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Profile: Luke Williams

Henry Allen closes in on his 14-year dream boat project.

This Alaska fisherman has built a career using old boats and ingenuity.

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Top News New England council looks at scallop leasing; autopilot sinks shrimp boat.

Photos: Buoys California photographer Arthur Drooker is captivated by fishermen’s folk art.

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Boatbuilding: Renewed Spirit O’Hara Corp.’s 229-foot Alaska Spirit is back from its latest refit.

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Crew Comforts From boots to outerwear, essential personal equipment for fishermen.

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Northern Lights How ASMI built a strong Alaska seafood connection to Brazil.

Seafood Science Knowing where your fish comes from is critical.

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A New Era for NF Bob Callahan Publisher/Group Vice President bcallahan@divcom.com

o say the past two years have been challenging would be a gross understatement, but when the times get tough the tough get tougher and nowhere is that truer than here at National Fisherman.

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Northern Lights VIEWS FROM ALASKA

Ten years of Alaska seafood In Brazil

By Carolina Nascimento

en years ago, the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute launched a marketing program in Brazil in order to increase direct exports to this important cod market.

At that time, Alaska cod entered the Brazil market through processors in Europe and China, but did not see direct exports from Alaska.

Bureaucratic processes for exporting to Brazil frustrated and intimidated many companies, despite the raw potential apparent in the Brazil market. However, today Alaska has 175 approved labels for export to Brazil and a strong presence in the market.

ASMI’s international programs rely on in-country market experts to run the day to day programs. From their headquarters office in Juneau, ASMI staff work closely with the Alaska seafood industry to relay harvest and budget information to the overseas offices.

Marketing representatives in Sao Paulo are the key to ASMI’s success in Brazil.

Carolina Nascimento, who manages the program, describes what ASMI Brazil faced when it began ten years ago.

“Lack of knowledge from the Brazilian trade about wild Alaska seafood and from the Alaska seafood industry about the Brazilian market was our greatest challenge,” says Nascimento.

“Education efforts for both sides, demonstrating the value of Alaska seafood for Brazilians and also the market potential (and how to overcome barriers) to Alaska seafood industry were our focus.

“In 10 years, we feel we accomplished a certain level of success. Key Brazil trade members know ASMI and Alaska

seafood, and mostly important, millions of dollars of Alaska seafood were exported directly to Brazil over the last 10 years, in addition to the more than 20 Alaska seafood exporters that started shipping directly to the country since the program began.”

In order to overcome the initial lack of knowledge, ASMI Brazil brought in two trade missions of Alaska seafood industry members to Brazil. The Brazil team then arranged several in-bound missions, bringing Brazilian seafood buyers, journalists and chefs to Alaska.

“It is really amazing to see how people change their minds and get so engaged in the Alaska seafood business, becoming true ambassadors after getting the opportunity to better know the industry and the Last Frontier,” says Nascimento. “Of course, the cherry on the top comes with every single Alaska seafood shipment exported to the market after so much effort.”

In the last year, ASMI Brazil maintained 43 retail promotional

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partners, 13 seafood vendors, and over 25 restaurants identifying Alaska origin on products and dishes. ASMI successfully partnered with Brazilian retailers and e-commerce vendors, conducting in-store and digital promotions, and extensively invested in social media promotions focusing on Alaska seafood storytelling and cooking tips and easy to prepare recipes.

ASMI also re-engaged the Brazilian hotel, restaurant and institution sector through trade servicing and events such as the Wild Alaska Delivery Festival, which supported delivery sales during the pandemic. Moving beyond the initial focus on Alaska cod, multiple species, including sockeye salmon, keta salmon, Alaska pollock, sablefish, and Alaska cod were all promoted.

One thing that surprised the team in Sao Paulo is the incredible regard for the program.

“We have become a reference in seafood marketing in Brazil,” says Nascimento. “In such a large market, with major players, the ASMI program is a reference to any seafood businesses willing to promote seafood in Brazil for its creativity and innovation in promoting such a fun and profitable business.This is made possible by a global understanding of the market, thanks to insights and guidance shared by industry members, ASMI staff and our colleagues who market Alaska Seafood all over the world.”

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When working with the Brazil team it’s easy to see how their creativity and passion for the industry helped them establish the highwater mark for seafood marketing. Nascimento recalls a favorite moment while attending an ASMI meeting in Anchorage when she and business partner Jose Madeira discovered a pop-up cardboard bear created by the ASMI US marketing program: “We brought him to Brazil and to the world! We found our mascot! We turned a regular Alaska sleeping bear into a global rockstar!”

Today the bear features throughout the Brazil social channels, which have over a million followers, and even makes “in-person” appearances at events. For the recent delivery promotion, the bear was seen riding a motorcycle with to-go dishes on the back. ASMI programs around the world took note of the mascot’s success and he is now found in Europe, Japan and Southeast Asia.

“Another thing that amazes us is how much we learn every day from the industry members,” says Nascimento. “How is it possible to learn more about Alaska seafood day after day? It’s quite interesting to revisit strategies, see market changes and how we are able to really be part of a family working together to promote such amazing products.”

ASMI Brazil continues to tackle challenges, as Nascimento

notes, “Brazil is big and takes time and commitment.” But the shifting global landscape has also shifted our targets for Brazil and with additional grant funding we were able to expand to cover more of South America. Now ASMI South America supports export growth to Brazil through the full implementation of a reprocessing program in the region, especially in Peru.

According to Nascimento, “Despite the great headway already seen in the market overcoming important market access barriers, the program still requires technical training on Alaska seafood species reprocessing.”

When asked where she saw the program heading in the next decade, Nascimento said, “We see it as a consolidated regional program throughout Latin America, with extensive intra-region trade, moving a wider variety of Alaska whitefish, salmon and shellfish, in a wider range of product presentations.

We see more volume, innovation and a growing understanding of what makes wild Alaska seafood so special.” And if anyone can do it, it’s the ASMI Brazil team!

Carolina Nascimento is Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute’s South America Overseas Marketing Representative.

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Safety

Hydraulic leak triggered fire on Georges Bank trawler

By Kirk Moore

hydraulic hose failure triggered an engine room fire that engulfed a groundfish trawler 80 miles off Cape Cod in spring 2021, according to a newly released report from the National Transportation Safety Board.

The 99.8-foot steel stern trawler Nobska and its crew of five were fishing for haddock April 30, 2021 when the crew spotted and quickly extinguished a small fire on the main engine exhaust pipe. They located a ruptured hydraulic hose in the pipe/hose tunnel between the engine room and wheelhouse, and replaced it.

Thinking the hazard had been resolved, the captain and crew resumed fishing for four hours.

They were preparing to haul back around 5 p.m. when the captain, at the winch controls in the wheelhouse, saw black smoke coming out from under the console.

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crew donned survival suits, activated the EPIRB at 5:09 p.m. and deployed the life raft, tying the painter to the vessel.

A helicopter crew from Air Station Cape Cod hoisted the fisheemen to safety around 7 p.m.

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total loss of $2.4 million.

The NTSB concluded “the second fire resulted in extensive damage throughout the vessel and was likely the result of another hydraulic hose leak, when atomized fluid contacted a hot surface, most likely the exposed main engine exhaust pipe, and flashed into a fire.”

The report names the probable cause as a “failure of a hydraulic hose within the engine room that allowed hydraulic fluid to spray onto a hot surface, likely the exposed main engine exhaust pipe. Contributing to the failure of the hydraulic hose was possible heat damage from a fire that occurred earlier in the day.

“The pipe/hose tunnel on board the Nobska, which extended from the engine room up two decks to the wheelhouse, did not have any insulation, pipe/cable fire stops, or other barriers to prevent the passage of smoke, heat, and fire – known as structural fire protection,” the report said.

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Seafood Science

Locally Caught Seafood: It’s Not Just About Taste

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By Maureen Donald

Gulf of Maine hake, pollock and cod from 50-foot gillnetter Maria & Dorothy.

or most seafood lovers, it’s all about taste. But few are aware of the amazing health benefits of eating fresh seafood, especially locallycaught. A brand-new initiative is breaking down just how beneficial it is to add more fresh seafood to our diets.

“The Science Behind Your Local Seafood” is a campaign dedicated to sharing the facts about our nation’s rich and ever-expanding seafood industry.

While it’s no secret just how great a role seafood plays in feeding our friends, family, and neighbors, there is more to seafood than just being a tasty treat. Science has shown just how good eating seafood is for our bodies — and it is this science that lies at the heart of the initiative.

“This campaign is much more than simply celebrating our local seafood— it’s about the many health benefits supported by science,” says Maureen Donald, a National Fisherman contributor and creator of the campaign. “While it’s natural to focus on taste and appearance, there’s so much more to choosing what’s on your plate.”

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Many consumers likely have a basic understanding of the benefits of eating seafood, and this campaign is dedicated to sharing the details that often go unheard — even in communities where seafood plays an integral part in people’s diets and livelihoods.

For example, eating fish and other seafoods regularly can decrease the risk of cardiovascular death by roughly 17 percent as has been documented in the Journal of American Medicine. People with higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids in their blood (the same acids provided by seafood) have their lifespans extended by over two years.

All this information can be found on www.scienceandseafood.com which is the online centerpiece of the initiative.

The website provides a convenient hub for all of the campaign’s research, bringing the facts to you in just a few clicks.

Whether you want to glance it over or take a deep dive into the issues covered by the campaign, the site can provide for all who visit it.

The Science Behind Your Local

Seafood was organized for two primary reasons.The first was to provide a resource that explained the long and shortterm benefits of eating seafood, with information backed by well-respected health professionals. It seeks to sell those wary about fish on the idea of welcoming it into their diets through the power of science.

The second reason, however, was to draw attention to a pressing issue that poses a threat to the seafood industry in America — imported seafood.

According to the Berkeley School of Public Health, around 85 percent of all seafood consumed by Americans is imported from foreign countries. Most of that imported fish is farm-raised in the growing aquaculture industry. While farming seafood seems like a good idea, the issue lies in how different the regulations for raising aquatic produce are in those foreign nations.

Some have lower standards of health for their fish, while others employ the use of drugs that are banned here in the U.S. To raise alarms even more, the Berkeley School also discovered that most of the seafood brought into America is unsupervised by the Food and Drug Administration. That means that seafood contaminated by drugs and bacteria can make it past our federal regulations and into our kitchens and fish markets When your fish is prepared by our nation’s fishing communities, you can rest assured that it will follow all appropriate regulations and standards while retaining its fantastic taste. After all, the same people preparing your meal will likely be eating some of it themselves later. This is not something you can take solace in when consuming imported fish. The question is, how can someone tell the difference between locally caught fish and imported fish to begin with?

“Consumers are definitely becoming more savvy when it comes to their diets,” said Donald. “Seafood in particular poses challenges — is it imported, is it fresh, is it handled in a sanitary facility?

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the benefits of a nutrient-rich diet.”

You need to know what is in your food, where it came from, how was it produced, whether its producers are reputable. This is a lot of information to keep track of, but this is where The Science Behind Your Local Seafood can help.

A few facts about seafood emphasized by the campaign are pivotal details The American Psychiatric Association found that those who eat fish regularly are almost 20 percent less likely to develop depression.This is all likely thanks to the omega-3 fatty acids rich in fish. Omega-3 acids are so instrumental in aiding the mind that APA actually recommends their consumption to help treat those who suffer from depression and other related afflictions.

Seafood can even expand your intelligence—if you are still growing, that is. A scientific review headed by thirteen leading dietary professionals discovered that seafood has a profound effect on the brain development of infant and adolescent children. The study made many remarkable findings, including one particularly fascinating detail: mothers who eat seafood during their pregnancy increase the IQ of their offspring by an average of 7.7 points. In some cases, the IQ gain was as significant as 9.5 points.

Seafood does wonders for our cardiovascular health as well.

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According to The New England Journal of Medicine, the popularly known “Mediterranean” diet drastically improves the health of the body’s most important muscle: the heart.

The diet relies on a significant intake of fish; along with nuts, olive oil, poultry, fruits, and vegetables. In one study subjects who went on a Mediterranean diet had their risk of cardiovascular disease reduced by a staggering 30 percent. This is a testament to the dramatic and life-changing effects a healthy diet can have on your body — and yet another bullet point on the long list of benefits to basing your diet on seafood.

When you take a bite of seafood, you take a bite of not only something scrumptious, but a bite of something nutritious and filling.You take a bite of something that works with your body to strengthen your muscles and expand your mind.

The essence of locally caught seafood is not just in its factual goodness or in its qualities backed by years of scientific research.

Your local seafood is so amazing because it is just that — local.

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South Atlantic

Autopilot malfunction led to Georgia grounding, sinking

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NTSB: Captain left wheelhouse and could not correct in time

The Sage Catherine Lane grounded and sank while outbound on the St. Marys River near Cumberland Island, Ga., June 9, 2021.

By Kirk Moore

captain’s decision to leave the wheelhouse unattended while transiting the St. Marys River on autopilot led to the grounding and sinking of a fishing vessel south of Cumberland Island, Ga., the National Transportation Safety Board said a Marine Investigation Report issued ay 14.

The Sage Catherine Lane, 78.7-foot wooden hull shrimp vessel built in 1966, was transiting outbound on the St. Marys River when the vessel grounded on the north jetty of the St. Marys Entrance channel. As the flooded, the three-person crew abandoned the vessel and were rescued by a nearby Good Samaritan vessel.

The Sage Catherine Lane later sank with about 2,300 gallons of fuel, engine oil and hydraulic oil on board. A crewmember sustained a minor injury. The vessel was declared a total loss at $1 million.

On its way out to sea, the captain had set the vessel’s autopilot to maintain the vessel’s heading out of the inlet, according to a synopsis released by the NTSB. “He answered a phone call and left the

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wheelhouse. Shortly after, the captain felt the vessel turn abruptly to port,” investigators reported. “The captain returned to the wheelhouse and attempted to turn away from the jetty, but the Sage Catherine Lane struck the jetty and grounded.

The vessel broke apart and sank following a thunderstorm three days after the grounding.”

Two days before the accident, the vessel had been heading into St. Augustine,

Fla., when the the captain was unable to disengage the autopilot and gain control of the helm.

“The captain examined the autopilot system and found problems with the rudder angle indicator and rudder angle sensor at the rudder post,” according to the NTSB. “He took actions to correct the problems, which appeared to have worked initially; however, the vessel’s sharp turn to port indicated the system failed and the repairs were not effective.”

“Leaving the wheelhouse unattended is imprudent, especially when navigating areas like the St. Marys Entrance, which included a narrow navigation channel, two jetties and vessel traffic,” the report said. “Had the captain stayed in the wheelhouse after engaging the autopilot, he would have been able to respond and take control of the vessel after the autopilot system failed and caused the rudder to turn to port.

“Autopilot use does not relieve the operator of responsibility to conduct a proper navigation watch. Use of autopilot should not be a justification for an operator to leave the wheelhouse or bridge unattended in confined waters,” the report said. “Navigating in channels and harbors requires quicker reaction times due to traffic, currents encountered, and frequent course changes, and more rudder due to slower speeds. Therefore, autopilot use is often discouraged or prohibited in a harbor entrance or narrow channel.”

East Coast

New England council considers scallop allocation leasing Proponents want fleet flexibility; skeptics worry about jobs

By Kirk Moore

callop fishermen are sharply divided over a proposal to allow leasing of allocations in their fishery, as the New England Fishery

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Management Council conducts a series of East Coast scoping meetings to gauge sentiment on the idea.

Mid-Atlantic fishermen got their chance to sound off May 19 in Manahawkin, N.J., close to scallop ports like www.nationalfisherman.com

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Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Sea scallops on Georges Bank.

number of permits operators can hold, but consolidation remains a persistent worry among many fishermen.

In New Bedford, skeptics of the leasing proposal – including some city and port officials along with fishermen – recall the consolidating effects of groundfish management measures.

The Mid-Atlantic industry likewise

has memories of consolidation in the surf clam fishery, the fi rst U.S. sector to be managed with transferable quotas in the early 1990s.

The council will vote at its September meeting on whether it should begin preparing an amendment to the scallop management plan that will allow leasing.

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Barnegat Light and Cape May. At a May 11 session in New Bedford, Mass. — the richest East Coast port thanks to scallops — much of the audience spoke against leasing, warning of negative impacts if rules are changed to allow limited access permit holders to lease fishing allocations.

The Scallopers Campaign, a group representing about 50 permit holders from New England to North Carolina, asked the council in 2021 to consider rule changes that would allow limited leasing of allocation. Advocates for the change say it will allow flexibility in the fishery, and allow operators to adjust to circumstances, such as boat breakdowns, that would otherwise cost them fishing days.

The council has considered allowing the combining of permits, so-called "stacking" on vessels, and leasing in the past. The council has maintained ownership levels on the

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MARKET REPORT

CHESAPEAKE BAY SHRIMP

VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND GEAR UP FOR SHRIMP A shifting climate may be bringing a new commercial fishery to the Mid-Atlantic

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four participants.

Maryland’s 2021 legislature is in the process of creating a shrimp fishery through state Senate Bill 537 sponsored by state Sen. Mary Beth Crozza

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With green-tail or white shrimp (Litopenaeus setiferus) moving north into Virginia and Maryland waters, the Virginia Marine Resources Commission (VMRC) and Maryland’s state legislators are cautiously laying groundwork to establish commercial shrimp fisheries in areas of the bay and waters of the two states.

Virginia has had an experimental ocean shrimp season since 2017 and in 2021 VMRC approved regulations to establish an official season from Oct. 1st to Jan. 31st off Virginia Beach; established the fishing grounds out of Virginia Beach from Cape Henry Lighthouse south to the North Carolina line and eastward to the Three Nautical Mile Limit; set catch and size limits, reporting requirements, and approval of gear used to harvest shrimp.

There are currently 12 licensed watermen working in Atlantic Ocean off of Virginia Beach. Information from the Eastern Shore of Virginia has been limited and as such remains under an experimental permit presently with

These white shrimp were caught by Virginia Beach, Va, watermen in a Virginia’s new shrimp fishery.

and House Bill 1149 sponsored by Delegate Jay Jacobs. The general assembly has approved legislation that allows the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to establish parameters

for a shrimp fishery “pilot program” for certain commercial licenses. It is hopeful that a pilot program will be in place by July 1, 2022. The Maryland Waterman’s Association is endorsing the legislation, said MWA president Robert T. Brown. “They are already doing it down in Virginia and it looks like it is working down there,” says Brown.

He says DNR is considering opening up the fishery in the ocean off Ocean City on the state’s Eastern Shore and on the bay side near Crisfield, Smith Island and Hoopers Island.

“DNR has got several things they have got to work out before establishing the fishery,” says Brown. “We are, however, optimistic that we are going to have a small shrimp fishery soon.

“We see this as a positive thing.

Every little bit helps the watermen,” says Brown. “We also see this as a fishery that might take some pressure off the blue crab fishery. It might be a few less watermen that you’ve got crabbing.”

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Virginia shrimpers are using a 16’ wide beam trawl similar to try-nets used by Southwest and Gulf of Mexico shrimpers who haul 220’ nets.

that we established an experimental season that continued off Virginia Beach through the 2020 season,” he says. During the 2020 experimental season (Oct. 1 through Jan. 31, 2021) Virginia watermen out of Virginia

Beach caught 410,000 lb. of shrimp — almost exclusively white shrimp.

In 2018, the permittees modified the gear, creating a lightweight aluminum 16' x 4' framed trawl pulled from the stern of the boat. Since then that’s

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was working for the Virginia Institute of Marine Science’s juvenile fish and blue crab trawl survey sampling the Virginia tributaries and main-stem Chesapeake Bay. “Every now and then we would pull in one to two pounds of shrimp in a drag,” says Geer. “We were aware early on that white shrimp were showing up in the bay but catches were limited and sporadic from year to year.”

Geer says that in 2016 that same survey began to see a marked and consistent increase in shrimp abundance, with offshore samples for the Institute’s Northeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program (NEAMAP) observing more than a ten-fold increase in white shrimp from their fall surveys between 2014 and 2020.

In 2017 ocean gillnetters out of Virginia Beach approached VMRC about large catches of shrimp in gillnets, They requested permission to try a modified dredge rig to see how many could be caught.

“They took two old crab dredges, removed the dredge teeth, attached a 16' net and experimented with it,” says Geer. “They caught enough shrimp

A dozen licensed Virgina watermen are working in the experimental shrimp fishery, geared toward small vessels. The 2020 season saw 410,000 pounds landed.

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Virginia Beach watermen are selling these white shrimp right off the boat at the dock in fivepound bags.

been the only VMRC-approved gear in the fishery.

The number of permitted vessels has grown from the one in 2017 to eight boats out of Virginia Beach. With the new regulation in 2021, licenses for the Virginia Beach Shrimp Trawl Harvest area were increased to 12 boats, with VMRC holding a lottery to issue the four more additional licenses.

“We are trying to grow this fishery slowly,” says Geer. “Usually when a fishery starts it goes like hellfire and we have to work to play catch-up.”

Virginia is shaping the fishery around vessels in the 38' to 50' range that make day trips in the ocean, he says.

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“We are trying to grow this fishery slowly,” says Geer. “Usually when a fishery starts it goes like hellfire and we have to work to play catch-up.” want large shrimp trawlers in Virginia waters. This fishery is directed towards small fish boats in hopes of providing watermen with an alternative fishery.

We want to limit the capitalization involved in the fishery down to provide an affordable fishery.”

To put things in perspective, the net being used by Virginia's fishermen is only 16', while the large shrimp

trawlers in the Southwest and Gulf of Mexico typically pull a combination of nets up to 220' in width.

“The try-net used by these big trawlers to assess their catch is more on the scale of what is used in Virginia’s fledgling fishery,” Geer said.

VMRC regulations have also established a bycatch quota of 20 quarts a day, roughly 32 pounds of shrimp for all other commercial gears.

“The reason for the bycatch quota is that we are getting reports of shrimp being caught in crab scrapes on the bay,” he says. “We are not going to permit trawls inside the bay nor do we want these other gears licensed for other species to begin targeting shrimp.

We want these catches reported so we can properly monitor the fishery.”

Many Virginia Beach shrimpers are selling their catch at the dock right off the boat, says Geer. “Some have Facebook pages and let customers know what they have before they get back at the dock. When they return at the end of the day, customers are standing in line. They are selling to individual customers in five pound bags and restaurant owners are coming down and buying 100 pounds right off the boats,” he says.

The increase in the shrimp population is associated with warmer water temperatures. The waters off the mouth of Chesapeake Bay has not historically been warm enough to host large numbers of white shrimp, according to the National Marine Fisheries Service. Warmer ocean temperature, however, during the past few decades have been pushing the species further north into Virginia and Maryland waters, according to the agency.

It appears that the shrimp numbers are now enough to sustain a small commercial fishery. At least that’s what VMRC and Maryland’s DNR officials and commercial fishermen are hoping for.

Larry Chowning is a writer for the Southside Sentinel in Urbanna, Va., a regular contributor to National Fisherman. www.nationalfisherman.com

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Every boat a step up Luke Williams builds a career adapting

By Charlie Ess

ike many Alaska fishermen, Luke Williams, 41, has known setbacks and faced financial hurdles.

But Williams is determined not to let anything stop him from enjoying his life of working on the water.

Blown engines. Missed seasons. Bad prices. No fish. The resourceful Williams has not only survived but flourished in a game of adaptation — anything to keep him participating in the fisheries he loves. He’s worked long hours boxing groceries at local stores, borrowed start-up money from friends, purchased old boats by pilfering from his 401k, and did his share of couch surfing with parents and friends when fishing turned tough in his younger years.

But he always springs back. “It’s just the fishing,” he says. “It’s all that I’ve ever wanted to do, just catch fish.”

Williams began his life on the saltwater, near Haines, Alaska, from the time he could walk, fishing with his dad and mom aboard an old wooden gillnetter, the Sockeye King. Among his earliest memories, he came to know pleasure and peril — thanks to Misty, the family cat that took up residence on the boat during salmon seasons.

As Williams describes it, the family was hauling in a gill net when curiosity beckoned Misty. The cat left the security of the galley, venturing to the top of the bulwarks where she could lean over to get a better whiff of the sea. Sure enough, Misty

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Luke Williams started out on the water during his childhood near Haines, Alaska, and now fishes for Dungeness crabs. Luke Williams photos.

fell overboard with a splash loud enough to be heard over the clattering of the old chain-driven gill net reel. All heads pivoted from the well deck, a scramble ensued, and his dad saved the bedraggled feline from the water with a long handled dip net.

Like that calico cat, the salty scent of Lynn Canal in southeast Alaska lures Williams to the precarious edge of financial stability. The prospects of catching salmon and Dungeness crab have thus far kept him from dry-docking his boats and committing to another career.

It’s not that he lacks the chops to make it in an array of occupations around town. He worked his way from box boy up to meat department manager at the local store (hence, the 401k). He’s built housing complexes in tribal construction gigs.

Most recently he’s augmented his fishing season by managing an environmental program with the Chilkoot Indian Association.

“If the weather is crappy I just go to my office job,” he says. “And if it’s nice I go run my 75 Dungeness pots.”

On office days,Williams still runs through his strings of crab pots in the evenings after his 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. workday. Even with the long daylight hours of the summer Dungy season, (mid-June to August) that would make for long nights if not for another innovation — a crazy-fast 19-foot skiff that gets him www.nationalfisherman.com

to his gear in a matter of minutes instead of hours, unlike slower boats he’s owned.

He debuted in his Dungeness operation several years ago with the Gee Whiz, a 29foot fiberglass gillnetter he’d refurbished for a salmon fishing venture. The boat proved too slow and too costly. So he opted in 2017 to buy an old skiff from his dad, chop off everything above the hull, construct a lightweight deck and cabin, add hydraulics, and power it with a big outboard.

“It doesn’t cost me anything to run,” he says. “I spend maybe $30 or $40 to run my string of pots.”

To inquire about the renovation of the skiff and other boat projects invites yet another aspect of Williams’ life. He talks about cutting, gutting, fiberglassing, repowering, wiring and plumbing hydraulic

systems on boats with a passion on par with his experiences in the fisheries.

If you press him to choose which he favors, he’ll answer fishing over boat work, but as the stories unfold, and childhood photos attest, the two are inextricably entwined.

Like the time he resigned from a good paying job, raided his retirement fund, and bought the Gee Whiz for the impending salmon season.

“I was excited, but nervous at the same time,” Williams recalls. “Here I was, going from a steady paycheck to fishing, where I didn’t know what my paycheck was going to be. But at that point I knew that I was going to at least make something.”

He acquired the old boat, replete with its long-dead Chevy 454 gas engine,

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Williams' current project is completeing a 32-foot fiberglass gillnetter.

arranged a lease deal on a salmon permit, borrowed money from a friend and ordered new gill net webbing out of Seattle.

Removing the rust-encrusted 454 from the bilges of the Gee Whiz was the easy part. Finding a replacement engine, making mounts, fitting the reduction

gear and aligning the shaft would cost opener after opener in the first three weeks of the gillnet season for chum salmon. Part of the conundrum was that the engine going into the boat turned out to be vastly different from the one that had come out.

Word of mouth around Haines had led Williams to the discovery of a tiny diesel engine. “We found a 62-horse Westerbeke diesel motor,” he says, “the kind that goes putt-putt-putt on sailboats.We stuck that in there.Then we had to find a reduction gear.”

Williams’ choice to use the mothballed motor was predicated upon his preference of diesel power over gas.

That, and the unfathomable time and cost of getting a fresh 454 engine shipped from Seattle solidified his decision.

“I managed to score the motor for $300,” he says. “It was in an old boat, but it had only 100 hours on it.”

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The first of the headscratchers came when Williams and his fishing partner lowered the baby Westerbeke into the expansive chasm that had accommodated the massive Chevy. Williams describes it like placing a peanut in a space that had been reserved for an elephant. That called for creative engine mounting.

“We tried making some of the mounting system out of old hardwood, but it just didn’t hold up,” says Williams.

He ended up hiring a local welder, who scabbed a mounting system together from old scrap metal.

Then Williams had to align the shaft and cut a hole through the side of the hull for the wet exhaust. By the time the Gee Whiz splashed into the water, the better half of the chum season was shot.

There was, however, a late run of sockeyes. The boat worked flawlessly through the rest of a season that included one set yielding a pick of 7,000 pounds.

“I could tell we had a good load in the hold,” Williams remembers. “The boat sat low enough in the water that the wet exhaust pipe was blowing bubbles.”

Though Williams went on to catch more sockeyes that summer, his earnings came in skimpier than he had hoped.

He paid off his bills for fuel, the permit lease, a crew share to his deckhand, and other expenses.

“After it was all done I didn’t have a lot of money left to put in my pocket,” he says.

Undeterred, Williams bought a Dungeness permit in 2017 which enables him to run 75 pots with his dad’s old refurbished skiff .

Since then, he’s seen the thick and thin of profitability. In 2020 his crab season coincided with the onslaught of Covid. The abundance of crab that year set records, but the infrastructure was missing to get the crabs processed and to market. Last year, the infrastructure returned, but appreciable volumes of crab did not.

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This April,Williams entered the loan application process in hopes of buying a salmon permit. He hopes to launch in May his newest endeavor, a 32-foot 1979 fiberglass gillnetter named the Enterprise. Williams had purchased the boat in 2015 but finances delayed his plans to rebuild it for the 2019 season. Further delays ensued with covid slowing down deliveries of needed supplies to finish

the project. Since then, backordered shipments of hydraulic hoses, wiring, and parts for the 3208 Caterpillar and rigging have finally arrived.

“It’s all there,” says Williams of the ingredients to his next fishing venture.

“All I have to do is put it together, throw it in the water and go.”

Charlie Ess is the North Pacifi c Bureau Chief for National Fisherman.

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Buoys: Fishermen’s hand-made tools as art Photographer and story by Arthur Drooker

s a photographer I pride myself on making the ordinary look extraordinary. To see a common object anew is to photograph it in a way that it has never been seen before. Such was the case when I saw the unexpected yet undeniable beauty of buoys.Yes, buoys.

I should state at the outset that I’m not a fisherman. To be honest, my idea of fishing is going to the seafood department of my neighborhood supermarket and buying filets of whatever looks good for dinner that night.

Yet, like a fisherman, I venture forth at all hours not knowing what I will find and when I return with a pleasing photo, I often call it the “catch of the day.”

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Moreover, and more important, fishing requires skill and patience, and so does photography. And let’s not forget luck.

The kind of luck I felt last fall when I visited Point Arena pier on the Northern California coast.

Normally, I would have no business being there but the occasion — giving my son-in-law’s family, which includes avid fishermen, a tour of the area — just happened to take place when the setting sun bathed buoys on the pier in golden light, saturating their colors and accentuating their textures. I take moments like this as a sign. It’s as if the sun deliberately focused its last rays, like a pointer, on the buoys, saying, “Look at this!” I did. And began photographing. www.nationalfisherman.com

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A close up of a permit number on a buoy on Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco, Calif.

A pile of buoys near Spud Point Marina in Bodega Bay, Calif.

Buoys with coats of chipped paint, like this one in Bodega Bay, Calif., resemble abstract art to photographer Arthur Drooker.

Buoys hanging at The Boat House, a restaurant in Bodega Bay, Calif.

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Working quickly before the sun set, I hauled in more than one “catch of the day.” With each buoy I photographed, the more I came to know the essence of the object: A buoy doesn’t just mark the location of a fisherman’s trap beneath the surface. Its peeling paint, dents, and scars also mark the effects of time, tide, and toil. Such wear and tear mirror the rough hands and weathered faces of fishermen who have made the buoy an essential part of their trade for generations. Emblazoned with unique color schemes and permit numbers, buoys are also non-representational portraits of their owners and their own kind of abstract art, especially when seen close as I prefer to photograph them.

Excited by what I photographed at Point Arena, I became obsessed with buoys. A few days later I drove to Bodega Bay, another fishing hub near my Northern California home, in search of more. There I found a bevy of buoys decorating the walls of The Boat House, a popular restaurant on Highway 1. So, this is what happens to buoys when they retire! After years of service, tethered to traps, they hang in perpetuity, adorning the walls of restaurants and other buildings in seaside towns. While

A makeshift “painter’sstudio” inside Pier 45 on San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf.

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A close-up of a buoy hanging from The Boat House, a restaurant in Bodega Bay, Calif.

A close-up of a permit number on a buoy from Point Arena pier on the Northern California coast.

diners finger-licked their fish and chips, I carefully handled the buoys as if I were a sommelier holding a precious bottle of vintage wine.

My experience at Point Arena had made me a buoy connoisseur so I knew what to look for as far as which ones to photograph: The buoys had to show just the right amount of wear and tear, if too worn and torn they would be unrecognizable; they had to have an eyecatching combination of colors; and they had to make a unique contribution to my growing series of buoy photographs.

The ones hanging at The Boat House did not disappoint. If they had been a dish on the menu, then I would’ve given The Boat House a four-star review.

Bodega Bay and Point Arena yielded a bounty of buoys but my quest to photograph them in Northern California wouldn’t have been complete without exploring Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. Behind the tourist traps, family-style seafood restaurants, and jaywalking sea gulls pecking at sourdough breadcrumbs stands Pier 45, a cavernous hall housing the west coast’s largest concentration of fish processors and distributors. In the late afternoon,

when most fishermen were gone, I had this treasure trove to myself. There were buoys galore basking in bins and hanging from traps.The best find of all was sitting on a wooden table: a group of orange, yellow, and blue striped buoys flanking a paintbrush in a plastic cup. This tableau captured the heart of my project — buoys as art. While the fisherman who had painted them was absent, what he left behind in his makeshift studio made his presence felt.

After exploring these three fishing hubs in Northern California, I assessed what I had photographed and determined that I had enough memorable images to publish a portfolio of them. Seen together they show in granular detail the array of colors, designs, and textures that make buoys worthy of our attention. More personally, they also show the joy I felt in discovering these Styrofoam gems, reminding me of the more figurative meaning of buoy — to cheer or lift someone’s spirits.

Arthur Drooker is a photographer and writer based in Mill Valley, California. For more information and to order a copy of BUOYS, please visit arthurdrooker.com www.nationalfisherman.com

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FEELING THE ALASKA SPIRIT O’Hara Corp. launches a 229-foot freezer-trawler after off-season overhaul

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rank O’Hara and the O’Hara Corp. had to buy the Alaska Spirit on faith. He and his team did not get much of a look at the boat before they signed on the dotted line.

“We had to take her as she was, where she was,” says O’Hara. “We weren’t even sure we had a deal for a long time. FCA [Fishing Company of Alaska] was keeping it all secret, and then all of a sudden it went through.”

O’Hara Corp. is a fishing company that began in New England in 1907 and has been carried down through four generations of the family. O’Hara credits the success of the company with having good people onboard, his three sons, and a cadre of trusted experts.

“It’s important to surround yourself with very knowledgeable people,” he says, noting that he really needed them in 2017. Despite more than a century of history and experience, it was a precarious time for the company.

“We were supposed to get the Alaska Spirit and the Alaska Juris,” says O’Hara. “But we only got the one boat, which, in a way, worked out for us because we had the Araho coming around the Panama Canal. And then we purchased the Alaska Spirit, and she needed a more work than

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we realized as we peeled back that onion. The Alaska Juris wasn’t as well maintained, and if we had had to deal with all that deferred maintenance on that boat, we would have really had our hands full.”

According to O’Hara, the Alaska Spirit was enough, and what they got with her was a great platform in need of a serious upgrade. The 229-foot vessel was originally an offshore supply boat built at Halter Shipyard, in Lockport, La., in 1974. In the late 1980s, FCA took the vessel to Japan and converted it to a head and gut freezer trawler. That created some problems for O’Hara.

“The factory was a Japanese-style factory, the equipment and gensets were all Japanese, everything written in Japanese,” he says. “We had to have a Japanese technician onboard the first six months just to run everything. What we’ve done over the last few years is make it into an American boat.”

That started with replacing the vessel’s archaic net-hauling system, which was basically a mechanized version of hauling twine the way the earliest eastern-rig trawlers did.

“They used the trawl winches to bring the footrope up, and then used the booms to flake the twine aboard,” says O’Hara.“We replaced that with a crane and two jilsons, but

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that was temporary.The strain when a full bag came down off a sea was too much on the supports for the jilsons.”

During the vessel’s 2021-22 down time, one of the improvements included the installation of two net reels at the forward end of the deck and a new gantry over them.

“We put in two new Rapp winches for the jilsons, and a cod-end transfer winch,” says O’Hara, noting that the cables from these winches run through blocks on the new gantry and can handle the weight of a full cod end being lifted and dropped by big waves.

In addition to the new gantry and net reels, the 2021-22 improvements included all new stainless steel piping, replacing the old galley with new galley equipment, including stainless steel cabinetry, and replacing the hard worn stern structure with a new one. These improvements were the culmination of five years of intensive work to turn a nearly 50-year-old vessel into a state-of-the-art H&G freezer trawler.

“One of the first things we did in 2017 was replace the gensets,” says O’Hara.

“We added the new North Pacific crane and new Pullmaster-25 deck winches.

We found we needed more power, so we took out the two 400-kW Yanmar gensets and replaced them with two 550-kW Cat C18s.”

After fishing the somewhat improved vessel through 2018, the crew tore out the old factory on the way south in the fall of that year. “In the fall of 2018, winter

New Rapp MacGregor winches the Alaska Spirit are part of the efficient gear handling system that makes an old boat feel like a new one.

Net reels installed at the forward end of the trawl deck under the new gantry for the jilsons. The setup replaces a temporary fix to archaic net-handling gear.

The Alaska Spirit’s 20-cylinder EMD diesel turns a 12-inch-diameter shaft and a 12-foot-diameter controllable pitch propeller.

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of 2019 we installed new Carsoe factory.

The Japanese-style factory had a big table in the middle, conveyors and plate freezers, but they didn’t have packing stations or scales,” says O’Hara. He points out that the old factory was set up for high volume whereas his people wanted to focus on high quality and better yield. “We wanted to make sure the head cuts gave us the best weight, and we wanted to get the right weight in the pans,” he says. To further guarantee quality, the Alaska Spirit got a new refrigeration plant with two additional plate freezers by supplied by Highland Refrigeration in Seattle.

The 2018-19 refit also included tearing up the old wooden deck and installing double layer of steel. “We also opened the stern void spaces and converted them to a workspace and storage, sand blasted the water tanks, and replaced steel angles inside of the gantry,” says O’Hara.

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For years the Alaska Spirit operated a volume-oriented factory below deck, the crew ripped that out on the way home in 2018, and it was replaced with a Carsoe, quality oriented fish-handling system.

and engineering for the multiyear project.

“We mostly did the steel and stability work,” says Elliott Bay Naval Architect David Turner. While the Alaska Spirit

underwent modifications that added a lot of steel above deck — the gantry for the jilsons and the new winches, for example — Turner notes that it did not have much impact on the boat’s stability.

“These older oil supply boats have a lot of stability, more than might be designed into a modern trawler, they also don’t have the tall superstructures you see on new trawlers,” Turner says. “That gives you a lot of margin when you’re working on these boats.The changes that we made did not significantly change the CG [center of gravity] of the boat.” Turner is no stranger to the Alaska Spirit.

“When I started work for Elliott Bay in Louisiana, in 2010, one of my first jobs was to update stability report on the Alaska Spirit. So, you could say I’ve been following this boat.” He notes that the project had its challenges. “Whenever you’re retrofitting structure on an existing vessel, it’s a major change, and it’s an interesting

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process. The whole gantry foundation work was very precise.” To make it more challenging,Turner points out, there were very few drawings from the 1989 conversion that took place in Japan.

“Not only do we have very few drawings,” he says, “two-thirds of them are in Japanese. We had one of our naval architects who was fluent in Japanese, so she used to help us out.”

Turner speaks highly of the O’Hara Corp.’s approach to the project. “I’m impressed with the O’Haras. A lot of the work they’re asking for is not just improving the performance of the vessel, but the safety as well, such as the way the gear gets handled, and their maintenance schedule.They don’t shy away from doing what’s needed.”

Every year since closing the deal for the Alaska Spirit, the O’Hara Corp. has funded improvements with money set aside under the Capital Construction Fund — a long running federal program that allows fishermen to defer taxes on revenues and invest that money into building new vessels or upgrading old ones.

“It requires a minimum expenditure of $100,000 per year,” says O’Hara with a laugh. “We don’t have any trouble reaching that.”

Steel was on the menu for 2019-20 upgrades, with work done at Dakota Creek Industries.

“We replaced some steel at Foss [Maritime] when we got the boat. Later, at DCI we replaced 100 feet by 30 feet of bottom,”

says O’Hara. Up above, they added a new deck in the cargo hold and started steel work for new aft winches. In that busy off season, the vessel also got a new aft fiber room, new exhaust stacks with silencers that significantly reduced noise on deck, and steel replaced forward in technical water tank after sand blasting.

“We replaced the winch engine with new 1000-hp C32, and a Marco gear box,” says O’Hara. “They had a Hanshin in there, but again it was all Japanese technology, and hard to get parts for.”

Looking to improve crew comfort, O’Hara notes that the vessel also got new heads and showers in the crew accommodations.

“We also replaced the pilothouse windows with larger heated windows” he says.

Things just keep getting better, the following year, 2020-21, the company added new Rapp Hydema hydraulic winches.

“The Araho has electric winches,” says O’Hara. “And if we were building new, we would go with electric, but we don’t have the power on the Spirit.We really can’t do it without a shaft generator, and everything is already set up for hydraulic. We would have had to redo all that.” Along with the winches, improvements included new stern and ramp rollers, replacing a 110-kW electrical hydraulic pump and motor, redoing the hydraulic piping for the winch system, and the installation of a safety and deck gear house.

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The Alaska Spirit was converted into a head-and-gut freezer trawler in Japan in 1989, and the wheelhouse is designed for a fishing master and captain. In 2024 the vessel will get a new wheelhouse.

In 2010, Caterpillar acquired EMD (Electro-Motive Diesel), makers of the 20 cylinder 3,500-hp engine that has powered the Alaska Spirit since it was built in 1974.

About the only engine left from the original is the 40-plusyear-old 20-cylinder EMD main. According to O’Hara, the utility and longevity of the engine is a factor of its design.

“In most diesel engines, the head covers all the cylinders, or sometimes three, but the EMD has individual power packs that get dropped in and bolted to the crankshaft. So if you have a

problem with one, you pull it out and you can drop the new one in in three or four hours.” O’Hara notes that the Alaska Spirit carries spare power packs, which include the cylinder, sleeve, piston, injector, etc., and that the replacement operation can be performed wherever the boat is.

“There is an I-beam above the engine they use to lift the 400-pound power packs out and put in a new one.You take the old one and put it in the box of the new one, roll it out of the way, and send it in to be rebuilt when you get back.” O’Hara notes that regularly replacing the power packs can be part of engine maintenance.

The Alaska Spirit has 50 bunks.

“We carry two observers, and eight to 10 of what I call ‘officers’ — the captain, the mate, engineers, cooks, factory foremen, and deck boss.Then we have around six deckhands and what we call combies, guys who work at processing and work on deck and if there’s no gear work to do, they help with processing. And we have 30 processors.” As noted above, keeping the crew safe and comfortable has been a big part of the conversion.

Only the captain will have to wait for an upgrade. While no major work is scheduled for the 2022-23 off-season, the following year, O’Hara expects to see the wheelhouse modified.“Right now, it’s set up for the way the Japanese fish, which is you have a fishing master and captain. We just have the one, the captain or the mate.” O’Hara notes that the vessel has the latest electronics, including a Simrad ES80 sonar and new transducers. But in two years they will reconstruct the wheelhouse to consolidate the electronics around the helm and add observation wings so that the captain can get a better look out on deck.

In the course of its lifetime, the Alaska Spirit has seen many changes, from an offshore supply boat to a Japanese-style trawler, and now to a modernized head and gut freezer trawler ready for the rigors of the Bering Sea.

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What’s in Your Bag?

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n informal survey of what fishermen want in their seabags when they leave the dock resulted in a wide range of items that deckhands fi nd essential — everything from boots, gloves and sharp knives to Advil and cigarettes.

Reading the responses from deckhands, a couple of things become clear: Fishermen experience a lot of physical pain.

A surprising number of people listed over-the-counter pain killers as essential to their comfort when heading out fishing.

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The small things can make all the difference at sea

The second thing fishermen seem to obsess about is their feet: socks, Crocs, slides, and good boots appear to be the foundation, literally, of a happy fishing trip. Fishermen work on unstable often wet or icy platforms and must keep their feet under them at all times, and they need to stay focused and comfortable on their feet for hours. Finding the right combination of socks and boots, and something to wear in the galley or wheelhouse, can be an endless quest.

“I don’t have any brand loyalty for socks,” says Matt Calvin, who fishes for surf clams out of Massachusetts. “In

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Kirsten Schonberg-Hamar likes her Grundéns oil gear for a simple reason, they make her size, XXS.

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the winter, nice thick ones.

Spring, summer, and fall, regular socks are fine.”

Another fisherman adds that socks should be higher than one’s boot tops to avoid chafing. Calvin is still searching for the perfect boots.

“I used to wear Xtratuf, but they didn’t seem to last, especially the non-insulated ones. I’m wearing Grundéns deck boss boots now, but if the deck isn’t textured either by rust or grit, they have trash traction when it’s wet.

They’ve lasted more than a single season though, so I’ll just watch my step.”

Kirsten Schonberg-Hamar works on a salmon seiner out of King Cove, Alaska, and has

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“Right now, I’m purchasing a Garmin inReach.

A crewmember let me use his last season, and I was hooked,” says Schonberg-Hamar, who uses the popular handheld satellite communication device for texting. To stay dry, she buys a new Grundéns bib and jacket every two years.

“They are the ones I’ve found so far that have my size: XXS.” For her feet, Schonber-Hamar sticks with her Xtratuf boots, ever popular in Alaska.

As far as gear on the boat is concerned, Schonberg-Hamar has been very intrigued by new

line strikes a nice balance between durability and wearability, with materials that can take a beating yet allow for freedom of movement.

Gabriel Prout (left) and deck mates relax in Helly Hansen Storm gear on top of some crab.

Gabriel Prout and his deck mates on the F/V Silver Spray have been using the Storm gear for the past two seasons, crabbing in the Bering Sea in the winter and salmon tendering in Prince William Sound in the summer. Prout said the simple fact that some of the Helly Hansen gear is still in use two years later is a testament to its quality in a fishery where deckwear gets routinely thrashed and discarded.

“While some other raingear can wear thin and weep moisture under the material or break or tear at the seams, the Helly Hansen Storm is much more durable. A lot of the rain gear we use — while great and quick and light to throw on — lacks a heavy-duty or durable feel to it, and after a few weeks of use, begins cracking or even gathering holes and rips along the seams,” Prout said.

Beyond its durability, the Storm coat has features that work. The neoprene cuffs do not bind or ride up and are housed under the sleeve of the coat, which keeps them a bit drier. There is a Napoleon chest pocket inside the front zipper with a headphone hole to run cables up through the coat, and the zipper itself has a double flap covering. The adjustable hood is also very comfortable and keeps you dry.

The Storm bibs have the same solid construction as the coat, with elastic suspenders that are comfortable and easy to adjust. The gear runs true to size, and the cut of the both the jacket and bibs is

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a bit slimmer than the traditional super-baggy raingear — take the Grundéns Herkules line, for example — but not too slim for fishermen with average builds to move freely and layer up underneath.

Prout said that if there are any disadvantages to the Storm gear, they are in donning and doffing, which can be a bit more difficult because of the slightly slimmer fit and the thicker material.

“Crabbers are always looking for the perfect compromise between durability and ease of access, quick on and off. Because the Helly Hansen gear is so well made, it naturally is a little thicker, so it can Kirsten Schonberg-Hamar works on a salmon seiner out of King Cove, Alaska, and always packs some Victorinox knife, Raold twine needles and a fid for splicing.

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Asano products, in particular, the Asano auto shackles used for connecting and releasing seine rings.

“I also buy my own Spectra twine/line, Roald net needles, Norsk and Victorinox knives so I can help other boats with their nets on my dime. This helps improve my mending skills and make connections that come in handy.”

All fishermen want gloves that keep their hands warm and dry. Mark Moone, originally a Rhode Islander, fishing somewhere out there uses Showa Atlas gloves.

“I take smaller ones for the start of a trip and bigger ones for when my hands swell up,” he says.

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Matt Calvin also mentions that he uses Showa Atlas gloves, the 660s, when

Product Spotlight Marwear capitalizes on rough weather lessons from Iceland

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few years ago, Thorsteinn Finnbogason, now the general manager of foul weather gear company Marwear, started

selling supplies to fishermen in his hometown of Grindavik, a fishing enclave on Iceland’s Southern Peninsula.

“We were supplying the longliners with bait and then they just started asking if we could supply this and that, soap, toilet Marwear

paper, basic stuff. Then they started asking about clothing, pants and jackets,” Finnbogason said.

At first, his company bought existing brands and to sell to fishermen, but Finnbogason said the gear did not quite work right for the “difficult clients” that fish Iceland’s extreme conditions.

Marwear designed its first products based on testing and feedback from longline fishermen.

“These are very rough conditions here and fishermen need good gear,” Finnbogason said.

Finnbogason saw an opportunity in the local market and set about designing his own jackets and bibs, soon after adding gloves and boots. The aforementioned difficult clients were instrumental in driving the design process, which resulted in a unique, high-quality line of products built for hard fishing in heavy weather.

“We were in a good position because one of the biggest longliner companies in Iceland owned a part of our company, so we could use their fishermen to do the testing. I would make about 100 units of a new product, give them to the fisherman, and get a report after each trip,” he said.

The fishermen gave feedback on everything from zippers and colors to cut and materials, and the resulting products are an impressive blend of durability and functionality. The headliner here is the Stormur Fishtex jacket and bibs, a bomber yet pliable set of gear that will work across a number of different fisheries.

“I had all types of fisheries in mind for this jacket and bibs, trawling, longlining, crabbing, lobstering, whatever. It’s works for everything,” Finnbogason said.

Both are made of made with two different kinds of thicker PVC fabrics that Finnbogason sources from European suppliers and wear areas are reinforced with a carbon fiber material. The gear is heavy duty and you can feel the weight when you put it on, but it wears easily.

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harvesting surf clams.

What comes to light in the answers to the question of what fishermen don’t want to leave the dock without, is the hardships deckhands face. The pain, fatigue, swollen hands, go with the territory, and everyone who has spent time on deck is familiar with various repetitive motion ailments. Small pleasures make a big difference, and cigarettes — tobacco or other herbs — are on many lists of vital things to have in one’s seabag.

Running out of cigarettes on a long trip can be like a little hell for smokers, adding another little misery to an already difficult job.

Then there are the guys like Jeromy Connor, engineer on the 113-foot Pacific Challenger out of Seattle.

“We fish hake, out of Westport and then go up north for the A and B seasons,” says Connor. He takes essentials like his Red Ledge jacket and Xtratuf boots. “After that it’s all about comfort,” he says.

“Slippers, board shorts, hats.

Then I heard all these old timers talking about how great it was in the ‘80s,” says the 35-year-old Connor.

“So I decided to bring the ‘80s back. I ordered all this stuff and the Golden Alaska would bring packages out to me. It took a couple of weeks to put together, but then one day I came out on deck with my ’80s outfit.”

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Product Spotlight Grundéns footwear explosion

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rundéns jumped into making a fishing deck boot in 2017 with one of the company’s foundational phi-

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losophies in mind. From the mindset of a fisherman, they approach a product and ask if they can improve on the prevailing market.

“If we can’t make it better, we don’t make it,” said

Grundéns homes in on perfect deck boot amidst growing footwear line.

Grundéns CEO Dave Mellon. But with footwear, they felt they were up to the challenge. They got On long tows when people get bored, Jeromy Connor brings out his inner 80s rocker.

“Twelve-hour tows, you gotta keep the humor going,” he says.

It could be that every boat needs a Jeromy Connor, just to keep things light.

to work and, after some stumbles out of the gates, Grundéns’ footwear line has now grown to 13 models, ranging from flip-flops to steel-toed 15-inch deck boots and everything in between.

“I think the number-one reason we got into this was fishermen requests, as well as requests from retail partners. And then we had a group of passionate commercial fishermen who worked on the project and tried to figure out how they could make a better boot,” Mellon said.

As Mellon put it, Grundéns “thought they could make a comfortable boot that was light and would last a long time,” and the company has done just that. Grundéns approaches all their footwear with the concept that fishermen are athletes, and their boots should reflect that.

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“Commercial fishermen need to able to move around, to be comfortable, and not worry about their feet. Our number one feedback from users is how much they love the comfort,” Mellon said.

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LUCK OF THE IRISH

The rebuild of the Shenanegan took fourteen years, but it was worth the wait.

By Paul Molyneaux

Harry Allen wanted a bow that would roll water away rather than splash over onto the deck. He and Giddings owner Ray Cox raised the forward bulwarks by 32 to 36 inches and it did the trick.

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he Shenanegan came down the rails in 1971 as a fairly typical 45-foot salmon troller with a beam of 14.5 feet—it drew 5.5 feet.

“She was a homemade job, made from a popular plan.

But I don’t know who did it,” says owner Harry Allen. In the early 2000s Allen was fishing crab, albacore and spot prawn and wanted a bigger boat. He bought the Shenanegan in 2007. While Allen holds dual Irish and American citizenship — his mother comes from County Donegal in Ireland — he did not name the green and orange painted boat. “I didn’t have anything to do with the name,” he says. “It was the

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Shenanegan when I found it.”

He took the boat straight to Giddings Boatworks in Charleston, Oregon. “First thing I did was tear it apart and widen it,” he says. “I had a design from Bruce Culver to put a whale back on it, but we didn’t get that far. We kept finding things and the project got out of control.”

Allen limited the changes that first year to widening, lengthening, and re-powering.

“We added 7 and a half feet.

It’s 23 feet at the widest spot,” he says. “And we added 5 feet to the stern so it’s 50 feet overall.” At Giddings, which was still being operated by Don Giddings at the time, they did the sponson work old school style, as they say. They did not www.nationalfisherman.com

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use CNC files generated from a CAD program.

“They didn’t have the plate precut,” says Allen. “They just put it up, marked it and cut it.”

With the engine room opened up and gutted, Allen had the main and auxiliary engines replaced with a John Deere 6081 and a John Deere 4045, respectively.“We re-powered again in 2013,” he says. “I put in a 400-hp, 9-liter, John Deere 6090 and a new 4045.” The new engine has a Twin Disc gear turning a 2 ¾ -inch shaft at 2:1, with a 30-inch, 4-blade propeller. “I don’t know the pitch, not much,” says Allen, who reports that the cruising speed of the Shenanegan is around 7 knots. The auxiliary runs a 36 gallon per minute hydraulic pump

off the front end and the genset off the other.

The added space afforded by the lengthening and sponsons, allowed Allen to expand the tankage and fish hold. “We added four more fuel tanks,” says Allen, noting that the overall fuel capacity is now 3,200 gallons. “We put in a 700 gallon fresh water tank, and we opened up the stern to expand the fish hold. I have an 18-ton IMS refrigeration system that we also put in that year. I freeze my tuna, but the crab and spot prawn I land live, so I use that to chill the water, and I have an aerator.”

Allen also added a false deck and a few other things that first year. “The false deck is drier,” he says. “It gets you up above the scuppers.”

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tion lights. There may be no other lights on the market that exude solidity like the Lopolight. Company representative Bob Walker said it starts with the housing.

“It’s solid aluminum,” Walker told National Fisherman. “You can hit it with a hammer, and it won’t break. In fact, we have a video online where the president does just that. They’re very, very robust, and built for boats that are out in serious elements.”

The LED bulbs use far less energy to produce strong illumination.

That solid housing contains two LED lenses and, if coupled with the Lopolight Control System, the backup light will automatically come on if the first turns off. The control system will switch automatically to a secondary power source if a boat’s engine shuts down and the generator takes over, for example.

The LED bulbs use far less energy to produce strong illumination, and Walker added that Lopolight has gone to lengths to keep the LEDs from interfering with radio frequencies.

“There are lots of unique things by LEDs. These lights will illuminate with an intense radio frequency and they will also interfere with radio communications. On all of our models, the light itself and the cables are all shielded. We’re the only ones that meet military requirements for shielding,” Walker said.

Walker added that LEDs do degrade and dim over time, but Lopolights are programmed to maintain their intensity. This is facilitated by Lopolight’s monitoring system and backups, which alert the user that the lens needs to be changed.

“It’s really important on a compensated light to monitor because the curve won’t drop gradually. It will just get to end of its life and be done,” Walker said.

The alert comes when the light still has useful life left and gives users plenty of time to switch to the back up or replace the lens, if necessary. And with about 50,000 hours in each light, alerts will not come too frequently.

“It might seem like a lot, but if you go out to sea and aren’t coming home until you have your quota, you don’t want something like a nav light to trip you up,” Walker said.

Walked added that traditional incandescent lights keep the ice off because they run hot, while LEDs do not heat up. To correct for this, Lopolight has added heating elements to its line of Ice Class Navigation Lights to keep them clear in cold fishing.

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While Allen points out that in the long run it would have been cheaper to do the entire project that year, but he wasn’t sure he would stay fishing. “At the time I thought I might move to Donegal,” says Allen.

“I have a place there.” He’s also glad that he waited because he made changes to the original Bruce Culver design.

“We never did the whaleback,” he says.

“Two years ago we put on the bulbous bow at Giddings, and that increased the speed and fuel efficiency. I get two days out of a tank instead of a day and a half.”

Allen, now 63 years old, finally went all-in on the Shenanegan in 2021. “I took it back to Giddings and we put on a new top house, a free standing mast, and raised the bulwarks forward,” he says.

Aside from the 2007 work, Ray Cox, the current owner of Giddings, has done all the work on the Shenanegan, beginning with a shelter deck added in 2009 to protect the crew working the block when crabbing and shrimping. Ray Cox added the bulb and did the latest work. Again, when it came to the steel work they did it all old school.

“We wanted to add 32 to 36 inches, and we just had to eyeball the angles,” says Allen.

“On the stem, you have to get that just right, if you go too much it doesn’t look good.

But I’m happy with it. It does what I wanted it to do, which is the water rolls up and out away from the bow. Before, it was splashing up over, especially with the bulb. The deck’s a lot drier now.”

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and required allen to add a top house.“I just did a drawing of what I wanted and Ray’s son Kyle built it.”

Kyle Cox, owner of Tarheel Aluminum bolted an aluminum flange to the existing fly bridge and started tacking aluminum to it. “You have to build in place on something like that, it’s almost like sculpture,” says Cox, who has been doing aluminum work for 20 years. “There’s so much going on for angles and curves, you would need to do some very sophisticated mapping of the footprint if you wanted to build it in the shop.”

Combining math, physics, and art, Cox put together the top house that Allen had imagined. “We kind of tacked everything in place,” he says. “Then we unbolted the flange and brought it back to the shop to do all the welding so we could have some nice clean welding.” Aluminum is trickery to weld than steel, Cox notes, and

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having the structure in the shop for the serious welding gave him better control of the quality of the final product. “If you can get out of the wind and the weather you can produce a better weld.”

Allen reports lot of boats are using this kind of top with the windows angled out all around. “You see it in Ireland,” he says.

“It’s great, it give me a better view of the deck forward, so I can see my crew and what’s going on.”

The Shenanegan has four berths in the fo’c’sle and another in the original wheelhouse, and Allen usually takes three hands besides himself when crabbing.

The original wheelhouse holds the galley.

“It’s an old 1970s style galley,” says Allen.

“We might do something with it, make it more futuristic.”

At Giddings, Allen and Ray Cox also replaced the old stick mast with a free standing steel mast. “I have metal halide and sodium vapor lights,” says Allen, but they’re getting hard to get, so I put on LED deck lights.” Allen reports that some fishermen report issues with LED and tuna fishing. “They say the LED sends some kind of frequency through the hull that the tuna don’t like. But we’ll see this summer.”

The electronics package in the new top house includes a new Furuno radar.

“It’s a solid-state Doppler radar, a Drs4DNXT,” says Allen. “It can spot birds, for when we’re albacore fishing. As I get blinder I need that,” he says.

Considering that Bruce Culver’s original engineering involved considerable additions of steel above the deck, it also included some stability analysis. But Allen notes that having skipped the whaleback idea, the new design is considerably lighter, and well within the parameters of Culver’s earlier stability work.

With the completion of the latest work, Allen finally has the boat he’s been imagining and refining in his imagination for 14 years. “This boat’s always been a work in progress,” says Allen. “But there’s not much more you’d need to do. I did a lot of this work thinking about the resale value.”

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With new bulwarks and aluminum top house in place, the Shenanegan awaits a steel free standing mast and shelterdeck.

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MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Hospital

(PORT OF ALASKA)

Port office: . . . . . . . . . . . 907-343-6200 Port fax: . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-277-5636 Email . . . . . . . . . . .bickforddj@muni .org Web . . . . . . . . . . . www .portofanc .com VHF channel: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Coast Guard: . . . . . . . . . 907-428-4100 Fish and game: . . . . . . . 907-267-2100 Pollution hotline: . . . . . . 800-424-8802 FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Inlet Petroleum: . . . . . . . . . . . 274-3835 Shoreside Petroleum: . . . . . . 344-4571 AT THE DOCK Port director: Steve Ribuffo Port Operations: Shannon Martindale AMENITIES Freshwater at berths Taxis Showers and laundry Sewage pump-out Full repair facilities available in area MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Providence Hospital . . . . 907-562-2211 Coast Guard . . . . . . . . . . 800-478-5555 Anchorage Fire Department . . . . . . .911 *LFS Marine Supplies . . .206-789-8110 *Discovery Health . . . . . . www.DiscoveryHealthMD.com

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City office . . . . . . . . . . . 907-788-3653 City office fax . . . . . . . . . 907-788-3821 VHF channels . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 and 16 Pollution hotline: . . . . . . 800-424-8802 FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Angoon Oil and Gas . . . . . . . . 788-3436 AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: Gregory Bennum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-788-3653 AMENITIES Electricity MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Local clinic . . . . . . . . . . . 907-788-4600 Emergency . . . . . . . . . . . 907-788-3237

ASTORIA Mooring Basin Office: . . . 503-325-8279 Port office: . . . . . . . . . . . 503-741-3300 Fax: Attn . Harbormaster . 503-741-3345 Email . . . . . . Marina@portofastoria .com Web . . . . . . . . www .portofastoria .com VHF channels: . . . . . . . . . . . .16 and 74 Fish and wildlife: . . . . . . . 503-338-0106 Pollution hotline: . . . . . . 800-424-8802 FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 503) Port of Astoria: . . . . . . . . . . . . 325-8279 Wilcox & Flegel: . . . . . . . . . . 325-3122

BANDON Port office: . . . . . . . . . . . 541-347-3206 Fax: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541-347-4645 Email Portmanager@portofbandon .com Web . . . . . . . . www .portofbandon .com Pollution hotline . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 541) Prowler Charters: . . . . . . . . . . .347-1901 AT THE DOCK Port of Bandon staff

AMENITIES Electricity, freshwater, laundry Net-mending dock, pay phones Restaurant, restrooms Sewage pumpout, showers REPAIR FACILITIES Full-service repair facilities, machine shops, welding, electronic repairs, dive service and marine supplies MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Search and rescue Sheriff stationed at harbor To subscribe, call 1-800-959-5073

MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES St . Joseph, Main Campus: equipped for general surgery, . . . . . . . . 360-734-5400 Dental *LFS Marine Supplies . . .206-789-8110 *Discovery Health . . . . . . www .DiscoveryHealthMD .com

BERKELEY

AMENITIES Charter services, electricity, freshwater, pump-out stations and restrooms

Marina: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510-981-6740 Email . . . . . . Marina@cityofberkeley .info Web . . . www .ci .berkeley .ca .us/marina/ VHF channel: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Fish and game: . . . . . . . . 707-944-5500 Pollution hotline: . . . . . . . 800-424-8802

MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Southern Coos Hospital, 541-347-2426 USCG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May-September

AT THE DOCK Waterfront manager: Stephen Bogner Phone: 510-981-6744 Fax: 510-981-6745

BELLINGHAM

MOORAGE: Available

MOORAGE: Available

Port office: . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-676-2542 Port fax: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-671-6149 Email . Squalicum@portofbellingham .com Web . . . . . . www .portofbellingham .com VHF channels: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 360) Harbor Marine Fuel: . . . . . . . .734-1710

AT THE DOCK Port of Astoria staff MOORAGE: Available

Four boatyards can repair aluminum, glass, Full-service repair and outfitting facilities

AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: Kyle Randolph AMENITIES Two-mile walking path around harbor Two fuel docks 40,000 square feet of dry storage Electricity at all berths Five restaurants Freshwater at all berths Four shower and three laundry facilities Two, 2-ton stiff-leg cranes REPAIR FACILITIES Net suppliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Net-working areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Piers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,200-feet

AMENITIES Electricity/freshwater Pay phones Fuel docks/pump-out stations Restrooms/showers REPAIR FACILITIES Berkeley Marine Center MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Local fire dept .; Alta Bates Hospital

BETHEL Port office: . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-543-2310 (open Mon .-Fri . 8 a .m . to 5 p .m .)

Port fax: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-543-2311 Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . .www .cityofbethel .org VHF channels: . . . . . 10 & 16 (May 1-Nov . 1) Fish and game: . . . . . . . . . . .907-543-2433 Pollution hotline: . . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802 AT THE DOCK Acting Port Director: Peter A . Williams pwilliams@cityofbethel .net Admin . Assistant: Ed Flores eflores@cityofbethel .net Summer 2022 \ National Fisherman 39

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ANGOON

Medics/ambulance

PORT LISTINGS

AMENITIES Fuel available at petroleum dock Water delivered by truck General, grocery stores with delis Restaurants — free delivery Book exchange at city dock office Forklifts, cranes and dock equipment— Vall dock office for list of handlers holding current terminal use permits Taxicab services REPAIR FACILITIES Outboard motor repair Steel and aluminum welding available MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Bethel Family Clinic . . . . . 907-543-3773 Bethel Health Center Coast Guard facilities in Kodiak Yukon Kuskokwim Delta Regional Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-543-6000 Bethel Search and Rescue

BLAINE Harbor: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-647-6176 Fax: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-332-1043 blaineharbor@portofbellingham .com www .portofbellingham .com VHF channels: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 & 68 Fish and game: . . . . . . . . 206-976-3200 USCG: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-734-1692 Pollution hotline: . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 360) McEvoy Oil (truck delivery): . . .734-5650 AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: Andy Peterson AMENITIES Web locker, Fenced dry storage Loading pier Net repair area with reel Forklift Launch facility Wifi Showers/laundry REPAIR FACILITIES Walsh Marine . . . . . . . . . . 360-332-5051

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BODEGA BAY (SPUD POINT MARINA & MASON’S MARINA)

Spud Point Marina office: 707-875-3535 Spud Pt . Marina fax: . . . . 707-875-3436 Email . . spudpoint@sonoma-county .org Web . . . . . . . . . . . spudpointmarina .org Spud Point VHF channel: . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Mason’s Marina: . . . . . . . . 707-875-3811 Mason’s Marina VHF channel: . . . . . . . 16 USCG Station: . . . . . . . . . . 707-875-3596 FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 707) Spud Point Fuel Dock . . . . . . . .875-3428 AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: Noah Wagner MOORAGE (SPUD POINT) Berths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .244 Check for transient availability AMENITIES (SPUD POINT) Flake ice facility Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . 30-amp, 50 amp Fuel and ice . . . . . . . . . 8 a .m .-3:30 p .m .

Dry storage space . . . . . . . . $90/month .

Commercial service dock/pay phones Restrooms/showers/security gates Cranes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-ton, 3-ton AMENITIES (MASON'S MARINA) Gasoline/convenience 8 a .m .-5 p .m ., 7 days Restrooms/showers Freshwater/electricity Locked gates and on-site security REPAIR FACILITIES Some mechanical

BROOKINGS Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541-469-2218 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541-469-0672 Email . . info@port-brookings-harbor .org Web . .www .port-brookings-harbor .com VHF channel: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Pollution hotline: . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 541) Port of Brookings . . . 469-2218 or VHF 12 (call for large truck quantities)

AT THE DOCK Operations Supervisor: Travis Webster Executive Director: Ted Fitzgerald AMENITIES Bulk ice Electricity/freshwater/laundry Net-mending dock/pumpout/ Dump stations Freshwater and electricity at most slips Six-lane launch ramp/retail center REPAIR FACILITIES Self-help yard, various marine businesses MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Chetco River Life Boat Station Curry County Sheriff Doctors and chiropractors available Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 miles Search & Rescue Southern Curry Mercy Flights U .S . Coast Guard

CHARLESTON

(OREGON INTERNATIONAL PORT OF COOS BAY)

Port office . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(541) 888-2548 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(541) 888-6111 Email . . . . . . .Info@charlestonmarina .com Web . . . . . . www .charlestonmarina .com Web . . . . . . . . www .portofcoosbay .com VHF channels . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 KVY560 Oregon Department of Fisheries & Wildlife: www .dfw .state .or .us Pollution hotline . . . . . . (US) 800-424-8802 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (OR) 800-452-0311 AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: John Buckley FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 541) Russell’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888-4711 AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: John Buckley AMENITIES Six-lane launch ramp Fuel dock, propane, pump-outs, security Tackle, bait and marine supplies Restrooms/showers/laundromat Dry land storage www.nationalfisherman.com

MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Emergency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911 Search and rescue . . . . . . (541) 756-4141 Bay Area Hospital . . . . . . .541) 269-8111 Bay Cities ambulance . . . (541) 269-4355 24-hour poison hotline . 1(800) 222-1222

CHIGNIK City office . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-749-2280 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-749-2300 VHF channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Fish and game (summer) . 907-845-2243 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 Harbormaster’s office . . . . 907-749-4002 Harbormaster: James Brewer Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . www .cityofchignik

Fish and game (seasonal) . . .907-532-2419 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . . . . .800-424-8802 AT THE DOCK (AREA CODE 907) Harbormaster: Alan Ellis MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES Freshwater . . . . . . . . . $15/1,000 gallons ($30 minimum, $35/use+ hookup fee) Forklift rental Pay phone at end of causeway Restrooms/showers at Bearfoot Inn REPAIR FACILITIES King Cove Travel lift available by reservation MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Clinic with nurse practitioner EMTs and volunteer service ambulance Medical transport by plane to Anchorage LifeFlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800-478-9111

AT THE DOCK Contact processors via VHF Ch . 6 or 73

CORDOVA

AMENITIES Year-round grocery Non-denominational church Community hall Electricity/freshwater Phones 5 minutes from dock Showers at bunkhouse Coffee shop

Port office . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-424-6400 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-424-6446 Email . . . . . . .Harbor@cityofcordova .net Web . . . www .cityofcordova .net/harbor VHF channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 & 68 USCG Sycamore . . . . . . . . 907-424-3434 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . . 800-424-8802

MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES King Salmon Trooper Station . . . . . . . . . .

907-246-3464 Hospitals . . . . . . . . . . . Kodiak, Dillingham USCG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kodiak Chignik Bay Sub-Regional Clinic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-749-2282 or VHF 6 Physician’s assistant . at clinic (summer), x-ray machine, advanced cardiac life support system, pharmacy and laboratory (summer), ambulance

FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Shoreside Petroleum . . . . . . . . .424-3264 AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: Tony Schinella AMENITIES Electricity/freshwater on floats Laundry in town Showers in town and harbor office

COLD BAY

SERVICES Outboard & engine repair Welding and machine shops Marine hardware and electronic

City Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .907-532-2401 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .907-532-2671 Email . . . . . . . . . . . . . .coldbayak@arctic .net VHF channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 & 16

MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Coast Guard medical center AirVac to Anchorage . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-424-8000 Cordova Medical Clinic . . 907-424-3622

To subscribe, call 1-800-959-5073

Ilanka Community Health 907-424-3622 Gilbert Urata dentist . . . . . 907-424-7318 LifeFlight: . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800-478-9111 *Kinematics Marine Equipment Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .360-659-5415 *LFS Marine Supplies . . .206-789-8110

CRAIG Port office . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-826-3404 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-826-3403 Email . . . . . . . . . . . harbors@craigak .com VHF channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Petro Marine Services . . . . . . . .826-3296 AT THE DOCK Harbormaster, Hans Hjort Email . . . . . . harbormaster@craigak .com AMENITIES Electricity (120v) . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 amps (208v, single-phase) . . . . . . . . . 50 amps Freshwater on floats Garbage disposal, used-oil disposal Public restrooms and showers at harbor office at North/South Cove Harbor Two public launch ramps, parking SERVICES Outboard sales and service Marine hardware stores/grocery stores Clothing stores/laundromat Welding/fabrication Ice house with ice for public, private, recreational, commercial MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Craig Police Department: . . . . .826-3330 Alaska State Troopers . . . . 907-826-2918 Craig Harbor Department . . . 826-3404, Coast Guard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VHF 16 Craig Clinic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .826-3257 Alicia Roberts Medical Center: 755-4800 Southeast Dental Center: . . . . .826-2273 TRANSPORTATION: Inter-Island Ferry Authority: 866-308-4848 Island Air Express: . . . . . . 888-387-8989 Daily ferry and flights to Ketchikan *Petro Marine Services. .800-478-7586 Summer 2022 \ National Fisherman 41

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REPAIR FACILITIES Giddings Boatworks Skallerud Marine Services Tarheel Steel Fabrication Encore Enterprises (engines)

PORT LISTINGS

CRESCENT CITY Harbor District . . . . . . . . . 707-464-6174 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707-465-3535 VHF channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 & 16 USCG Dorado . . . . . . . . . . 707-464-2172 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 707) C . Renner Dist . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465-4200 AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: Charles Helms MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES Cable repair (dock area)/net-mending Ice/marine supply stores Electricity/freshwater/laundry Pay phones/restrooms/showers REPAIR FACILITIES Fashion Blacksmith, full-service yard

DEPOE BAY Port office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .541-765-2361 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .541-765-2129 info@cityofdepoebay .org VHF channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 541) Depoe Bay Fuel Station AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: Roy Hildebrand . . . . . . . . 541-992-5010

City office . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-842-5211 Harbor fax . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-842-4573 VHF channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Fish and game . . . . . . . . 907-842-3958 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Delta Western Fuel . . . . . . . . . 842-5441 Bristol Alliance Fuels . . . . . . . . 842-1234 AT THE DOCK Harbormaster . . . . . . . . . 907-842-1069 harbor@dillinghamak .us AMENITIES Freshwater, laundromats, phones, Public bathhouse, shower, campground Limited crane service for vessels with current harbor registration . Ice sales (contact harbormaster office for price) REPAIR FACILITIES Repairs available for aluminum, glass, wood, props, hydraulics and engines MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Volunteer fire department 907-842-5354 EMS ambulance . . . . . . . 907-842-5354 Kanakanak Hospital . . . . 907-842-5201 *Delta Western llc, dba Delta Western Petroleum . . . . . . . . . . . .907-233-2229

DUTCH HARBOR Port office phone . . . . . . 907-581-1254 Email . . cchamberlain@ci .unalaska .ak .us Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-581-2519 www .unalaska-ak .us VHF channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . 800-424-8802

AMENITIES Electricity Freshwater Restrooms Pump-out dock Fish-cleaning station

FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Delta Western Fuel . . . . . . . . . 581-1295 North Pacific Fuel . . . . . . . . . . 581-1350 Offshore Systems Inc . . . . . . . 581-1827

DILLINGHAM

AT THE DOCK Deputy Port Director: Scott Brown

Harbor emergency . . . . . . 907-842-1069 Police/fire emergency . . . . . . . . . . . . 911

AMENITIES Electricity . . . . Spit & Light cargo docks

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Potable water city dock, fuel docks and processors .

REPAIR FACILITIES Divers available for underwater surveys and repairs . Most deck, hull, engine, radar, gyro, hydraulic, electrical, refrigeration and marine electronic repairs MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES USCG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-581-3466 Health clinic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . local Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kodiak USCG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kodiak Local police/fire/ambulance *Alaska Ship Supply . . . 907- 581-1284 *Delta Western llc, dba Delta Western Petroleum . . . . . . . . . . . .907-233-2229 *LFS Marine Supplies . . .206-789-8110 *NET Systems Inc . . . . . .206-842-5623 *Discovery Health . . . . . . www .DiscoveryHealthMD .com

EGEGIK

(COFFEE POINT)

City office . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-233-2400 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-233-2231 cityofegegik@starband .net VHF channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES No amenities for 2020 . No Electricity, trash, freshwater, dumpster, or police department MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Clinic: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-233-222

ELFIN COVE VHF channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Fish and game . . . . . . . . . . 907-465-4250 Pollution hot line . . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 AMENITIES Elfin General Store Hydraulic press; hydraulic hoses & fittings .

Commercial fishing gear and clothing .

Grocery store www.nationalfisherman.com

REPAIR FACILITIES Pelican: mechanical repairs; Shipwright: Juneau, Hoonah, Wrangell Sitka or contact David and Susan Abel at 907-957-0837 Welding by Happy Thoughts and by Mike Nelson Fabrication and Repair MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES No medical service available; Hospitals: Juneau or Sitka USCG: Juneau or Sitka

EUREKA

(HUMBOLDT BAY)

Harbor District . . . . . . . . 707-443-0801 District Fax . . . . . . . . . . . 707-443-0800 showser@humboldtbay .org www .humboldtbay .org VHF channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 & 16 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 707) Englund Marine Supply . . . . . . 444-9266 AT THE DOCK Dockmaster: Cory Moores MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES Bar/cafe Electricity/bilge pumpout Feshwater/laundry/showers Work-yard/hoists Pay phones/restrooms Sewage pumpouts HAULOUTS & REPAIR FACILITIES 1-ton and 2-ton hoists Travel lift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 tons MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES (AREA CODE 707) Mad River Comm . Hospital . . . 822-3621 St . Joseph’s Hospital . . . . . . . . 445-8121 USCG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 839-6100 To subscribe, call 1-800-959-5073

EVERETT Port office . . . . . . . . . . . . 425-259-6001 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425-259-0860 Marina@portofeverett .com www .portofeverett .com VHF channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Fish and wildlife . . . . . . . 425-775-1311 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 425) Port fuel dock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388-0689 AT THE DOCK Harbor Attendant: Donna Hospodar MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES Full-service marina Boat repair & supplies Electricity Freshwater Restaurants Light provisions Hotel Showers / Laundry Several pump-a-heads Two dump stations Wifi

MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Clinic Volunteer service Ambulance Medical transport by plane to Anchorage via Cold Bay REPAIR FACILITIES King Cove

FLORENCE (SIUSLAW)

Port of Siuslaw 100 Harbor St .

Florence, OR 97439 www .portofsiuslaw .com port@portofsiuslaw .com Port office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541-997-3426 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541-997-9407 Pollution hot line . . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 RV campground office . . . . 541-997-3040 FUEL DOCK Hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:30 a .m .-3 p .m . daily $10 after-hours surcharge Call 541-999-0736 to request fueling AT THE DOCK Port Manager: David Huntington MOORAGE: Available

MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES (AREA CODE 425) Everett General Hospital . . . . 261-2000 Providence Everett Medical Center Colby Campus . . . . . . . . . . . . 261-2000 Pacific Campus . . . . . . . . . . . . 261-2000

FALSE PASS Port/City Office . . . . . . . . 907-548-2319 Port/City Fax . . . . . . . . . . 907-548-2214 cityoffalsepass@ak .net http://home .gci .net/~cityoffalsepass/ VHF channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 AMENITIES Accommodations 88 vessels 30-120 feet Crab pot storage: Isanotski Corp Freshwater Fuel: False Pass Fuel at City Dock Water: on floats Electricity: $25 hookup and $8/day-

AMENITIES Electricity/freshwater Laundry Restrooms/showers Fuel dock 30- to 50-amp three-phase power on transient dock, Two dump stations REPAIR FACILITIES Winchester Bay MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Peace Harbor Hospital . . 541-997-8412 Western Lane Ambulance Siuslaw Coast Guard station

FORT BRAGG

(NOYO HARBOR DISTRICT)

Port office . . . . . . . . . . . . 707-964-4719 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707-964-4710 Noyohd@yahoo .com Summer 2022 \ National Fisherman 43

PORT LISTINGS

Coho’s Restaurant Fuel service gasoline and diesel Freshwater at floats Showers/laundry June through midSeptember

PORT LISTINGS

VHF channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66-A USCG Noyo River . . . . . . 707-964-6612 Fish and game . . . . . . . . 707-964-9078 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 AT THE DOCK Port Manager: Bill Sanborn

Gigharborguide@cityofgigharbor .net www .gigharborguide .com Fish and game . . . . . . . .206-976-3200 Pollution hotline . . . . . . .800-424-8802 Visitor Information . . . . .253-853-3554 or www .gigharborguide .com MOORAGE: Available

MOORAGE: Available REPAIR FACILITIES Private yard and several shops repair aluminum, glass, wood Engine and electronics repairs Medical/Rescue Facilities Peace Island Med Center 360-378-2141 USCG Bellingham and Port Angeles

GARIBALDI Port office . . . . . . . . . . . . 503-322-3292 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503-322-0029 info@portofgaribaldi .org www .portofgaribaldi .org VHF channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 Fish and game . . . . . . . . 503-842-2741 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 503) Garibaldi Marina . . . . . . . . . . . 322-3312 Tillamook Bay Boathouse . . . . 322-3600 AT THE DOCK Port Manager: Michael Saindon MOORAGE: Available REPAIR FACILITIES Big Tuna Marine . . . . . . .503-349-4892 AMENITIES Freshwater/electricity on guest dock Restrooms/showers Restaurants Dump station MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES USCG: Tillamook Bay Volunteer fire/medical

GIG HARBOR Port office . . . . . . . . . . . .253-851-8136 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . .253-851-8563 44 National Fisherman Summer 2022

AMENITIES 13 net sheds Marine hardware store Restrooms Tavern/restaurants/shops Grocery stores Seasonal trolley June 2-Sept . 7 Visitor center at historic Skansie House Welcome plaza

GOLD BEACH Port office . . . . . . . . . . . .541-247-6269 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . .541-247-6268 Portoffice@portofgoldbeach .com VHF channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Pollution hotline . . . . . . .800-424-8802 AT THE DOCK Port Manager: Andy Wright

AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: Shawn Bell Assistant: 907-314-0640 MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES Electricity Freshwater Pay phone Showers and laundry Ice delivery by the ton REPAIR FACILITIES Two boatbuilders offer repairs MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Doctors and dentist at health center USCG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Juneau *LFS Marine Supplies . . .206-789-8110 *LifeMed Alaska . . . . . 800-478-5433

HOMER Port office . . . . . . . . . . . .907-235-3160 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . .907-235-3152 Port@ci .homer .ak .us http://port .ci .homer .ak .us VHF channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 & 10

MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES Electricity on commercial dock Freshwater/restrooms (no showers) Restaurants/shops on port property MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Curry General Hospital . .541-247-6621 USCG . . . . . . . . . . . . June-September .

HAINES Port office . . . . . . . . . . . .907-766-2448 Cell Phone . . . . . . . . . . .907-314-0173 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . .907-766-3010 VHF channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Fish and game . . . . . . . .907-766-2830 Pollution hotline . . . . . . .800-424-8802 FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Haines Propane . . . . . . . . . . 766-3191 Delta Western Fuel . . . . . . . . 766-3190

FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Homer Fuel Dock . . . . . . . . . 235-8548 Petro Marine Services . . . . . . 235-8818 AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: Bryan Hawkins Ice plant . . . . . . . . . . . . .907-235-3162 Port maintenance . . . . . .907-235-3164 AMENITIES Five-lane boat ramp . . $13 per launch, Launch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $130 24-hour security in harbor Transient float . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,000 feet Electricity Freshwater Laundry and shower facilities Supplies and groceries available REPAIR FACILITIES Numerous local businesses meet marine repair needs (see Homer Marine Trades for a current list at www .homermarinetrades .com) www.nationalfisherman.com

*Kinematics Marine Equipment Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .360-659-5415 *LFS Marine Supplies . . .206-789-8110 *Petro Marine Services. .800-478-7586

HOONAH Port office . . . . . . . . . . . .907-945-3670 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . .907-945-3674 Hoonahharbor@gmail .com VHF channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16, 9, 14 Fish and game (Douglas) 907-465-4250 Fish and wildlife protection 907-945-3620 Pollution hotline . . . . . . .800-424-8802 US Customs (call-in) . . . .907-586-7211 FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Hoonah Trading Fuel . . . . . . 945-3211 VHF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Hill Fuel LLC . . . 945-3125 or 723-6035 AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: Andy Gray

Fiberglass repair General marine services/supply stores Shipwright in town: two portable welders

gglenn@portofilwaco .org

MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Hoonah Medical Center 907-945-2735 Nurse, health aide, community healthand behavioral health-practitioners Dental hygienist and dental assistant Minimal x-ray capabilities Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Juneau Police, Fire and ambulance Department of Public Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .907-945-3655

AMENITIES Bus service Dockside motels Electricity Freshwater Restrooms/public showers Fuel dock Garbage service Shops/galleries / Restaurants Back-in launch

HYDABURG

MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES USCG Ocean Beach Hospital

Port office . . . . . . . . . . . .907-285-3761 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . .907-285-3670 Pollution hotline . . . . . . .800-424-8802

JUNEAU

AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: Wesley Minch AMENITIES Electricity and cable TV access Waste oil/garbage holding disposal cans Crew licenses at general store Water at dock/mooring floats Grocery store, deli, gifts Net-mending on dock-mooring floats Divers Post office

MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES Electricity available in stalls 30 amps . . . . . . . $7 .50 daily minimum 50 amps . . . . . . . . .$20 daily minimum Pressure washer Showers (metered), laundry, Dry storage available Freshwater Waste oil drum . . . . . . . . . . . spring/fall Dumpsters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . spring/fall Crew, sport fishing, and hunting licenses avail at Tideland Tackle Post office Restrooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . spring/fall Vehicle accessdrive-down loading zone Wifi in near future REPAIR FACILITIES Aluminum shop Divers available To subscribe, call 1-800-959-5073

MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Health clinic . . . . . . . . . . 907-285-3462 public safety officer . . . . 907-285-3322 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-401-1249 Ambulance, EMS squad . . . . . .24 hours

ILWACO Port office . . . . . . . . . . . .

Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www .portofilwaco .org Fish and game . . . . . . . .

Pollution hotline . . . . . . .

360-642-3143 360-642-3148 360-976-3200 800-424-8802

FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 360) Ilwaco Fuel Dock . . . . . . . . . . 642-2435 Wilcox Oil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642-3231 AT THE DOCK Port Manager: Guy Glenn Jr .

MOORAGE: Available

Harbor Office . . . . . . . . . 907-586-5255 Harbor Fax . . . . . . . . . . . 907-586-2507 David .Borg@juneau .org www .juneau .org/harbors VHF channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 & 16 USCG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800-478-5555 Fish and game (Douglas) 907-465-4250 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Tesoro Fuel Dock . . . . . . . . . . 586-2402 Delta Western Fuel . . . . . . . . . 586-2800 Donohue’s Marina . . . . . . . . . . 789-7851 Petro Marine Services . . . . . . . 586-4400 Taku Oil Fuel Dock . . . . . . . . . 586-1276 Seadrome Marina . . . . . . . . . . 463-8811 Fisherman’s Bend . . . . . . . . . . 789-7312 AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: Matthew Creswell . . . . . . 907-586-5255 Juneau marine operator . . . . . . . . . . . (ALASCOM) VHF 25 or 26 Port Director: Carl Uchytil 907-586-0292 Carl .Uchytil@juneau .org MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES Electricity and freshwater year-round floats Ice Showers and laundry Summer 2022 \ National Fisherman 45

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EMERGENCY/MEDICAL FACILITIES 110-foot USCG vessel . .907-235-5336 USCG Auxiliary, Rescue 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .907-235-7277 USCG buoy tender . . . . .907-235-5234 Pollution incidents: . . . .907-235-3292 Dentists, doctors in town South Peninsula Hospital 907-235-8101

PORT LISTINGS

REPAIR FACILITIES Minor repair available

Coast Guard station . . . . . . . . . . Kodiak Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Soldotna

MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES USCG Aircraft at Sitka Bartlett Memorial Hospital 907-586-2611 Dentist Private emergency care facility

Cook Inlet . . . . . . . . . . . 907- 283-7222

*Delta Western llc, dba Delta Western Petroleum . . . . . . . . . . . .907-233-2229 *LFS Marine Supplies . . .206-789-8110 *Petro Marine Services . .800-478-7586 *LifeMed Alaska . . . . . 800-478-5433

KAKE Portage Harbor . . . . . . . . 907-785-3804 Harbor Fax . . . . . . . . . . . 907-785-4815 VHF channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16/CB 15 Police Department . . . . . 907-785-3393 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Kake Tribal Fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . 785-3601 Processor (toll-free) Kake Foods Inc . . . . . . . . . 800-524-2487 AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: Les Peterson MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES Hotels Rooms and showers Grocery stores / Laundry REPAIR FACILITIES Gunnuck Creek Mechanics MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Ambulance and clinic (Kake EMS)

KENAI City of Kenai . . . . . . . . . . 907-283-7535 Harbormaster . . . . . . . . 907-283-8240 www .ci .kenai .ak .us Pollution hotline . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Coast Guard . . . . . . . . . . 907-690-2098 46 National Fisherman Summer 2022

*Petro Marine Services . .800-478-7586 *Discovery Health . . . . . . www .DiscoveryHealthMD .com

KETCHIKAN

KING COVE

Port office . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-228-5632 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-247-3610 Stevec1@city .ketchikan .ak .us www .city .ketchikan .ak .us/ds/ph .html VHF channels . . . . . 16 or 73 (preferred) CG Marine Safety . . . . . . 907-225-4496 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . 800-424-8802

Port office . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-497-2237 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-497-2649 harbor@kingcoveak .org VHF channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . 800-424-8802

FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Anderes Oil Co . . . . . . . . . . . . 225-2163 Petro Alaska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225-1985 *Petro Marine Services . . . . . . 225-2106 AT THE DOCK Steve Corporon, director of port/harbors Dan Berg, senior assistant harbormaster Winter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 a .m .-5 p .m .; Summer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 a .m .-10 p .m .

MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES 120-foot drive-down float at Bar Harbor South 70- by 90-foot fishing gear repair float at Bar Harbor North Electricity . . . Casey Moran Harbor (City Float) Freshwater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . all harbors Showers/laundry REPAIR FACILITIES Two repair yards for aluminum, glass, wooden boats Mobile welding service Electronic, refrigeration, engine, hydraulic repair services available MEDICAL/RESCUE (AREA CODE 907) USCG Search and rescue and emergency Two 110-foot Island Class patrol boats Two 25-foot response boats 47-foot motor life boat Ketchikan Medical Center 225-5171 Medevac flights to Seattle Search and rescue aircraft from Sitka Ambulance Service Fireboat Harry Newell

AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: Charles Mack MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES Churches Taxis Motel, restaurants and bars AA meetings Community library & recreation Electricity, water General store/marine supplies Processor store and cafeteria Vehicle rentals Container handling . . . . .80,000 pounds Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . .Three new acres REPAIR FACILITIES Fiberglass/carpentry/welding MEDICAL/RESCUE (AREA CODE 907) Fire dept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497-2555 King Cove Med . Clinic . . . . . . . 497-2311 Police (non-emergency) . . . . . . 497-2210 EMT rescue squad/health clinic Emergency Medevacs available Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anchorage Volunteer fire department &rescue boat

KODIAK Harbormaster’s office (8 a .m .-5 p .m .

Monday-Friday) . . . . . . . . . 907-486-8080 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-486-8081 (VHF channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 & 16 Wireless Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #6926 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-486-8090 harboremail@city .kodiak .ak .us http://www .city .kodiak .ak .us/ph Kodiak Police Department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-486-8000 www.nationalfisherman.com

907-486-8040 907-486-5918 907-486-1830 907-486-3298 800-424-8802

FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Petro Star d .b .a . Kodiak Oil . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486-3245, VHF 16 & 74 Petro Marine . . . . . . . 486-3421, VHF 10 AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: August 2020 city .kodiak .ak .us Deputy harbormaster: Monte Anderson email: manderson@city .kodiak .ak .us MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES Pier II Fisherman Terminal 925-foot blacktop stage area, Complete web-mending areas Sewage disposal Electricity/potable water on floats Wireless internet Kodiak Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center Marine Supplies Radar repair Safety services Coffee shop/restaurants/fast food Rental car Motels/bed and breakfast Laundry/public restrooms Barber shop Public library, free internet access US Post Office, FedEx and UPS Local museums Movie theatre Cargo/freight shipping and receiving REPAIR FACILITIES Fuller’s Boatyard available for aluminum, glass, wood; lifting capacity 150-200 tons MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Kodiak City Ambulance /EMTs/Fire-rescue USCG station is main base for central and western Alaska Providence Kodiak Island Hospital: 25 beds, ICU and surgery . . . 907-486-3281 Medevac flights available Kodiak Island Medical . . . 907-486-6065 Kodiak Public Health Center To subscribe, call 1-800-959-5073

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-486-3199 Kodiak Island Ambulatory Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-486-6188 Dental /eye clinic in town *Kinematics Marine Equipment Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .360-659-5415 *Kodiak Shipyard . . . . . 907- 486-8080 *NET Systems Inc . . . . . .206-842-5623 *Petro Marine Services. .800-478-7586 *Discovery Health . . . . . . www.DiscoveryHealthMD.com

LA CONNER (PORT OF SKAGIT COUNTY)

Marina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-466-3118 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-466-3119 visitor@portofskagit .com portofskagit .com/la-conner-marina/ VHF channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66A Fish and game . . . . . . . . 206-976-3200 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 360) La Conner Landing . . . . . . . . . 466-4478 AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: Darla Pyke MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES Electricity/freshwater/showers/ laundry Gas/diesel/propane Transportation to/from town RV Park with 68 site REPAIR FACILITIES Full service boatyard MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Medical center . . . . . . . . 360-466-3136 Dentists Health clinic Nearest hospital . . . . . . . Mount Vernon USCG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bellingham

LA PUSH

(QUILEUTE MARINA)

VHF channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Fish and game . . . . . . . . 206-976-3200 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: Jene Ewan MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES Electricity/freshwater Pay phones Showers/restrooms/laundry room (R .V . Park and store) Sewage pumpout New boat ramp New fuel, waste-oil facility Dock carts Lonesome Creek Store Beach front cabins, hotel, campgrounds Ocean Park Resort River’s Edge Restaurant MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Coast Guard, Quillayute River Station

METLAKATLA Harbor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-886-4646 Harbor Fax . . . . . . . . . . . 907-886-7997 VHF channels . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 and 80 Fish and game (Ketchikan) . . . . . . . . . .

907-225-5195 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Annette Island Gas Services . . . 886-7851 AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: Anthony Gogert . . . . . . . 907-886-4646 MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES Electricity: . . . . . . . . . $5/day for visitors Freshwater Pay phone at grocery store Police station MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Annette Island Service Unit Metlakatla Volunteer Fire Dept .

Port office . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-374-5392 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-374-6311 Summer 2022 \ National Fisherman 47

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Kodiak Fire Department .

USCG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Fish and game Commercial fisheries . . .

NOAA/NMFS . . . . . . . . .

Pollution hotline . . . . . . .

PORT LISTINGS

MOSS LANDING Harbor Operations . . . . . . . 831-633-2461 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831-633-4537 mcintyre@mosslandingharbor .dst .ca .us www .mosslandingharbor .dst .ca .us VHF channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 & 16 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: Tommy Razzeca MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES Fuel dock/groceries Laundromat/showers/restrooms Yacht club Post office/ Six-lane launch ramps Liquor store/restaurants Six-pack fishing/nature tours/whale watching/kayak rentals Bilge/sewage pumpout/waste oil facility Fresh fish sales off boats REPAIR FACILITIES Electronics/hydraulics Stainless welder MEDICAL/RESCUE (AREA CODE 831) Salinas Valley Memorial . . . . . 757-4333 Community Hospital . . . . . . . . 624-5311 USCG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647-7303 Watsonville Community Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724-4741

NAKNEK/ KING SALMON Port office . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-246-6168 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-246-3493 herk@bbbak .us www .bristolbayboroughak .us/administration/port/index .html VHF channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 Fish and game . . . . . . . . 907-246-3341 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 48 National Fisherman Summer 2022

FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Bristol Bay Contractors . . . . . . 246-3360 Crowley Marine Services . . . . 246-4421 Delta Western Fuel . . . . . . . . . 246-6174 Worldwide Fuel . . . . . . . . . . . 246-3835 AT THE DOCK Port Foreman: Jeremy Kern AMENITIES Cargo/freight shipping and receiving, including vessels and gear, is available to and from western Alaska, Anchorage, Seattle, Dutch Harbor and Japan Commercial ice machine Groceries, Hotels, restaurants & bars, hotels, Repairs Freshwater, restrooms, showers & laundry Public swimming pool & other recreation REPAIR FACILITIES Businesses located in town for repair MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Naknek Clinic, USCG Native health clinic in Naknek, Police, ambulance, fire department *Delta Western llc, dba Delta Western Petroleum . . . . . . . . . . . .907-233-2229 *Kinematics Marine Equipment Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .360-659-5415 *Discovery Health . . . . . . www .DiscoveryHealthMD .com

NEAH BAY (MAKAH MARINA)

Port office . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-645-3015 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-645-3016 Tribal center . . . . . . . . . . 360-645-2201 www .makah .com VHF channels . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 and 66 Fish and game . . . . . . . . 206-976-3200 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 360) Makah Fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645-2749 Big Salmon Resort . . . . . . . . . 645-2374 AT THE DOCK Port director: Bill Parkin MOORAGE: Available

AMENITIES Freshwater, electricity Pump-outs General store Restrooms/showers Cultural museum . . . . . . . . . . 645-2711 U .S . Post Office . . . . . . . . . . . 645-2325 Camping and hookups available Waterfront espresso and ice cream, local cafes, pizza shops, & gift and clothing shops MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES USCG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645-2236 Neah Bay Police . . . . . . . . . . . 645-2701 Public Health Clinic . . . . . . . . 645-2233 Helicopter and ambulance

NEWPORT Port office . . . . . . . . . . . . 541-265-7758 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541-265-4235 www .portofnewport .com VHF channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 Fish & Wildlife . . . . . . . . 541-867-4741 Pollution hot line . . . . . . 800-424-8802 FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 541) Carson Oil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336-2512 Port Dock 5 Fuel Dock . . . . . . 265-6923 Hockema Coast Oil . . . . . . . . 265-5111 PMK Distributing . . . . . . . . . . 335-3836 AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: Kent Gibson MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES Electricity/freshwater Restrooms/showers Phone/Service dock HOIST DOCK SERVICES Dock hoists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Forklifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 REPAIR FACILITIES Riverbend Moorage Yaquina Boat Equipment Port of Toledo Boat Yard Kevin Hill Marine MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Pacific Communities Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541-265-2244 www.nationalfisherman.com

NOME Port office . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-443-6619 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-443-5473 port@nomealaska .org www .nomealaska .org VHF channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 & 16 Fish and game . . . . . . . . 907-443-5167 Pollution hot line . . . . . . 800-424-8802 FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Bonanza Fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443-2561 Crowley Marine Services . . . . 443-2219

Ice Laundry Showers Internet MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES 21-foot search and rescue vessel Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . Sitka or Juneau USCG vessels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Juneau USCG aircraft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sitka Pelican Health Clinic . . . . 907-735-2250

PETERSBURG

MOORAGE: Available

Port office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-772-4688 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-772-4687 Harbor@ci .petersburg .ak .us petersburg .org/visitors/ports .html VHF channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 and 16 USCG Anacapa . . . . . . . . . 907-772-4235 Fish and game . . . . . . . . . . 907-772-3801 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . . . 800-424-8802

AMENITIES Fuel (via truck)

FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Petro Marine . . . . . . VHF 16 or 772-4251

REPAIR FACILITIES Welding/repair shops

AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: Glorianne Wollen gwollen@petersburgak .gov Harbor office open 24 hours

AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: Lucas Stotts LStotts@nomealaska .org

MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Fire/ambulance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .911 Norton Sound Hospital . . 907-443-3311

PELICAN City of Pelican . . . . . . . . . 907-735-2202 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-735-2258 cityhall@pelicancity .org www .pelican .net VHF channels . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 and 10 Fish and game (Douglas) 907-465-4250 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Pelican Fuel Dock . . . . . . . . . . . 735-2211 AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: Linda Ady MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES Restaurant, bars, library To subscribe, call 1-800-959-5073

MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES Electricity . . . . . . . . . . berths > 17 feet Freshwater . . . . . . . . . . . loading zones Laundry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .town Showers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . harbor REPAIR FACILITIES 180- x 16-foot float for working on gear Dockside welding and repair facilities for steel, aluminum, fiberglass and wood Machine shops and electronic repairs MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Petersburg Hospital . . . . 907-772-4291 Dental USCG vessels / USCG (Sitka) Petersburg Hospital MedEvac *Petro Marine Services . .800-478-7586

PORT ANGELES Port office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-457-4505 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-457-4921 pamarina@olypen .com Fish and game . . . . . . . . . . . 206-976-3200 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 FUEL SUPPLIER Port Angeles Marine . . . . . . . . . 457-4505 AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: Chuck Faires MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES Diesel fuel/gasoline Laundry/showers / Freshwater 30-, 50- and 100-amp shore power Free wifi REPAIR FACILITIES Aluminum, glass, wood, engines, electronics MEDICAL/RESCUE (AREA CODE 360) Olympic Memorial Hospital . . 417-7000 USCG, Dental

PORT TOWNSEND Port office . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-385-6211 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-385-3988 info@portofpt .com | www .portofpt .com VHF channels . . . . . . . . . . 66A, 09 & 16 Fish and game . . . . . . . . 206-976-3200 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 AT THE DOCK Business manager: T .J . Quandt Yard manager: Terry Khile MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES Freshwater/electricity Sewage pumpout Fuel Showers/laundry Summer 2022 \ National Fisherman 49

PORT LISTINGS

USCG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541-265-5381 Pacific West Ambulance . . . . 541-265-3175

PORT LISTINGS

REPAIR FACILITIES About 100 private businesses repair aluminum, glass, wood, steel,engines and electronics MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES USCG Dental Jefferson General Hospital 360-385-2200 Emergency and general surgery, will stabilize and evacuate severe cases

VHF channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,16 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) North Pacific Fuel . . . . . . . . . . 546-3145 Saint Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546-2404 AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: Jason Merculief jason@stpaulak .com MOORAGE: Available

*Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-Op . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .360-385-2355

SAINT GEORGE City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-859-2263 x5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-859-2261 City fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-859-2212 VHF channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9, 12 & 16 Fish& game (Dutch Harbor)907-581-1239 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) St . George Delta Fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 859-2456 or VHF 68 MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES General store, Pot storage, Electricity/, Hotel, Fuel, Electricity/water service (VHF Channel 9) Diving services: Bone’s Diving 859-2204 Water and fish waste outfall . . . .all docks REPAIR FACILITIES Hydraulics, diesel, diving, welding MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES St . George Island Clinic . 907- 859-2254 24-hour emergency medical technician Clinic Search and rescue . . . . . . . . . . . Kodiak Village Public Safety Officer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-859-2415

SAINT PAUL Port office . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-546-3140 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-546-2451 50 National Fisherman Summer 2022

AMENITIES Electricity/water/fuel . . . . . South Dock REPAIR FACILITIES Contact harbormaster MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Department of Public Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-546-3130 St . Paul Clinic . . . . . . . . . 907-546-8300 *Discovery Health . . . . . . www.DiscoveryHealthMD.com

SAND POINT Harbor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-383-2331 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-383-5611 VHF channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 and 16 Fish and game (Summer) 907-383-2066 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . 800-424-8802

MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Health clinic . . . . . . . . . . . 907-383-3151 Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anchorage

SAN FRANCISCO Port offices . . . . . . . . . . . 415-274-0533 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415-274-0628 www .sfport .com VHF channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 & 80 USCG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415-399-3451 Fish and game . . . . . . . . 650-688-6340 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 415) Clipper Yacht Co . (Sausalito) 332-3500 San Francisco Marine . . . . . . . 673-2928 AT THE DOCK Harbormasters . . . . . . . . . . . . 274-0513 Anita Yao . . . . . .Anita .Yao@sfport .com Brandon Chapman Chapman@sfport .com MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES Fuel dock: water, ice available Oil recycling, Hotels, restaurants REPAIR FACILITIES Boatyards and numerous marine services

AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: Richard Kochuten Sr .

MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Numerous hospitals and clinics USCG

MOORAGE: Available

SEATTLE

AMENITIES Ice and fuel at Trident Storage space . . . . 75 vessels to 40 feet Work space available 58 feet and under Two marine supply stores Four restaurants, 20-room hotel, bar Electricity, freshwater at floats Laundry/showers General store, specialty shops Wireless Internet at floats REPAIR FACILITIES Fiberglass repair; carpenter shop marine electronics repair (seasonal) small engine repair, two welding shops

Fishermen’s Terminal . . . 206-787-3395 Terminal Fax . . . . . . . . . . 206-787-3393 www .portseattle .org VHF channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Fish and game . . . . . . . . 206-976-3200 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 206) Ballard Oil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783-0241 Covich-Williams Co . Inc . . . . . 784-0171 Crowley Marine Services . . . . 443-8100 Rainier Petroleum Corp . . . . . 623-3480 Shilshole Texaco . . . . . . . . . . . 783-7555 Time Oil Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285-2400 www.nationalfisherman.com

MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES Crab pot lifters Dockside hoist Electricity/water at all docks Forklifts Mobile power blocks Net repair areas Retail and restaurant tenants Short-term crab pot storage Short-term gear staging Showers Now accepting commercial vessels in addition to active fishing vessels MEDICAL Swedish Medical/Ballard . . . 782-2700 *LFS Marine Supplies . . .206-789-8110 *Port of Seattle . . . . . . .206-787-3223 *Discovery Health . . . . . . www .DiscoveryHealthMD .com

REPAIR FACILITIES Minor repairs; major in Homer MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Seldovia Health Clinic . . .907-234-7825 Maritime Emergency . . .800-478-5555 Volunteer Fire Department (Emergency) . . . . 911 or 907-234-7812 Hospital/ USCG . . . . . . . . . . . . Homer *Petro Marine Services . .800-478-7586

SEWARD Port office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-224-3138 Port fax: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-224-7187 harbormaster@cityofseward .net www .cityofseward .net/harbor VHF channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 USCG Marine Safety . . . . . . 907-271-6700 USCG Mustang . . . . . . . . . . 907-224-5202 Fish and game . . . . . . . . . . . 907-224-3935 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Petro Marine Services . . . . . . . 224-3190 Shoreside Petroleum Inc . . . . . 224-8040

SELDOVIA

AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: Norm Regis . . 224-3138

Port office . . . . . . . . . . . .907-234-7886 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . .907-234-7430 Harbormaster@cityofseldovia .com info@cityofseldovia .com VHF channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 & 10 Fish and game (Homer) .907-235-8191 Pollution hotline . . . . . . .800-424-8802

AMENITIES Freshwater Showers at harbormaster office Laundry nearby Two launch ramps Nearby restaurants, bars, hotels

FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Seldovia Fuel and Lube . . . . 234-7622 or VHF channel 16 AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: Layla Jandt-Pederson Mobile: 907-202-3393 MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES Electricity/freshwater Haulout and wash down facility Fenced vessel storage Laundry in town/showers

REPAIR FACILITIES Aluminum, glass, wood, engine repair Boat owners may do their own repair or hire service at city haulout yard, except on the Syncrolift .

MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Ambulance service, EMTs Dentist Providence Seward . . . . 907-224-5205): MedEvac LifeFlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800-478-9111

SITKA Harbor Department . . . . . . . 907-747-3439

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Harbor fax: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-747-6278 www .cityofsitka .com VHF channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Air Station (emergency) . . . . 907-966-5401 USCG Marine Safety . . . . 907-966-5454 Commercial Fish Dev . . . 907-747-6688 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Petro Marine Services . . . . . . . 747-3414 Delta Western Inc . . . . . . . . . . 747-4999 AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: Stan Eliason stan@cityofsitka .com Deputy harbormaster: Charles Hackett MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES Freshwater Laundry/showers Transient space . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000 feet Berths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,317 Work float with power REPAIR FACILITIES Two repair yards for aluminum/glass/wood MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES USCG Dental Sitka Community Hospital . . . 747-3241 *LFS Marine Supplies . . .206-789-8110 *Petro Marine Services . .800-478-7586

SKAGWAY Small boat harbor . . . . . . 907-983-2628 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-983-3087 VHF channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16/9 Fish and game (Douglas) 907-465-4250 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Petro Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 983-2259 AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: Matt O’Boyle m .oboyle@skagway .org MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES Summer 2022 \ National Fisherman 51

PORT LISTINGS

AT THE DOCK Fishermen’s Terminal . . . 206-787-3395 Maritime Industrial Center206-787-3395 Manager: Rut Perez-Studer

PORT LISTINGS

Electricity/freshwater Showers/restrooms/pressure washer Space for water and power for people to work on their boats MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Clinic with 2 physician's assistants Dentist available every 6-8 weeks Volunteer EMS squad *LFS Marine Supplies . . .206-789-8110 *Petro Marine Services . .800-478-7586 *LifeMed Alaska . . . . . 800-478-5433

TACOMA Port office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253-383-5841 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253-593-4570 www .portoftacoma .com VHF channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Fish and game . . . . . . . . . . . 206-976-3200 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: Tacoma Fire Dept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253-591-5065 Managed by City Marina: Steve Morrison . . . . . . . . 253-572-2524

REPAIR FACILITIES Juneau and Sitka MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Rescue/fire: 27-foot Munson landing craft Boston Whaler search and rescue boat Helicopter pad USCG Juneau USCG Medical Sitka

THORNE BAY Harbormaster . . . . . . . . . . . 907-965-4138 City office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-828-3380 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-828-3374 harbormaster@thornebay-ak .gov VHF channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 AMENITIES Electricity/showers/water Laundry/pay phones/ Two 3 concrete washdown pads at travel lift with power & water Eight 20- x 60-foot concrete maintenance pads with/power & water service Used oil collection

MOORAGE: Available

REPAIR FACILITIES Repair yard and mobile shop: aluminum, glass, wood

AMENITIES Electricity and freshwater (except city dock) Laundry/cafe

MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES USCG marine safety office907-835-7217 Health clinic . . . . . . . . . . 907-835-4612 Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-835-2249

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Harbor office . . . . . . . . . . 907-835-4981 Harbor Fax . . . . . . . . . . . 907-835-2958 svonbargen@ci .valdez .ak .us www .ci .valdez .ak .us/harbor VHF channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 & 7 USCG Marine Safety . . . . 907-835-4791 Fish and game (Cordova) 907-424-3212 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . 800-424-8802

AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: Dan Martin Harbor billing clerk: Beret Barnes MOORAGE: Available

FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) North Pacific Fuel . . . . . . . . . . 835-4850 Crowley Petroleum . . . . . . . . . 835-5009

MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES Electricity/showers/water Two 3 concrete washdown pads at travel lift with power & water Eight 20- x 60-foot concrete maintenance pads with/power & water service AIR TRANSPORT Ravn Alaska . . . . . . . . . . 907-835-2636 MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES USCG marine safety office907-835-7217 Health clinic . . . . . . . . . . 907-835-4612 Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-835-2249 *Discovery Health . . . . . . www .DiscoveryHealthMD .com

WARRENTON City office . . . . . . . . . . . . 503-861-3822 Marina fax . . . . . . . . . . . . 503-861-2370 harboroffice@ci .warrenton .or .us VHF channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: Jane Sweet MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES Vessel storage Electricity/freshwater Groceries/restaurants Laundry Net-mending yard Restrooms/showers REPAIR FACILITIES Adjacent to Marina-Warrenton MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES USCG air station Lifeboat station at the mouth of Columbia First responder medical aid

WESTPORT

(PORT OF GRAYS HARBOR MARINA)

AMENITIES Non-potable water at fuel dock Bottled water at general store 52 National Fisherman Summer 2022

AT THE DOCK Port Director: Jeremy Talbot Harbormaster: Sarah Von Bargen

Port office . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-533-9562 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360-612-0674 www.nationalfisherman.com

FUEL SUPPLIERS Masco Petroleum . . . . . . 360-268-0076 AT THE DOCK Marina Manager: Jeremy Plummer rleraas@portgrays.org Operations manager: Jeremy Plummer MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES Electricity/freshwater Launch ramp for net/gear repair Showers/laundry Restaurants/groceries Bus service countywide REPAIR FACILITIES Steel, aluminum, glass, engines, hydraulics, electronics Vessel haulouts up river (Hoquiam) MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES USCG lifeboat station Dental / Hospitals

Medical/rescue Facilities Clinic with physician’s assistant, EMTs

WINCHESTER BAY

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Marina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541-271-3407 Marina Fax . . . . . . . . . . . 541-271-2060 salmonh@co.douglas.or.us Port of Umpqua . . . . . . . 541-271-2232 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . 800-424-8802 AT THE DOCK Harbor Manager: Paul Stallard MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES Electricity/freshwater Restrooms/showers Fuel Sewer pumpout and dump East Basin 3-lane launch ramp West Basin 2-lane launch ramp MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Coast Guard Lower Umpqua Hospital

Groceries Public swimming pool / showers 32-foot x 80-foot work float Dockside hoist . .2-ton limit, 4 locations All-tide launch with floating dock at Heritage Harbor Tidal grid, Shoemaker four 50-foot vessels Tidal grid, Reliance 40-foot vessel REPAIR FACILITIES 330-ton haul out Do-it-yourself boat yard Skilled shipwrights available MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES USCG vessel . . . . . . . . . . . . . Petersburg USCG aircraft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sitka Dental / Hospital *Petro Marine Services . .800-478-7586

YAKUTAT Port office . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-410-7306 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-784-3281 VHF channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Fish and game . . . . . . . . 907-784-3255 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . 907-410-7306 FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Delta Western Fuel 784-3311 or VHF 12

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Port office. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-472-2327 Port fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-472-2472 harbormaster@whittieralaska.gov www.whittieralaska.gov VHF channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 and 68 Pollution hotline. . . . . . . . . . 800-424-8802

Port office . . . . . . . . . . . . 907-874-3736 harbor@wrangell.com www.wrangell.com VHF channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Fish and game . . . . . . . . 907-874-3822 Pollution hotline . . . . . . . 800-424-8802

FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Shoreside Petroleum Inc. . . . . . 472-2314

FUEL SUPPLIERS (AREA CODE 907) Petro Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 874-3276

REPAIR FACILITIES Fiberglass, wood, and welding

AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: David Borg

AT THE DOCK Harbormaster: Steve Miller Email: smiller@wrangell.com

MEDICAL/RESCUE FACILITIES Health center . . . . . .907-784-3275/3391 nearest Coast Guard facilities at Sitka nearest hospital Juneau or Sitka

MOORAGE: Available

AT THE DOCK (AREA CODE 907) Harbormaster: Erving Grass . . . 784-3491 MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES Freshwater Electrical hookups$5/day

MOORAGE: Available AMENITIES Electricity/freshwater/ Showers REPAIR SERVICES Marine services available To subscribe, call 1-800-959-5073

AMENITIES Electricity/ Wifi / freshwater Moorage Sewer pumpout at Reliance and Heritage Hotel

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PORT LISTINGS

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