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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Posted: March 22, 2009 - 2:32 am
The U.S. Coast Guard this morning plans to airlift an ailing crewman off a crab boat crossing the Gulf of Alaska en route to Seattle.
A Coast Guard spokesman tells me the vessel is the Early Dawn, one of the crabbers featured on the popular Discovery Channel show “Deadliest Catch.”
The crewman, whose name wasn’t available, is said to be suffering abdominal pain.
