The Highliner

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 by Wesley Loy has been all about for the two years he has written it.


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Man overboard in crab fishery

Posted by The Highliner

Posted: January 6, 2009 - 2:01 pm

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This just in from the U.S. Coast Guard:

U.S. Coast Guard, 17th District

Jan. 6, 2009

Coast Guard searches for opilio crab fisherman who fell into the Bering Sea

JUNEAU, Alaska – The Coast Guard is responding to a report of a 40-year-old male who tangled his feet in a crab pot line and fell from the 90-foot fishing vessel Seabrooke approximately 22 miles northwest of Cold Bay, Alaska, at 9:50 a.m.

Two Coast Guard rescue helicopters forward deployed in Cold Bay were launched. The MH-60 Jayhawk and H-65 Dolphin arrived on scene to begin the search at 11 a.m. A Coast Guard C-130 was diverted from a patrol to assist with the search but is maintaining a high altittude orbit for communications coverage in the search area due to a low cloud ceiling and snow squalls. All search aircraft are from Air Station Kodiak.

Coast Guard Communication Station Kodiak received the report via high frequency radio at 9:55 a.m.

The crew member that fell overboard was reportedly wearing orange rain gear.

Current weather conditions are 15 mph winds, with three to five foot seas, a water temperature of 34 and air temperature of 19.


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