Congress looks at fishing deaths

Hello Fishies!

The following is a portion of Wesley Loy’s blog The Highliner, with additional links. Loy writes for the Anchorage Daily News and is usually the first to get fishing industry information and get it right:

Fishing for a living can get you killed.

Congress, the industry, the U.S. Coast Guard and many others have worked for decades to improve safety, and they’ve made a lot of progress. But the work continues.

The House Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation is holding a hearing on commercial fishing vessel safety beginning at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Washington, D.C. Here’s an agenda.

The industry has seen a string of tragedies in recent months, including the capsizing of the sablefish longliner Ocean Challenger off Sand Point last October, killing three of four crewmen. read more »

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Stay tuned!

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