Commercial fishing is a bedrock industry in Alaska, and has been for more than a century. Every year scores of fishermen net millions of migrating salmon, challenge the icy Bering Sea to trap king crabs, lay miles and miles of baited hooks for halibut, and scoop up enough pollock for a zillion fish sticks. And when fishermen aren't out fishing, they're usually talking about fishing. That's what this blog is all about. Cast your net here for commercial fishing news and notes. And if you've got a bone to pick, post a comment.
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I've pounded the commercial fishing beat for the Anchorage Daily News since 1999. I hail originally from Tennessee. I've never fished commercially, but I've spent much time as a journalist aboard boats and inside fish-processing plants. Of course, I'm a big consumer of Alaska seafood. One of my favorites: canned sockeye.
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Posted: October 26, 2008 - 2:11 pm
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The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended the search for the two missing crewmen from the commercial fishing vessel Katmai, which sank Wednesday in remote Aleutian waters west of Adak Island.
Carlos Martin Zabala, of Helena, Mont., and Robert Davis, of Whatcom County, Wash., were among 11 crewmen aboard the Katmai, which had been fishing for cod and was heading to Dutch Harbor with its catch.
Rescuers saved four crewmen from a life raft, and retrieved five bodies from the frigid waters.
The Coast Guard, which continued to search for the two missing men with the cutter Acushnet and aircraft, suspended the search at 9:36 a.m. today.
The Coast Guard and the Air National Guard searched 4,871 square miles of ocean over the past week, the Coast Guard said.
“While our minds remain on Coast Guard missions, our hearts are with the families during this difficult time,” said Capt. Mike Inman, chief of response for the Coast Guard in Alaska.
A three-member panel of Coast Guard experts is scheduled to begin hearings tomorrow morning in Anchorage on the sinking of the 93-foot boat. Survivors and others are likely to be called to testify about what went wrong on the boat.
The crew was known to have been battling some flooding at the stern of the vessel, but the cause of the sinking remains unclear, Coast Guard officers have said.
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