Fishing Back When

By Jessica Hathaway

1971— “You have to go out, but you don’t have to come back,” is the unof cial motto of the Coast Guard Lifeboat Service. A 52foot lifeboat rolls over in the surf and rights itself during training in Charleston, Ore.

On the cover: The 86-foot tender

Kvichak goes aground at Dry Bay in central Alaska. The captain and crew of three were rescued off the beach. Owner New England Fish Co. salvaged the electronics and then sold the power scow to a local sherman for salvage. Harold “Tot” Pond’s 35-footer Fleetwood is scuttled at the dock in South Bristol, Maine. The brand-new “deluxe” lobster boat is valued at $20,000 to $25,000 and has yet to haul a pot. Point Judith, R.I., sherman James McCauley takes delivery of a new 83foot stern trawler, the Alliance.

On the cover: Dungeness shing in

Alaska on the 36-foot longliner and crabber F/V Sue Ann.

The Lady Maryland Foundation has developed a program that introduces inner city kids to the marine trades industry, helping them learn to restore wooden skipjacks for the Chesapeake oyster eet. Federal regulators respond to a call from the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas for a reduction in sword sh quotas with a 35 percent cut. Florida lobstermen celebrate a ve-year effort to pass a state management bill.

On the cover: Shrimp boats take part in the blessing of the eet on Bayou Little Caillou, La. A year after the BP oil spill, shermen report discoloration and sores in red snapper and related species. Though local shrimpers are nding clean catches, the markets have yet to bounce back.

Blake Painter relaunches the 58-foot Tradition, a 20-year-old Fred Wahl Marine Construction-built longliner and tender, from an overhaul at Astoria Marine Construction in Astoria, Ore. The launch was just in time to head north to Bristol Bay for tendering.