon products: “salmon-chovy” pizza topping, salmon chips, salmon on a stick, fish-crispies cereal, salmon snack bar, salmon bits in a Pez-like dispenser, even a salmon bubble bath that’s “good for you inside and out,” enthused one young camper. Fun and games aside, are the kids participating in the Summer Science and Salmon Camp really learning anything? You bet. Educational as assessments used to measure changes in knowledge have shown a 28-percent increase in knowledge about salmon. “Most importantly, they’re learning a sense of stewardship,” said ADF&G’s longtime biologist and educator Pat Holmes. By popular request, a satellite camp is being planned for next summer at Old Harbor. And as programs and curricula for next year are being refined and developed, camp coordinators are again expecting a full house of Kodiak kids eager to learn more about the resource that is the heart of their island community. “Why should every educated student from Kodiak feel they have to leave the island to get a professional-level job, and then we have outside people come in to take jobs to manage our resources?” Brooks asked. “We want to make an opportunity for the children to stay here and not have to leave their families and a place that they love.”
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Of Cowboys and Cordovans A t the airport baggage ramp in Cordova, oil jokes go around a circle of Texans. “They’re gonna have to stamp fish 10-weight or 40-weight,” says one ol’ boy to anyone within earshot. “It’s all blacktop. You could run the Indy 500 on it,” says another. Next to the southern arrivals, a glass encased bald eagle, stuffed and poised above the suitcases and cowboy boots, welcomes visitors with an inscription from the Cordova Chamber of Commerce. But against the jokes, the eagle has no effect. If ever it commanded a little awe for vacationing arrivals, today 11 million gallons of runaway crude have smothered the effect. Like the oil, most of the passengers have never visited the remote bays of Prince William Sound. But it’s not vacation time; purposes may differ, but the air quivers with instructions from waiting parties. Some of the arrivals are burdened with backpacks; others rock on their heels and jingle loose change. Behind the smiles, the affability, the air bristles with tension. On top of it all is the Last Frontier relic staring out of the glass tomb. The idea seems dated. The plea for tourists, the eagle, the back home oil jokes in the tiny airport, and the eager cabs lined up by the shuttle van assigned to carry the brass back to the disaster — these things taken together spell change. The balance between Mainstream America and the Last Frontier may be off center. I am headed to Cordova District Fishermen’s United; they have generously agreed to take the journal out to the grounds. Everywhere, there are people eager to talk. A logger in the shuttle van tells me he is a pro-developer, so for him to condemn Exxon is “amazing.” Another man who 28
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By CHRISTOPHER HORTON
“Experts” and confusion finally got the deflection boom installed at Sawmill Bay; Bruce Webber of PWSAC ferries celebs and media to AFK hatchery. Said Bruce, “It’s better to say I work for PWSAC than I work for Exxon.”
works for a chemical company agrees with the logger the cleanup is a joke. A sullen man in the front seat remains quiet, even though the conversation is meant to include him. Already one senses the old fractions here, those who came to build and those who came to get away. Within a couple of hours, Brent Songer and I are plying the waters of Prince William Sound in his 32-foot bowpicker, Metallic Rose.Though I’m braced for the destruction, what I see out on the Sound is life. I see whales, porpoises, otters, bald
eagles, and everywhere, like armor against the outside world, jagged, imperious mountains. The sunny weather masks the mood of disaster; it feels good to be in the open air. Enroute to Sawmill Bay, I get out on Green Island’s oiled beach. The absence of birds, the dead silence inside the huge landscape, begins to set in motion a mood that stays with me the whole trip. A petroleum stench fills up the silence; mucus collects in my throat. The voices in town keep coming back: “Throw the money and watch the natives tear themselves
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apart. That is what they want. That’s what they are getting.” We try to make Sawmill Bay by dusk. A blue petroleum haze lingers above the water near Pt. Discovery. Three weeks after the spill, and still the haphazard chemistry, elements thrown together. High technology sucked the oil out of the earth, overland, onto the water; now abandoned, freed from tanks and pipes, the uncontained 11 million gallons cannot stay whole here; neither it nor the Sound it touches manage the interaction. A mother otter carries its dead young until she expires 3 days later; molecules that started as components of crude are now gas and airborne. At the Sawmill, seiners are tied up near a Chenega dock, some bowpickers, too. The sun has circled behind the mountains to the north. At the head of the bay, suspended on pilings, sits one of the biggest single-species salmon producing hatcheries in the world. In the dusk, Arnold F. Koernig Hatchery fades into the hillside. Tomorrow I will meet the overworked plant manager. He will talk about record–egg takes and record this and that, but underneath the records is a nerve stretched as thin as this light tonight. The shambles of old Chenega, her pilings and walls like a toothpick village whose glue has given out, sit exactly as they did 25 years ago when the earthquake forced the native village to move. I spend the night aboard the F/V Sound Adventure, staying up talking with some of the boom patrol in Sawmill Bay. These are the haves, the fishermen with Exxon charters. The mood isn’t one of privilege, but frustration. “Absolutely no one knows what they
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its back. are talking about,” says skipper Circling the tanker, we exGary Raymond, who’s been here pect to be challenged, but since April 1. a storm is coming and per“They have people who have haps it’s the diversion that never been out on boats before,” enables us to get in close. We adds Guido Casciano, whose cut a brown wake in places bowpicker looks like it’s been and watch a filthy seiner run dipped in Prudhoe Bay. a boom out from the tanker’s “They quit when it starts rainbow. The tanker, high on the ing.” Raymond says. “Does the water, bathes in what are oboil take a day off? There’s spill viously the worst conditions in here from our boats. We’re we’ve yet seen. Someone said booming our own sheen.” Fresh crude surrounds the tanker in its new berth at it’s loaded with boulders the “It’s making us listless and fat,” Outer Bay, Naked Island. Fishermen on the grounds size of VWs from shaving Guido says, holding up his shirt. were calling it the “Second Spill.“ Guido keeps the humor going. It’s not way helping out. I’d do it free.That’s how Bligh Reef. Back in town, the air is thick with fishing; it’s lonelier on the boom. They it was originally. I’d be out protecting talk of prolonged separation from fam- the hatcheries.” Raymond looks over the rumor; one can’t help but breathe it. I ily and friends, of people going back to bow at a thin sheen that came in on last act more as a conductor for mega-watt outrage than a reporter asking questions. town, of boredom and frustration. Out night’s ebb. “Exxon’s timing sure was bad.” He says. After several interviews, the current is exhere, news from town is by word of mouth; in town, stories from the grounds “It didn’t make President Bush look too hausting; it’s running through Cordova at a disturbing level. The mental health good either.” fuel the rumor fire. On the way home, we cruise the west clinic is full and a disaster specialist has “They’re calling us Exxon whores in town,” Raymond says on the bridge the side of Knight Island. The Exxon clean been flown in from Pt. Barrow. One man who wished anonymity for up brigade is in full swing here. We pull next morning. “They can call you what they want, up to seiners along the way: “Too many fear of losing Exxon charter said, “I’ve but they’d be out here if they could,” people telling me what to do.” Two boats seen lifelong friendships fracture.” Sitting in a livingroom decorated with native art; say the same thing. Brent reassures him. Herring Bay looks like an oil pond; not I hear rumors about payoffs and stopped “I feel guilty about it,” Raymond replies. “This could be our season right a single bird anywhere. On the beach, I work orders. The man’s mother has survived other see two piles of bald eagle feathers, sans here.” “They [Exxon] want to show num- carcass. Upstream, well out of the oil, disasters. She was here when the railroad bers,” Brent says, to make the company thick oil blotches smear the grass. A bear, pulled out. She was here when the earthmaybe, chowing down on oiled eagle and quake struck. “Everything’s on hold,” she look good later. “I feel guilty, but I’d be out here any- taking time out to rub the mystery off says. “We’re all waiting.”
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JUNE 1979
Spotter pilots on Bristol Bay Air strip in Togiak with headless walrus as sighting marker for pilots.
By ROGER FITZGERALD
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n front of me, across Nunavachak Bay, is Walrus Island smoking sulphurously this morning. Natives here say that it’s when the volcano stops smoking that you have to worry. Between me and Walrus Island, to within a hundred yards of the shoreline, are fleets of boats and ships representing millions upon millions of dollars invested in the would-be herring bonanza. In back of me, downwind fortunately (for it, too, is “smoking sulphurously”) is a giant, headless walrus. On top of its bloated body sits a white bucket weighted down with rainwater. The walrus and roe bucket are at the end of Nunavachak “International” Air Strip. Together they serve as a landing marker for twenty-six spotter planes. All told, there are over forty planes and at least four helicopters spotting for upwards of a hundred and fifty seiners for a 10-15 percent share of the roe herring catch. The walrus is apparently the victim of ivory pirates. A
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walrus head with good tusks is reported to bring $2,000 on the black market and nearby Walrus Island is a prolific rookery. Later, I hitched a ride back to the Arctic Star with Mike Fitzgerald who tells me that last year he counted 18 headless walrus on one beach. No wonder the island smokes. Gary Rogers and his son land their Super Cub to re-fuel after which it is my turn to go up. Gary’s plane, its engine modified to 180 hp, burns eight gallons an hour, and may require re-fueling up to three times a day. Generally, he goes up around 5 a.m. and, with the best prospects toward evening, doesn’t quit until about 10 p.m. Last night three seiners risked the high winds for 300 tons of good herring, a reported 9.8 roe count. But the evening is particularly dangerous for spotter planes, and I’m glad I’m going up at mid-day. Schools of capelin stud the shoreline drawing over-anxious seiners into making sets on them, a problem if they gillup in the net requiring hours to shake.
Of course a good spotter pilot can tell the difference immediately between capelin and herring by the configuration and coloration of the school — and by instinct. Capelin tend to be in “balls,” dark and dense. Spawning herring, while in balls in deeper waters, are seen here as “streaks” which shift in shape. Ken Best, a spotter pilot I was to meet later in Cordova, likens their appearance to an oil slick — or the Northern Lights, especially if a sea lion or boat frightens the school into shifting shapes. In any case, herring are very hard to see, and some pilots have the knack, others don’t. Bouncing down Nunavachak toward the walrus, Gary Rogers shouts back at me, “You know, you’re a damned fool to be going up with a stranger.” I answer back dryly that I have confidence in him. A big bump and we’re airborne. We cruise southeast toward Right Hand Point at an altitude of 1,200 feet. It’s a beautiful, clear day, but the water along the shoreline is muddy from recent high winds that have kept the seining fleet gnawing its nails at anchor. Well over half of them haven’t made a set. Speculation is that herring won’t spawn when it’s rough.With bad weather the last few days, the herring should be “all sexed up,” as one gillnetter put it, and this could be the big day everyone is waiting for. Last year the money run came two days from today. Of course the ice pack broke up early this year... A lot of herring went through in late April — before the season was open. Below, we saw a pod of whales. Gary yells back to me that the natives believe the herring come in with the whales.
Spotter pilot Gary Rogers and his Super Cub on a Togiak beach. Peanutbutter-and-jam sandwiches and coded talk; Rogers has located a school, but it is in too close to shore for a seine.
Farther down the beach, we see a Bristol Bay sailing dory, only its gunwales exposed above the sand. Where there isn’t water, there’s tundra with trees now and then huddling in pairs as if for moral support. Gary passes back the polaroid glasses — little is discernible without them — and points down to a school of capelin. We see everything but herring. Metervik Bay is under us now, recently closed after a boom kelp roe harvest — 293,000 pounds in that bay alone. Some of the camps are still standing. Over a hundred pickers were registered for the fishery. We’re heading overland now to Togiak Bay. Gary asks me if I want to photograph the wreckage from last year’s midair collision in which both pilots were killed. Some pilots will avoid the spot if they can. I nodded affirmatively. A few days later I was to meet Vic Hammond on the Sue B, a crabber I was riding out of Cordova. He saw the collision from the Pacific Venture. That was on May 22, one of the big days in the fishery. A single plane was circling Ungalikthluk Bay just to the east of Rocky Point. Vic saw a second plane come into the area on a collision course with the first plane — “You could see it was going to happen,” he said. Neither plane altered course colliding as if deliberately, one plane breaking up on the point, the other crashing into the bay. Vic said he saw one of the pilots falling. The Federal Aviation Association called a meeting of spotter pilots bound for Togiak prior to this year’s fishery. About 20 percent of them showed up at the Anchorage meeting, Gary said. The purpose was to establish a gentlemen’s agreement on how the operation should be conducted. Foremost was that each plane would carry two men, one to fly and one to spot. No one, so far as I know disagreed; and no one, so far as I could see, was flying solo this year in Togiak. After that, agreement was pretty shakey among the pilots, according to Gary. Most of the pilots wanted to turn left over fish — to circle counterclockwise — but others with side-by-side seats protested that their spotters would have to look across the pilot’s seat to see out the window on a left bank which would put them at a disadvantage. A compro-
Spotter pilot Gary Rogers (left) confers on Williwaw with Mike Carr — no herring today.
mise of sorts was reached that if the first plane to spot fish circled right, the rest would follow. Hopefully, all would remember the exception. Agreed upon was that no one was to fly faster than 115 mph or slower than 75 mph. A danger, especially with poor visibility, is a faster plane overtaking a slower one. This was amply demonstrated this year in the roe fishery in Prince William Sound. One spotter plane overtook another while dropping down for a landing on the water, coming so close that the lower plane chopped up one of its pontoons with its prop! Miraculously, both landed safely. As of this date, May 18th, there have been no serious plane-related injuries in Togiak. One plane did a flip in the water, two nose-dived on make-shift runways, but luck was with them. The wreckage on Rocky Point was scattered over an area of a quarter of a
I was amazed at how clearly, at a single glance, we could see the drama of the fishery unfolding below us. Gary spotted herring close to the shoreline away from the other boats. He called Mike Carr on the Williwaw and gave him the location: “Zulu zulu, Baker plus one — got that?” Carr was then directed by compass bearing to the precise location. Codes are universally used and are changed frequently — in Gary’s case every week. With the tide running out and only three fathoms of water, Carr decided not to go for it. It was just as well for we soon saw the seines opening — releasing the spawn-outs. The drama we saw unfolding below us turned out to be a comedy. Gary landed the Super Cub on the beach along Tongue Point touching down on 30-inch tundra tires ($900 each!). It was a smooth landing — by a skilled pilot, a piece of cake. We were picked up by the Williwaw for an excellent stew and strategy meeting. The number one topic in Togiak dominated the conversation: When would the second run come through? On cue, the Department of Fish and Game came over the radio announcing that according to latest tabulations as many herring had already passed through this year as last year
Neither plane altered course, colliding as if deliberately, one plane breaking up on the point. mile with pieces of wing the only evidence that it was the remains of a plane we were looking at. There was action on Togiak Bay. The wakes of perhaps a dozen vessels were converting on one area. Eight spotter planes were circling, their shadows streaking across the water where several seiners already had their nets out. Gary gestured toward one seiner, its net closed in a perfect “0” with a large school of herring just outside the corks. Another seiner, miscalculating the tide, was coiled in its cork line. Circles of mud, like dissipating smoke rings, surrounding each set where the lead line hit the bottom in what was only a few fathoms of water.
— that no new herring were expected. In other words, it was over. ‘’I smell a disaster coming on, I sure smell a disaster,” muttered Mike Carr. That evening Gary Rogers set two of his boats on a couple hundred tons of 10 percent roe herring. I don’t know if the Williwaw was one of them, or whether it was the last gasp in the fishery, or the beginning of the second coming of the herring. I left early that next morning for Dillingham, and took a very crowded plane back to Anchorage. As I was leaving, I noted Walrus Island was no longer smoking. Two days later there was an earthquake. It registered 6 points on the Richter scale. JULY 2017 / PILOTHOUSE GUIDE
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P.O. Box 2223 Wrangell, AK 99929-2223 (907) 276-7315 • (888) 636-7315 jdecker@afdf.org www.afdf.org Julie Decker, Executive Director Year Founded: 1978 AFDF works to turn challenges into opportunities by applying research and development and by balancing economic benefits with sustainability principles.
ALASKA INDEPENDENT TENDERMEN’S ASSN.
P.O. Box 431 Petersburg, AK 99833 (907) 518-4534 admin@alaskatenders.org www.alaskatenders.org Lisa Terry, Executive Director Year Founded: 2003 The AITA was formed in 2003 by a group of tender owners and operators. These tendermen recognize the need to establish an organization of professionals with a common interest. Fish tendering in Alaska has been around as long as there has been commercial fishing. AITA is organized exclusively for promoting the common business interest of its mem-
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bers, independent vessel owners and operators, and to serve as one voice in the Alaska commercial fishing industry.
ALASKA LONGLINE FISHERMEN’S ASSN.
P.O. Box 1229 Sitka, AK 99835 (907) 747-3400 • Fax: (907) 747-3462 alfastaff@gmail.com www.alfafish.org Dick Curran, President Linda Behnken, Executive Director Year Founded: 1978 Number of Members: 100 Annual Dues: $100-$1,000, depending on membership level ALFA is a nonprofit association of independent commercial longline-vessel owners and crew members who are committed to continuing the sustainable harvest of sablefish, halibut and groundfish while supporting healthy marine ecosystems and strong coastal communities through resource stewardship and participation in federal, state and local forums.
ALASKA MARINE CONSERVATION COUNCIL
P.O. Box 101145 Anchorage, AK 99510 (907) 277-5357 • Fax: (907) 277-5975 fish@akmarine.org www.akmarine.org Kelly Harrell, Executive Director Year Founded: 1994 Number of Members: 900 Membership Dues: $25 AMCC is a community-based organization of fishermen, subsistence users, small business owners and coastal residents who are dedicated to protecting the integrity of Alaska’s marine ecosystems and sustaining the working waterfronts of our coastal communities.
ALASKA MARINE SAFETY EDUCATION ASSN.
2924 Halibut Point Road Sitka, AK 99835 (907) 747-3287 • Fax: (907) 747-3259 amsea@amsea.org www.amsea.org Jerry Dzugan, Executive Director Year Founded: 1985 Number of Members: 100 AMSEA is a national community-based organization composed of commercial fishermen, marine safety instructors and marine safety advocates providing safety training to reduce deaths and injuries of commercial fishermen and to meet Coast Guard requirements for commercial fishing vessels.
ALASKA SEAFOOD COOPERATIVE
4241 21st Ave. W., Suite 302 Seattle, WA 98199
(206) 462-7690 • Fax: (206) 462-7691 jasonanderson@seanet.com www.alaskaseafoodcooperative.org Year Founded: 2008 Number of Members: 5 Jason Anderson, Manager jasonanderson@seanet.com The Alaska Seafood Cooperative is a harvesting cooperative consisting of 5 companies and 16 vessels. AKSC was formed for the purpose of promoting, fostering and encouraging the intelligent and orderly harvest of yellowfin sole, rock sole, f lathead sole, Atka mackerel. Pacific cod, Aleutian Islands Pacific Ocean perch, and other Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, and Gulf of Alaska groundfish; reducing waste and improving resource utilization; reducing the incidental catch of non-target species; and supporting research and public education about the fisheries.
ALASKA TROLLERS ASSN.
130 Seward St. #205 Juneau, AK 99801 (907) 586-9400 • Fax: (907) 586-4473 ata@gci.net www.aktrollers.org Dale Kelley, Executive Director Steve Merritt, President Year Founded: 1925 Number of Members: 450 Annual Dues: Start at $350 power troll; $225 hand troll; $75 crew; $500 processor ATA has seen the f leet through many significant events, from statehood to limited entry, the Pacific Salmon Treaty, and the ESA. ATA members elect 12 power- and up to 2 hand-troll representatives for two-year terms. The board seats are geographically assigned. ATA primarily represents trollers, but works on behalf of the entire industry.
ALASKA WHITEFISH TRAWLERS ASSN.
P.O. Box 991 Kodiak, AK 99615 (907) 486-3910 • Fax: (907) 486-6292 execdir@alaskawhitefishtrawlers.org www.alaskawhitefishtrawlers.org Rebecca Skinner, Executive Director Year Founded: Late 1960s; Incorporated 1974 Number of Members: 45 boats Annual Dues: 0.5% of vessel income; $2,500 max The AWTA represents trawl fishermen working out of Kodiak. It has established itself as an effective organization, holding many state and federal positions that allow it to fully represent the Kodiak groundfish f leet and support the community’s fishing interests.
AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY, ALASKA CHAPTER P.O. Box 670346 Chugiak, AK 99567-0346 (907) 688-1400
jennifer.stahl@alaska.gov www.afs-alaska.org Mary Beth Loewen, President Founded: 1870 The AFS is the oldest and largest professional society representing fisheries scientists. AFS promotes scientific research and enlightened management of resources for optimum use by the public. It also encourages comprehensive education for fisheries scientists and continuing on-the-job training.
AT-SEA PROCESSORS ASSN.
P.O. Box 32817 Juneau, AK 99803 (907) 523-0970 • Fax (907) 523-0798 smadsen@atsea.org www.atsea.org Stephanie Madsen, Executive Director Year Founded: 1985 APA represents U.S.-f lag at-sea-processing vessels that participate in the groundfish fisheries of the North Pacific. Our principal fishery is midwater pollock. APA is committed to working with fishery managers, scientists and our colleagues to ensure the continued health of our marine ecosystems.
BERING SEA FISHERMEN’S ASSN.
431 W. 7th Ave., Suite 204 Anchorage, AK 99501 (907) 279-6519 • (888) 927-2732 Fax: (907) 258-6688 karen@bsfaak.org www.bsfaak.org Karen Gillis, Executive Director Incorporated: 1980 Communities Represented: 192 Represented Population: 125,000+ BSFA began in 1979 with 150 fishermen from western Alaska who united to become involved in fisheries that were developing in their backyard and build an organization to help fishermen gain full economic benefits from existing commercial fisheries. BSFA is governed by a board of fishermen from Bristol Bay, Yukon, Kuskokwim, Norton Sound, Kotzebue and St. Paul.
BRISTOL BAY DRIFTNETTERS ASSN.
2408 Nob Hill N. Seattle, WA 98109-2048 (206) 285-1111 • Fax: (206) 284-1110 danfbarr@msn.com Dan Barr, President Year Founded: 1985 BBDA works to enhance the salmon resources of Bristol Bay and serves as a forum and voice for Bristol Bay fishermen with many different agencies and organizations, including the Alaska Board of Fisheries.
BRISTOL BAY FISHERMEN’S ASSN. P.O. Box 60131 Seattle, WA 98160 Phone/Fax: (206) 542-3930
bbfa@seanet.com bristolbayfishermen.org David Harsila, President Year Founded: 1966 Number of Members: 300 Annual Dues: $300 Formerly known as the Alaska Independent Fishermen’s Marketing Association, BBFA’s mission is to protect the renewable salmon resource and promote economic sustainability for commercial salmon permit holders in Bristol Bay. BBFA has worked for more than 50 years in political and regulatory arenas. The association strives to improve salmon quality and encourages expansion of sockeye salmon markets. BBFA offers an excellent marine insurance program.
CONCERNED AREA M FISHERMEN
35717 Walkabout Road Homer, AK 99603 (907) 235-2631 browburk@horizonsatellite.com camfalaska.com Steve Brown, President Year Founded: 1984 Number of Members: 80+ Annual Dues: $500 permit holder; $50 associate CAMF represents the Area M driftnet f leet at Board of Fisheries meetings. We are a group member of UFA and continually work with the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute and Area M processors to improve product quality in Area M and all of Alaska.
COOK INLET AQUACULTURE ASSN.
40610 Kalifornsky Beach Road Kenai, AK 99611 (907) 283-5761 • Fax: (907) 283-9433 info@ciaanet.org www.ciaanet.org Brent Johnson, President Gary Fandrei, Executive Director Year Founded: 1976 CIAA is a nonprofit corporation founded by commercial fishermen to engage in salmon-enhancement activities throughout the Cook Inlet watershed and to contribute fish to the common-property fisheries. Activities include lake fertilization, stocking, hatchery operation and construction of fish ladders, f low-control devices and spawning channels.
COPPER RIVER PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND MARKETING ASSN. P.O. Box 199 509 First Street Cordova, AK 99574 (907) 424-3459 info@copperrivermarketing.org www.copperrivermarketing.org Christa Hoover, Executive Director Year Founded: 2005 Number of Members: 550 Annual Dues: 1% assessment for members; $1,000 for nonpermit holders
The regional seafood development association for Area E in South-Central Alaska works to maximize the value of the drift and setnet salmon fisheries in Prince William Sound and the Copper River District through effective marketing, quality initiatives, cooperative partnerships and organizational competency.
CORDOVA DISTRICT FISHERMEN UNITED
P.O. Box 939 Cordova, AK 99574 (907) 424-3447 • Fax: (907) 424-3430 director@cdfu.org www.cdfu.org Jerry McCune, President Rachel Kallander, Executive Director Year Founded: 1935 Number of Members: 275 CDFU represents all the gear types in Area E: seine, gillnet, groundfish, set net and pound net. CDFU’s mission is to preserve and protect Alaska’s Area E fisheries and promote safety at sea. Our priorities are legislative and regulatory arenas and promoting the benefits of our healthy, wild-caught fish.
DEEP SEA FISHERMEN’S UNION OF THE PACIFIC
5215 Ballard Ave. N.W., Suite 1 Seattle, WA 98107 (206) 783-2922 • Fax: (206) 783-5811 dsfu@dsfu.org www.dsfu.org Koll Bruce, President Jim Johnson, Executive Director Year Founded: 1912 DSFU, the oldest union of crew members and skippers in the North Pacific, represents the longline schooner f leet crewmen under a Set Line Agreement with the FVOA and crab crewmen along the West Coast. The union’s goals are: fair wages; improved benefits; access to IFQ loan programs; proper longterm management of resources for healthy fisheries; fair and straightforward treatment of vessel, skipper and crew; professional work standards; and the prerogative of fishermen to stand together. The union’s long-range vision is to serve as the umbrella organization for all fixed-gear fishermen.
FISHING VESSEL OWNERS’ ASSN.
4005 20th Ave. W. Room 232, West Wall Bldg. Seattle, WA 98199-1290 (206) 284-4720 • Fax: (206) 283-3341 RobertA@fvoa.org www.fvoa.org Per Odegaard, President Robert D. Alverson, Manager Year Founded: 1914 Number of Members: 95 FVOA is a trade association representing Seattle-based longliners. The association promotes longlining as a habitat-safe harvest JULY 2017 / PILOTHOUSE GUIDE
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FREEZER-LONGLINE COALITION
2303 W. Commodore Way 202 Seattle, WA, 98199 (206) 284-2522 • (206) 284-2902 chadsee@freezerlongline.biz www.freezerlonglinecoalition.com Chad See, Executive Director Year Founded: 2008 Number of Members: 12 The Freezer-Longline Coalition is a nonprofit trade group promoting sustainable fishing practices.
GROUNDFISH FORUM
4241 21st Ave. W., Suite 302 Seattle, WA 98199 (206) 213-5270 • Fax: (206) 213-5272 chrisw@seanet.com www.groundfishforum.org Chris Woodley, Executive Director Year Founded: 1996 Number of Members: 5 The Groundfish Forum is a trade association representing five trawl companies and 17 head-and-gut vessels, or Amendment 80 vessels, which catch and process a wide range of non-pollock species from the Bering Sea/ Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska, many of which are certified as sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council. The association is committed to responsible fishing with minimal environmental impacts, and our mission is to craft meaningful solutions to issues such as discards, incidental catches and impact on habitat, and to inform government officials of the economic contribution of the Amendment 80 f leet to Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.
HALIBUT ASSN. OF NO. AMERICA
P.O. Box 872 Deming, WA 98244 (360) 592-3116 • Fax: (360) 592-3115 www.halibutassociation.org Blake Tipton, President Peggy Parker, Executive Director Year Founded: 1961 This trade association of halibut processors in Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia works for a sustainable Pacific halibut fishery and represents the industry’s interests in regulatory, management, and marketing policy matters.
HALIBUT COALITION
P.O. Box 22073 Juneau, AK 99802 (425) 949-1810 halibutcoalition@gmail.com www.halibutcoalition.org Tom Gemmell, Executive Director Year Founded: 1999 Number of Members: 13 Annual dues: As needed
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Members include 13 commercial fishing organizations and about 500 individual fishermen and processors. Our mission is to protect the sustainability of the Pacific halibut resource, ensure fair and equitable allocation of the halibut resource among all sectors and promote rational management of the halibut fishery.
duction goals are addressed through three strategies: 1) improved management and research, 2) rehabilitation of depressed wild stocks and supplemental production and 3) salmon-habitat monitoring, improvement and protection.
KENAI PENINSULA FISHERMEN’S ASSN.
1308 Sawmill Creek Road Sitka, AK 99835 (907) 747-6850 • Fax: (907) 747-1470 ilona_mayo@nsraa.org www.nsraa.org Steve Reifenstuhl, General Manager Kevin McDougall, President Year Founded: 1977 Number of Members: All Southeast Alaska salmon permit holders NSRAA operates the Hidden Falls, Medvejie and Sawmill Creek hatcheries, the Deer Lake coho-rearing project, four spawning channels and incubation boxes in Haines and works cooperatively on a number of projects with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and the U.S. Forest Service.
43961 Kalifornsky Beach Road, Suite F Soldotna, AK 99669-8276 (907) 262-2492 • Fax: (907) 262-2898 kpfa@alaska.net www.kpfaalaska.org Andy Hall, President Year Founded: 1954 KPFA’s main goal is ensuring the sustainability of our fishery resource. We strive to be fair and accessible to all fisheries gear types and areas within Cook Inlet waters. A nonprofit association, we operate under the rules governing a trade association. Primarily a set-net representation organization, we do not restrict membership to any one gear type. KPFA is actively involved with the community groups. We believe the primary focus of revitalization should take into consideration the social, historical and economic concerns of the regional commercial fishing families.
KODIAK FISHERMEN’S WIVES & ASSOCIATES
P.O. Box 467 Kodiak, AK 99615 (907) 486-8587 www.facebook.com/ KodiakFishermensWives kodiakfwa@gmail.com Melissa Schmeil, President Founded by local fishermen’s wives, this community service group works with others close to the Kodiak commercial fishing industry to promote the consumption of Alaska seafood and foster safety within the f leet. In addition, the group maintains the Kodiak Fishermen’s Memorial and sponsors an annual memorial service and survival-suit race during the Kodiak Crab Festival.
KODIAK REGIONAL AQUACULTURE ASSN.
104 Center Ave., Suite 205 Kodiak, AK 99615 (907) 486-6555 • Fax: (907) 486-4105 kraa.fairbanks@gci.net www.kraa.org Tina Fairbanks, Executive Director Oliver Holm, President Year Founded: 1983 Number of Members: 611 KRAA is composed of 611 CFEC permit holders dedicated to the stabilization of Kodiak’s salmon production. The association funds numerous salmon-enhancement tasks in the Kodiak area. Long-term pro-
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NORTH PACIFIC FISHERIES ASSN.
Box 796 Homer, AK 99603 (907) 235-1091 npfahomer@gmail.com www.npfahomer.com Malcolm Milne, President Year Founded: 1955 NPFA is a non-specific-gear group working in areas of resource management, fisheries conservation and public awareness of commercial fishing interests and contributions.
NORTH PACIFIC FISHING VESSEL OWNERS’ ASSN.
Vessel Safety Program 1900 W. Emerson, Suite 101 Seattle, WA 98119 (206) 285-3383 • Fax: (206) 286-9332 info@npfvoa.org www.npfvoa.org Karen Conrad, Executive Director Tim Vincent, President Year Founded: 1985 (non-profit since 1969) Annual Dues: $75-$600 The NPFVOA’s nonprofit Vessel Safety Program is dedicated to safety education and training for the commercial fishing industry and other mariners. NPFVOA’s program offers hands-on, Coast Guard– approved safety courses, customized and portable safety training and regular seminars on relevant industry topics.
NORTH PACIFIC GILLNET ALLIANCE 2408 Nob Hill N. Seattle, WA 98109
(206) 285-1111 • Fax: (206) 284-1110 Dan Barr, Chairman Year Founded: 1991 The NPGA addresses the common concerns and needs of gillnet fishermen on the West Coast. The alliance has been a pioneer in reducing high-seas salmon interception in the North Pacific and led the effort that secured passage of the High-Seas DriftnetMoratorium-Enforcement Act.
NORTHWEST FISHERIES ASSN.
6523 California Ave. S.W., Suite 314 Seattle, WA 98136 (206) 789-6197 • Fax: (206) 284-9409 info@northwestfisheries.org www.northwestfisheries.org Todd Greenwood, President Val Motley, Manager Year Founded: 1951 Number of Members: 180 NWFA is an association of primary and secondary seafood processors, brokers, distributors and support industries. Our mission is to provide networking opportunities and support to our members in the seafood industry.
NORTHWEST INDIAN FISHERIES COMMISSION
6730 Martin Way E. Olympia, WA 98516-5540 (360) 438-1180 • Fax: (360) 753-8659 mgrayum@nwifc.org www.nwifc.org Justin Parker, Executive Director Lorraine Loomis, Chairwoman Year Founded: 1974 Number of Members: 20 tribes Assisting treaty Indian tribes in conducting biologically sound fisheries and providing a unified tribal voice in fisheries management. The long-term goals of economic stability, renewable resources and regulatory certainty are shared by the tribes, who are working toward their own self-sufficiency.
OREGON FISHERMEN’S CABLE COMMITTEE
2021 Marine Drive, Suite 102 Astoria, OR 97103 (503) 325-2285 • Fax: (503) 325-7012 smcmullen@ofcc.com www.ofcc.com Scott McMullen, Chairman Year Founded: 1998 The OFCC works with undersea cable owners to route cables for maximum burial in the fishing grounds and with the fishing industry to safely fish around cables. The OFCC provides submarine cable routes in popular marine-navigation software formats to West Coast trawlers.
PACIFIC COAST FEDERATION OF FISHERMEN’S ASSOCIATIONS P.O. Box 29370 San Francisco, CA 94129-0370
(415) 561-5080 • Fax: (415) 561-5464 TSloane@ifrfish.org www.pcffa.org Noah Oppenheim, Executive Director Dave Bitts, President Year Founded: 1976 Number of Members: 14 organizations representing 1,200 individuals PCFFA is a nonprofit umbrella organization representing working men and women in the West Coast commercial fishing f leet. Throughout its history it has been engaged in issues ranging from resource protection (habitat, etc.) to marketing programs, such as establishing the California Salmon Council.
PACIFIC SEAFOOD PROCESSORS ASSN.
1900 W. Emerson Place, Suite 205 Seattle, WA 98119-1649 (206) 281-1667 • Fax: (206) 283-2387 info@pspafish.net www.pspafish.net Glenn Reed, President; glennr.pspa@gmail.com PSPA, a nonprofit trade association, was established in 1914 to address issues of concern to member companies. PSPA encourages conservation, enhancement and optimal utilization of our renewable fishery resources.
PACIFIC WHITING CONSERVATION COOPERATIVE
4039 21st Ave. W., Suite 400 Seattle, WA 98199 (206) 285-5139 • Fax (206) 285-1841 2505 S.E. 11th Ave., Suite 358 Portland, OR 97202 (971) 544-7787 • Fax (971) 544-7731 www.pacificwhiting.org Dan Waldeck, Executive Director Jan JAcobs, President Year Founded: 1997 PWCC was formed to promote rational harvest, optimal utilization and minimal waste in the whiting fishery. PWCC is comprised of three member companies — American Seafoods, Glacier Fish Co., and Trident Seafoods.
PETERSBURG VESSEL OWNERS ASSN.
P.O. Box 232 Petersburg, AK 99833 (907) 772-9323 • Fax: (907) 772-9323 pvoa@gci.net www.pvoaonline.org Megan O’Neil, Executive Director Jerry Dahl Jr., President Year Founded: 1954 PVOA is composed of almost 100 members participating in a wide variety of fish species and gear types. An additional 30 businesses supportive to our industry are members. Our members fish throughout Alaska, from Southeast to the Bering Sea. Targeted species include salmon, herring, sablefish, cod, crab and shrimp.
PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND AQUACULTURE CORP.
P.O. Box 1110 Cordova, AK 99574 (907) 424-7511 • Fax: (907) 424-7514 pwsac@ak.net www.pwsac.com David Reggiani, General Manager dave.pwsac@ak.net Tim Moore, Chairman Year Founded: 1974 PWSAC is a private, non-profit regional aquaculture corporation formed to provide economic stability to Prince William Sound commercial salmon fisheries and added opportunity to the regional sports, subsistence and personal-use fisheries.
PURSE SEINE VESSEL OWNERS’ ASSN.
1900 W. Nickerson, Suite 320 Seattle, WA 98119 (888) 284-7733 • Fax: (206) 283-7795 rfk@psvoa.org www.psvoa.com Bob Kehoe, Executive Director Year Founded: 1936 Number of Members: 300+ PSVOA is governed by a 13-member board of directors representing small-boat owners operating throughout the West Coast and Alaska. PSVOA actively participates in the development of federal and state fisheries management plans and related legislative policy. To further these activities, PSVOA manages a group of member-owned affiliates providing a variety of marine insurance services.
SEAFOOD PRODUCERS COOPERATIVE
2875 Roeder Ave., Suite 2 Bellingham, WA 98225 (360) 733-0120 • Fax: (360) 733-0513 spc@spcsales.com www.spcsales.com Joe Morelli, President/CEO Year Founded: 1944 Number of Members: 520 The mission of Seafood Producers Cooperative is to maintain an opportunity for fishermen to participate in a cooperative organization that provides the processing, marketing and support services which allow members to maximize the benefits of their fishing efforts and provide the consumer with the highest-quality seafood possible.
SEASHARE
600 Ericksen Ave. N.E., Suite 310 Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 (206) 842-3609 info@seashare.org www.seashare.org Jim Harmon, Executive Director jharmon@seashare.org Year Founded: 1994 SeaShare is a national, nonprofit, hungerJULY 2017 / PILOTHOUSE GUIDE
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SEATTLE FISHERMEN’S MEMORIAL
P.O. Box 17356 Seattle, WA 98107 (206) 782-6577 info@seattlefishermensmemorial.org www.seattlefishermensmemorial.org Year Founded: 1985 Completed in 1988, the Seattle Fishermen’s Memorial is a place of reverence, recognition and healing for the families of more than 675 local commercial fishermen who have lost their lives at sea since the turn of the century. The memorial’s board of directors is a charitable, non-profit organization devoted to promoting safety in fishing and easing the emotional and financial burden of surviving family members.
SOUTHEAST ALASKA FISHERMEN’S ALLIANCE
9369 N. Douglas Hwy. Juneau, AK 99801 (907) 586-6652 • Fax (907) 523-1168 seafa@gci.net www.seafa.org Kathy Hansen, Executive Director Year Founded: 2000 Number of Members: 300+ SEAFA represents more than 300 members involved mainly in the salmon, crab and shrimp fisheries of Southeast Alaska as well as Gulf of Alaska longline fisheries. Our goal is to maintain and enhance the sustainability of the resource and the longevity of the commercial fishing industry and coastal communities. SEAFA also maintains and operates for its members a low-cost vessel-insurance pool.
SOUTHEAST ALASKA SEINERS ASSN.
P.O. Box 714 Ward Cove, AK 99928 (907) 220-7630 info@seiners.net www.seiners.net Susan Doherty, Executive Director Dan Castle, President Year Founded: 1968 Annual dues: Permit-holders, $750; non-fishing, $400 Seiners founded SEAS, a member-based organization, to promote the vitality of the commercial seine f leet and the sound stewardship of the salmon resource in Southeast Alaska. SEAS is composed of seine skippers, deckhands and businesses that have an interest in a productive seine fishery.
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Major issues SEAS will confront include: federal subsistence takeover, Pacific Salmon Treaty negotiations, fishery legislation, Board of Fisheries salmon issues, ADF&G budget and identifying opportunities that could improve benefits fishermen receive from hatchery programs.
SOUTHERN SOUTHEAST REGIONAL AQUACULTURE ASSN.
14 Borch St. Ketchikan, AK 99901 (907) 225-9605 • Fax: (907) 225-1348 admin@ssraa.org www.ssraa.org David Landis, General Manager Year Founded: 1978 Number of Members: All salmon permit holders in southern Southeast districts The SSRAA was established and funded by salmon fishermen for the purpose of enhancing the endangered salmon stocks in the southern Southeast districts and for monitoring the environment and any activities that may affect the fisheries in those areas. Although there are no dues, the association members voted to impose a 3 percent enhancement tax on themselves. The state contracts the money back to the association on a yearly basis.
UNITED CATCHER BOATS
4005 20th Ave. W., Suite 116 Fishermen’s Terminal Seattle, WA 98199 (206) 282-2599 • Fax: (206) 282-2414 bpaine@ucba.org www.ucba.org Brent Paine, Executive Director Year Founded: 1993 Number of Members: 72 United Catcher Boats is a trawl-vesselowners’ trade association that represents the interests of the catcher-vessel trawl f leet. United Catcher Boats members participate in the Bering Sea Aleutian Islands pollock, P-cod and yellowfin sole trawl fisheries; the Gulf of Alaska pollock, P-cod, rockfish and sole trawl fisheries; and the West Coast whiting trawl fishery. Goals of the association include rational fisheries management, including support for catch shares and cooperativebased management programs, innovative gear technology, reducing non-target species harvest and maintaining vessel owners’ market share.
UNITED COOK INLET DRIFT ASSN.
43961 K-Beach Road, Suite E Soldotna, AK 99669 (907) 260-9436 • Fax: (907) 260-9438 info@ucida.org www.ucida.org David Martin, President Year Founded: 1980 Number of Members: 300 Annual Dues: $200; associate, $25
UCIDA serves Cook Inlet drift fishermen by its involvement with the Board of Fisheries, state and federal legislation, marketing, in-season price information, and environmental and oil-spill concerns. UCIDA is strongly committed to fighting attacks against the commercial fishing industry in Cook Inlet and Alaska.
UNITED FISHERMEN OF ALASKA
P.O. Box 20229 Juneau, AK 99802-0229 (907) 586-2820 • Fax: (907) 463-2545 ufa@ufa-fish.org www.ufa-fish.org Jerry McCune, President Year Founded: 1974 Number of Members: 35 groups, plus about 500 individual members Annual Dues: Individual, $175 for one year, $300 for two years; crew, $50; lifetime, $3,000; group membership, $3,000; business memberships at $300, $750 and $2,000 levels UFA’s mission is to promote and protect the common interests of Alaska’s commercial fishing industry as a vital component of Alaska’s social and economic well-being. UFA maintains a statewide trade organization with core functions including legislative presence, communication within the fishing industry, continued access to fisheries resources and promoting positive public relations for Alaska’s commercial fishermen. The UFA voting board of directors is composed of representatives from group members and four at-large representatives elected by the individual and lifetime (fishing permit holder) members.
UNITED FISHERMEN’S MARKETING ASSN.
P.O. Box 1035 Kodiak, AK 99615 (907) 486-3453 Jeff Stephan, Manager Year Founded: Mid-1930s UFMA membership includes Pacific cod pot fishermen; crab fishermen; halibut, blackcod and Pacific cod longliners; salmon and herring seiners; and other groundfish harvesters who participate in the diversified fisheries of the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands. UFMA represents vessel owners with regard to many important state and federal legislative, regulatory, research, conservation, management, political, quality and marketing issues that affect the economic welfare of member vessels. Issues include crab, groundfish and halibut management; population assessments and other research; habitat protection; bycatch reduction; observer programs; blackcod/halibut IFQ program; IFQ/CDQ fee proposals, etc.
UNITED SOUTHEAST ALASKA GILLNETTERS ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 2196 Petersburg, AK 99833
(253) 237-3099 via Google Voice usag.alaska@gmail.com www.akgillnet.org Max Worhatch, President Cynthia Wallesz, Executive Director Year Founded: 1978 Annual Dues: $300 for individual permit holders, $250 for businesses with 8 employees or fewer; $500 for corporate members USAG is an association of about 170 men and women who participate in the Southeast Alaska gillnet salmon f ishery. USAG promotes and protects the interests of its members by active involvement in legislation (local, state and national) that affects the gillnet fishery, such as allocation, marketing, quality, taxes, safety, environment and enhancement programs. USAG offers a vessel-insurance program to members and publishes a biannual newsletter.
WESTERN FISHBOAT OWNERS ASSN.
P.O. Box 992723 Redding, CA 96099 (530) 229-1097 • Fax: (530) 232-0107 wfoa@charter.net www.wfoa-tuna.org Wayne Heikkila, Executive Director
Louie Hill, President Year Founded: 1967 Western Fishboat Owners Association is a California-based, non-profit trade association established in 1967, representing approximately 400 albacore tuna trollvessel owners based in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Hawaii, New Zealand and British Columbia. These are familyowned boats that fish albacore tuna during summer and fall months. Some fish the South Pacific waters January to April. WFOA’s primary mission is to promote trollcaught albacore tuna through market and management issues. WFOA also manages the affairs of the American Fishermen’s Research Foundation.
YAKUTAT REGIONAL AQUACULTURE ASSN.
P.O. Box 153 Yakutat, AK 99689 (907) 784-3000 yakutatRAA@gmail.com www.yraa.org Larry Bemis, President Year Founded: 2011 YRAA is the ADFG-recognized aquaculture association for the Yakutat
region. The group’s purpose is to augment the state of Alaska common-property fisheries in the Yakutat region that contribute to the subsistence, sport, commercial, personaluse and other Alaska fisheries through the rehabilitation of the state of Alaska salmon fisheries by artificial means; to conduct and promote scientific studies on fisheries and fisheries research; to build self-perpetuating runs of salmon; and other educational and scientific activities as allowed under the law.
YUKON RIVER DRAINAGE FISHERIES ASSN.
P.O. Box 2898 Palmer, AK 99645 (907) 272-3141 Fax: (907) 272-3142 info@yukonsalmon.org www.yukonsalmon.org Wayne Jenkins, Executive Director Year Founded: 1990 The YRDFA’s 16-member board crafts solutions to allocation and management issues in this complex fishery. The YRDFA also conducts various projects on salmonbycatch identification, habitat restoration and stock assessment, as well as marketing and promotion of Yukon River salmon in the Pacific Northwest.
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Port Index Adak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Florence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Petersburg . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Akutan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
(Siuslaw)
Port Angeles . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Anacortes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Fort Bragg . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Port Townsend . . . . . . . . . 65
Anchorage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
(Noyo Harbor)
Saint George . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Angoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Friday Harbor . . . . . . . . . . 51
Saint Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Astoria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Garibaldi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Sand Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Bandon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Gig Harbor . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
San Francisco . . . . . . . . . . 66
Bellingham . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Gold Beach . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Seattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Berkeley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Haines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Seldovia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Bethel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Homer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Seward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Blaine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Hoonah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Sitka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Bodega Bay . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Hydaburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Skagway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
(Spud Point & Mason’s Marina)
Ilwaco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Tacoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Brookings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Juneau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Tenakee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Charleston . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Kake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Thorne Bay . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
(Coos Bay)
Kenai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Valdez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Chignik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Ketchikan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Warrenton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Cold Bay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
King Cove . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Westport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Cordova . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Kodiak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
(Grays Harbor)
Craig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
La Conner . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Whittier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Crescent City . . . . . . . . . . . 47
(Port of Skagit County)
Winchester Bay . . . . . . . . . 74
Depoe Bay . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
La Push . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
(Salmon Harbor)
Dillingham . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
(Quileute Marina)
Wrangell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Dutch Harbor . . . . . . . . . . 48
Metlakatla . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Yakutat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Egegik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Moss Landing . . . . . . . . . . 60
(Coffee Point)
Naknek/King Salmon . . . . 60
Elfin Cove . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Neah Bay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Eureka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
(Makah Marina)
(Humboldt Bay)
Newport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Everett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Nome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
False Pass . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Pelican . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
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ADAK to ANCHORAGE
ADAK
AKUTAN
ADAK MARINE SERVICES
Port Office Ph/Fax . . . . . . . 907-698-2265 akutan@gci.net VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Port Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-592-0185 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-592-4171 harbormaster@adakisland.com VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Fish & Game . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-592-2407 U.S. Post Office . . . . . . . . . 907-592-8113
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 907) Trident Seafoods . . . . . . . . . . . . . 698-2211 or VHF CH. 73
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907)
AT THE DOCK
Adak Fuels. . . . . . . . . . . .phone: 592-8330 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .fax: 592-4171 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VHF Ch. 16
• Harbormaster: Brett Willis • Pelkey’s Dive Service: VHF 6
AT THE DOCK
MOORAGE
• General Manager: Cal Kashevarof . . . . . . . . . ckashevarof@adakisland.com
• 200’ limited dock space • 2 hrs. free parking. Call VHF 6 before docking
RATES
AMENITIES (AREA CODE 907)
• 0-32’: $80/24 hrs. • 33-60’: $100/24 hrs. • 61-75’: $150/24 hrs. • 76-100’: $175/24 hrs. • 101-125’: $190/24 hrs. • 126-150’: $200/24 hrs. • 151-200’: $250/24 hrs. • 201-250’: $300/24 hrs. • 251-300’: $350/24 hrs. • 301’ and up: $2/ft./24 hrs.
• general store/hotel/laundry/museum • library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .698-2230 • U.S. Post Office . . . . . . . . . . . .698-2200 • City of Akutan . . . . . . . . . . . . . .698-2228 • VPSO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 698-2315 • church and gym . . . . . . . . . . . .698-2239 • Roadhouse Bar
AMENITIES • indoor/outdoor storage • freshwater/grocery store • hotel services • pay phones at store • expediting services • cafe, bar and grill
REPAIR FACILITIES • closest haulout is Dutch Harbor • welder and machinist on island • diver
AIR TRANSPORT • Alaska Airlines (pax & cargo) Sundays & Thursdays, flight 160/161 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-592-3121
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • Adak Medical Clinic/M.D. on duty • EMTs and volunteer service ambulance • Medical transport by plane to Anchorage • LifeFlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800-478-9111
TRANSPORT (AREA CODE 907) • PenAir Seaplane (daily flights from Dutch Harbor) . . . . . . . . . 581-1383 • Freighters: Coastal Transportation, Western Pioneer, Sealand
MOORAGE • 950 berths • 150-200 transient berths • waiting list for permanents; no waiting list for temporary (winter)
RATES • guest: call Harbor Office 360-293-0694 or VHF Channel 66A • qualifying commercial fish moorage: $5.94/ft./mo. (doesn’t include excise tax)
AMENITIES • electricity/restaurants/restrooms • county public transportation • freshwater/loading pier/showers • pump-out facilities (free); pay phones • laundry/net-mending dock • groceries/marine store • in the heart of Anacortes
HAULOUTS • two 1-ton dock hoists • 3 marine railways in area • boat hoists in harbor up to 37’; in town up to 65’ • 2 dry docks in town, haul up to 300’
REPAIR FACILITIES • full repair facilities (0’ to 500’)
AIR TRANSPORT • port-owned airport 3,000’ paved runway
MEDICAL (AREA CODE 907)
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES
• clinic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .698-2208
• hospital 10 blocks away
ANACORTES
SPECIAL EVENTS
Port Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . .360-293-0694 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .360-299-0998 marina@portofanacortes.com www.portofanacortes.com VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66A Fish & Game . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-902-2200 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 360) Cap Sante Boat Haven . . . . . . . .293-0694 Reisner Distributor . . . . . . . . . . . 293-2197
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 360)
• Waterfront Festival: May 16-17 • Arts Festival: August 1-2 • July 4 fireworks at marina
ANCHORAGE Port Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-343-6200 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-277-5636 bickforddj@muni.org www.portofanc.com VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Coast Guard . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-428-4100 Fish & Game . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-267-2100 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
Trident Seafoods . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293-7701
AT THE DOCK • Harbormaster: Dale Fowler
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Inlet Petroleum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274-3835 Shoreside Petroleum . . . . . . . . .344-4571 JULY 2017 / PILOTHOUSE GUIDE
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ANCHORAGE to BANDON PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 907) Alaska Seafood Services . . . . . . 276-4551 Great Pacific Seafoods . . . . . . . . 248-7966 Tenth & M Seafoods . . . . . . . . . . 272-3474 Whitney Foods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243-3311 Yamaya Seafood . . . . . . . . . . . . .563-5588
• limited transient berths; contact City Office • no dryland storage
HAULOUT AND REPAIR • one tidal grid
AT THE DOCK
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES
• Port Director: Steve Ribuffo • Port Operations Manager: Stuart B . Greydanus
• local clinic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-788-4600 • emergency . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-788-3237
DOCKAGE • 5 terminal berths totaling 3,488 linear feet available • dock space for transients with prior approval • average tidal range: 30 feet
AMENITIES • freshwater at berths • taxis • showers & laundry about 1 mile away • sewage pumpout • tariff rates available upon request or on website
ASTORIA Mooring Basin Office . . . . . 503-325-8279 Port Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503-741-3300 Fax: Attn . Harbrmaster . . . . 503-741-3345 marina@portofastoria .com www .portofastoria .com VHF Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 & 74 Fish & Wildlife . . . . . . . . . . . 503-338-0106 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • search & rescue • sheriff stationed at harbor • medics/ambulance
SPECIAL EVENTS • Fisher Poets’ Gathering in February • Crab Festival in April • Marine Swap Meet in April • Vessel & Industry Tour in July • Astoria Regatta, 2nd weekend in Aug . • Silver Salmon Celebration, 2nd weekend in October
BANDON Port Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541-347-3206 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541-347-4645 admin@portofbandon .com www .portofbandon .com Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 541) Port Fuel Dock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347-1901
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 503) Port of Astoria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325-8279 Wilcox & Flegel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325-3122
AT THE DOCK
• full repair facilities available in area
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 503)
MOORAGE • 88 berths
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES
Bornstein SeaFoods . . . . . . . . . . 325-6164 Fergus-McBurendse . . . . . . . . . .325-9592 Fishhawk Fisheries Inc . . . . . . . . 325-5252
REPAIR FACILITIES
• Providence Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-562-2211 • Coast Guard . . . . . . . . . . . 800-478-5555 • Anchorage Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911
ANGOON City Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-788-3653 City Office fax . . . . . . . . . . . 907-788-3821 VHF Channel(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 & 16 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
AT THE DOCK • Port of Astoria staff
MOORAGE • 416 berths in west and east basin • dry storage available
AMENITIES
• Port of Bandon staff
RATES • daily: 20-29 ft . – $12-$17; 30-39 ft . – $18-$23; 40-49 ft . – $24-$29; 50-59 ft . – $30-$35; 60 ft . – $36+ • call for monthly, quarterly or yearly rates
AMENITIES • charter services, electricity, freshwater • pumpout stations/restrooms
• electricity, freshwater, laundry • net-mending dock, pay phones • restaurant, restrooms • sewage pumpout, showers
AIR TRANSPORT
HAULOUTS
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES
• Harbormaster: Albin Frederickson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-788-3960
• Astoria Marine Construction — Warrenton Shipyard • Port of Astoria • 80-ton travel lift
• hospital with state-of-the-art equipment • Southern Coos Hospital, 541-347-2426 • USCG: May-Sept . • ambulance services
AMENITIES
REPAIR FACILITIES
• electricity
• Full-service repair facilities, machine shops, welding, electronic repairs, dive service and marine supplies — all available locally
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Angoon Oil and Gas . . . . . . . . . .788-3436
AT THE DOCK
MOORAGE • 45 berths (waiting list)
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• Small airport a few miles south of Bandon; commercial airport in North Bend (25 miles north)
SPECIAL EVENTS • Marine Swap Meet May • Blessing of the Fleet May • Old Fashioned 4th of July
BANDON to BETHEL • WindFest August • Cranberry Festival September • Bandon Dunes Resort
wood; also engines and electronics • full-service boat repair & outfitting facilities & shops
BELLINGHAM
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES
Port Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . (360) 676-2542 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (360) 671-6149 squalicum@portofbellingham.com portofbellingham.com VHF Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 360) Harbor Marine Fuel . . . . . . . . . . . 734-1710
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 360) Arrowac Fisheries . . . . . . . . . . . . 676-1606 Bellingham Cold Storage . . . . . . 733-1640 Bornstein Sea Foods . . . . . . . . . 734-7990 Icicle Seafoods . . . . . . . . . . . . . .676-5885 San Juan Seafoods . . . . . . . . . . .734-8384 Seafood Producers Co-op . . . . . 733-0120 Trident Seafoods . . . . . . . . . . . . .734-8900
AT THE DOCK • Harbormaster: Kyle Randolph
MOORAGE • 26’ to 96’ slips
RATES • Based on slip size
AMENITIES • 2-mile walking path around harbor • 2 fuel docks • 40,000 sq. ft. dry storage for commercial fishing • electricity at all berths • five restaurants • freshwater at all berths • pay phones nearby • 4 shower and 3 laundry facilities • two 2-ton stiff-leg cranes
HAULOUTS • 2 large floating dry docks; 2,800-ton and 1,000-ton • private mobile crane for engines, gear • 4 haulout locations • small Coast Guard base
REPAIR FACILITIES • 3 net suppliers • 2 net-working areas • 1,200 ft. of work/loading piers • 4 yards can repair aluminum, glass,
• St. Joseph, Main Campus: equipped for general surgery, 360-734-5400 • dentists in town
AIR TRANSPORT • jet runway with daily flights • 3 miles to airport
BERKELEY Marina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510-981-6740 marina@cityofberkeley.info www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/marina/ VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Fish & Game . . . . . . . . . . . . 707-944-5500 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
AT THE DOCK • Harbormaster: Ann Hardinger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .fax: 510-981-6745
MOORAGE
• 10 transient berths • 1,000 total berths • commercial berths available • dry land storage: $85-$95/mo.
RATES
• visitors: $0.50/ft.
AMENITIES
• electricity/pay phones • freshwater • fuel docks/pump-out stations • restrooms/showers
(open Mon.-Fri. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.) Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-543-2311 www.cityofbethel.org VHF Channels . . . . 10 & 16 (May 1-Nov. 1) Fish & Game . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-543-2433 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
AT THE DOCK • Acting Port Director: Peter A. Williams . . . . . . . . . . . pwilliams@cityofbethel.net • Admin. Assistant: Ed Flores . . . . . . . . . . . . . eflores@cityofbethel.net
MOORAGE • up to 2,200’ of 5,000’ seawall available for transients • small boat harbor with finger floats for local small-boat fleet • dry land storage available year round, vessels and cargo
RATES • rates available at www.cityofbethel.org • winter storage: $0.30/sq. ft./month, depending on season
AMENITIES • fuel available at petroleum dock • water delivered by truck • general, grocery stores with delis • restaurants—free delivery • book exchange at city dock office • forklifts, cranes and dock equipment— call dock office for list of handlers holding current terminal use permits • taxicab services
HAULOUTS
HAULOUTS • travel lift
• crane available for emergency repairs with advance notice • beach ramp or main cargo dock
REPAIR FACILITIES
REPAIR FACILITIES
• Berkeley Marine Center Medical/Rescue Facilities • local fire dept.; Alta Bates Hospital
AIR TRANSPORT • Oakland Airport
SPECIAL EVENTS • 4th of July
BETHEL Port Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-543-2310
• outboard motor repair • steel and aluminum welding available
AIR TRANSPORT • daily jet service by Alaska Airlines • local villages: scheduled flights and charters
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • Bethel Family Clinic . . . . . 907-543-3773 • Bethel Health Center • Coast Guard facilities in Kodiak • Yukon Kuskokwim Delta Regional JULY 2017 / PILOTHOUSE GUIDE
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BETHEL to BROOKINGS Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .907-543-6000 • Bethel Search & Rescue
BLAINE Harbor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-647-6176 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-332-1043 blaineharbor@portofbellingham .com www .portofbellingham .com VHF Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 & 68 Fish & Game . . . . . . . . . . . . 206-976-3200 Coast Guard . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-734-1692 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 360) Blaine Marina Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 332-8425 McEvoy Oil (truck delivery) . . . . .734-5650
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 360) Boundary Fish Co . Inc . . . . . . . . . 332-6715 Starfish Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .332-8066 Sound Pacific Seafood . . . . . . . . 332-2733
AT THE DOCK
BODEGA BAY (Spud Point Marina & Mason’s Marina) Spud Pt . Marina Office . . . . 707-875-3535 Spud Pt . Marina Fax . . . . . . 707-875-3436 spudpoint@sonoma-county .org spudpointmarina .org Spud Pt . VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Mason’s Marina . . . . . . . . . 707-875-3811 Mason’s Marina VHF Channel . . . . . . . .16 USCG Station . . . . . . . . . . . 707-875-3596 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
REPAIR FACILITIES
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 707)
BROOKINGS
Spud Point Fuel Dock . . . . . . . . .875-3428
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 707) North Coast Fisheries . . . . . . . . . 875-3576 Tides Wharf (fish dock) . . . . . . . .875-3560 Lucas Wharf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875-3571 Spud Point Crab Co . . . . . . . . . . .875-9472
AT THE DOCK
• 629 total berths (commercial/pleasure) • dry land storage • commercial moorage available 26’-58’, call for larger sizes
MOORAGE (MASON’S MARINA) • Rates: 30’ slips - $180/mo . 40’ slips - $210/mo .
AMENITIES (SPUD POINT)
Walsh Marine . . . . . . . . . . . 360-332-5051 Blaine Marine Services . . . . 360-332-3324
• commercial flake ice facility • electricity/freshwater/laundromat • fuel and ice service, 8 a .m .-4 p .m . (must be finished fueling by 3:30 p .m .) • dry storage space $85/mo . • commercial service dock/pay phones • restrooms/showers/security gates • 3-ton J .I .B . crane and 1-ton crane • 30 amp & 50 amp electric
SPECIAL EVENTS
AMENITIES (MASON’S MARINA)
• Fishermen’s Memorial Service, 1st Sunday of May • 4th July parade and fireworks
• convenience store & gas station open from 8 a .m .-5 p .m . 7 days/wk . selling reg . unleaded, super unleaded, clear diesel, propane, bagged ice, fishing supplies
REPAIR FACILITIES
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• Annual Fisherman’s Festival, 3rd week in April (arts and crafts, BBQ, boat races)
Port Harbor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541-469-2218 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541-469-0672 info@port-brookings-harbor .org http://www .port-brookings-harbor .com VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
• 244 berths/check for available transient
• Commercial rates daily: $20 up to 30’, $25 up to 40’, $30 up to 50’, $36 up to 60’, $42 up to 90’ and $54 for 91’ and up • Sport rates daily: $20 up to 30’, $30 for 30’ to 40’, $40 for 41’ to 50’, $50 for 51’ to 60’, $60 for 61’ to 90’, over 90’ $100 • Monthly: $6 .55/ft .
• 30-ton travel lift • dock hoists at processors • 250-ton marine railways
SPECIAL EVENTS
Port of Brookings 469-2218 or VHF 12 (call for large truck quantities)
• $6 .14/ft . plus tax for approved active fishing boats under 80’, all other call for rates and availability .
HAULOUTS
• bus available to transit station
MOORAGE (SPUD POINT)
RATES (SPUD POINT)
• Weblockers, fenced dry storage, loading pier, net repair area, net reel, forklift, boatlaunch, WIFI available, pay phone, showers, laundry
AIR TRANSPORT
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 541)
RATES
AMENITIES
• some mechanical
• Harbormaster: Noah Wagner
• Harbormaster: Andy Peterson
MOORAGE
• restrooms and showers available • locked gates and on-site security • water/electricity available
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 541) Hallmark Fisheries . . . . . . . . . . .469-4616 BC Fisheries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 531-1827
AT THE DOCK • Operations Supervisor: Travis Webster • Executive Director: Ted Fitzgerald
MOORAGE • 600 berths/10 transient • dry land storage available
RATES 24’-70’+ • daily: $12 to $35 • monthly: $216 to $756 • annual: $37 .21/ft .-$41 .67/ft .
AMENITIES • bulk ice • electricity/freshwater/laundry • net-mending dock/pumpout/ dump stations • freshwater and electricity at most slips • 6-lane launch ramp/retail center
HAULOUTS • 25-ton crane/60-ton travel lift (16’ max bm)
REPAIR FACILITIES
BROOKINGS to CHIGNIK • self-help yard & various craft businesses
• Annual Moorage: $3.88 - $4.23/ft per month
AIR TRANSPORT
HAUL OUTS
• small airport with private planes
• Boatyard phone . . . . . . . . 541-888-3703 • 12-ton mobile crane and 7 ½ ton forklift • 60-ton travel life boat hoist • 200-ton marine railway at boatyard • 1,000-ton dry dock in Coos Bay
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • Chetco River Life Boat Station • Curry County Sheriff • many doctors and chiropractors • nearest hospital: 27 miles • Search & Rescue • Southern Curry Mercy Flights • U.S. Coast Guard
CHARLESTON (Oregon International Port of Coos Bay) Port Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . (541) 888-2548 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541) 888-6111 info@charlestonmarina.com www.charlestonmarina.com www.portofcoosbay.com VHF Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 KVY560 Fish & Game: Weekly updates from Oregon Department of Fisheries and Wildlife: www.dfw.state.or.us Pollution Hotline . . . . .(US) 800-424-8802 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (OR) 800-452-0311
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 541) Russell’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888-4711
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 541) Bandon Pacific Inc. . . . . . . . . . . .888-9626 Chuck’s Seafood . . . . . . . . . . . . .888-5525 Hallmark Fisheries. . . . . . . . . . . .888-3253 Oregon Brand Seafoods . . . . . . . 888-1748
ICE Charleston Ice Dock . . . . . . 541-888-2548
AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: John Buckley
MOORAGE • 560+ berths/ 150+ transient • upland vessel storage in Charleston boatyard
RATES • Daily: $13.47 - $30.05 – based on feet • Monthly: all sizes $7.05/ft.; $110 min., paid in advance based on 30 consecutive days • Semi-annual Moorage: Vessels 30’ and under for $5.10/ft per month
Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802 Harbormaster’s Office . . . . 907-749-2284 www.cityofchignik
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 907) Trident Seafoods . . . . . . . . . . . . . 749-2210 Trident support side . . . . . . . . . . 749-2276
AT THE DOCK • contact processors via VHF Ch. 6 or 73
AMENITIES • 6 lane launch ramp • Fuel dock, propane, pump-outs, security • Tackle, bait and marine supplies • Restrooms/showers/laundromat • Dry land storage
REPAIR FACILITIES
MOORAGE • 1 dock and a few buoys for transients • 2 docks in summer • storage on land; contact processor • small boat harbor with annual, seasonal and transient moorage
• Giddings Boatworks • Skallerud Marine Services • Tarheel Steel Fabrication • Encore Enterprises (engines)
RATES
AIR TRANSPORT
AMENITIES
• Southwest Oregon Regional Airport, PenAir, United • Charter/Rental: Coos Aviation Inc., Menasha Corp.
• 1 grocery store in summer & winter • 1 non-denominational church • community hall • electricity/freshwater • phones 5 minutes from dock • showers at bunkhouse • doughnut & coffee shop near support- side dock on boardwalk
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • Emergency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911 • Search & Rescue Emer. . (541) 756-4141 • Bay Area Hospital . . . . . . . 541) 269-8111 • Bay Cities Ambulance . . . (541) 269-4355 • 24 Hr. Poison Hotline . . 1(800) 222-1222
SPECIAL EVENTS • Charleston Merchant’s Crab Feed second Saturday in February • Charleston Oyster Feed last Saturday in April • Charleston Seafood Festival third weekend in August • Bay Area Fun Festival third weekend in September • Bay Area Chamber of Commerce • Charleston Visitor’s Center (May – Sept) – (541) 888-2311 • Coos Bay/North Bend Visitor Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541) 269-0215
CHIGNIK City Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-749-2280 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-749-2300 VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Fish & Game (Summer) . . . 907-845-2243
• Daily $11 to $105, based on length • Seasonal (4 months) $307 to $1094 • Annual moorage: call harbormaster
HAULOUTS • 2 cranes at processors • 1 travel lifts, maximum capacity 30 tons • processors have engineers for repairs
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • Chignik Bay Sub-Regional Clinic . . . . . . . . . . . . . .907-749-2282 or VHF 6 • nearest hospital, Kodiak or Dillingham • nearest Coast Guard facilities—Kodiak • physician’s asst. at clinic (summer) • x-ray machine, advanced cardiac life support system, pharmacy and laboratory (summer), ambulance squad • King Salmon Trooper Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-246-3464
AIR TRANSPORT • daily flights • Grant Aviation • Lake Clark Air
WATER TRANSPORT • Alaska Marine Highway • Coastal Transportation JULY 2017 / PILOTHOUSE GUIDE
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COLD BAY
• Peninsula Airways
City Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-532-2401 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-532-2671 coldbayak@arctic .net VHF Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 & 16 Fish & Game (Seasonal) . . . 907-532-2419 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
• Alaska Marine Highway • Western Pioneer / Coastal Transportation
AT THE DOCK (AREA CODE 907) • Harbormaster: Alan Ellis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532-2478
MOORAGE • transient moorage available at Cold Bay City Dock
RATES • 6 hr . grace period is allowed, then daily rates apply • under 31’, free; 32-46’, $10; 47-60’, $15; 61-75’, $20; 76-90’, $50; 91-105’, $75; 106-125’, $90; 126-150’, $100; 151’-up, $100+$1/ft . over 150’
• slips available for vessels up to 24-70’ and transient moorage
TRANSPORT
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • clinic with on-duty FNP • EMTs and volunteer service ambulance • medical transport by plane to Anchorage • LifeFlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800-478-9111
CORDOVA Port Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-424-6400 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-424-6446 harbor@cityofcordova .net www .cityofcordova .net/harbor VHF Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 & 68 USCGC Sycamore . . . . . . . . 907-424-3434 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Shoreside Petroleum . . . . . . . . . 424-3264
AMENITIES
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 907)
• freshwater is available; $15 per 1,000 gal . min . charge $30; $35/use+ hookup fee • fork lift rental (if reserved) • pay phone at end of causeway • restrooms/showers at Bearfoot Inn
Northern Fish . . . . . . . . . . . 907-424-7750 Ocean Beauty Seafoods . . . 907-424-7171 Camtu's Wild Alaska . . . . . . 907-424-3124 Copper River Seafoods . . . . 907-424-3721 Trident Seafoods . . . . . . . . . .907-424-7111
REPAIR FACILITIES
AT THE DOCK
• closest repair at King Cove facilities • travel lift available by reservation
• Harbormaster: Tony Schinella
AIR TRANSPORT
MOORAGE
RATES • annual: $31 .14/ft . • monthly: $13 .33/ft . • daily: in advance $0 .99/ft . $1 .17/ft . invoiced
AMENITIES • electricity/freshwater on floats • laundry in town • phone hookups • showers in town and harbor office
SERVICES • outboard & engine repair • welding and machine shops • marine hardware and electronic services available year-round
HAULOUTS • 150-ton marine travel lift with washdown facilities • 160-ft ., 250-ton steel tidal grid • 180-ft ., 90-ton timber tidal grid • dry storage for boats, pots, other marine gear • launch ramp
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • Coast Guard • medical center; AirVac to Anchorage . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-424-8000 • Cordova Medical Clinic . . . 907-424-3622 • Ilanka Community Health 907-424-3622 • Gilbert Urata dentist . . . . . 907-424-7318 • LifeFlight: . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800-478-9111
• 727 berths
AIR TRANSPORT • daily jet service to Anchorage, Seattle • turboprop service to Anchorage • charter service available
KINEMATICS
Marine Equipment, Inc.
CRAIG FINE FUELS, SUPER SERVICE, QUALITY LUBRICANTS
P R O U D LY S E R V I N G Durable, Dependable Quality Deck Equipment For Over 30 Years
www.kinematicsmarine.com 5625 48 Dr. N.E. Unit B Marysville, WA 98270 Phone: (360) 659-5415 • Fax: (360) 653-5151 th
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Craig Homer Juneau Ketchikan Kodiak
Petersburg Sitka Skagway Soldotna Wrangell
www.petromarineservices.com
Port Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-826-3404 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-826-3278 craighm@aptalaska .net VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Klawock Delta Fuel . . . . . . . . . . .755-2909 Petro Marine Services . . . . . . . .826-3296
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 907)
CRAIG to DILLINGHAM E.C. Phillips/Craig Fish . . . . . . . . 826-3241 Noyes Island Smoke House . . .826-2596 Jody’s Seafood Specialties. . . . 755-2247 Wildfish Co.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755-2247 Klawock Oceanside . . . . . . . . . . 755-2146
• Alicia Roberts Medical Ctr:. . . 755-4800 • Southeast Dental Center:. . . . . 826-2273
Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
CRESCENT CITY
• Depoe Bay Fuel Station
AT THE DOCK
Harbor District . . . . . . . . . . . 707-464-6174 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707-465-3535 VHF Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 & 16 CGV Dorado . . . . . . . . . . . . 707-464-2172 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
• Harbormaster: Phil Shane
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 707)
RATES
• Harbormaster: Michael Kampnich
MOORAGE AND RATES • 45 Transient spaces • Trans. Moorage: 14’ to 150’ vessels • Daily: $7.50 - $120 • Assigned: $13/ft./per year • water hookup: free with moorage • electrical hookup: $50.40 • gear storage: $12-$35 per month
AMENITIES • electricity – 120/30 amp, 208 single phase/50 amp • freshwater on floats • garbage disposal, used-oil disposal • public restrooms and showers at harbor office at North/South Cove Harbor • two public launch ramps, parking
SERVICES • outboard sales and service • marine hardware stores/grocery stores • clothing stores/laundromat • welding/fabrication • ice house with ice for public, private, recreational, commercial, cold storage – contact harbormaster
HAULOUTS • crane/3,700-lb capacity • crane/10-ton capacity • 4 tidal grids • private haulout service for vessels up to 32’ • boat trailer for up to 28’ vessels available for rent/harbor dept. • haulout by hydraulic boat trailer for vessels up to 58’/60 ton • vessel storage: private storage in fenced secure lot • public storage for vessels 30’+,
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • Craig Police Department: 826-3330 • Alaska State Troopers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755-2918 or 755-2291 • Craig Harbor Department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826-3404, VHF 16 • Coast Guard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .VHF 16 • Craig Clinic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .826-3257
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 541) AT THE DOCK MOORAGE • 100’ transient space • 90 reserved berths
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 707)
• daily: $14.50 under 45 ft. • daily: $29.00 over 45 ft. • annually: $728 to $1,516
Alber Seafood Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . 464-8122 Pacific Choice Seafoods . . . . . . .464-5558
AMENITIES
C. Renner Dist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .465-4200
AT THE DOCK • Harbormaster: Rich Young
MOORAGE • 245 berths • number of transient berths varies
RATES • daily $14 to 30 ft./$32 to 70 ft.
AMENITIES
• electricity • freshwater • restrooms • pumpout dock • hoist • fish-cleaning station
HAULOUTS • boat ramp
AIR TRANSPORT • Newport, Ore.
• cable repair (dock area)/net-mending • ice/marine supply stores • electricity/freshwater/laundry • pay phones/restrooms/showers
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES
HAULOUTS
SPECIAL EVENTS
• dock hoists • SyncroLift, 270 long tons • 30-ton travel lift operated by the harbor
• Annual Fleet of Flowers, Memorial Day
REPAIR FACILITIES • Fashion Blacksmith, full-service yard
• Depoe Bay Fire Dept. • U.S. Coast Guard
DILLINGHAM
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES
Harbor Emergency............907-842-1069 . or 911 or VHF Ch 16 Police/Fire emergency . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911 City Office...........................907-842-5211 Harbor Fax .........................907-842-4573 VHF Channels....................................... 16 Fish & Game......................907-842-3958 Pollution Hotline................800-424-8802
• USCG cutter . . . . . . . . . . . 707-464-2172 • Sutter Coast Hospital . . . . 707-464-8511
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907)
AIR TRANSPORT • Air Ambulance • Regularly scheduled airlines
DEPOE BAY Port Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541-765-2361 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541-765-2129 info@cityofdepoebay.org
Delta Western Fuel...................842-5441 Bristol Alliance Fuels................842-1234
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 907) Icicle Seafoods (office).............842-5204 Peter Pan Seafoods (office).....842-5415 Trident Seafoods (office).........842-2519 JULY 2017 / PILOTHOUSE GUIDE
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KINEMATICS
Marine Equipment, Inc.
AT THE HARBOR • Harbormaster. . . . . . . . . . 907-842-1069 . . . . . . . . . . . . . harbor@dillinghamak.us
RATES
Durable, Dependable Quality Deck Equipment For Over 30 Years
www.kinematicsmarine.com 5625 48 Dr. N.E. Unit B Marysville, WA 98270 Phone: (360) 659-5415 • Fax: (360) 653-5151 th
Supplying the Ultimate Trawl Gear and Services to Alaska Fishing Communities.
• seasonal, $80/yr. under 20’; $4 per foot over 20’ • seasonal, $280/yr. 28’ to 32’ gillnetter’ • $70 per launch/haul out for vessels over 25’ • $100 in & out for vessels over 25’ (10% discount if purchased in April) • 500-600 vessel capacity
AMENITIES • freshwater, laundromats, phones, public bathhouse, shower, campground • Limited crane service for vessels with current harbor registration • Ice sales (contact harbormaster office for price)
AT THE DOCK • Harbormaster: John Days • 24 hours, 7 days a week
MOORAGE
RATES • competitive with other Alaska ports; daily, monthly moorage
• repairs available for aluminum, glass, wood, props, hydraulics & engines
AIR TRANSPORT • Peninsula Airways...........907-842-5559 • Alaska Airlines.................800-252-7522 • Frontier Flying Svc..........800-478-6779
DUTCH HARBOR
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Alyeska Seafoods Inc . . . . . . . . . 581-1211 Icicle Seafoods . . . . . . . . . . . . . .282-0988 Royal Aleutian Sfds . . . . . . . . . . . 581-1671 Trident Seafoods . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581-1241 Unisea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581-1258 Westward Seafoods . . . . . . . . . . 581-1660
• Volunteer fire dept...........907-842-5354 • EMS ambulance..............907-842-5354 • Bristol Bay Health Corp (Kanakanak Hosp).............907-842-5201
REPAIR FACILITIES
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PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 907)
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES
PAF Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .842-5422 Squaw Creek Boat Movers . . . 842-4220
AIR TRANSPORT
MEMBERSHIP | $49 PER YEAR
Delta Western Fuel . . . . . . . . . . . 581-1295 North Pacific Fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . 581-1350 Offshore Systems Inc . . . . . . . . . 581-1827
• Peninsula Airways...........907-842-5559 • Alaska Airlines.................800-252-7522 • Frontier Flying Svc..........800-478-6779
BOAT HAULERS
• repairs available for aluminum, glass, wood, props, hydraulics & engines
2663 Airport Beach Rd. Dutch Harbor, AK 99692 Ph: 907-581-2900 Fax: 907-581-2850 gmanager@arctic.net
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907)
• over 15 privately owned docks in area • small boat floats in Iliuliuk Harbor near Unisea Inn • city dock includes Horizon container crane • compulsory pilotage by Southeast Alaska Pilot’s Assn. and Alaska Marine Pilots; to avoid delay, contact port at least 12 hours prior to ETA • cranes: 100,000-lb. Paceo container lift at APL facility; mobile cranes at other facilities up to 150 tons; request through shipping agents or West Construction on VHF 9 • land storage on request
REPAIR FACILITIES
NET Systems, Inc
VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
Port Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-581-1254 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-581-2519 cgraves@ci.unalaska.ak.us www.unalaska-ak.us
AMENITIES • electricity at Spit & Light cargo docks • potable water at city dock, fuel docks and processors
HAULOUTS • 1 container crane • private marine ways available up to 400 gross tons
REPAIR FACILITIES • divers available for underwater surveys and repairs • most deck, hull, engine, radar, gyro, hydraulic, electrical, refrigeration and marine electronic repairs
AIR TRANSPORT
DUTCH HARBOR to ELFIN COVE • PenAir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-581-1383 • air shuttle to/from Akutan
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • CG Marine Safety . . . . . . . 907-581-3466 • Emergency Coordination Center: U .S . Coast Guard • health clinic; nearest hospital in Kodiak • nearest Coast Guard, Kodiak • local police/fire/ambulance
SPECIAL EVENTS • July 4th celebration
EGEGIK (Coffee Point) City Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-233-2400 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-233-2231 cityofegegik@starband .net VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 907) Alaska Gen . Seafds (AGS) . . . . . 233-2212 Icicle Seafoods . . . . . . . . . . . . . .233-2205
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MOORAGE
• Arctic Circle Air Inc .
• freight public use • dry land storage at canneries • Egegik City Dock – 40’ x 80’ freight only
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • clinic: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-233-2229 • public safety officer
RATES • fishing boats: $10/day; $125/season
AMENITIES At canneries: • electricity • freshwater • net-mending dock • pay phones/showers • restrooms/laundry • solid-waste dumpster
AT PUBLIC DOCK: • fishing boat dockage • freshwater at face of dock • solid waste removal • police department services
ELFIN COVE No Port or City Office Contact Cross Sound Marketing Assn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-239-2300 (www .fairweatherfish .com) or contact lodges in summer VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Fish & Game (Douglas) . . . . 907-465-4250 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
MOORAGE • no assigned berths • about 25 spaces for transients
REPAIR FACILITIES
RATES
• unavailable
• no charge for moorage
AIR TRANSPORT
AMENITIES
• Peninsula Airways — daily service
• Elfin General Store - hydraulic press and can do hydraulic hoses and hose fittings . Store carries commercial fishing gear and clothing . • grocery store • approx . 7 lodges in area, primarily in summer • cafe (Coho’s Restaurant) • fuel service: gas/diesel • freshwater available at floats • showers/laundry available June through mid-September
HAULOUTS • tidal grid will handle boats up to 60’
REPAIR FACILITIES • Pelican handles mechanical repairs; shipwright work is in Juneau, Hoonah, Wrangell and Sitka • Shipwright work also by David and . . . . . Susan Abel . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-957-0837 • Welding: Happy Thoughts Welding, Mike Nelson, fabrication and repair
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • no medical service available; nearest hospitals in Juneau or Sitka • nearest Coast Guard facilities in Juneau or Sitka
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ELFIN COVE to FALSE PASS AIR TRANSPORT • floatplanes run almost daily during summer
SPECIAL EVENTS • July 4th celebration
EUREKA (Humboldt Bay) Harbor Dist . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707-443-0801 District Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707-443-0800 showser@humboldtbay.org www.humboldtbay.org VHF Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 & 16 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 707) Englund Marine Supply. . . . . . . .444-9266
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 707) Caito Brothers Fisheries . . . . . . 443-0550 Pacific Choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442-2981 Wild Planet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 840-9116
AT THE DOCK • Dockmaster: Suzie V. Howser . . . . . . . . . . showser@humboldtbay.org
MOORAGE Woodley Island Marina • 30’ to 130’ • 237 berths
• bar/cafe • electricity/bilge pumpout • freshwater/laundry/showers • work-yard/hoists • pay phones/restrooms • sewage pumpouts
• daily//monthly/annual rates per foot
AMENITIES
• 1-ton and 2-ton hoists • Humboldt Bay Harbor Dist.: 50-ton travel lift • Air Transport • United Express
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES (AREA CODE 707) • Mad River Comm. Hosp . . . . . 822-3621 • St. Joseph’s Hospital . . . . . . . . 445-8121 • USCG rescue . . . . . . . . . . . . . .839-6100
EVERETT
NEW CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR
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• Paine Field Airport (general aviation) • Seattle-Tacoma Int’l Airport about an hour away
FALSE PASS
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 907)
Port fuel dock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388-0689
Peter Pan Sfds Fish Camp . . . . .548-2208 Bering Pacific Seafoods . . . . . . .548-2347
Northport Fisheries . . . . . . . . . . .335-3466
AT THE DOCK • Harbor Attendant: Jeff Lozeau
• permanent moorage available for commercial seiners and gillnetters • limited rafting for additional moorage • temporary moorage available
AMENITIES
(425) 252-4021 4124 34th Ave NE, Everett WA. 98201
AIR TRANSPORT
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 425)
• commercial seine $6.39/ft./month • rafting rate $0.85/ft./day
HANSENBOAT.COM
• Everett General Hospital . . . . . 261-2000 • Providence Everett Medical Center Colby Campus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261-2000 Pacific Campus. . . . . . . . . . . . . 261-2000
Port/City Office . . . . . . . . . . 907-548-2319 Port/City Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-548-2214 cityoffalsepass@ak.net home.gci.net/~cityoffalsepass/ VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
RATES
visit us at:
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES (AREA CODE 425)
Port Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425-259-6001 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425-259-0860 marina@portofeverett.com www.portofeverett.com VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Fish & Wildlife . . . . . . . . . . . .425-775-1311 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
MOORAGE
HANSEN BOAT CO.
HAULOUTS • 2 port-operated travel lifts, 35 and 75 tons
HAULOUTS & REPAIR FACILITIES
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 425)
RATES
• showers • laundry • several pump-a-heads/2 dump stations • wifi
• full-service marina • boat repair & supplies • electricity • freshwater • pay phones • restaurants • light provisions • hotel
RATES • vessels moored to False Pass City Dock will be allowed a 6-hr. grace period; any vessel remaining longer will be assessed the following amounts (or 48 hrs. for boats actively involved in loading or unloading cargo): LENGTH DAY RATES 1 MO. RENTAL 0-20’ . . . . . $1.50 ($15 MIN.) 21-31’. . . . . . . . . . . . $26 . . . . . . . . . . $450 32-46’ . . . . . . . . . . . $28 . . . . . . . . . . $480 47-60’ . . . . . . . . . . . $32 . . . . . . . . . . $540 61-75’. . . . . . . . . . . . $40 . . . . . . . . . . $630 76-90’ . . . . . . . . . . . $52 . . . . . . . . . . $810 91-105’. . . . . . . . . . . $66 . . . . . . . . . $1,020 106-125’ . . . . . . . . . $80 . . . . . . . . .$1,230 126-150’ . . . . . . . . . $94 . . . . . . . . .$1,440 151-175’ . . . . . . . . $108 . . . . . . . . .$1,650 176-200’ . . . . . . . . .$114 . . . . . . . . . $1,740 201-225’ . . . . . . . . .$121 . . . . . . . . .$1,860 226-250’ . . . . . . . . .$128 . . . . . . . . .$1,980 251-275’ . . . . . . . . $135 . . . . . . . . . $2,100 276-300’ . . . . . . . . $150 . . . . . . . . .$2,310
FALSE PASS to FRIDAY HARBOR
AMENITIES • Small harbor with accommodations for up to 88 vessels ranging in size from 30ft. to 120ft. • crab pot storage — Isanotski Corp • freshwater • fuel available at False Pass Fuel at City Dock • electricity and water on the floats electricity is $25 hookup and $8/day • year-round dock and harbor • 69 very nice people & 1 old grouch
BOAT HAULOUT • Hydraulic boat trailer: boats up to 44’
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • clinic with CHA on duty, EMTs and ETTs, volunteer service ambulance • medical transport by plane to Anchorage via Cold Bay
• 65 berths • 10 transient berths • limited dry land storage
RATES • daily: $15 to $25 • monthly: $92 to $250 • annually: $746 to $1,450
• electricity/freshwater • laundry • restrooms/showers • commercial ice machine • fuel dock • 480 three-phase power on transient dock • two dump stations
• dock hoist for gear and product only • marine railway
REPAIR FACILITIES MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES
AIR TRANSPORT
• Peace Harbor Hsptl . . . . . 541-997-8412 • Western Lane Ambulance • Siuslaw Coast Guard station
FLORENCE (Siuslaw)
HAULOUTS REPAIR FACILITIES • located nearby
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • Coast Guard/hospital
SPECIAL EVENTS • 4th of July salmon barbecue
HAULOUTS
• closest repair in King Cove
• Grant Aviation flights 3 days a week, depending on weather
• electricity, freshwater, pay phones • laundromat, pharmacy, deli, grocery store/shopping center • net-mending area • restrooms/showers
• dock hoists/marine railways
AMENITIES
• Winchester Bay
REPAIR FACILITIES
AMENITIES
SPECIAL EVENTS • Rhododendron Festival May 20th-22nd
FORT BRAGG
FRIDAY HARBOR Port Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-378-2688 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-378-6114 www.portfridayharbor.org VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66-A Fish & Game . . . . . . . . . . . . 206-976-3200 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 360) I.P.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378-3114
AT THE DOCK
Port of Siuslaw P.O. Box 1220, 1st & Harbor St. Florence, OR 97439 www.portofsiuslaw.com port@portofsiuslaw.com Port Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541-997-3426 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541-997-9407 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802 RV Campground Office . . . 541-997-3040
(Noyo Harbor District)
• Harbormaster: Tami Hayes . . . . . . . . . . tamih@portfridayharbor.org
Port Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707-964-4719 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707-964-4710 noyohd@yahoo.com VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66-A USCG Noyo River . . . . . . . . 707-964-6612 Fish & Game Marine . . . . . . 707-964-9078 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
MOORAGE
FUEL DOCK
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 707)
• Hours: 7:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. daily, $10 after-hours surcharge • Call 541-999-0736 to request fueling
Caito Fisheries, Inc . . . . . . . . . . 964-6368
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 541)
MOORAGE
Contact Port Manager
• 265 berths/dry-land storage • waiting list for small vessels
• 2-ton crane • full-service shipyard nearby • travel lift for boats up to 40’
RATES
REPAIR FACILITIES
• daily: $20-26 night
• 1 private yard and several shops will repair aluminum, glass, wood;
AT THE DOCK • Port Manager: Robert Forsythe
MOORAGE
AT THE DOCK
• 463 berths/1,500’ of floating breakwater • boat ramp 1 mile from marina • private yard stores some boats on land
AMENITIES • 2 floats — net repair and equip. loading • electricity, freshwater, showers • laundry • net repair float, net loading, forklift
• Port Manager: Justin Pyorre
HAULOUTS
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FRIDAY HARBOR to HAINES also, engine and electronics repairs
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • Peace Island Med Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-378-2141 • Nearest Coast Guard facilities at Bellingham & Port Angeles
AIR TRANSPORT
• Restaurants • Dump station
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • U .S . Coast Guard Station - Tillamook Bay • Volunteer fire/medical
SPECIAL EVENTS
• 3,400’ light plane runway w/ daily flights • largest commercial seaplane base in Lower 48
• Crab Races, March • Blessing of the Fleet, May • Bounty on the Bay, June • Garibaldi Days, July
GARIBALDI
GIG HARBOR
Port Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503-322-3292 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503-322-0029 info@portofgaribaldi .org www .portofgaribaldi .org VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Fish & Game . . . . . . . . . . . . 503-842-2741 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
Port Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253-851-8136 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253-851-8563 gigharborguide@cityofgigharbor .net www .gigharborguide .com Fish & Game . . . . . . . . . . . . 206-976-3200 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802 Visitor Information . . . . . . . . . . .253-853-3554 or www .gigharborguide .com
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 503) Garibaldi Marina . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322-3312 Tillamook Bay Boathouse . . . . . .322-3600
AT THE DOCK
PROCESSORS
MOORAGE
Garibaldi Cannery . . . . . . . . . . . .322-3344 Pacific Seafood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 861-2201
• Transient space at Jerisich Dock; free day use, boats moored past 7pm must register at kiosk . Maximum stay 3 days in 10 day period . Peak season nightly fee $1per foot (min . charge $20) Off-peak rates $ .50 nightly (min . charge $10) . • numerous private docks available
AT THE DOCK • Port Manager: Michael Saindon
MOORAGE
• City Administrator: Ron Williams
• 277 berths/300 linear feet for guests
RATES • • • • •
Daily: $20 - $25 Weekly: $120 - $150 Monthly: $400 - $475 Annual: $400 - $1,214 Season: $850 - $1,500 .
HAULOUTS • Dock hoist for gear and product only (call office to schedule)
REPAIR FACILITIES
• Big Tuna Marine . . . . . . .503-349-4892
AIR TRANSPORT
• Tillamook (13 miles), charter planes only
AMENITIES • Freshwater/electricity on guest dock • Restrooms/showers
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RATES • Jerisich Park Pier: nominal fee beginning mid-2015
AMENITIES • 13 private net sheds • marine hardware store • restrooms • tavern/restaurants/shops • Grocery stores with prepared foods available near the waterfront • Seasonal trolley June 2nd – Sept 7th • Visitor center on park property at historic Skansie House • New restrooms and welcome plaza coming mid-2017
HAULOUTS • travel lift to 65’/85 tons
SPECIAL EVENTS
• Paddlers Cup, April • Blessing of the Fleet, June • Waterfront Farmers Market (Thursdays June – August) • Maritime Gig Festival, 1st Sat . in June • Lighted Boat Parade, December • Gig Harbor Chum Fest, September
GOLD BEACH Port Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541-247-6269 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541-247-6268 portoffice@portofgoldbeach .com VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
AT THE DOCK • Port Manager: Debbie Collins
MOORAGE • 75 slips to 24’ • 36 slips to 40’ • 3 slips to 80’ • 1 slip to 150’ • dry-land storage available
RATES (Commercial boats 20-61’) • daily: $13 .75 to $33 • monthly: $120 to $240 • annually: $450 to $810 • prices subject to change
AMENITIES • electricity on commercial dock • freshwater/restrooms/NO showers • restaurants/shops on port property
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • Curry Gen . Hospital . . . . . 541-247-6621 • US Coast Guard June-Sept .
SPECIAL EVENTS • Rogue River jet boat marathon, first weekend in June • July 4 fireworks & Bash on the Bay
HAINES Port Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-766-2448 Cell Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-314-0173 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-766-3010 pbenner@haines .ak .us VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
HAINES to HOMER Fish & Game . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-766-2830 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Haines Propane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766-3191 Delta Western Fuel . . . . . . . . . . . 766-3190
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 907) Dejon Delights . . . . . . . . . . . . . .766-2505 Bell’s Seafood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .766-2950
AT THE DOCK • Harbormaster: Phil Benner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pbenner@haines .ak .us • Assistant: Shawn Bell
MOORAGE • 140 permanent berths • 100 spaces for transients • dry land storage 5 miles from town, $0 .15/sq . ft .
RATES • annual: $0 .95/sq . ft . (length x width) • transient: $0 .50/ft ./day • monthly: $5/ft ./mo .
AMENITIES • electricity/freshwater/pay phone • showers and laundry nearby • ice delivery by the ton
HAULOUTS • city tidal grid/private haulout nearby
REPAIR FACILITIES • 2 boatbuilders who also do repairs
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • 2 doctors & dentist at health center • nearest Coast Guard facility in Juneau
HOMER MARINE TRADES A SSOCIATION
Choose Homer for Your Boat Work
AIR TRANSPORT • Wings of Alaska, Air Excursions, providing daily prop service
HOMER
DEEP WATER DOCK
4350 Homer Spit Rd ., Homer, AK 99603 Port Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-235-3160 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-235-3152 port@ci .homer .ak .us http://port .ci .homer .ak .us VHF Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 & 10
• 345’ face and 3 breasting dolphins and 2 mooring buoys • 40’ water depth at MLLW • 1 crane (5 ton) • Fully secured dock for regulated vessels • Water delivery available on face of dock
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907)
PIONEER DOCK
Homer Fuel Dock . . . . . . . . . . . .235-8548 Petro Marine Services . . . . . . . .235-8818
PROCESSORS/BUYERS (AREA CODE 907) Auction Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235-7267 The Fish Factory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235-1300 Icicle Seafoods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235-8107 Kachemak Bay Seafood . . . . . . . 299-1551 Snug Harbor Seafoods . . . . . . . . 283-6122
AT THE DOCK • Harbormaster: Bryan Hawkins • ice plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-235-3162 • port maintenance . . . . . . . 907-235-3164
MOORAGE • 920 reserved stalls • 750’ transient float system available with 3-phase power for large vessels • transient moorage for boats up to 150’
FISH DOCK • 383’ face, 2 side berths, approx . 460’
• 465’ face • 40’ water depth and MLLW • Fully secured dock for regulated vessels • Water & fuel delivery available
COMMERCIAL BARGE RAMP • Paved ramp inside harbor basin; contact Harbormaster for Use Agreement, wharfage, and landing fees
RATES • $40 .50/ft . per year plus $50 admin . fee; contact Harbormaster for more info on daily, monthly and semi-annual fees
AMENITIES • 5-lane boat ramp, $13 per launch, $130 launch pass • 24-hr . security in harbor • 6,000’ of transient float • electricity • freshwater • laundry and shower facilities in town
KINEMATICS
Marine Equipment, Inc.
ALASKA
FINE FUELS, SUPER SERVICE, QUALITY LUBRICANTS
P R O U D LY S E R V I N G
Homer Durable, Dependable Quality Deck Equipment For Over 30 Years
WWW.HOMERMARINETR ADES.COM
total berthing space • 8 self-operated cranes, available 24 hrs • Annual Crane Card $52/year; crane time $22 .66 per 15 min . • Ice $130 .90 per ton, auger delivered • Cold storage/bait lockers available
www.kinematicsmarine.com 5625 48 Dr. N.E. Unit B Marysville, WA 98270 Phone: (360) 659-5415 • Fax: (360) 653-5151 th
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HOMER to HOONAH and on Spit • supplies & groceries available in town
Hill Fuel LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 945-3125 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-723-6035 (cell)
HAULOUTS
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 907)
• 200-ton commercial steel tidal grid • private mobile crane available for pulling engines and gear • private 55’ travel lift a few minutes steaming from harbor (picks 70 tons) • 50-ton wood tidal grid
REPAIR FACILITIES • multitude of local businesses for all marine repair needs; see Homer Marine Trades for a current list at www.homermarinetrades.com
Hoonah Cold Storage . . . . . . . . .945-3264
AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: . . . . . . . . . . . . Sherry Mills
MOORAGE • approx. 100 transient spaces • berths 20’, 24’, 30’, 40’, 48’ & 62’ • space for up to 250’ transient
RATES
• Transient up to 80’ $0.70/ft plus 6.5% tax • 81’ and greater $1.50/ft plus 6.5% tax • Weekly: 5x daily rate • Monthly: $7.00/ft + 6.5% tax • 3-Month: $15.00/ft + 6.5% tax • Annual: $24.00/ft + 6.5% tax
AMENITIES • electricity available in stalls 30 amp: $7.50 daily minimum 50 amp: $20.00 daily minimum • pressure washer available at harbor • harbor building winter and summer hours showers (metered), laundry • change machine
EMERGENCY/MEDICAL FACILITIES • 110-ft. Coast Guard rescue vessel, Roanoke Island…907-235-5336 • Coast Guard Rescue; USCG Auxiliary, Rescue 21 with safeboat rescue vessel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-235-7277 • 180-ft. Coast Guard buoy tender Hickory 907-235-5234 • Pollution Incidents: USCG MSD Homer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …907-235-3292 • dentists/doctors in town • So. Peninsula Hospital . . . 907-235-8101
AIR TRANSPORT
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• daily flights • Era Aviation. . . . . . . . . . . .800-866-8394
SPECIAL EVENTS • February: Winter Carnival • March: Winter King Salmon Tournament • May: Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival • May-September: Homer Jackpot Halibut Derby • May-September: Homer Shopping Derby • July 4th Parade & Annual Car/ATV Raffle
HOONAH Port Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-945-3670 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-945-3674 hoonahharbor@gmail.com VHF Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16, 9 or 14 Fish & Game (Douglas) . . . . 907-465-4250 Fish & Wildlife Prot. . . . . . . 907-945-3620 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802 US Customs (call-in) . . . . . . 907-586-7211
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Hoonah Trading Fuel . . . . . . . . . . 945-3211 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VHF 11
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HOONAH to JUNEAU • dry storage available • year-round fresh water at Inner Transient • spring-fall fresh water available • waste oil drum available spring - fall • Dumpsters at all docks available spring-fall • crew, sport fishing, and hunting licenses avail at Tideland Tackle • post office • public restrooms available spring-fall • vehicle access/drive-down loading zone • wifi availability in near future
AT THE DOCK
HAULOUTS
AMENITIES
• 1 tidal grid, inner harbor • 1 double-lane launch ramp, inner harbor • dockside hoist • 35-ton hydraulic trailer • 220-ton capacity Travelift
• electricity and cable TV access • waste oil/garbage holding disposal cans • crew licenses avail. at general store • water avail. at dock/mooring floats • grocery store, deli, gifts • net-mending on dock-mooring floats • divers • post office, church
REPAIR FACILITIES • aluminum shop/divers available • fiberglass repair • general marine services/supply stores • shipwright in town & 2 portable welders
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • Hoonah Med. Center . . . . 907-945-2735 • Two mid-level NPs, two community health aide practitioners, one behavioral health practitioner, one dental hygienist and one dental assistant • Minimal x-ray capabilities • nearest hospital in Juneau *Department of Public Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-945-3655 • Police, Fire & EMS/ambulance
AIR TRANSPORT • airport for small craft • float plane dock • two daily schedule commuter airlines
WATERWAY TRANSPORT • barge spring-fall weekly service • state ferry service 1-4 times weekly
SPECIAL EVENTS • July 4th celebration • two carving locations • big zipline, available on cruise ship days
HYDABURG Port Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-285-3761 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-285-3670 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
. . . . . . . . . . . . gglenn@portofilwaco.org
• Harbormaster: vacant
MOORAGE • 70 berths • limited dry space available • room for 20-30 transients
RATES • annually: $13/ft., prorated daily or monthly • subject to change
MOORAGE • 800 berths • dry land storage • transient berths
RATES • Daily $13.00 to $21.75 depending on length. 51’-75’ - $27.25, 76’ and up $50.00 • Monthly $8/ft. + tax • Annual $25-$26/ft. + tax (commercial rate)
AMENITIES
• Promech Airlines bush pilot service
• bus service • dockside motels • electricity • freshwater • restrooms/public showers • fuel dock • garbage service • shops/galleries • pay phones • restaurants • back-in launch • seafood stores
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES
HAULOUTS
• health clinic . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-285-3462 • public safety officer . . . . . 907-285-3322 or 907-401-1249 • ambulance • volunteer EMS squad 24 hrs./day
• 1 travel hoist, 50-ton • 1 stationary hoist
SPECIAL EVENTS
AIR TRANSPORT
• July 4th celebration • Culture Camp at end of July 1
• airport for small craft
HAULOUTS • Tidal grid adjacent to boat harbor, up to 65’ • Air transport
AIR TRANSPORT
ILWACO Port Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-642-3143 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-642-3148 www.portofilwaco.org Fish & Game . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-976-3200 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 360) Ilwaco Fuel Dock . . . . . . . . . . . . 642-2435 Wilcox Oil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642-3231
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 360) Jessie’s Ilwaco Fish Co. . . . . . . . 642-3773
AT THE DOCK • Port Manager: Guy Glenn Jr.
REPAIR FACILITIES • self/full-service boatyard
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • Coast Guard • Ocean Beach Hospital
SPECIAL EVENTS • Saturday market, May thru Sept. • Blessing of the Fleet • Loyalty Days • Fireworks at the port in July • Slow Drag in September • www.funbeach.com • www.portofilwaco.com
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JUNEAU TO KAKE www.juneau.org/harbors VHF Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 & 16 Coast Guard . . . . . . . . . . . . 800-478-5555 Fish & Game (Douglas) . . . . 907-465-4250 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
FUEL SUPPLIERS/PRIVATE MARINAS (AREA CODE 907) Tesoro Fuel Dock . . . . . . . . . . . .586-2402 Delta Western Fuel . . . . . . . . . . .586-2800 Donohue’s Marina. . . . . . . . . . . . 789-7851 Petro Marine Services . . . . . . . 586-4400 Taku Oil Fuel Dock . . . . . . . . . . . 586-1276 Seadrome Marina . . . . . . . . . . . . 463-8811 Fisherman’s Bend . . . . . . . . . . . . 789-7312
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 907) Alaska Seafood Co. . . . . . . . . . . . 780-5111 Jerry’s Meat & Sfds. . . . . . . . . . . 789-5142 Alaska Glacier Seafoods . . . . . . .790-3590
AT THE DOCK • Harbormaster: David Borg . . . . . . . . . . . 907-586-5255 (or VHF 16) • Juneau marine operator . . . . . . . . . . . (ALASCOM) VHF 25 or 26 • Port Director: Carl Uchytil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-586-0292 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carl.Uchytil@juneau.org
MOORAGE • 500 spaces for transients • 800’ transient moorage downtown for vessels up to 250’/864 berths • 800’ deep-draft dock available with three-phase power from Oct. 1 through April 30 in the downtown area for over-winter moorage • waiting list for berths: 45
RATES
• Juneau Maritime Festival, May 9
• daily moorage rates and other fees avail. on the web and PDF format
KAKE
AMENITIES • electricity year-round on all floats • freshwater on all floats year-round • ice/showers and laundry nearby • pay phones and phone hookups available
HAULOUTS • 4 cranes total available on docks • 240’ fisheries dock with 2 cranes • addtl 180’ fisheries loading dock w/2 cranes • private haulouts available • tidal grids at Harris Harbor
Portage Harbor . . . . . . . . . . 907-785-3804 Harbor Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-785-4815 VHF Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16/CB 15 Police Department . . . . . . . 907-785-3393 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Kake Tribal Fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . .785-3601
PROCESSOR (TOLL-FREE) Kake Foods Inc.. . . . . . . . . . 800-524-2487
AT THE DOCK • Harbormaster: Wilbur Brown Sr.
REPAIR FACILITIES
MOORAGE
• minor repair available
• 90 berths • inside portage • transient berths only as necessary • waiting list
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • Bartlett Mem. Hosp . . . . . 907-586-2611 • USCG dist HQ here; 45’ and 110’ search & rescue vessels; aircraft at Sitka • dentists in town • private emergency care facility
RATES • daily: $0.30/ft. • annually: $6/ft.
AIR TRANSPORT
AMENITIES
• daily flights/jet service
• hotels, rooms & showers, grocery stores, laundromat
SPECIAL EVENTS • 4th of July celebration • Friday evening concerts in Marine Park • March, statewide Folk Festival • May, Juneau Jazz & Classics Festival
HAULOUTS • tidal grids, 2 uptown and at Portage
FINE FUELS, SUPER SERVICE, QUALITY LUBRICANTS
P R O U D LY S E R V I N G Craig Homer Juneau Ketchikan Kodiak
Petersburg Sitka Skagway Soldotna Wrangell
www.petromarineservices.com
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KAKE to KETCHIKAN FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907)
REPAIR FACILITIES • Gunnuck Creek Mechanics
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • ambulance and clinic (Kake EMS)
Anderes Oil Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225-2163 Petro Alaska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225-1985 Petro Marine Services . . . . . . . . 225-2106
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 907)
SPECIAL EVENTS
AK General Seafoods . . . . . . . . .225-2906 Blue Fin Seafoods . . . . . . . . . . . .225-5328 EC Phillips & Son . . . . . . . . . . . . 225-3121 Silver Lining Seafoods . . . . . . . .225-6664 Trident Seafoods . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225-4191
• Dog Salmon Festival, July • 17th annual Culture Camp, July
AT THE DOCK
AIR TRANSPORT • Alaska Seaplanes • several charters
KENAI City of Kenai . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-283-7535 Harbormaster . . . . . . . . . . . 907-283-8240 www .ci .kenai .ak .us Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • Coast Guard MSC . . . .907-690-2098 • nearest Coast Guard base in Kodiak • hospital in Soldotna, equipped for general and some emergency surgery
KETCHIKAN Port Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-228-5632 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-247-3610 stevec1@city .ketchikan .ak .us www .city .ketchikan .ak .us/ds/ph .html VHF Channels . . . . . . . 16 or 73 (preferred) CG Marine Safety . . . . . . . . 907-225-4496 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
• Steve Corporon, Director of Port/Harbors • Dan Berg, Sr . Asst . Harbormaster • winter: 8 a .m .-5 p .m .; summer: 6 a .m .-10 p .m .
MOORAGE • 1,068 berths • space for about 250 transients • waiting list: 95
RATES
• daily electricity at $0 .14/ft . per day • port daily rates, $0 .33 to $2 .54/ft ./day • harbor daily rate $0 .68/ft . per day; 30 and 90 day permits are available at reduced rates; • reserved moorage is $14 .11/ft ./6 mo . inside city limits, $16 .75/ft ./6 mo . outside city limits
AMENITIES • 50’ x 120’ drive-down float at Bar Harbor South • 70’ x 90’ fishing gear repair float at Bar Harbor North
FINE FUELS, SUPER SERVICE, QUALITY LUBRICANTS
P R O U D LY S E R V I N G Craig Homer Juneau Ketchikan Kodiak
Petersburg Sitka Skagway Soldotna Wrangell
Contact Susan Chesney 206-463-4819
schesney@divcom.com
HAULOUTS • dry dock at local yard • haulout at marina in Refuge Cove • marine ways and travel lifts available at repair yards • tidal grids (4); 3 at Thomas Basin will handle boats up to 80’; 1 at Bar Harbor will handle up to 60’
REPAIR FACILITIES • 2 repair yards available for aluminum, glass, wood boats; also a mobile welding service available for dockside repair • electronic, refrigeration, engine, hydraulic repair services available
MEDICAL/RESCUE (AREA CODE 907)
(subject to change)
Advertise in the 2017
• electricity available at Casey Moran Harbor (aka City Float) • freshwater available at all harbors • showers and laundry available near Bar Harbor
• Coast Guard: two110’ Island Class patrol boats, one 47’ motor life boat and two 25’ Response (homeland security) boats • Coast Guard; search & rescue, emergency • Ketchikan Medical Center 225-5171; medivac flights to Seattle for severe emergency cases • search & rescue aircraft from Sitka • City of Ketchikan Fire Dept (ambulance service) and fireboat Harry Newell
AIR TRANSPORT • jet runway with daily flights • local flight services
Two good harbors run by the good people of King Cove.
Ask us what’s new!
• Permanent & transient moorage • 150-ton haulout • New harbor house/cargo warehouse • Three phase shore power to new harbor • Shower • Uplands boat storage • Deep water dock • 30-foot draft at dock face • Weekly barge • Freight handling • Support services • Crab pot storage
Good Rates! Phone: 907-497-2237 Fax: 907-497-2649 Monitor: VHF 6 Email: kcharbor@arctic.net
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KETCHIKAN to KODIAK SPECIAL EVENTS • August Blueberry Festival . . . . . . . . . . 907-225-3184 for more info
KING COVE Port Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-497-2237 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-497-2649 harbor@kingcoveak .org VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
harboremail@city .kodiak .ak .us http://www .city .kodiak .ak .us/ph Kodiak Police Dept . . . . (911) business line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .907-486-8000 • Kodiak Fire Dept . . . . . . . .907-486-8040 • USCG Marine Safety . . . . 907-486-5918 • Fish & Game Commercial Fisheries . . . . 907-486-1830 • NOAA NMFS . . . . . . . . . . 907-486-3298 • USCG Pollution Hotline . .800-424-8802
• electricity, water available • one general store/marine supplies • processor has store and cafeteria • vehicle rentals • container handling up to 80,000 lbs .; 3 new acres for storage
HAULOUTS • 150-ton travel lift • forklift and other heavy equipment • tidal grid up to 80’ capacity
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907)
REPAIR FACILITIES
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 907)
• Petro Star D .b .a . Kodiak Oil . . 486-3245, • VHF 16 & 74 • Petro Marine . . . . . . . .486-3421, VHF 10
• fiberglass/carpentry/welding
Peter Pan Seafoods . . . . . . . . . . 497-2234
AIR TRANSPORT
AT THE DOCK
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 907)
• Harbormaster: Charles Mack
• service 6 days/week to and from Anchorage
MOORAGE
MEDICAL/RESCUE (AREA CODE 907)
• 3,600 sq . ft . harbor cargo warehouse/ 86 berths • 1,500’ transient moorage space • 4 acres of crab pot storage • city ferry & freight dock • processor dock handles cargo • upland and warehouse storage
• fire dept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497-2555 • King Cove Med . Clinic . . . . . . . 497-2311 • police (non-emerg .) . . . . . . . . . 497-2210 • EMT rescue squad/health clinic • emergency MedEvacs available • nearest hospital in Anchorage • volunteer fire dept . and 24’ rescue boat
RATES
KODIAK
• call for rates • crab pots: $0 .25/month per pot; $2 .02/pot over dock • wharfage all city docks, $5 .40/ton
AMENITIES • churches/taxis/12-room motel • restaurants and bars/AA meetings • community library/rec . programs
• Alaska Pacific Seafoods . . . . . .486-3234 • Global Seafoods . . . . . . . . . . . .486-0355 • Pacific Seafoods D .b .a .Island Seafoods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .486-8575 • Ocean Beauty . . . . . . . . . . . . . .486-5791 • Trident Seafoods . . . . . . . . . . .486-3266
AT THE DOCK
• Harbormaster: Lon White lwhite@city .kodiak .ak .us • Deputy Harbormaster: Derrik Magnuson dmagnuson@city .kodiak .ak .us
MOORAGE
Harbormaster’s Office . . . .907-486-8080 (Hrs 8-5 Mon-Fri) . . . . . . . . 907-486-8081 (24 Hr) VHF Channels . . . . . . . . . . 12 & 16 Wireless Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #6926 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .907-486-8090
• over 600 berths to vessels up to 150’ • Waitlist for exclusive moorage (long term) • transient hot berth available, 3 piers for . larger vessels and 2 docks at harbor for . unloading gear • short-term storage on land for staging of fishing gear and equipment
RATES
KODIAK SHIPYARD For boats up to 660 tons and 42’ beam The ideal place to work on your boat: y y y y
Centrally located in the North Pacific. Heated washpad with washwater recycling. Do it yourself or turnkey services. Environmentally compliant.
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Email lwhite@city.kodiak.ak.us or call 907-486-8080 Visit kodiakshipyard.com
KODIAK to LA CONNER
Supplying the Ultimate Trawl Gear and Services to Alaska Fishing Communities.
NET Systems, Inc Kodiak Branch, 325 Shelikof St. Kodiak, AK 99615 Ph: 907.486.5350 Fax: 907.486.2655 nets@gci.net
• call harbor office or visit us online
AMENITIES • Pier II Fisherman Terminal • 925’ blacktop stage area, • complete web-mending areas • Sewage disposal • Electricity /potable water on floats • Wireless internet 907-486-4646 • Kodiak Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Center • Marine Supplies/ Radar/ Repair & ocean Safety Services • Vessel lettering • Coffee Shop / restaurants / fast food • AT&T Cell phone • Rental Car • Motels / Bed & Breakfast • Laundry/public restrooms/ barber shop • Public Library w/ free internet access • US Post Office, FedEx & UPS • Local museums / Movie theatre • Cargo/freight shipping & receiving services
HAULOUTS
• 600-ton Travelift Shipyard and wash down facility http://kodiakboatyard.com/ or call 907-486-8080 • tidal grid up to 350 tons • travel lift available for vessels under 150 tons Fuller’s Boatyard • Vendor list available by calling the office
REPAIR FACILITIES
• Fuller’s Boatyard available for aluminum, glass, wood; lifting capacity 150-200 tons
Spring of 2018
FINE FUELS, SUPER SERVICE, QUALITY LUBRICANTS
P R O U D LY S E R V I N G Craig Homer Juneau Ketchikan Kodiak
Petersburg Sitka Skagway Soldotna Wrangell
www.petromarineservices.com
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • Kodiak City Ambulance / EMT’s / Fire rescue • Coast Guard station is main base for central and western Alaska; equipped with air & vessel search & rescue • Providence KI Hospital, Out-patient & Specialty clinic . . . Phone:907-486-3281 25 beds, intensive care, equipped for general and some emergency surgery; • Emergency medical flights available to Anchorage & Seattle arrangements through PKIMC • Kodiak Island Medical . . .907-486-6065 • Kodiak Public Health Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-486-3199 • Kodiak Island Ambulatory Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-486-6188 • Dental / Eye clinic in town
• Ravn Airlines 907-266-8394 www.flyravn.com • Alaska Airlines . . . . . . . . . 800-252-7522 • jet runway with daily flights • Island Air Service . . . . . . . 907-487-4596 • Paklook Air Inc . . . . . . . . . 907-487-9797
SPECIAL EVENTS • Crab Festival, last week of May • Memorial Day Celebration last week of May • Blessing of the fleet • July 4 celebration • Labor Day weekend: Alaska State Fair and Rodeo. For more info: 907-486-5557 • Comfish varies, mid-March to early April • Kodiak King Salmon Derby
LA CONNER (Port of Skagit County) Marina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-466-3118 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-466-3119 visitor@portofskagit.com www.portofskagit.com/la-conner-marina/ VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66A Fish & Game . . . . . . . . . . . . 206-976-3200 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 360) La Conner Landing . . . . . . . . . . .466-4478
AT THE DOCK • Harbormaster: Kody Skvaril
MOORAGE • 2 1200’ guest docks / 360 covered slips 26-50’ / 130 open slips 30-60’
RATES • daily: $1/ft., $.80/ft. Oct. 1 - Apr. 30 • monthly: open, $6.47-9.77 • monthly: covered, $8.48-14.51
AMENITIES • electricity/freshwater/showers/ laundry • Gas/diesel/propane • Transportation to/from town • RV Park with 68 site
HAULOUTS • 35 and 110 travelift nearby • sling launch • upland storage
REPAIR FACILITIES • full service boatyard
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LA CONNER to NAKNEK MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • medical center . . . . . . . . . 360-466-3136 • dentists in town • health clinic; nearest hospital in Mount Vernon • nearest Coast Guard facility, Bellingham
AIR TRANSPORT • Skagit Regional Airport, 8 miles
METLAKATLA Harbor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .907-886-4646 Harbor Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-886-7997 VHF Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 & 80 Fish & Game (Ketchikan) . . 907-225-5195 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907)
SPECIAL EVENTS
Annette Is . Gas Services . . . . . . 886-7851
• March, Daffodil Festival • July, 4th: fireworks / concert • Aug, Classic car and boat show
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 907)
LA PUSH (Quileute Marina) Port Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-374-5392 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-374-6311 VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80 Fish & Game . . . . . . . . . . . . 206-976-3200 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
AT THE DOCK • Harbormaster: Arnold Black, Jr .
Annette Is . Cold Storage . . . . . .886-4661
AT THE DOCK • Harbormaster: Bruce W . Guthrie Sr .
MOORAGE • 4 transient berths/180 berths • private dry-land storage available
RATES • daily: $5 & $10/day, depending on size • annually: $5 .50/ft .
AMENITIES
Linda G . McIntyre
MOORAGE • no moorings/no anchorage • dry-land storage
RATES
(subject to change)
• district berths: available to 100’+ • $1/ft ./night for transient • $11 .10/ft ./mo . temporary vessels, includes amenity fee • $6 .98/ft ./mo . for assigned vessels, plus amenity fee of $48 • 3% off for 3 months paid in advance • permanent slips available
AMENITIES • fuel dock/groceries/laundromat • yacht club/post office/showers • 6-lane launch ramps • liquor store/restaurants/restrooms • 6-pack fishing/nature tours/ whale watching/picnic tables • bilge/sewage pumpout/waste oil facility • BBQs/playground • kayak rentals • RV park • fresh fish sales off boats
• transient berths • 96 slips
• electricity: $5/day for visitors • freshwater • pay phone at grocery store • police station
AMENITIES
HAULOUTS
REPAIR FACILITIES
• electricity/freshwater/mini-stations • pay phones at local store and resorts • showers, public restrooms, laundry room (@ R .V . Park & Store) • sewage pumpout • new boat ramp • new fuel system, waste-oil facility • dock carts • Lonesome Creek Store • Ocean Park Resort (beach front cabins, hotel, campgrounds) • River’s Edge Restaurant
• 3 tidal grids available • marine railways at Annette Is . Packing • contact: Harbor Office
• electronics/hydraulics • stainless welder
MOORAGE
HAULOUTS • ramp
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • Coast Guard, Quillayute River Station
SPECIAL EVENTS • Quileute Days in July; baseball tournament, canoe races, food, music, fireworks
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AIR TRANSPORT
HAULOUTS • 100-ton travel lift
AIR TRANSPORT
• Pacific Air and Promech Air
• Monterey Peninsula Airport, jet service • Watsonville, small planes only
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES
MEDICAL/RESCUE (AREA CODE 831)
• Annette Island Service Unit • Metlakatla Volunteer Fire Dept .
• Salinas Valley Memorial . . . . . .757-4333 • Community Hospital . . . . . . . . 624-5311 • Coast Guard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647-7303 • Watsonville Community Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724-4741
MOSS LANDING Harbor Operations . . . . . . . 831-633-2461 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831-633-4537 mcintyre@mosslandingharbor .dst .ca .us www .mosslandingharbor .dst .ca .us VHF Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 & 16 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
AT THE DOCK • General Manager/harbormaster:
NAKNEK/ KING SALMON Port Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-246-6168 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-246-3493 herk@bbbak .us http://www .bristolbayboroughak .us/ adminstration/port/index .html VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
NAKNEK to NEAH BAY Fish & Game . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-246-3341 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Bristol Bay Contractors . . . . . . . .246-3360 Crowley Marine Services . . . . . .246-4421 Delta Western Fuel . . . . . . . . . . . 246-6174 Worldwide Fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . .246-3835
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 907) Alaska General Sfds . . . . . . . . . .246-4285 Ocean Beauty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .246-8660 Pederson Point (NPPI) . . . . . . . .246-4461 Peter Pan Seafoods . . . . . . . . . .246-4227 Red Salmon/Wards Cove . . . . . .246-4295 Trident Sfds (Naknek) . . . . . . . . .246-4275 Trident Sfds (S . Naknek) . . . . . . . 246-6510 Unisea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .246-3328
AT THE DOCK
swimming pool & other recreation • electricity/freshwater/pay phones • limited parking/restrooms/ fish grinder
HAULOUTS • 300-ton, 140 ton cranes, boom truck; 2 .5 ton to 43 ton forklifts • private locations at storage • public boat ramp
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 360)
REPAIR FACILITIES
High Tide Seafoods . . . . . . . . . . 645-2189
• businesses located in town for repairs
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • Naknek Clinic • Coast Guard services • native health clinic in Naknek, King Salmon and South Naknek • police, ambulance, fire dept, state troopers
• Port Foreman: Robert McDermott
MOORAGE • No berths; dock moorage $20/day, $250/ season for boats up to 32’ • mainly a freight facility; major port for Northland Services Inc . • lighterage also available from several Bristol Bay companies
AMENITIES • cargo/freight shipping & receiving, including vessels & gear avail . to/from: Western Alaska, Anchorage, Seattle, Dutch Harbor & Japan • commercial ice machine • convenient access to supplies, groceries, restaurants, bars, hotels, repairs, showers, laundry, public
www .makah .com VHF Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16/66 Fish & Game . . . . . . . . . . . . 206-976-3200 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
AIR TRANSPORT • charter service available at Naknek field • daily commuter flights to surrounding villages • daily flights by Pen Air, Reeve Air & Alaska Airlines
SPECIAL EVENTS • annual Fishtival Celebration at the end of the fishing season
NEAH BAY (Makah Marina) Port Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-645-3015 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-645-3016 Tribal Center . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-645-2201
Makah Fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645-2749 Big Salmon Resort . . . . . . . . . . . 645-2374
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 360) AT THE DOCK • Port Director: Bob Buckingham
MOORAGE • 200 berths/year-round
RATES • daily/monthly/annual rates available • subject to change
AMENITIES • water/general store/electricity • pumpouts • restrooms/showers • cultural museum . . . . . . . . . . . . 645-2711 • U .S . Post Office . . . . . . . . . . . .645-2325 • camping & hookups available • waterfront espresso and ice cream • local cafes, pizza shops, and gift/clothing shops
HAULOUTS • tidal grid handles up to 58’ limit seiners
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • local Coast Guard . . . . . . . . . . .645-2236 • Neah Bay Police . . . . . . . . . . . . 645-2701 • Public Health Clinic . . . . . . . . . .645-2233
KINEMATICS
Marine Equipment, Inc.
- Manufacturers of Hydraulic Deck Equipment pot launchers, crab blocks, trawl winches, net reels
- Dockside Conversions and Repairs - Suppliers of KYB Motors, Rotzler Winches
Durable, Dependable Quality Deck Equipment For Over 30 Years
www.kinematicsmarine.com
MEMBERSHIP | $49 PER YEAR
5625 48 Dr. N.E. Unit B Marysville, WA 98270 Phone: (360) 659-5415 • Fax: (360) 653-5151 th
Stocking Distributor of HydroControl Marinized Valves 508 Butler Bridge Road, Toledo, Or 97391 Phone: 541-336-5593 • Fax: 541-336-5156 • 1-800-923-3625
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NEAH BAY to NOME MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES
• helicopter and ambulance
SPECIAL EVENTS • Makah Days Celebration (grand parade, street fair, canoe races, traditional “slahal” games, dancing, singing, feasting, a spectacular fireworks show and more!); 3rd or 4th weekend in August
NEWPORT Port Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541-265-7758 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541-265-4235 www.portofnewport.com VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Fish & Wildlife . . . . . . . . . . . 541-867-4741 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 541)
AT THE DOCK • Harbormaster: Kevin Bryant
MOORAGE • 250 berths — vessels up to 110’ • dry land storage
RATES • daily/monthly/annual rates available • subject to change
AMENITIES • electricity/freshwater/gear lot/phone/ restrooms/service dock/showers
HOIST DOCK SERVICES • 4 dock hoists • 2 forklifts
• Pacific Comm. Hosp . . . . 541-265-2244 • U.S. Coast Guard . . . . . . . 541-265-5381 • Pacific West Ambulance . . . 541-265-3175
SPECIAL EVENTS • Blessing of the Fleet — March • Loyalty Day & Sea Fair Festival — first weekend of May • Seafood & Wine Festival, last weekend of February • Microbrew Festival — October • HMS SeaFest — June • Newport Wild Seafood Weekend - 1st weekend after Labor Day
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PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 541)
Port Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-443-6619 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-443-5473 port@nomealaska.org www.nomealaska.org VHF Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10, 12 & 16 Fish & Game . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-443-5167 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
Pacific Shrimp Company. . . . . . . 265-4215 Trident Seafoods . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265-7279
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907)
Carson Oil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336-2512 Port Dock 5 Fuel Dock . . . . . . . .265-6923 Hockema Coast Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 265-5111 PMK Distributing. . . . . . . . . . . . .335-3836
REPAIR FACILITIES • Riverbend Moorage • Yaquina Boat Equipment • Port of Toledo Boat Yard • Kevin Hill Marine
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To learn how you can help, call (860) 535-0786 or visit our website at www.coastguardfoundation.org. Ask about our Boat Donation Program.
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NOME to PETERSBURG Bonanza Fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .443-2561 Crowley Marine Services . . . . . . 443-2219
MOORAGE
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 907)
• 98 berths, all berthing permanent • transient space available at dock
• Norton Sound Sfd Prod . . . . . .443-2304
AT THE DOCK • Harbormaster: Lucas Stotts . . . . . . . . . . . . LStotts@nomealaska .org
MOORAGE • 2 docking facilities along causeway • flat rates-vessels stored Nov-May • moorage available at inner harbor • on arrangement with Harbormaster • storage on land, $0 .058/sq . ft ./wk .
RATES • daily/seasonal rates available depending on length • electricity: inquire with Harbormaster/city hall
AMENITIES
• Boardwalk Shuffle, May • Blessing of the Fleet, May • Salmon Derby
PETERSBURG Port Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-772-4688 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-772-4687 harbor@ci .petersburg .ak .us petersburg .org/visitors/ports .html VHF Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 & 16 USCG Anacapa . . . . . . . . . . 907-772-4235 Fish & Game . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-772-3801 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
RATES
• restaurant, bar & grills, library • Ice • Laundromat and showers • U .S . Post Office • Internet
• daily: up to 200’, $1 .155/ft . ; over 200’, $1 .733/ft .
HAULOUTS
Petro Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . .VHF 16 or 907-772-4251
AMENITIES
• 2 tidal grids for boats up to 50’ • dockside hoist at cold storage
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 907)
• fuel delivered by truck
HAULOUTS • crane available intermittently • TSR-907 .434 .1516
REPAIR FACILITIES • some repair shops/welding
AIR TRANSPORT • Alaska Airlines daily to Anchorage • daily flights to surrounding villages
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • fire/ambulance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911 • Norton Sound Hosp . . . . . 907-443-3311
PELICAN Pelican, City of . . . . . . . . . . 907-735-2202 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-735-2258 cityhall@pelicancity .org www .pelican .net VHF Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 & 10 Fish & Game (Douglas) . . . 907-465-4250 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Pelican Fuel Dock . . . . . . . . . . . . 735-2211
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 907) Hoonah Cold Storage . . . . . 907-735-2296 Yakboi Fisheries . . . . . . . . . 907-735-2499
AT THE DOCK • Harbormaster: Linda Ady
MARINE REPAIR FACILITIES • Terry’s Marine Repair . . . . . . . .735-2233
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • 21’ search & rescue vessel • call 911; nearest hospital Sitka or Juneau • Coast Guard surface vessels in Juneau and aircraft in Sitka • Pelican Health Clinic . . . . . . . . . 735-2250
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907)
Coastal Cold Storage . . . . . . . . . 772-4177 Trident Seafoods . . . . . . . . . . . . .772-3333 Northern Lights Smokeries . . . .772-4608 Ocean Beauty Seafoods . . . . . . . 772-4242 Alaska Longline Co . . . . . . . . . . .772-4835 Petersburg Fisheries . . . . . . . . . . 772-4294 Tonka Seafoods . . . . . . . . . . . . . .772-3662
AT THE DOCK • Harbormaster: Glorianne Wollen • harbor office open 24 hrs
AIR TRANSPORT
MOORAGE
• floatplanes only
• 600 berths • 105 transient spaces • 75 on waiting list • storage on land, $0 .24/sq . ft .
SPECIAL EVENTS • Memorial Day celebration • July 4th celebration
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PETERSBURG to PORT ANGELES RATES • transient moorage: $.65 a ft daily and $6.50 ft. monthly. • annual: monthly rate x 12 • grid fees: $0.60/ft. on wood grid; $0.96/ft. on steel grid
AMENITIES • electricity at berths over 17’ • freshwater at loading zones • laundry in town/pay phone • showers at harbor
HAULOUTS • 5-ton and 2.5-ton crane at city dock, $30/hr. • 120’ dock with 5-ton hoist for loading and unloading • 200’ work float • marine railway (up to 300 tons) and floating dry dock (up to 38’) at local shipwright • private travel lift outside boat harbor • tidal grids 2 will handle up to 200 tons
REPAIR FACILITIES • 180’ x 16’ float for working on gear
• local shipwrights provide dockside welding & repair facilities for steel, aluminum, fiberglass & wood • machine shops and electronic repairs
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES
Port Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-457-4505 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-457-4921 pamarina@olypen.com Fish & Game . . . . . . . . . . . . 206-976-3200 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
• Petersburg Hospital . . . . . 907-772-4291 • 2 dentists in town • 110’ Coast Guard patrol boat and 65’ boat; aircraft in Sitka • Petersburg Hospital will stabilize emergency cases and MedEvac to Seattle or Juneau
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 360)
AIR TRANSPORT
• Harbormaster: Chuck Faires
• jet service from Seattle • runway with daily flights
MOORAGE
Elwha Fish Company . . . . . . . . .457-3344 High Tide Seafoods . . . . . . . . . .452-8488
FUEL SUPPLIER Port Angeles Marine . . . . . . . . . .457-4505
AT THE DOCK
• 30 transients; 500 berths • dry storage: 30 boats
SPECIAL EVENTS • July 4th celebration • Norwegian Festival — May • King Salmon Derby; tagged fish worth $10,000 — May • Octoberfest
RATES
PORT ANGELES
• Transient moorage: Less than 75’, $0.75/lf/day Greater than 75’, $1/lf/day • Permanent moorage: 20-ft. slip, $5.50/lf/mo. 30-ft. slip, $5.75lf/mo.
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PORT ANGELES to SAINT PAUL 40-ft. slip, $6.10/lf/mo. 50-ft. slip, $6.35/lf/mo. 60+ft. slip, $6.65/lf/mo.
AMENITIES
• diesel fuel & gas; laundry nearby • electricity, freshwater, showers • 30, 50 & 100 amp shore power • free wi-fi
HAULOUTS • dockside hoist, 4,000-lb. capacity • travel lift to 75 tons • Platypus Marine, Inc. . . . . . . . (360) 417-0709, up to 330 tons
REPAIR FACILITIES • several private shops can repair aluminum, glass, wood, engines, electronics
MEDICAL/RESCUE (AREA CODE 360) • Olympic Mem. Hospital . . . . . . 417-7000 • Coast Guard air station and several vessels from 41’ to 210’ • dentists in town
AIR TRANSPORT • jet runway with daily flights
PORT TOWNSEND Port Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800-228-2803 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .360-385-3988 info@portofpt.com www.portofpt.com VHF Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . 66A, 09 & 16 Fish & Game . . . . . . . . . . . . 206-976-3200 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 360) New Day Fisheries . . . . . . . . . . 385-4600
AT THE DOCK • Harbormaster: Ken Radon (operations manager)
MOORAGE • 4 public yards can store 200 boats on land • 50 spaces for transients • 400 berths • waitlist for 30’, 35’, 40’, 45’ & 50’ slips
RATES • monthly: $5-5.36/ft. + leasehold tax (permanent tenants)
• dry storage: $0.30/ft. per day; see Harbormaster for winter dry storage and haulout fees
AMENITIES • electricity • freshwater • pay phones, hookups at berths • sewage pumpout • fuel dock • showers/laundry
HAULOUTS • 3 travel lifts, 70, 75 and 300 tons • private mobile crane for engines and gear • high pressure wash down
REPAIR FACILITIES • about 100 private businesses will repair aluminum, glass, wood, steel; also engines and electronics
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • Coast Guard has one 80’ vessel moored • dentists in town • Jefferson Gen. Hosp. . . . . 360-385-2200 emergency/general surgery, will stabilize and evacuate severe cases
AIR TRANSPORT • light plane runway with daily flights
SPECIAL EVENTS • Wooden Boat Festival, 2nd weekend in September
SAINT GEORGE City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-859-2263 x5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-859-2261 City Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-859-2212 VHF Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9, 12 & 16 Fish & Game (Dutch H). . . . 907-581-1239 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
• 3 docks, 60’, 75’ and 250’ • “square miles” of all-purpose storage adjacent to port, call St. George Tanaq Corp. (907) 859-2255 • 2 newer docks, by St. GeoTanag Corp.
RATES • 2 hr. free period for fueling • cargo barge: $0.23 per hr. • vessels 150’ and less, $0.15 per hr.; greater than 150’, $0.18 per hr.
AMENITIES • 1 store in town/acres of pot storage • electricity/hotel/marine fuel • pay phones/water service (VHF Ch. 9) • diving services available • Bone’s Diving . . . . . . . . . . . . .859-2204 • water & fish waste outfall — all docks
HAULOUTS • boat ramp
REPAIR FACILITIES • boat repair — hydraulics, diesel, diving, welding: contact harbor
AIR TRANSPORT • airport next to harbor-5,000’ runway • air freight 3x/week, No. Air (cargo) • airport terminal & weather station • Peninsula Air, nonstop to and from Anchorage 3x/week • Ace Cargo (weekdays)
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • St. George Island Clinic . . . . . .859-2254 • 24 hr. on-call ETT • fully equipped clinic • nearest search and rescue: Kodiak • VPSO: Charles Ward . . . . . . . . 859-2415 Mike Lejaraza
SAINT PAUL
St. George Delta Fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 859-2456 or VHF 68
Port Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-546-3140 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-546-2451 VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 907)
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907)
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907)
Snopac Products (seasonal) . . 859-CRAB Bluewave (seasonal) . . . . . . . . . . 859-2441
AT THE DOCK • Harbormaster: Alvin Merculief
MOORAGE
North Pacific Fuel . . . . . . . . . . . .546-3145 Saint Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .546-2404
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 907) Trident Seafoods . . . . . . . . . . . . .546-2377
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SAINT PAUL to SEATTLE • Harbormaster: Jason Merculief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . jason@stpaulak .com
MOORAGE • TDX dock, 300’/2 city docks, 100’ & 200’ • storage on land, open and covered
RATES 48’-100’ . . . . . . . . . . . . $165/12-hr . period 101’-125’ . . . . . . . . . . . $205/12-hr . period 126’-150’ . . . . . . . . . . . . $240/12-hr . period 151’-175’ . . . . . . . . . . . . $315/12-hr . period 176’-200’ . . . . . . . . . . . .$355/12-hr . period 201’-225’ . . . . . . . . . . . .$400/12-hr . period 226’+ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $455/12-hr . period
AMENITIES
MOORAGE
• ice and fuel at Trident • pay phones at harbor • storage space for approx . 75 boats, 40’ & under • some space for work on 58’ & under boats • 2 marine supply stores • 4 restaurants, 20-room hotel, bar • electricity, freshwater at floats • laundry nearby, showers • one general store, specialty shops • wireless Internet service at floats
• 115 berths, seasonal and long-term • marina (62 additional berths) • 1,400’ transient moorage • gear storage/waiting list: long term
HAULOUTS
• TDX Corp, small boats only, 32’
• 1 public launch ramp • 200’ ferry dock • privately owned mobile cranes available for engines and gear • tidal grid will handle up to 100’ boat • travel lift will handle up to 150 tons • 35-ton travel lift
REPAIR FACILITIES
REPAIR FACILITIES
• Limited service everything from aluminum to generators; contact harbormaster
• fiberglass repair; carpenter shop • marine electronics repair (seasonal) • small engine repair, two welding shops
AMENITIES • electricity/water at South Dock • fuel & water at the south
HAULOUTS
AIR TRANSPORT • daily flights/Penn Air • daily Ace Cargo
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • Dept . of Public Safety . . . 907-546-3130 • St . Paul Clinic . . . . . . . . . .907-546-8300
SAND POINT Harbor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-383-2331 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-383-5611 VHF Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 & 16 Fish & Game (Summer) . . 907-383-2066 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
AIR TRANSPORT • Pen Air 7 days/wk to Anchorage • AK-Central Express (cargo)
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • health clinic . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-383-3151 • nearest hospital: Anchorage
SAN FRANCISCO
Trident Seafoods . . . . . . . . . . . . 383-4848
Port Offices . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415-274-0533 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415-274-0628 www .sfport .com VHF Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 & 80 USCG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415-399-3451 Fish & Game . . . . . . . . . . . .650-688-6340 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
AT THE DOCK
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 415)
• Harbormaster: Richard Kochuten Sr .
Clipper Yacht Co . (Sausalito) . . .332-3500 San Francisco Marine . . . . . . . . . 673-2928
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 907)
MOORAGE • 148 berths/200’ dock • 2,000 feet of space for transients • storage on land
RATES • daily rates: $7 to $70/day (dep . on length)
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AT THE DOCK • Harbormasters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274-0513 Demetri Amaro . . . . . . . . . demetri .amaro@sfport .com Joseph Reilly . joseph .reilly@sfport .com Anita Yao . . . . . . . . anita .yao@sfport .com
RATES • OLD HARBOR: daily transient: $0 .46/ft ./day monthly transient: $210 permanent berth: $1 .88 ft ./mo . • NEW HARBOR: daily transient: $0 .59/ft . monthly/permanent: $5 .18 ft ./mo .
AMENITIES • fuel dock w/water, ice available • oil & filter recycle, hotels, restaurants
HAULOUTS • 1 public launch ramp; 2 private dry docks • private hoists
REPAIR FACILITIES • 1 private yard, others in area • numerous marine services
AIR TRANSPORT • numerous private municipal fields • San Francisco and Oakland airports
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • numerous hospitals and clinics • CG/Vessel Assist Program
SPECIAL EVENTS • Blessing of the Fleet — Oct .
SEATTLE Fishermen’s Terminal . . . . . 206-787-3395 Terminal Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . 206-787-3393 www .portseattle .org VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Fish & Game . . . . . . . . . . . . 206-976-3200 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 206) Ballard Oil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783-0241 Covich-Williams Co . Inc . . . . . . . 784-0171 Crowley Marine Services . . . . . .443-8100 Rainier Petroleum Corp . . . . . . . .623-3480 Shilshole Texaco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783-7555 Time Oil Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .285-2400
PROCESSORS
SEATTLE ADF Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206-784-5170 Alaska Fresh Seafoods . . . . 206-285-2412 Aleutian Spray Fisheries . . . 206-784-5000 All Alaskan Seafoods . . . . . 206-285-8200 American Seafoods . . . . . .206-448-0300 Arrowac Fisheries . . . . . . . . 206-282-5655 Besecker, Dana F . Co . . . . . . 206-232-5040 Blue Wave Sfds/7 Seas . . . 206-448-3107 Clipper Seafoods Ltd . . . . . 206-284-1162 Cook Inlet Processing . . . . . 206-789-7255 Crown Fisheries Ltd . . . . . . 206-789-6330 Deep Sea Fisheries Inc . . . . 425-742-5562 Golden Alaska Sfds . . . . . . . 206-441-1990 Golden Shamrock Inc . . . . . 206-282-5825
Icicle Seafoods . . . . . . . . . . 206-282-0988 Independent Packers . . . . .206-285-6000 Jubilee Fisheries . . . . . . . . . 206-784-2592 Kelliher Fish Co . . . . . . . . . . 425-771-6036 Kirkland Custom Sfds . . . . . 425-828-4521 Kyokuyo America . . . . . . . . 206-405-2670 Nakamura & Assoc . . . . . . . 206-624-7653 NorQuest Seafoods . . . . . . 206-281-7022 North Pacific . . . . . . . . . . . . 206-726-9900 Northern Aurora Fish . . . . . 425-450-0187 Nova Fish ./Sunwave . . . . . . 206-781-2000 Ocean Beauty Seafds . . . . .206-285-6800 Ocean Fresh Seafds . . . . . . 206-285-2412 Oceantrawl Inc . . . . . . . . . .206-448-9200
Orca Bay Seafoods Inc . . . . 425-204-9100 Pacific Salmon Co . . . . . . . . 206-682-6501 Pathfinder USA Inc . . . . . . . 206-283-1137 Peter Pan Seafoods . . . . . . 206-728-6000 Premier Pacific Sfds . . . . . .206-286-8584 Regal Fish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206-283-0224 Sea Freeze Sfd Proc . . . . . . . 206-767-7350 Snopac Products . . . . . . . . . 206-764-9230 Star Offshore Co . Inc . . . . .206-634-3399 Trident Seafoods . . . . . . . . . 206-783-3818 Unisea Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425-881-8181 Westward Seafoods . . . . . .206-682-5949 Yardarm Knot Inc . . . . . . . . . 206-216-0220
AT THE DOCK Fishermen’s Terminal . . . . . 206-787-3395 Maritime Industrial Ctr . . . . 206-787-3395 Manager: Kenneth Lyles
MOORAGE • 300 berths
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SEATTLE to SEWARD • short-term gear staging • showers and laundry at fishermen’s day room • now accepting commercial vessels in addition to active fishing vessels
Seldovia Fuel and Lube . . . . . . . . 234-7622 or VHF Channel 16
MEDICAL
MOORAGE
• Swedish Medical/Ballard . . . . 782-2700
• 149’ berths at small boat harbor • 793’ feet Transient dock space
• Seldovia Health Clinic . . . . 907-234-7825 • Maritime Emergency . . . . 800-478-5555 • Volunteer Fire Dept (Emergency) . . . . . . 911 or 907-234-7812 • nearest USCG facilities in Homer • nearest hospital in Homer
• Blessing of the Fleet • Seattle Fishermen’s Memorial Ceremony: 1st Sunday in May • Fishermen’s Fall Festival: mid-Sept . • Pacific Marine Expo
RATES: PAID IN ADVANCE
AIR TRANSPORT
• Daily: $0 .80/per foot or stall length • Monthly: $4 .81/per foot or stall length • 6-month rate $13 .86/per foot or stall length
• Float plane dock at small boat harbor • Smokey Bay Air • KBay Air • Alaska Air Taxi
SELDOVIA
AMENITIES
SEWARD
SPECIAL EVENTS
Port Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-234-7886 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-234-7430 Harbormaster@cityofseldovia .com info@cityofseldovia .com VHF Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 & 10 Fish & Game (Homer) . . . . . 907-235-8191 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907)
• minor repairs in town, major in Homer
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES
AT THE DOCK • Harbormaster: Layla Jandt-Pederson
• electricity/freshwater • haulout and wash down facility • fenced vessel storage • laundry in town/showers
HAULOUTS • haulout and wash down facility • 1 tidal grids, capacity 80’ • dry dock storage area
REPAIR FACILITIES
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Port Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-224-3138 Port Fax: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-224-7187 harbormaster@cityofseward .net www .cityofseward .net/harbor VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 USCG Marine Safety . . . . . 907-271-6700 USCG Mustang . . . . . . . . . . 907-224-5202 Fish & Game . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-224-3935 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Petro Marine Services . . . . . . . . 224-3190 Shoreside Petroleum Inc . . . . . .224-8040
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 907) Resurrection Bay Sfds . . . . . . . .224-3366 Seward Fisheries . . . . . . . . . . . .224-3381 Polar Seafoods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224-7066
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SEWARD to SKAGWAY • Harbormaster: Norm Regis . . . 224-3138
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES
MOORAGE • 668 berths • 4,374 linear feet for transients • other docks outside harbor • 5 year wait, 40’ berths; 7 year, 75’ • storage on land for vessels up to 250 tons: $10 per day, $310/month for 100’
• ambulance service, EMTs • Coast Guard base with 110’ patrol boat - Mustang • dentist in town • Providence Seward (907-224-5205): MedEvac to Anchorage available • LifeFlight: 800-478-9111
SPECIAL EVENTS
RATES • daily $0 .74/ft . plus 7% sales tax • annual, semi-annual and quarterly rates available
AMENITIES • freshwater • showers at harbormaster office • laundry nearby • 2 launch ramps • nearby restaurants, bars, hotels
• Mt . Marathon 3 mile race, 4th of July • Halibut Derby in June • Silver Salmon Derby, starts 2nd Saturday in August
SITKA
• 50-ton travel lift • 250-ton travel lift • 5,000-ton Syncrolift for vessels up to 300’ • dockside hoist for engines and gear
Harbor Dept . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-747-3439 Harbor Fax: . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-747-6278 www .cityofsitka .com VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Air Station (Emrgcy) . . . . . . 907-966-5401 USCG Marine Safety . . . . . 907-966-5454 Commercial Fish Dev . . . . . 907-747-6688 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . . 800-424-8802
REPAIR FACILITIES
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907)
HAULOUTS
• available for aluminum, glass, wood; engine repair • boat owners may do their own repair or hire service at city haulout yard, except on the Syncrolift
AIR TRANSPORT • runway with chartered flights
Petro Marine Services . . . . . . . . 747-3414 Delta Western Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 747-4999
AT THE DOCK • Harbormaster: Stan Eliason . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . stan@cityofsitka .com Deputy harbormaster: Charles Hackett
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 907) Seafood Producers Co-op . . . . . 747-5811 Sitka Sound Seafoods . . . . . . . . 747-6662 Silver Bay Seafoods . . . . . . . . . . 996-3110
MOORAGE
FINE FUELS, SUPER SERVICE, QUALITY LUBRICANTS
P R O U D LY S E R V I N G Craig Homer Juneau Ketchikan Kodiak
Petersburg Sitka Skagway Soldotna Wrangell
www.petromarineservices.com
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• no public storage on land, but commercial yard will store boats • private 400-ton floating dry dock • all berths assigned by harbormaster: 1st-come, 1st-served • Halibut Point Marine Services has floating deep water dock capable of accommodating cruise ships and larger fish processors
RATES
• $1 .69 a foot per day 81’ to 150’ • $2 .54 a foot per day 151’ plus • Monthly transient permits • $16 .93 per foot up to 150’ • $25 .39 per foot 151’ and up • Transient reserved moorage (May 1st thru Sept 30th ) Eliason Harbor end ties $2 .92 a foot perday • Transient reserved O’Connell Bridge Dock $5 .31 a foot per day • Daily rate for Commercial fishing vessels can receive 25% discount . Contact office for details .
AMENITIES • • • •
freshwater; laundry and showers nearby 3,000’ for transients 1,317 berths work float with power
HAULOUTS • 88-ton travel lift available • tidal grids (4) handle up to 58’ limit seiners
REPAIR FACILITIES • 2 repair yards for alum/glass/wood
AIR TRANSPORT • jet runway with daily flights
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • Coast Guard has a station with H-3 helicopters and a buoy tender • dentists in town • Sitka Comm . Hospital . . . . . . . 747-3241
SPECIAL EVENTS • 4th of July celebration • Alaska Day, October • Salmon Derby, May-June
SKAGWAY Small Boat Harbor . . . . . . . . 907-983-2628 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-983-3087 VHF Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16/work 9 Fish & Game (Douglas) . . . . 907-465-4250 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Petro Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .983-2259
AT THE DOCK
• Permanent moorage $3 .18 a foot per month
• Harbormaster: Matt O’Boyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . m .oboyle@skagway .org
• Daily rate $ .99 a foot per day up to 80’
• 103 berths
MOORAGE:
• 800’ transient tie-up • land storage $0.20/sq. ft.,$50/mo. min. • upland storage space available
www.portoftacoma.com VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Fish & Game . . . . . . . . . . . . 206-976-3200 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
RATES
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 253)
• daily: $0.40/ft.; monthly: $4.00/ft. • annual: $14.00ft. w/wait list • transient moorage: $0.40/ft./ day or $4.00/ft./month • long-term storage: $0.20/sq. ft./mo. • pressure washer: $20/hr. • grid fee: $15 per tide; haulout fee: $200/round trip • Boat building : $30.00per day summer $45.00per day winter
Mayco Fish Co. Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . 572-3070
AMENITIES • electricity/freshwater • showers/restrooms/pressure washer • space for water & power for people to work on their boats
HAULOUTS • 80’ tidal grid • hydraulic haul-out trailer, to 30-ton/55’ • Boat building covered maintenance area
AIR TRANSPORT • daily fights to Juneau/seaplane float
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • clinic with 2 physicians’ assistants • dentist available every 6-8 weeks • volunteer EMS squad
TACOMA
AT THE DOCK
P R O U D LY S E R V I N G Craig Homer Juneau Ketchikan Kodiak
Petersburg Sitka Skagway Soldotna Wrangell
www.petromarineservices.com
REPAIR FACILITIES • nearest repairs in Juneau and Sitka
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • rescue/fire: 27’ Munson landing craft • Boston Whaler search & rescue boat • helicopter pad for emergencies • nearest Coast Guard facility in Juneau • nearest medical Coast Guard in Sitka
MOORAGE
AIR TRANSPORT
• 66 commercial slips, 70 pleasure slips • net sheds/storage on land/wait list
• float planes 2x daily to Juneau; charters available to Sitka
RATES
SPECIAL EVENTS
• call City Marina
• 4th of July celebration • Fireman’s Ball (spring date changes annually)
AMENITIES • electricity and freshwater at all moorage except city dock • laundry/cafe on-site • pay phones; contact phone company for hookups at harbor
TENAKEE Port/City Office . . . . . . . . . . 907-736-2207 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-736-2249 citytke@worldnet.att.net VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Fish & Game (Douglas) . . . . 907-465-4250 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
• Harbormaster: Dan Martin • Harbor Billing Clerk: Ruth Craine
MOORAGE
FINE FUELS, SUPER SERVICE, QUALITY LUBRICANTS
• grid will handle boats up to 45’
• Harbormaster: Tacoma Fire Dept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253-591-5065 • managed by City Marina, Steve Morrison . . . . . . . . . 253-572-2524
AT THE DOCK
Port Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253-383-5841 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253-593-4570
SKAGWAY to THORNE BAY HAULOUTS
• 2 breakwaters with 12 additional transient berths • 10 transient berths/40 permanent • electricity for $10/day transient; $10/day for grid, May-Sept. • winter rates for harbor electricity $20/day
RATES
• Transient: Daily, $0.65/ft./day; monthly, $4.70/ft. per mo. • Permanent: $20/ft.
AMENITIES • non-potable water at fuel dock • bottled water at general store
THORNE BAY Harbormaster . . . . . . . . . . . 907-965-4138 City office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-828-3380 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-828-3374 harbormaster@thornebay-ak.gov VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) “The Port” Fuel Dock . . . . . . . . .828-3995
PROCESSING • A fish-smoking and processing business
AT THE DOCK • Harbormaster: Shane Nyquest
MOORAGE • 108 stalls for vessels up to 60’; transient moorage available for vessels up to 100’
RATES (all plus tax except guest moorage) • guest moorage $0.75/ft • monthly $2.30/ft • semi-annually $1.65/ft • annually $1.52/ft
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THORNE BAY to WESTPORT • post office . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-828-3490
AIR TRANSPORT (DAILY SERVICE) • Pacific Airways • Taquan Air
Medical/Rescue Facilities • medical clinic, M, T, Th: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-828-8848
VALDEZ
• paved boat storage yard • used oil collection facility
HAULOUTS • 2 dockside hoists will handle up to 10,000 lbs . • 250-ton tidal grid/travel lift to 75 tons; $180/hr .
REPAIR FACILITIES • adjacent to Marina-Warrenton
AIR TRANSPORT
SPECIAL EVENTS
North Pacific Fuel . . . . . . . . . . . 835-4850 Crowley Petroleum . . . . . . . . . . .835-5009
• Halibut Derby, May 23 - Sept . 6 • Silver Salmon Derby, July 18 - Sept . 6 • Kid’s Pink Salmon Derby, July 18 • Women’s Silver Salmon Derby, Aug . 8
AT THE DOCK • Port Director/Harbormaster
MOORAGE • 300’ fisherman’s dock; gear unloading • 525 berths/land storage-100 boats • 600’ open moorage/transient side tie-ups • boats must call-in prior to arrival
RATES • all transient moorage paid on arrival • annual tenant: $34 .46/ft ./yr .; advance transient annual: $39 .63/ft ./yr .; $8 .75/ft ./mo . & $0 .70/ft ./day, billed $13 .13/ft/mo . & $1 .05/ft ./day • contact the Port Office for dockage/wharfage rates for the Kelsey Dock and Container Terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-835-4564
• Coast Guard air station • Life Boat station at the mouth of Columbia • WFD 1st Responder Medical Aid
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES
SPECIAL EVENTS
• CG marine safety office . . 907-835-7217 • health clinic . . . . . . . . . . . 907-835-4612 • hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-835-2249
• Commercial Fishermen’s Festival • annual crab & seafood festival with specialty booths, wine tasting, etc . • annual fish fry & crab dinner for Deep Sea Fishermen Benefit Fund • 4th of July parade, talent show, fireworks
WARRENTON
WESTPORT (Port of Grays Harbor Marina)
City Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503-861-3822 Marina Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503-861-2370 harboroffice@ci .warrenton .or .us VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
Port Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . .360-268-9665 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-268-9413 marina@portgrays .org www .portofgraysharbor .com VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71 Fish & Game . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-902-2200 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 503)
FUEL SUPPLIERS
Bornstein Seafoods . . . . . . . . . . 325-6164 Fishhawk Fisheries . . . . . . . . . . .325-5256 Warrenton Deep Sea . . . . . . . . . 861-1233 Pacific Coast Seafoods . . . . . . . . 861-2201
Masco Petroleum . . . . . . . . 360-268-0076
AT THE DOCK • Harbormaster: Keith Pinkstaff
MOORAGE • 1-2 year waiting list • 515 slips
RATES
• electricity/laundry/pay phones/ showers/water • two 30’ x 6’’ concrete washdown pads at travel lift w/power & water service • eight 20’ x 60’ concrete maintenance pads in btyd w/power & water service
• daily: 0-19’= $15/day; add $1 for each additional 1’ • monthly: 1/3 annual rate • annually: $28/ft . for recreational boat and $29/ft . for commercial
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MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES
• daily flights • Ravn Alaska . . . . . . . . . . . 907-835-2636
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• 1 to 3,000-lb . capacity crane • Warrenton Boat Yard
• public repair yard: works on aluminum, glass, wood; also has mobile shop
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907)
Peter Pan Seafoods . . . . . . . . . .835-2080 Silver Bay Seafoods . . . . . . . . . . 835-8710
HAULOUTS
REPAIR FACILITIES
Harbor Office . . . . . . . . . . . 907-835-4981 Harbor Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-835-2958 svonbargen@ci .valdez .ak .us www .ci .valdez .ak .us/harbor VHF Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 & 7 USCG Marine Safety . . . . . 907-835-4791 Fish & Game (Cordova) . . . . 907-424-3212 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 907)
• boat storage • electricity/freshwater/pay phones • groceries/restaurants • laundry in town/net-mending yard • restrooms/showers
AMENITIES
PROCESSORS D & M Live Crab . . . . . . . . . 360-268-9319 Nelson Crab . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-267-2911 or 800-262-0069 Ocean Gold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-268-2510 WA Crab Producers . . . . . . 360-268-9161 Westport Seafood . . . . . . . 360-268-0133 Seafood Connection . . . . . . 360-268-1328
AT THE DOCK • Marina Manager: Robin Leraas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . rleraas@portgrays .org • Operations manager: Ken Rausch
MOORAGE • 550 berths 30-80’+ & side ties up to 200’
RATES
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WESTPORT to WRANGELL • call harbor for complete list of rates or visit www.portofgraysharbor.com
• limited dry storage available in winter • 8 vessel maintenance stations in summer
• West Basin 2-lane launch ramp
AMENITIES
RATES
• electricity/freshwater • launch ramp for net/gear repair • showers and laundry nearby • restaurants/groceries • bus service county-wide
• Daily: $1.10/ft • Monthly $21.40/ft • Annual $65.81/ft
• Reedsport Machine & Fabrication, 170 Bayfront Loop, Winchester Bay
AMENITIES • electricity/freshwater/pay showers
REPAIR FACILITIES • several private shops can repair steel, aluminum, glass, engines, hydraulics, electronics • vessel haulouts up river (Hoquiam)
HAULOUTS
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES
REPAIR SERVICES
• Coast Guard lifeboat station • dentists in Westport, Grayland, Aberdeen and Hoquiam • hospitals-1 in Aberdeen: Grays Harbor Community Hospital
• marine services available
AIR TRANSPORT
AIR TRANSPORT
• Hoquiam: jet runway, fuels • Westport: hard surface year round
• private charter out of Anchorage
SPECIAL EVENTS • Annual Crab Races, 3rd weekendin April • 4th of July festivities • Rusty Scupper’s Pirate Daze Festival, last weekend in June • Westport Art Festival, August • Annual Seafood Festival & Craft Show, Saturday of Labor Day weekend
WHITTIER Port Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-472-2327 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-472-2472 harbormaster@whittieralaska.gov www.whittieralaska.gov VHF Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 & 68 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907)
• 1 tidal grid • 25-ton marine travel lift • crane hoist for heavy lifting: $41.50/hr.
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • medical clinic with physician’s assistant and several EMTs
SPECIAL EVENTS • 4th of July celebration • Walk to Whittier, usually in June
WINCHESTER BAY (Salmon Harbor Marina) Marina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541-271-3407 Marina Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541-271-2060 salmonh@co.douglas.or.us Umpqua, Port of . . . . . . . . . 541-271-2232 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
AT THE DOCK • Harbor Manager: Paul Stallard
MOORAGE
Shoreside Petroleum Inc. . . . . . . 472-2314
• slips/some transient • 500 berths/25 transient berths
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 907)
RATE SAMPLES
Great Pacific Seafoods . . . . . . . . 472-2400 Fee’s Custom Seafood . . . . . . . . 472-2400
• annual: 24’, $1043; 54’, $2,145
AT THE DOCK
• electricity/freshwater • restrooms/showers • marine fueling facility • marine sewer pumpout and dump • East Basin 3-lane launch ramp
• Harbormaster: Andy Dennis
MOORAGE • 334 slips, most permanent
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AMENITIES
HAULOUTS
AIR TRANSPORT • 22 miles south at North Bend, Ore.
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • Coast Guard • Lower Umpqua Hospital (within 3 mi)
SPECIAL EVENTS • 4th of July fireworks • Dune Fest (Aug.) • Cool Coastal Nights (Aug.) • Art By The Bay (Labor Day Weekend) • Salmon Derby (Sept.) • Dune Mushers Mail Run, (first in Mar.) • Spring Whale Watching (Late March)
WRANGELL Port Office. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-874-3736 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-874-3197 harbor@wrangell.com www.wrangell.com VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Fish & Game . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-874-3822 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Petro Marine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 874-3276
PROCESSORS (AREA CODE 907) Sea Level Seafoods Inc . . . . . . . 874-2401 Trident Seafoods . . . . . . . . . . . . .874-3346
AT THE DOCK • Harbormaster: Greg Meissner . . . . . . . . . . . .harborgreg@aptalaska.net
MOORAGE • 24- to 36-month wait for berths • Temporary berthing when moorage holders are out of town • Heritage Harbor; 1,500’ lineal side tie Transient space
RATES • Daily: $0.92-$1.12-$1.32-$2.04 per ft. • Monthly: $4.08-$6.12 per ft. per Calendar Month • Annual: $28.56-$33.66-$38.76 per ft.
AMENITIES • electricity available transient
WRANGELL to YAKUTAT moorage, $8/day; $10/day; $50/3ph day • sewer pumpout at Reliance & Heritage • freshwater/hotel/laundromat • wireless Internet by local provider • groceries: Bob’s IGA, free delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-874-2341 • public swimming pool, showers, racquetball, weight room • 32’ x 80’ work float • dockside hoist available, 2-ton limit, in 4 locations • all-tide launch at Heritage Harbor, with floating dock alongside • tidal grid at Shoemaker can hold up to four 50’ boats • tidal grid will handle boats up =to 40’ at Reliance
REPAIR FACILITIES • Boat Haul out with 330 Ton lift capacity • Do it yourself boat yard • Highly Skilled shipwrights available
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • Coast Guard has 95’ patrol boat in Petersburg; aircraft in Sitka • dentists in town • Wrangell Hospital
• local search & rescue
• Harbormaster: Erving Grass . .784-3491
AIR TRANSPORT
MOORAGE
• charter service available • jet runway with daily flights
• 20 transients during summer season, no reserved transient moorage • 89 berths in the small boat harbor • waiting list for assigned berths
SPECIAL EVENTS • July 4th celebration • April, Stikine River Birding Festival • May, Salmon Derby • Tent City Days, February
YAKUTAT
RATES • daily: $0 .45/ft .; annually: $15/ft .
AMENITIES • freshwater • some electrical hookups- $5/day
Port Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-784-3491 Port Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-784-3281 VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Fish & Game . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-784-3255 Pollution Hotline . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802
HAULOUTS • 50 ft . 30 ton haulout trailer service, $250 round trip . The power is .53 per kw . • several dockside hoists at Ocean Cape dock
FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Delta Western Fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 784-3311 or VHF 12
PROCESSORS Yakutat Seafoods . . . . . . . . . .907-784-3392
AT THE DOCK (AREA CODE 907)
WRANGELL Alaska
FINE FUELS, SUPER SERVICE, QUALITY LUBRICANTS
P R O U D LY S E R V I N G Craig Homer Juneau Ketchikan Kodiak
Petersburg Sitka Skagway Soldotna Wrangell
www.petromarineservices.com
PORT & HARBORS
Available
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ALERT BAY to LUND • tidal grid will handle up to 50’
REPAIR FACILITIES • fiberglass • some repairs available for glass, wood, and welding
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • health center . . . . . . 907-784-3275/3391 • nearest Coast Guard facilities at Sitka • nearest hospital Juneau or Sitka
AIR TRANSPORT • runway with 2 daily flights • year-round charter available
SPECIAL EVENTS • 4th of July celebration at Cannon Beach • Fair Weather Day, 1st week of Aug .
ALERT BAY Marine Operator: VHF 66A Weather: VHF 21
• freshwater, garbage, recycling • moorage also available in center of town at municipal dock • good anchorage on sand bottom can be found at head of bay in depths of 40-50 feet of water • Namgis First Nation Boat Harbor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (250) 974-5556
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • call Comox Coast Guard while in this vicinity • 3 doctors, 1 dentist • acute care 4-bed hospital/BC ambulance service • volunteer fire dept . • RCMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (250) 974-5544 • Cormorant Island Health Centre . . . . . .(250) 974-5585 Local #221
CAMPBELL RIVER VHF Channel 16
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • Coast Guard . . . . . . . . . . (250) 287-8612 • Campbell River and District General Hospital . . . . . . . .(250) 287-7111 • R .C .M .P . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (250) 286-6221
KLEMTU/ HARTLEY BAY AT THE DOCK • Percy Starr, Klemtu Band Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (250) 839-1255 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (250) 839-1256
MOORAGE • 200’ dock
AMENITIES • Klemtu: grocery store/water • Hartley Bay: diesel, gas, stove oil, grocery store
FUEL SUPPLIERS • First Nations Fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . (250) 839-1233 or VHF 6
AT THE DOCK
• Harbor Manager: Dan Kennedy . . . .(250) 974-5727, cell (250) 974-8255 • Fax: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (250) 974-5470 boatharbour@alertbay .ca www .alertbay .ca • Customs: no local agent
• Harbor Office . . . . . . . . . (250) 287-7931 • Harbor Fax . . . . . . . . . . . (250) 287-8495 • VHF Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66A • Harbor Manager: Phyllis Titus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (250) 287-7931 fishermans@telus .net www .fishermanswharfcampbellriver .com • Customs . . . . . . . . . . . . . (250) 286-5804
AMENITIES
FUEL SUPPLIER
• 2,900’ paved airstrip • credit union/24-hr . ATM • grocery/dry goods/hardware/restaurants • hotels/post office/liquor/ drug store/salon/fitness/pubs • 1 laundromat by boat harbor • public Internet access • radio and electronic repairs outlet • showers available at campground • bowling alley, tennis courts, bike/hike trails • ferries/fishing & sightseeing charters • fishing licenses available locally
• Esso Marine (Discovery Harbor) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (250) 287-3456
• Harbour Manager: Darlene Denholm • Harbour Office . . . . . . . . . (604) 483-4711 • Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604-483-4713 lundharbour-wharfinger@twincomm .ca www .lundharbourbc .wordpress .com
AMENITIES
MOORAGE
• all docks in town have electrical and water
• $ .20/ft/day CFV plus tax • $ .66/ft/day non-CFV
MOORAGE
FUEL SUPPLIERS
• rafting may be required year-round • Fisherman’s Wharf . . . . . (250) 287-7931 • Discovery Harbor . . . . . . (250) 287-2614 • Quathiaski Cove Harbor Authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . (250) 285-3622
• Lund Hotel Gas Dock . . . . . . . . (604) 414-0474
MOORAGE
HAULOUT AND REPAIR
• at boat harbor, float “C” reserved for pleasure boats only; rafting possibilities if fleet is in • 2 boat ramps • 20 and 30 amp electrical
• tidal grid at harbor • full marine services • travel lift in Discovery Harbour and Freshwater Marina
AT THE DOCK
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LUND VHF Channel 73
AT THE DOCK
AMENITIES • showers / holding tank pump out available • Wifi available • coin laundry at hotel • pub and restaurants • general store with marine supplies • Lund Water Taxi and barge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (604) 483-9749 • Coast Guard (Powell River)
LUND to PRINCE RUPERT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (604) 485-7511
HAULOUT, REPAIR & MARINE SUPPLIES • Jack’s Boat Yard . . . . . . . . 604 483 3566 • Lund Auto & Outboard . . . 604 483 4612
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • Powell River . . . . . . . . . . . (604) 485-3211 • ambulance . . . . . . . . . . . . (604) 485-4211 • RCMP (Powell River) . . (604) 485-6255 • first aid: Lund Fire Dept . . . . . . . . . . . 911
NANAIMO Marine Operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .VHF 67 Weather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (250) 245-8899 www .npa .ca
AT THE DOCK • Marina Manager: Greg Entwistle . . . . . . . . . . . . . (250) 754-5053; VHF 67 • Coast Guard SAR (Victoria) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (800) 567-5111 • Customs . . . . . . . . . . . . . (250) 754-0341 • Harbormaster: Capt . Edward Dahlgren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (250) 753-4146 • Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250-754-4186
MOORAGE • supplied upon request • reservations . . . . . . . . . . . 250-754-5053
AMENITIES • ice/shopping plaza • laundry/shower • grocery stores/restaurants • eco-barge • ship chandler
Marine Operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .VHF 24 Monitor Channel 66A at Fisherman’s Wharf
AT THE DOCK • Coast Guard . . . . . . . . . . (250) 339-3613 • Customs . . . . . . . . . . . . . (250) 949-7999 (May through October) • Fisherman’s Wharf . . . . (250) 949-6332, VHF 66A • Harbor Managers: Pat McPhee and Mary-Ann Smith . . . . . . . (250) 949-6332 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (250) 949-6037
MOORAGE • Fisherman’s Wharf, public facility owned by the District of Port Hardy • new municipal day-use marina located at Bear Cove . Approximately 20 slips for sport fishing vessels up to 30’ • seine floats: new concrete floats with 20, 30 and 50 amp service and water . Drive-on access to the main loading float . • summer T-floats in place June 15 to September 15, with 20 amp service and potable water • Quarterdeck Marine Industries, private facility next to Fisherman’s Wharf
FUEL SUPPLIERS • Chevron . . . . . . . . . . . . . (250) 949-6405 • Petro Canada . . . . . . . . . (250) 949-9988
HAULOUT AND REPAIR • travel lift, 60-ton capacity • full marine services
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES
FUEL SUPPLIERS
• Port Hardy Hospital . . . . (250) 949-6161 • RCMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (250) 949-6335 • Emergencies: fire/police/ ambulance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911
• Gas & Go . . . . . . . . . . . . (250) 591-0810 • Petro Canada . . . . . . . . . (250) 754-7828
AIR TRANSPORT
HAULOUT AND REPAIR • full marine services
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • Nanaimo Regional General Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (250) 754-2141
AIR TRANSPORT • float plane to Vancouver harbor & YVR • ferries to Vancouver • helijet Vancouver
PORT HARDY
• Pacific Coastal Airlines • Air Cab • Port Hardy Airport Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (250) 949-8213 • Seaplane Base Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (250) 949-6371
(604) 485-5244; Fax (604) 485-5286 dcarbery@cdpr .bc .ca • Coast Guard . . . . . . . . . . (604) 485-7511 • harbor expansion in 2011
FUEL SUPPLIERS • Westview Fuel . . . . . . . . (604) 485-2867
REPAIR SHOP • welders, divers available
AMENITIES • taxis/shuttles • showers, laundromat • water/power 30 amp with 50 amp on floats 10 and 11 • sewer pump out • pub/bakery • supply depot/marine chandlery • golf
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • Powell River General Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (604) 485-3211
AIR TRANSPORT • Pacific Coastal
PRINCE RUPERT Marine Communications and Traffic Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .VHF 71 Weather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (250) 624-9009
AT THE DOCK • Harbormaster: Gary Paulson, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (250) 627-8899 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (250)627-8980 • Fairview Float . . . . . . . . . (250) 624-3127 • Rushbrooke Float . . . . . . (250) 624-9400 • Coast Guard . . . . . . . . . . (250) 627-3074; SAR cutter Cape Dauphin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (250) 627-3063 • Customs . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-888-226-7277
FUEL SUPPLIERS • Petro Canada . . . . . . . . . . 250-624-4106
HAULOUT AND REPAIR
POWELL RIVER
• 150-ton marine ways, 80’ capacity
(Westview Harbor) Marine Operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . VHF 66A
• Prince Rupert Regional Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (250) 624-2171
AT THE DOCK
SPECIAL EVENTS
• Harbormaster: David Carbery
• Sea Fest, June
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES
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SHEARWATER
AIR TRANSPORT
(Bella Bella)
SPECIAL EVENTS
Shearwater Marine Operator . . . . . . . . . . . VHF 6 and 66A in summer Harbormaster (May-Sept .) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VHF 66A
• Gumboot Days, July long weekend
AT THE DOCK • General Manager: Al Tite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (250) 957-2305 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (250) 957-2422
AMENITIES • freshwater/electricity • general store/hotel/pub/restaurant • grocery/liquor store/pay phones • showers/restrooms/laundry
MOORAGE • 100 transient berths • daily: $1 .50/ft . • dry storage available
FUEL SUPPLIERS • Shearwater Fuel Station: (250) 957-2304
HAULOUT AND REPAIR • 70-ton travel lift • 1 tidal barge grid
MARINE SUPPLIES • Shearwater Marine Store: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (250) 957-2330
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES • R .W . Large Hospital . . . . (250) 957-2314
• Pacific Coastal Airlines
VANCOUVER Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .604-665-9000 24/7 Operations Center . . .604-665-9086 Toll Free . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888-PORTVAN Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866-284-4271 harbour_master@portvancouver .com www .portvancouver .com MCTS VHF Channel: Vancouver Harbour . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ch . 12 Fraser River (Main Arm) . . . . . . . . . Ch . 74 Deltaport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ch . 11 VPD Marine Unit: R .G McBeath . . . . . . . . . . . VHF Ch . 12/16 VPD-98 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VHF Ch . 12/16 VPD Non-Emergency . . . . . .604 .717 .3321 Harbour Patrol Vessels: Vancouver Harbour . . . . . . . . . . . Ch 12/16 Fraser River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ch 74/16 CBSA Marine Communications Center: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604-713-9810
FUEL SUPPLIERS • Chevron (Coal Harbour) . . 604-681-7725 • Chevron (North Arm) . . . . 604-278-2181 • Chevron (Steveston) . . . . . 604-277-4712
SOLD!
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Western Canada Marine Response Corporation: Head Office – Vancouver . . 604-294-6001 24-Hour Spill Emergency Line . . . . . . . . . . . . .855-294-9116 (Toll Free)
PROCESSORS • Aero Trading Co . Ltd . . . . . 604-327-6331 • McMillan J S Fisheries . . . 604-255-5191 • North Sea Products Ltd . . 604-327-0481 • Ocean Fisheries Ltd . . . . . 604-254-5751 • S .M . Products (Delta) . . . . 604-946-7665 • Seafood Products Com . . . 604-255-3141
AT THE DOCK • Harbormaster: Chris Wellstood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(604) 665-9086
MOORAGE • Harbor master monitors movements of all commercial deep-sea vessels, cruise ships, fishing vessels, ferries, tugs and barges, pleasure crafts
AMENITIES • Vancouver’s International Airport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604-207-7077 • Harbour Air . . . . . . . . . . . . 604-274-1277 • Helijet International . . . . 800-665-4354 • Via Rail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .604-640-3700 • Greyhound . . . . . . . . . . . . 604-683-8133 • Bus - Translink . . . . . . . . .604-953-3333
MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES (AREA CODE 604) • Vancouver General Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604-875-4111 • St . Paul’s Hospital (Downtown) . . . . . . . . . . . 604-682-2344 • Fire/Police/Ambulance . . . . . . . . . . . . 911
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS Advertiser
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Alaska Seafood Marketing . . . . . . . . . 31 A .S . Fiskevegn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Alaska Air Cargo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CV3 Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute . . 31 Baier Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Bonar Plastics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Bostrom, H .O . Co Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Chevron USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CV4 Coast Guard Foundation . . . . . . . . . . 62 Cook Inlet RCAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Dock Street Brokers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Duramax Marine LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Fisher Air Fasteners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Foss Maritime Company . . . . . . . . . . 11 Fusion Marine Technology, LLC . . . . . 12 General Communication Inc (GCI) . . . 39 H & H Marine Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Hansen Boat Company . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Hart Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Homer Marine Trades Assoc . . . . . . . 53 International Marine Industries Inc . . . 19 Kinematics Marine Equipment Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46, 48, 53, 61, 63
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Page
Kodiak Area Chamber of Commerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Kodiak College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Kodiak Shipyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Lee Fisher International . . . . . . . . . . . 15 LFS Inc Seattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 LifeMed Alaska . . . . . . . . . . . . 48, 56, 61 Lunde Marine Electronics Inc . . . . . . . 27
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Seward Chamber of Commerce . . . . . 69 Simrad Fisheries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CV2 The Blue Heron Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 The City of King Cove . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 The Town Dock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Washington Chain & Supply Inc . . . . . 19 Wrangell Ports & Harbors . . . . . . . . . . 75 Yaquina Boat Equipment . . . . . . . . . . 61
Marine Exchange of Puget Sound . . . 67 Marport Stout Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 MARSARS Water Rescue Systems . . 25 MER Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 NET Systems Inc . . . . . . . . . . 23, 48, 59 North American Fishing Supplies . . . . 68 North Pacific Fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Pacific Marine Expo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Pacific Power Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Petro Marine Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46, 53, 56, 57 59, 63, 70, 71,75 Platypus Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Port of Seattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 R .E . Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Rozema Boat Works Inc . . . . . . . . . . . 25
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IN FOCUS / OAHU’S MAKAPUU LIGHT
On the catwalk of the Makapuu Light at Oahu, Hawaii. The lighthouse was built where ships crossing from the U.S. Pacific Coast make landfall. After a fire killed one keeper, the original oil vapor lamp was replaced by a radio beacon and a powerful incandescent bulb. The light was automated by the Coast Guard in 1974 just a few years after this photo was taken. Visit the Penobscot Marine Museum’s National Fisherman Collection for more. Photo by Warren Roll
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