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Rory Pitsch, one of the owners of Strongback Metal Boats, has grown up with the boats being built at his father’s workshops and, plus several years as a crewman on a Bristol Bay gillnetter. Both experiences are central to his thinking while building another gillnet boat at the Sedro Woolley, Washington yard.
A bill introduced in the US Senate in mid-February to amend the Billfish Conservation Act of 2012 would negatively affect Hawaii’s commercial fisheries, according to the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council.
More than 50,000 signatures have already been gathered for a petition against a mining project in Bristol Bay, Alaska that is believed could jeopardise the world’s largest sockeye salmon run.
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has announced its intent to prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) to analyse the environmental impacts of US Pacific Island deep-set tuna longline fisheries managed under the Fishery Ecosystem Plan for Pelagic Fisheries of the Western Pacific (Pelagic FEP) and other applicable laws.
Eastern Shipbuilding Group at Panama City in Florida has handed over a new factory stern trawler to O’Hara Corporation.
A lobster boat from York, Maine was yesterday disabled by heavy sea conditions and its two crew were rescued by a Coast Guard response boat.
A US Coast Guard and the crew of a fishing vessel responded when a trawler capsized and sank at the mouth of the Astoria River in Oregon.
US Coast Guard aircrew yesterday airlifted four crew from a disabled fishing vessel 230 nautical miles ESE of Kodiak.
When R. Bodey was looking for a new salmon tender for the Yukon River, he had a set of plans drawn up by Tullio Celano based on a boat he had owned some years before, and then took the plans to WCT Marine’s shipyard at Tongue Point on the Columbia River near Astoria, Oregon.
Blue Harvest Fisheries, LLC has announced the acquisition of High Liner Foods’ scallop business and processing facility in New Bedford, MA. High Liner Foods (HLF), based at Lunenberg, Nova Scotia, is one of the largest seafood companies in North America.