This week, two crews are safe after their fishing vessels meet their fate in the past week, we have king salmon news from the upper Yukon and chum salmon news from the lower river, and more, coming up on the Alaska Fisheries Report. Thanks to KMXT’s Kayla Desroches for sitting in while I was away for a few weeks. We …
Read More »Troubled Factory Trawler Takes On Water, Abandoned in Aleutians
The factory trawler Alaska Juris lists to port in this still from a U.S. Coast Guard video. One of three inflatable liferafts can be seen near the Juris’ bow. Several good Samaritan vessels came to the aid of 46 crewmembers from a factory trawler that started taking on water Wednesday in the Bering Sea near the island of Kiska. The …
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