National Fisherman December 2017

2017 HIGHLINER ISSUE DECEMBER 2017

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I N F O R M E D F I S H E R M E N • P R O F I TA B L E F I S H E R I E S • S U S TA I N A B L E F I S H

Committed to their industry

George Eliason Sitka, Alaska

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CONTENTS

ON THE COVER: Our 2017

Committed to their industry

Background photo by Joseph Barrientos George Eliason

Features/ Boats&Gear

Bruce Schactler

Bob Dooley

Sitka, Alaska

Kodiak, Alaska

Half Moon Bay, Calif.

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On Deck

30 2017 HIGHLINERS

10 DOCK TALK

We recognize George Eliason, Bob Dooley and Bruce Schactler as our 2017 Highliners.

With the Codfather behind bars for nearly four years, what will become of his fleet and coveted groundfish permits?

Incorporating

I N F O R M E D F I S H E R M E N • P R O F I TA B L E F I S H E R I E S • S U S TA I N A B L E F I S H

From left to right: George Eliason, Bob Dooley and Bruce Schactler.

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40 THE TRIAL

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Highliner Award winners.

Grundéns is ready to take a stand with fishermen to protect Bristol Bay from Pebble Mine.

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Can a Magnuson-Stevens Act update effectively manage multispecies stocks?

42 GET IN LINE

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EDITOR’S LOG

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FISHING BACK WHEN

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MAIL BUOY

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CHRIS OLIVER

48 EXPO PREVIEW

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NORTHERN LIGHTS

Our guide to product launches, leading exhibitors and mustsee speakers at this year’s Pacific Marine Expo.

16 AROUND THE COASTS

It started off as a one-off boat, but the waiting list shows that the Mussel Ridge 46 is one of Maine’s hottest hulls.

54 AROUND THE YARDS Maine boat made to fit owner; keeping wooden boats fishing; building with fiberglass in Md.

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20 CREW SHOT OF THE MONTH 26 MARKET REPORTS » 40

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60 PRODUCT ROUNDUP

Tagging tuna in Ogunquit, Maine 76

Norwegian map leader moves to add 4-D compatibility; new clip-on transducer will help manage sonar signals

READER SERVICES

66 CLASSIFIED 69 ADVERTISER’S INDEX Table of Contents:

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What do you have to lose?

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everal years ago, I was taking regular calls from Bruce Schactler about the National Seafood Marketing Coalition. It was a proposal he and Julie Decker — both prolific Alaskan fisheries leaders and commercial fishermen — spearheaded to reappropriate a small slice of the Saltonstall-Kennedy funds. The S-K act devoted federal funds to the marketing, promotion and innovation of U.S. seafood and seafood products.

However, the majority of those funds are now used primarily to fund collegiate research in the name of fisheries science, though the studies may or may not be applicable to fisheries management.

Jessica Hathaway I thought the marketing coalition was a great Editor in Chief idea. (I still do.)

Supporters met several times and tried to rally congressional support for the legislation through phone calls, letters and visits to Washington. But the bill got trapped in the Dead Zone that is Capitol Hill.

Here we are, several congressional sessions later, and the initiative is getting renewed energy. It’s been reworked, rewritten and renamed as the American Fisheries Advisory Act, which would establish an advisory committee to approve proposals for seafood marketing and innovation using the exact same funds (read my lips: No new taxes!) earmarked decades ago for exactly this purpose.

Broad and sustained marketing will grow value and domestic demand for U.S. seafood, help create new product forms, improve quality, increase jobs related both directly and indirectly to the industry, and raise additional tax revenue at the local, state and federal levels.

If you’re attending Pacific Marine Expo this year, you can reach out to Schactler or Julianne Curry to sit down with them and share your thoughts on the topic. You can also read more about Schactler and his fellow 2017 Highliners, Bob Dooley and George Eliason, on page 30.

On the other side of the coin, our fisheries are facing many difficult days ahead on every coast. Once again, the prospect of Pebble Mine is rearing its dirty head in Bristol Bay (read more on pages 10 and 20). The Gulf of Mexico red snapper fishery faces a possible federal conspiracy to allow the recreational sector to overfish (page 16). And the northeast groundfish fleet faces an uncertain future after the Supreme Court declined on a technicality to hear a case filed by David Goethel, a New Hampshire fisherman, former council member and 2004 NF Highliner (page 18).

These battles are years old already, and the people who fight them are energized yet weary. You can show your support for them by calling your representatives on Capitol Hill and in your industry associations. Whether your fishery is state managed (as is the case in Bristol Bay) or federally managed (like the snapper fishery and New England groundfish fleets), your voice is critical to the future of the industry.

As we saw in our efforts to pass a seafood marketing bill that didn’t cost a dime, it is an uphill battle to voice the concerns of the fishing and seafood industries. We have to be in this fight together, even just to maintain the meager ground we have. Otherwise, the people with the power and the funds to lobby Congress will divide and conquer.

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ON DECK | NF CLASSICS

Fishing Back When 1967

December

Shrimping is coming on strong as one of Alaska’s leading fisheries, with Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologists predicting the fleet will break the 100 million pound production figure in 1968. “Our shrimps may not be gold, but they bring a good solid medium of exchange,” said processor Chet Metcalf.

50 YEARS AGO

• The new $4 million Booth Fisheries processing plant in Portsmouth, N.H., is the largest and most modern of its kind in the industry and will be the focal point of the company’s worldwide operations.

• Maine lobstermen look back at one of the poorest seasons in years with high prices and low catches. And next year is looking even worse, with state officials predicting catches to fall to 15 million, making it the worst season in 20 years.

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With the pressures of ever-shorter seasons and more fishermen on the grounds, Washington’s gillnetters have turned to freeway commuting to take advantage of shifting season openings. To make an opening, they load their 20- to 28-footers onto trailers and hit Highway 101.

30 YEARS AGO

• For the past five years, most repowering jobs on the West Coast have been performed to boost horsepower for midwater trawling and the desire for a

more fuel-efficient plant.

• With a record catch of 500,000 king salmon, Oregon officials are calling 1987 the Year of the Chinook. “Good things are happening everywhere we look,” said fisheries chief Harry Wagner.

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2007 • Eight die-offs YEARS reported in the AGO lower reaches of the New YorkNew Jersey harbor prompts calls for more water testing. Despite the die-offs, fishermen say there are more menhaden than usual this year.

The NF staff salutes Dave Bitts of McKinleyville, Calif.; Eric Jordan of Sitka, Alaska; and Kaare Ness of Shoreline, Wash., recognizing them as a new class of Highliners for their successes in and contributions to the fishing industry and their communities.

• A fleet of 25 boats dumped 16,000 gallons of poison into Lake Davis near Portola, Calif., as part of a lastditch effort to rid the lake of the invasive, voracious northern pike.

— Samuel Hill

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Trust is gained through truth

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he once strong and proud New England fishing industry has become a weak and splintered group.

What is left squabbles over the scraps that dribble down through regulation and special interests.

Regulation is needed. Without it, opportunists from outside and within would surely take advantage and destroy all the good that’s been done. But it also needs to be tempered with common sense.

In a previous letter, I said that with the regulations in effect and the lack of fishing effort, it’s hard to believe overfishing can occur. I also spoke of the need for good science.

One evening during a past council meeting, I was sitting in the hotel lounge.There were two people who had been in the audience and a gentleman from the council sitting to my right.

Their conversation was about fisheries science, and the gentleman was touting its infallibility. I introduced myself and was invited to join in. As I expressed my views, the gentleman rebuffed each, again citing science’s infallibility. I asked him what happened to the pollock assessment a few years ago. He said, “In that case a wrong number was used

and…” — I interrupted him and said, “My point.”

Science uses numbers, and numbers are the slave of their users and, in so being, can be made to do their masters’ bidding. I don’t believe there has been any purposeful manipulation by science, but if a person or group have certain beliefs it’s easy to fall into the trap of making the numbers fit that belief. We see it

John Lee

The following letter was read aloud at the September New England Fishery Management Council meeting.

Groundfish stocks are protected, and now it’s time to help the fishermen.

all the time in the news and promotions.

Science uses these suspect numbers in models to predict fish stocks far into the future. I don’t believe any model can mirror nature’s variables, either in the short or long term. We only need to follow the local weather forecasts to see how nature can wreak havoc on models.

She has her own ways. She is the master.

Environmentalism is a cause we should all embrace. In fact, we, being the strongest species, have an obligation to protect the weaker. But here, common sense must also be used. There are many issues on which we can find common ground, but to do this we must have trust, and trust is gained through truth.

Our industry has done much in terms of practices and innovation toward this obligation, yet we are still reviled by environmental leadership. These people do purposefully manipulate numbers to further their interests. I ask myself why.

I hope that the rank and file, the backbone of the cause, will ask why and look past the falsehoods and misrepresentations to seek the truth.

It’s said that we fishermen look at things in the short term, that we’re only interested in the bottom line. If money was my only motivation, then I chose the wrong occupation. And if having studied, through observation, the yearly ups and downs as well as the decadeslong cycles of fish stocks since the 1960s is considered the short term. Well? We Continued on page 14 What’s on your mind? Send letters to jhathaway@divcom.com.

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Technology investments for the future

By Chris Oliver Chris Oliver is the director of the National Marine Fisheries Service.

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in 2016 Congress provided an additional $6.7 million to support implementation of those programs.

In Alaska, electronic monitoring has been integrated into the comprehensive observer program as an alternative option to human observers in some fisheries. In the Northeast, we are currently evaluating electronic monitoring use on midwater trawl vessels in the Atlantic herring and mackerel fisheries until the end of 2017. This industry-supported program will allow us to assess the range of information that can be gathered us-

ing electronic monitoring, determine its comparability to observer data and refine cost estimates. Results are promising, and in April 2017 the New England Fishery Management Council recommended an electronic monitoring portside monitoring program be considered for midwater trawl vessels in the herring fishery in 2018.

Because we want to guide the use of these technologies — and not let them guide us — we will be collaborating with industry partners and regional fishery management councils on thoughtful, region-based solutions to the real-world challenges these technologies can address.

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ON DECK | NORTHERN LIGHTS VIEWS FROM ALASKA

See you in the Alaska Hall By the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute’s mission is to increase the economic value of the Alaska seafood resource.

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or the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, Pacific Marine Expo is an important gathering of Alaska fishermen and industry stakeholders, and one we enthusiastically participate in every year.

Alaska is the predominant source of commercial seafood in the United States and contributes more than 60 percent of the nation’s wild seafood. Since statehood in 1959, Alaska’s commercial fishermen have harvested 169 billion pounds of fish and shellfish, with a first wholesale value of $170 billion

(2016 dollars). It was the opportunity to manage the state’s seafood stocks that served as a critical piece for Alaska statehood, which was obtained just a few years before the first Expo, 50 years ago.

Seafood continues to play a critical role in Alaska’s economy. The seafood industry directly employs nearly 60,000 workers in Alaska each year, which is more than any other private sector industry. Alaska exports more than 1 million metric tons of seafood each year and returns more than $3 billion

in new money into the U.S. economy. It is no surprise that seafood continues to be Alaska’s top foreign export.

Alaska Gov. Bill Walker recently declared October 2017 to be Alaska Seafood Month and Oct. 25 Commercial Fishing Day. The proclamation noted that “the economic and cultural value of Alaska’s fisheries cannot be overstated.”

We couldn’t agree more. ASMI’s mission is to raise the value of Alaska seafood, and the people in our organization work tirelessly in support of that goal. We understand it’s not only about improving the earnings of people already in the industry, which is important, but also about promoting job growth and supporting entire communities throughout Alaska.

As brand managers, our objective is

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to raise the value of the Alaska seafood resource by identifying and promoting the unique attributes of our seafood and compel consumers in restaurants and grocery stores to opt for Alaska because it is always the best choice. One way we do this well is to tell the story of Alaska’s commercial fishing industry, especially harvesters and the families and communities that support them.

While it may seem disparate for a marketing organization to exhibit at a show dominated by marine gear and large displays of the latest in propulsion technology, ASMI plays an important but sometimes unseen role in the commercial fishing industry.

Expo is a critical time for us to visit with our base, to hear from fishermen about what they’re seeing, and to gather more stories. Fishermen know how amazing our seafood is, but that story must be told over and over again in order for consumers to place value on the product.

Today’s media-savvy generation — the seafood buyers of tomorrow — have a taste for quality food and are interested in its source. Photos of harvesting and the unique Alaskan way of life are consistently among our most popular posts on ASMI’s social media channels. We are always looking to share your experiences by expanding our fishermen’s profiles online. Grocery stores and restaurants across the country and the world see the value in telling the stories of individual fishermen because their customers crave that connection. More importantly, these uniquely Alaska experiences are the essence of what sets our brand apart from other places in the world.

ASMI’s town-hall-style fishermen’s meeting, which we have held at Expo for a number of years, serves as a model we have expanded to fishing ports across Alaska. We encourage all Alaska fishermen to stop by our booth in the new Alaska Hall and enroll in our fishermen ambassador program, pick up a copy of our fleet newsletter Wheel Watch, or learn more about serving on an ASMI committee.

No one else can own the word “Alaska.” It’s a big responsibility to stay engaged and tell the story of Alaska’s commercial fishing industry, and we’re up to the task. Come see us at Expo. We bet you’ve got a story we’d like to hear.

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Not in our suspenders

By Mat Jackson Grundéns North America General Manager Mat Jackson weighs in on the proposed Pebble Mine and solidifies the brand’s position on the controversial project in Bristol Bay, Alaska.

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few years ago, I visited the Pebble Partnership’s website and, on the homepage, was greeted by an image of a man wearing a pair of our bibs — the Grundéns logo was front and center.

When I took a closer look, I realized that the bibs, in fact, weren’t Grundéns — our suspenders had been manipulated to appear onto a competitor’s bibs.

I guess they felt like our suspenders, our logo and our brand stood for something.

I immediately emailed Pebble Partnership. Within the hour, the edited photo was gone. During the last two years, I’ve

thought about that moment a lot.

I realized that Grundéns stood for something. The Grundéns name stands for hard work. It stands for family. It stands for fishing. My dad, founder Mike Jackson, has always understood that. He taught me that. The Pebble Partnership attempted to dress themselves in our values even though the organization’s actions ran counter to our beliefs.

At the time, Pebble Mine was effectively dead after our community in Bristol Bay, joined by others, successfully petitioned the EPA to shut it down.

Northern Dynasty, the foreign mining company that led the partnership, had filed suit against the EPA, but its investors had fled.

But Pebble Mine is not dead. Over the winter, Northern Dynasty raised nearly $40 million to relaunch the project. In May, the new administrator of the EPA, Scott Pruitt, struck a deal with Pebble that allowed the partnership a second chance at getting the mine permitted in exchange for withdrawing its lawsuits. Currently, EPA is deciding whether to withdraw its 2014 finding to restrict large-scale mining in the Bristol Bay watershed.

It’s time to speak up.

Grundéns has joined hundreds of other businesses and organizations across the country in a national coalition called Businesses for Bristol Bay. Collectively, these companies recognize that the proposed Pebble Mine is fiscally and socially irresponsible, and its development would undermine the integrity of a fishery valued at $1.5 billion annually, 20,000

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The 2017 commercial fishing season was one of the most profitable in recorded history for the fishermen of Bristol Bay, with more than 37 million salmon harvested and an estimated ex-vessel value over $215 million dollars. In an average year, Bristol Bay produces more than 40 percent of the world’s sockeye salmon supply, providing 1 billion servings of wild, sustainable protein, generating additional revenue for restaurants, retailers and others in the seafood supply chain. Bristol Bay’s pristine wilderness is also an international destination for hunters and anglers, generating millions of dollars each year for outdoor recreation and sporting businesses. Like these companies and industries, Grundéns succeeds when Bristol Bay succeeds.

We aren’t red. We aren’t blue. We are fishing. When bad ideas threaten our livelihood, we are going to stand with our community. We may lose a few customers. Some may tell us to stay out of politics, but this issue comes down to common sense. Ripping a hole in the heart of the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery, a 130-year-old commercial fishing community and threatening American jobs is a bad idea — plain and simple. Bristol Bay, we are in the boat with you.

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Reviving the mixed-stock exception

By David E. Frulla & Anne Hawkins David is a partner with the law firm Kelley Drye & Warren LLP. Anne is an associate in the Washington, D.C., office of Kelley, Drye & Warren LLP.

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his new Congress is seeing renewed efforts to reauthorize the Magnuson-Stevens Act. We’ve expressed skepticism before regarding reauthorization’s prospects. We’d like to be proven wrong, as 10 years’ experience under the 2006 reauthorization act demonstrates the need for reasonable, common sense revisions to this extensive law. Unfortunately, debate and deliberations regarding fisheries legislation have become, in their own way, as polarized as more wellknown legislative efforts, such as those relating to healthcare and immigration.

Indeed, it now seems quaint to recall the 2006 reauthorization passed the Senate by unanimous consent.

It’s not clear to us that the House and Senate, not to mention Republicans and Democrats, can agree on a reauthorization approach, given the current climate.

If the principals ever do opt for the feasible and practical, the mixed-stock exception should merit more legislative attention as a way to inject real-world considerations into the law’s requirement to eliminate overfishing.

It is a rare fisheries scientist who

would contend that all stocks in a multispecies complex are able to be demonstrably abundant simultaneously. Even setting aside ecosystem carrying capacity realities, practical considerations can make it difficult to ensure sufficient data is available to reliably estimate and project all stocks in a complex. One concern involves those stocks for which there is little fishery-dependent data to ground-truth the kind of survey variability that can reasonably be expected from a stock that is relatively less prevalent under virtually any stock condition.

In New England, northern windowpane flounder represents just such a data-poor stock lacking much, if any, catch data to corroborate patchy survey results. Also, as appears to be the case with Georges Bank yellowtail flounder, ecosystem considerations unrelated to high (or even modest) catch levels may produce what surveys show as a depleted stock condition.

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MARCO is now part of Smith Berger! species stock management can cause certain fish to become choke stocks (in the case of windowpane and yellowtail flounders, this applies to both the groundfish and scallop fisheries). Conversely, Georges Bank haddock is fully rebuilt and highly abundant, yet only a small fraction of its annual catch limit is being harvested.

Other examples exist in quota-managed fisheries nationwide.

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It is a rare fisheries scientist who would contend that all stocks in a multispecies complex are able to be demonstrably abundant simultaneously.

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The National Standard 1 Guidelines previously provided a common-sense solution to this problem by relaxing rebuilding requirements for choke stocks. The mixed-stock exception was first implemented in the NS1 Guidelines in 1998 to allow limited overfishing on one stock in a mixed-stock complex if certain conditions were met (that is, if there are net benefits to the nation, no available mitigating measures exist, and mortality would not lead any species to be listed under the Endangered Species Act).

However, following implementation of the Reauthorization Act of 2006, NMFS revised the guidelines in 2009 (and again in 2016) to allow the exception only if a fishery is not overfished and the resulting F rate will not cause the stock to fall below the minimum stock size threshold more than 50 percent of the time over the long term. In practice, this has led to the inability of the exception to be used in any fishery.

The guidelines changed after Congress in 2006 added the word “immediately” to the requirement for when councils must end overfishing. That is, every time a stock falls below the minimum threshold, it will be subject to rebuilding requirements that must end overfishing immediately. NMFS has interpreted the requirement to end overfishing to mean that rebuilding mandates cannot be jeopardized by allowing any continued overfishing on any stock, even if there is no overfishing over a multiyear average and even if the stock’s biomass is not decreasing. This interpretation is not consistent with maintaining a viable mixed-stock exception because it cannot be applied in the situations for which it was intended.

The need for a viable mixed-stock exception has been discussed in passing in this year’s Magnuson reauthorization hearings, but it should become a congressional focus. Perhaps, if nothing else, the House and Senate, Republicans and Democrats, can identify a few core principles around which to build an overdue reauthorization approach. One such principle should be to better calibrate Magnuson’s requirement to end overfishing with functional management considerations, such as ecosystem issues unrelated to fishing, the quality and comprehensiveness of available data, and the need to ensure that choke species do not unduly hamper sensible — that is, flexible and adaptive, while still sustainable — management of multispecies fisheries.

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MAIL BUOY Continued from page 7 know what’s happening out there. And it’s good.

There was a time when this room would have been filled with fishermen trying to work within the system.What a novel idea — industry and management working together. How that has changed.

Because of the mindsets of some, and back door politics of others, we have lost trust in the system. The reason for non-participation that I hear most is, “They have their minds made up already.

Why bother?” I read this now expecting my words will, as they have in the past, fall on deaf ears. This lack of trust falls squarely on the council’s shoulders and can only be remedied by it.

Our industry has been beaten down to a small fraction of what it once was, while the regulatory process has evolved into an industry of its own. In fact, it now dwarfs the industry it was created to regulate. There are more regulators here today than draggers working out of Gloucester.

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New stock assessments are due, and they should reflect what every fisherman, recreational and commercial, is seeing. Several stocks are in good shape, and are getting stronger. Whether on land or in the ocean, nature has never and will never let all species thrive at the same time, and we must always protect the weaker. But just as is done on land, quota can safely be increased on the strong.

For four decades we have all worked hard for the good of the resource. Now it’s time for the council to start working for the future of the industry.

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nternal memos between Earl Comstock, director of Policy and Strategic Planning for Commerce, and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross reportedly show that both men intentionally violated the Magnuson-Stevens Act, knowing that extending the recreational red snapper fishery from three to 42 days this summer would lead to significant 16 NATIONAL FISHERMAN • DECEMBER 2017

overfishing.

“It would result in overfishing of the stock by 6 million pounds (40 percent), which will draw criticism from environmental groups and commercial fishermen,” wrote Comstock, in a June 1 memo to Ross. “However NMFS agrees that this stock could handle this level on a temporary basis.”

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The memos were released as part of an Ocean Conservancy and Environmental Defense Fund lawsuit filed against the Department of Commerce.

“Congress would need to act to prevent reduced catch limits for all fishing sectors next year. This problem will not be able to be addressed through the fishery management system without a change of law,” Comstock said, adding that inevitable overfishing would “put the ball squarely in the court of Congress.”

It is implied in the memos that the overfishing crisis would lead to a Magnuson-Stevens Act reauthorization that leaned toward favoring recreational interests.

“We now have alarming proof that the Department of Commerce knew their decision was illegal, would result in overfishing, and would hurt fishermen by causing significant reductions in fishing

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Starling had sent his wife and 9-yearold daughter packing for the Florida mainland before the storm.

Starling’s boat was pummeled at its Key West berth, but Starling said he is managing despite the damage.

“I’m trying to make the best of everything,” said Starling, a commercial fisherman who dives for lobsters and catches them by hand. “At least it’s running.”

For a week or two after the storm passed, Starling said, the waters were

clear, and he was able to catch and sell some lobsters. While fishing as he can, Starling is also diving for people and recovering lost items.

The fishery overall is suffering, Starling said, but expresses a belief that he and other fishermen will make things work.

“The whole community is pulling together,” he said. “The attitude is we’re not waiting for the government to help. We are going to help ourselves.”

— John DeSantis

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atlantic “The Supreme Court was our last judicial hope to save the centuries-old New England industry.”

— David Goethel, New Hampshire fisherman

Supreme Court turns down at-sea monitoring case

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he Supreme Court has declined to take on New Hampshire fisherman David Goethel’s case challenging NMFS’ decision to force fishermen to bear the costs of a required at-sea monitoring program.

“The Supreme Court was our last judicial hope to save the centuriesold New England industry,” Goethel, a 2004 NF Highliner, said in a statement.

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2015. He’s since been joined by the Northeast Fishery Sector 13, which represents fishermen from Massachusetts to North Carolina.

The cost of at-sea monitoring, estimated to be about $700 for each day a monitor is required, was officially relegated to groundfishermen on March 1, 2016, and the industry has been fighting it since.

The lawsuit was rejected by U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Laplante in July 2016, and a First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel in Boston affirmed that ruling in an appeal this spring.

According to Goethel’s legal representation, the lawsuit has been rejected on a technicality, not merit.

The original suit was filed well after a 30-day deadline for challenging the regulation.

“We had three chances, and not once was our case decided on the merits,” Goethel said in an interview with the Gloucester Daily Times. “I’m bitterly disappointed with the government, and I’m bitterly disappointed with the justice system.”

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After three rejections, attempt to appeal burden of cost fails at highest level

A fisheries observer (left) sorts catch on a Connecticut fishing boat.

In 2016, NMFS reimbursed 85 percent of fishermen’s monitoring costs.

That dropped to 60 percent in 2017.

There has been no announcement whether the agency will reimburse fishermen for costs in 2018.

— Samuel Hill

Maine elver poaching bust yields guilty pleas ‘Elver kingpin’ caught in sting

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wo Maine men pleaded guilty in early October to dealing illegally caught elvers.

William Sheldon, 71, of Woolwich, who was described in a 2013 BuzzFeed profile as the founder of the fishery and an “elver kingpin,” admitted to trafficking more than half a million dollars worth of poached elvers, which can fetch a hefty paycheck in Asian markets.

Timothy Lewis, 46, of Phippsburg also pleaded guilty.

Sheldon, along with roughly a dozen other men allegedly involved in the multimillion-dollar poaching ring, were charged with illegally catching and trafficking elvers caught in New Jersey and Virginia, where there is no legal elver fishery.

According to the Bangor Daily News, over the course of four elver fishing seasons from 2011-14, Sheldon alleg-

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edly bought and sold 281 pounds of poached elvers, worth about $545,000.

The scheme so far, which police named Operation Broken Glass, comprises more than $4 million worth of glass eels collected by 12 convicted poachers.

Sheldon has waived his right to appeal any sentence that includes a prison term of 30 months or less, and under federal guidelines could face a maximum fine of $250,000.

Sheldon is legally licensed to harvest and sell elvers in Maine, where the fishery’s value has boomed in recent years. According to reports, since 2012 the value of Maine’s annual total landings of elvers caught during the 10week fishing season has averaged more than $20 million each year.

Walter McKee, Sheldon’s attorney, said the majority of elvers the harvester has handled over the years have been legal, and illegal operations made up just north of 1 percent of Sheldon’s business.

— Samuel Hill

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t is a rare day when lobsterman Cyrus Sleeper is on dry land. Growing up in South Thomaston, Maine, Sleeper has logged countless hours on the Atlantic Ocean — at first banding lobster alongside his dad as a 9-yearold. By the time he was 10, Sleeper had managed to save enough money to buy his own boat and haul 30 traps by hand.

Almost two decades later, Sleeper, 28, has 800 traps, which he hauls on the 42-foot Centerfold. “It’s my sixth boat,” he laughs, “but I don’t think it’s my final boat.”

Even though he might still be considered a young gun, Sleeper has his finger on the pulse on Maine’s most valuable commercial fishery, which topped $533.1 million in 2016 and made up more than 70 percent of the state’s total commercial fishery value.

“I think the culture that we’ve fostered in Maine, in terms of giving locals the leg up with licenses, is something that fishermen here hold quite dearly,” he said. “We want to get kids into the lobster fishery and

have the opportunity to stay in their communities.”

For three years, Sleeper has served on the board of the Maine Lobster Marketing Collaborative, which cultivates new markets and is funded by license fees. “I saw it as an opportunity to try something new and help the industry,” he said.

In this capacity, Sleeper has visited chefs around the country to educate them on new-shell lobster and tell the story of Maine lobster. “People want to know where their food is coming from,” he said. “The trend is definitely toward dock-to-table, particularly for millennials, who are obsessed about food.”

At every opportunity, Sleeper continues to spread the word about his product.

“I find when I talk to chefs and media outside of Maine, they don’t realize that Maine lobster is not just one big company, but almost 5,000 small businesses and their families,” he said. “That’s something I’m proud of — being my own boss.”

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alaska&pacific “Everyone loved Adrian. The whole town of Anchorage is mourning.”

— Brian MacKinnon, friend of Adrian Murfitt

Adrian Murfitt, 35, was at the festival after a big summer season in Chignik

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drian Murfitt, a 35-year-old fisherman from Anchorage, Alaska, died in his friend’s arms after he was shot during the mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas on Sunday, Oct. 1.

“Sadly he died in my arms,” wrote Brian MacKinnon under a Facebook photo of himself with Murfitt at the concert.

The two friends had been sitting at an Anchorage sports bar just weeks before when Murfitt bought tickets for the

concert MacKinnon had wanted to attend.

Avonna Murfitt, Adrian’s mother, said he had just finished a summer of fishing in Chignik and that it was “one of the best years they’ve ever had.”

Murfitt and MacKinnon were in the crowd close to the stage when gunman Stephan Paddock started shooting at the concert from a nearby hotel window.

Murfitt was struck and killed.

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know — one of the kindest people on the planet. He could hold his own of course, but he was against conflict, always one to try to resolve things peacefully,” said MacKinnon. “He had this laugh… you could be furious at him or having a terrible day and his laugh would light up the place, make everything bad go away.”

“Everyone loved Adrian. The whole town of Anchorage is mourning,” he added.

The attack left at least 527 people injured and 59 dead, including Paddock, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot.

— Samuel Hill

Bristol Bay suits up for next battle in mine fight EPA chief met with Pebble in May

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he battle cry to save Alaska’s Bristol Bay is hitting a resounding roar yet again as the world’s most prolific salmon fishery faces a renewed threat from Pebble Mine.

Shortly after a documented meeting with representatives from Pebble Limited Partnership, EPA chief Scott Pruitt withdrew the Obama-era declaration that a metals extraction mine at the headwaters of Bristol Bay was too risky to move forward.

In exchange for reopening a threeyear window for which Pebble to file a plan, the mining interests withdrew lawsuits filed against the federal government after the project was thwarted by the EPA evaluation.

In early October, the company revealed slides of its new concept but has yet to file for a permit to make its plan official. Company officials claim they will

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— Jessica Hathaway

Gulf of Alaska cod slides to an 83 percent decline Bering Sea/Aleutians stock is steady

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takeholders were stunned to learn that surveys yielded the lowest numbers ever for cod in the federally managed waters of the Gulf of Alaska.

Fisheries biologist Steve Barbeaux of the Alaska Fisheries Science Center in Seattle said the summer survey, done every other year, revealed that the cod year classes for 2012 and 2013 appeared to be “wiped out” in the gulf, and the data suggest recruitment failures through 2016.

Overall, the surveys reflected a 71 percent decline in Gulf of Alaska cod abundance since 2015, and an 83 percent decline since 2013. The cod crash coincides with the record warm water temperatures there in 2015, Barbeaux said.

Preliminary estimates indicate cod catches in the Gulf of Alaska next year could drop by 60 to 85 percent. The 2018 cod catches in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands fishery, however, are expected to remain the same at nearly 527 million pounds.

The 2017 gulf cod harvest from federal waters was 150,000 metric tons (330 million pounds), which was down 20 percent from the previous year.

The cod crash will be felt in waters closer to shore as well. — Laine Welch To subscribe, call 1-800-959-5073

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do so by the end of the year.

A state referendum in Alaska, meanwhile, has some potential to stop projects like Pebble by proposing a new habitat law. The proposal would subject projects that would have “significant adverse effects” on fish habitat to governmental review. Projects deemed to damage fish habitat beyond repair would be prohibited.

The ballot initiative was rejected by Alaska Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott on the grounds that it would appropriate a public resource — not allowed under the Alaska constitution. But a Superior Court judge ruled that the proposal was to regulate, not appropriate, public assets.

At press time, the state was considering an appeal, and backers still needed to gather about 32,000 signatures to get the initiative on the 2018 ballot.

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any fishermen working the western waters on Bristol Bay know the Pacific Quest, an exceptionally friendly tender owned and run by a King Cove family. Ken Mack and Bill Sager took her on in May 2015 through Edwin “Daisy” Bendixen’s estate sale in King Cove.

The pair was familiar with the boat and the Bendixen family after some conversations earlier that year about leasing some halibut IFQs. On the lookout for a boat, even a fixer-upper, they jumped at the opportunity once Bendixen’s family put the boat up for sale at a lower price.

“It was getting to the point where they just couldn’t keep up with it,” said Mack.

The all-steel boat hardly took a break between owners, and after the 2015 Bristol Bay summer she went down to Wrangell, where she was sandblasted “to find out what was left of it.”

They knew the boat was CorTen steel, which Mack describes as expensive today but “ideal for every boat.” The trip to Wrangell confirmed his hopes.

Built in the California backyard of a tuna fisherman in 1969, the Pacific Quest was made of good, sturdy steel — a relief for Mack. After taking on a Kodiak seiner as a fixer-upper previously, that his son now has, Mack was familiar with the reality of buying a boat with work to be done.

Crew capacity: 5 Main propulsion: 302-hp 3406 Cat Diesel Gearbox: Twin Disc 4.5:1 Propeller: 66" x 58" bronze Speed: 8 knots Fuel capacity: 2,000 gallons Freshwater capacity: 400 gallons Hold capacity: 70,000 pounds Electronics: Two Furuno radars, ComNav autopilot, Furuno satellite compass, two Standard Horizon VHFs, Furuno depth sounder, Icom SSB radio “We figured, well, we need to put a bunch of money in to keep it going, but we knew we couldn’t do it if the steel was no good,” he said. They even drilled some holes in the steel to run new coolants to the engine. “They built that boat with 5/16 steel, and it was still 5/16,” he said.

A replacement of just a couple plates got the boat out cod fishing in King Cove that January.

Mack and Sager run the boat, but the history of the previous owner remains on board — the urn of Bendixen still sits in the state-room.

Mack admits that the urn got shifted around a little during the work in Wrangell, but his wife reminded him of its importance.

“Boy, better not mishandle this,” said Mack. “And I put him right back in his spot… yup, he’s still fishing.”

— Elma Burnham

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nation/world “Mixed-stock and multispecies fisheries in particular are incredibly complex to understand and manage.”

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— Lori Steele, West Coast Seafood Processors Association

Industry: Flexibility is key in Magnuson reauthorization Many fishing groups want to ditch arbitrary 10-year rebuilding requirement

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ndustry stakeholders and politicians have turned out to speak for fishermen in a series of hearings as Congress readies to reauthorize the MagnusonStevens Act, supporting changes to related regulations affecting the industry.

Many industry stakeholders are seeking more flexibility in the law, specifically regarding language that caps rebuilding plans for overfished species to 10 years.

“Mixed-stock and multispecies fisheries in particular are incredibly complex to understand and manage,” said Lori Steele, executive director of the West Coast Seafood Processors Association.

“We’ve experienced this on the East Coast and the West Coast. Stocks within a multispecies complex can have very different life histories and growth rates.”

New Bedford Mayor John Mitchell and others have called the regulation ar-

Lori Steele, executive director, West Coast Seafood Processors Association.

bitrary and say it often prohibits fishermen from catching their quotas.

“We support rebuilding plans that can take into account environmental factors and predator/prey relationships,” said Greg DiDomenico, executive director for the Garden State Seafood Association in New Jersey, adding that rebuilding plans should be based in sound science.

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Antiquities Act and a call for more fishery management council involvement in the national marine monument process.

Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), chairman of the subcommittee tasked with running the congressional hearings, said Congress supports the need for advanced data and scientific methods to ensure the sustainability and profitability of the country’s fisheries.

“Technology needs to play a larger role in this, as it has the potential to provide efficiencies to reduce administrative burdens and increase the accuracy of the data used for stock assessments and catch accountability,” he said.

As politicians continue to discuss merging the Republican and Democratic bills to reauthorize the act, many have made it clear a bipartisan approach is what’s best for the industry.

— Samuel Hill

Omega Protein makes $500m deal with Cooke Aquaculture company diversifies

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ooke Aquaculture’s parent company has acquired Texas-based fish oil and fishmeal producer Omega Protein for nearly $500 million.

The agreement has been unanimously approved by the board of directors of each Omega Protein and Cooke, according to a press release. Cooke Inc.,

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based in New Brunswick, Canada, and Houston-headquartered Omega Protein agreed to a purchase price of $22 per share for the publicly traded company. The transaction price represents a premium of 32.5 percent over Omega Protein’s closing share price of $16.60 on Oct. 5. Shares of the company were up more than 5 percent in premarket trading on Friday, Oct. 6.

The transaction, which is expected to close near the end of 2017 or early in 2018, according to Cooke, is subject to the approval of Omega Protein stockholders, certain regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.

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and converts their oil and meal into products for human and animal nutrition. The company operates seven manufacturing facilities located in the United States, Canada and Europe, and owns more than 30 fishing vessels.

For Cooke, which primarily focused on aquaculture until its purchase of Wanchese Fish Co. in 2015 and Icicle Seafoods in 2016, the addition of Omega Protein “serves as a perfect strategic piece,” according to its press release.

“Omega Protein will provide us with another platform in Cooke’s growth strategy through further diversification in the supply side of the business,” Cooke CEO Glenn Cooke said.

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SURF CLAMS

Warming waters cause regulatory issues as industry shifts north

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s water temperatures trend upward along the East Coast and states in the southern sector of the regional fishery tighten water discharge regulations at processing plants, the surf clam industry is shifting north.

“I think everyone sees the writing on the wall and knows to start investing further north,” said José Montañez, a fishery management specialist with the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council.

The fishery is usually centered in the Mid-Atlantic, from the VirginiaCarolina line to northern New Jersey.

Surf clams are managed in a group with ocean quahogs. Some fishermen are licensed to harvest both — in 2016, 38 vessels caught surf clams,

with eight of those boats catching quahogs as well. State mangers are seeing a higher recruitment of surf clams in deeper waters and more mixing with quahog populations, causing problems for fishermen who are licensed to fish one or the other, not both.

While nothing is on the table yet, surf clam and quahog plan manager Jessica Coakley says the mixing/regulatory issue has been brought forward to NMFS recently.

The fishery is a demand-driven one. “Processors basically tell fishermen what they need,” said Coakley.

“They aren’t going and getting too many clams and flooding the market.

It’s a very integrated industry.”

SWORDFISH

Markets look strong as the gulf fleet gets an early fall start ith a respectable finish for the summer and fall seasons in the Atlantic swordfish fisheries now logged in, Gulf of Mexico fishermen are heading out for their traditional winter voyages with the promise of healthy dock prices in their futures.

Traditionally, the gulf fleets lay off when the northern fishery is in full swing. Then during the winter, gulf swordfish are sold in the same markets as the northern fish.

“The East Coast produces so much, with boats bringing back plenty from the Grand Banks, that those guys take care of the market supply in the summer and early fall,” said David Maginnis of Gulf Seafood in Houma, La.

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Coakley says the total quota and landings have been essentially the same since 2004. The industry usually lands about two-thirds of the quota (so there’s wiggle room if demand spikes for whatever reason).

The total ex-vessel value of the 2016 federal harvest was approximately $31 million with processors paying an average of $13.25 per bushel, slightly higher than $30 million in 2015 when processors paid $12.16 per bushel. Preliminary numbers as of Aug. 31 put this year’s catch at 1.3 million bushels so far, slightly below but in line with last year’s landings.

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the wall and knows to start investing further north.

“Our swordfish would have to drop the prices low enough to ship them in, then there are fuel surcharges and cost operations. So during that time our guys target yellowfin.”

Prices remained high at the gulf season’s start, hovering around $4 per pound. Dealers reported they wouldn’t be surprised if prices to the boat remained as high as $3.50 per pound for top grade specimens.

The market, dealers said, will remain strong through the winter in part because the Canadian fishery did not overproduce, keeping the markets balanced and leaving plenty of room for everyone else.

Central and South American

high at the gulf season’s start, hovering around $4 per pound.

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swords, while an element of the market, cannot surpass the quality of the upcoming gulf catch, says Maginnis.

“Their production is way inferior to the Canadian and the Northeast U.S. fish,” he said. Those Canadian and Grand Banks fish are healthy and strong looking.”

As a species, meanwhile, the swordfish continues to be caught in U.S. waters well below sustainability limits.

The 2017 catch stands at 555.9 metric tons, which is below the 641.1 metric tons caught in 2016, according to figures released in October by NOAA. — John DeSantis

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HERRING Herring biomass still low, but rising; competition heavy from Alaska runs

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he San Francisco herring fishery still ain’t what it used to be in terms of spawning biomass, but the 2016-17 season saw a slight upward blip from the previous two seasons, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

The historical average since the department began amassing data in 1972 runs at 49,400 short tons, but last year’s estimate, based on dive surveys, indicates a biomass of 18,300 tons, which is up slightly from the 14,900 tons of the 2015-16 season.

Four- and 5-year-old herring were predominant in last season’s catch.

“Oceanographically, this modest increase in biomass accompanies an early 2017 shift to neutral and La

Niña conditions in the California Current Ecosystem,” wrote Ryan Bartling, a fisheries scientist with Fish and Wildlife, in Santa Rosa in his annual summary of the 2016-17 season.

Additionally, rainfall in the preamble of the 2017 season offset the record-setting drought of 2015 and restored volumes of fresh water into the waters along the coastline. The extra shot of fresh water may have increased larval survival rates among fish born in 2016, but recently there have been fewer 2- and 3-year-old fish recruiting into the fishery.

Last year’s gillnet quota was set at 750.6 short tons. Of a possible 173 commercial permits, only two dozen boats participated in the fishery and

ALASKA

SALMON

Chum runs set records; bay sockeyes strong; Southeast king returns weak

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ecord-setting chum runs, a bumper crop of Bristol Bay sockeyes and dismal king returns in Southeast were the talk of Alaska’s salmon season.

The overall Bristol Bay harvest topped 37 million sockeyes. The Nushagak River got its escapement — the fish allowed upriver to ensure an ample number of spawners — in June. With that, fisheries managers opened the district in a fishing spree that would end up at around 11.5 million fish.

Another bright spot in the Bristol Bay season: Processors established a base price of $1 per pound, a quarter per pound more than they offered

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last year. Coupling this year’s prices and the bountiful catch puts preliminary ex-vessel value of $214.6 million, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

Healthy harvests usually dampen demand and drive ex-vessel prices down.“This was definitely not one of those years,” said Andy Wink, a research analyst and project manager with the McDowell Group.

Though hatchery returns were weak, Prince William Sound seiners roped up more than 45 million pinks. Northern and southern harvest subdistricts of Southeast Alaska came in very weak with respective harvests of 25.4 million and 9.1 mil-

large part of “theAdepressed exvessel prices rides on Alaska’s huge harvest.

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landed 37.2 tons — or 5 percent of the quota. In the 2015-16 season, gillnetters landed 493 tons.

According to most recent data from PacFIN, ex-vessel prices hovered around $300 per ton, which was down sharply from the average $640 per ton gillnetters received in 2015.

A large part of the depressed exvessel prices rides on Alaska’s huge harvest. Togiak’s production for the 2017 season came in at 15,975 tons of a 16,085-ton quota. Ex-vessel prices from processors for the 19 vessel owners who participated started at $100 per ton, with some adjustments for herring with high quality roe.

— Charlie Ess

“Fishing was really good up north and out west.” lion pinks.

The bad news in Southeast, as had been predicted, was dismal king returns — so weak that they warranted closing the season in August.

“We knew the season was going to be bad,” said Wink of the weak preseason forecast. “But it turned out even worse.”

The chum salmon harvest started out strong and chugged its way through summer and fall with a record-setting haul of 24.6 million fish, besting the previous record of 24.2 million fish caught back in 2000.

“Fishing was really good up north and out west,” said Wink. “Even Southeast came in above forecast.”

— Charlie Ess

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2017 Highliners

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here is no one more courageous than the person who speaks with the courage of his convictions,” said author Susan Cain in “Quiet.” Coco Chanel said, “The most courageous act is to think for yourself.

Aloud.” These qualities define the NF Highliner.

The tradition of naming annual Highliners began in 1975, and I am proud to carry the torch in a long line of NF editors.

We all have endeavored to select representatives of the industry who speak their truths not only for themselves but for others, as well.

A Highliner is a career commercial fisherman but must be known also for their mode of giving back to the fishing industry, locally or globally. It is no easy task, and as such it

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deserves recognition.

Without a doubt, Bob Dooley of Half Moon Bay, Calif.; George Eliason of Sitka, Alaska; and Bruce Schactler of Kodiak, Alaska, represent the best the industry has to offer.

Each of these fishermen has used his voice to ensure a future for the industry far beyond his own berth.

Dooley has represented both his Bering Sea fisheries as well as his native California fishing fleets. Eliason is working to leave a path for young fishermen to enter an increasingly expensive market. Schactler has long been the guy behind the scenes writing legislation and working toward policies that keep the business of fishing and selling seafood fit with our global economy.

— Jessica Hathaway

BOB DOOLEY

Community champion

By Brian Hagenbuch

Bob Dooley retired from fishing only to become more involved in ensuring a future for fishing.

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eople tend to repeat certain words when they talk about Bob Dooley: generous, humble, knowledgeable, smart, nice, friend. Now 63 years old and retired from active fishing, Dooley, along with his late brother and longtime business partner, John, left an edible mark on the fishing industry, particularly in the Bering Sea pollock and Pacific whiting fisheries.

The Dooleys sold their pollock boats in 2013 and finally parted with their last boat, the Shellfish, a Dungeness crabber also used as a tender, in May of this year, shortly before John passed away. Reflecting on retirement, Dooley says 33 winters on the Bering Sea “was enough,” and while he does not miss the long winters or working on boats in the shipyard, he does miss the camaraderie. And his fellow fishermen will miss his solidarity.

Dooley’s long-time fishing partner, Brent Paine, is now the executive director of United Catcher Boats, an organization Dooley helped found in 1994 and would later head from 1998-2013.

“There are two kinds of fishermen. One, the tide just raises their boat, and then there is the kind where a rising tide raises all boats, and Bob was of the latter, for sure. He wasn’t necessarily getting involved in fisheries politics because he wanted to better himself and his company. He was interested in making a better fishery for all the

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GEORGE ELIASON

BRUCE SCHACTLER

As George Eliason looked at retiring, he decided to try to bridge the sizable gap between his generation of fishermen and the next.

Bruce Schactler has never rested between sets or seasons, always lending his business mind to fishing policy as well as global and national trade initiatives.

By Charlie Ess

By Bruce Buls

orn and raised to a fishing family in Sitka, Alaska, George Eliason might not have had options to do much else but catch salmon, crab, halibut and blackcod until he was old enough to leave the nest. However, he found something deeply rewarding in commercial fishing, and when it came time to test his mettle as a young man, he jumped at the chance to join the industry.

“I still have my first check from fishing, framed on my wall,” said Eliason. “I earned it in 1964.”

More than half a century has passed since that first profitable fishing trip. Eliason stayed strong through years of lean and bountiful harvests, saw ex-vessel prices rise and fall like the barometer and survived near-perilous incidents at sea.

Now, Eliason, who just celebrated his 65th birthday in October, finds himself at a juncture like many who wagered for meaningful work and prosperity from the back decks of fish boats.

It’s time to retire.

That might pose a particular challenge to some fishermen, but for Eliason, his devotion as a father, his involvement in fisheries conservation, his quest to produce high seafood quality — and his latest gig promoting a program that strives

ike Ray Wadsworth, his longtime friend, fishing partner and now fellow Highliner, Bruce Schactler is an in-the-trenches, can-do Alaska fisherman.

They both possess extraordinary imagination, initiative and persistence. Schactler spends less time in the shop than Wadsworth and more at the computer screen, but both have that what-if attitude backed up by boots on the ground. And both still fish.

Put a gas turbine engine in a seiner? Why not, asks Wadsworth, and so he does. Clear the warehouses full of canned salmon by arranging their purchase for international food aid? Absolutely must happen, says Schactler, and then makes it happen by learning how to negotiate the bureaucratic mazes of industry, government and NGOs (non-governmental organizations).

Schactler, now 65 and going strong, still skippers his limit seiner Natalia (formerly Wadsworth’s Order of Magnitude but with a wider beam and without the gas turbine) during Kodiak’s salmon seine season, but the rest of the year he’s running the Global Food Aid program for the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute and looking for more and better ways to get Alaska seafood into new, untapped markets.

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boat owners,” Paine said.

Dooley is that unique breed of fisherman who believes catching fish is only part of the job, and his dedication to fisheries advocacy has come into sharp focus in his retirement.

“I always lived by that old adage: ‘If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.’ I don’t have any more boats, but I’m still active in anything and everything fisheries,” Dooley said, noting he continues his decades-long participation in the Pacific council process, and is also active in Seafood Harvesters of America, the West Coast Marine Resource Education Program and the Monterey Bay Fisheries Trust. He is also working with the Coast Guard on safety measures for fishing boats in his native California, which lag behind places like Alaska and Seattle.

During his career, Dooley helped guide the formation of the Pacific Whiting Cooperative and the Westward Pollock Co-

operative and has been a member of the U.S.-Canada Pacific Whiting Treaty Advisory Panel since 2014.

John Gruver, a 2015 NF Highliner, fished pollock alongside Dooley for many years, working closely with him on by-

catch avoidance and in organizations like United Catcher Boats.

“He retired from fishing, and I think he became even more involved, which I didn’t think was even possible. It’s really something what he’s involved with. He

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Dooley (left) and his late brother and lifelong business partner, John, with the Pacific Prince, one of many boats they owned together.

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continues to broaden his spectrum. It’s pretty cool,” Gruver said.

Born in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Dooley’s father was a part-time fisherman, his mother ran a seafood restaurant, and he had an uncle who was a full-time fisherman and fish buyer. Dooley, who still calls Half Moon Bay home, got his first paid fishing gig on a salmon troller when he was just 11. By the time he was 14, his brother John, six years his senior, took Dooley on as a business partner, the start of a lifelong alliance during which the two built boats, fished “anything and everything,” and stayed close, despite the wild swings of a trying industry.

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He has so much information, and he shares it in a way that is just so humble.

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“We were very good partners, very close through it all. And he got me into it. He was a fisherman before I was fisherman,” Dooley said of his late brother.

The 14-year-old Dooley could have never predicted how far it would go, from building boats in the Gulf of Mexico to fishing the Bering Sea and Pacific Coast to lobbying in Washington, D.C. Along the way, the Dooleys and a core group of skippers that started pollock fishing in the Bering Sea in the early 1980s shepherded in the Americanization of both the pollock and whiting fisheries.

“We really developed the pollock and Pacific whiting fisheries, kind of inventing the wheel,” Dooley said.

Dooley’s political activism played a key role in developing those fisheries. He was endlessly generous with his time, often in a volunteer capacity, said Paine.

“That’s all gratis. Those guys used to fish six or seven months out of the year and when they’d come home, their time was pretty precious. More than any of the catcher boat owners I know, Bob has probably given more of his time to attend meetings and be part of fisheries management, both at the trade association level and the North Pacific council and Pacific council meetings, as well as the federal level,” Paine said.

Paine added that Dooley’s true legacy, reflected in the pollock cooperative structure Dooley helped develop, was empowering fishermen in the management of fisheries.

“Bob believed fishermen can co-manage along with the government, and they can probably do a better job, instead of the government feeling like they have police the fishery, and not a have a trusting relationship. That’s a legacy I think Bob instilled,” Paine said.

Dooley is now bringing his lifetime of experience to bear on his native California, where Sherry Flumerfelt, the executive director of the Monterey Bay Fisheries Trust and a leader of the West Coast MREP project along with Dooley, counts herself among the growing list of Bob Dooley fans.

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ELIASON continued from page 31

GeorGe eliason

to offset the negative effects associated with the graying of the fleet — might just push his contributions to the industry into the realms of immortality. The longline and salmon fleets for decades have grappled with the issue that as seasoned salmon permit holders and owners of quota shares for halibut and blackcod age out of the fishery, there aren’t any youngsters replacing them.

In Eliason’s case, it isn’t for lack of

Eliason’s sons, Jorgen and Nick, with some summer king salmon on deck.

kids — or for their interest in commercial fishing. For starters, he married his high school sweetheart, Tammy Lin, 39 years ago, and the couple raised Jorgen, 36, Nick, 34, and Lindy, 30, all three of whom have spent summers working the decks of the Tammy Lin, their 50-foot steel freezer longliner-troller.

“She fished with me for many years, and she more than pulled her weight; that’s for sure,” said Eliason of his wife’s tenure onboard. “And when the kids were old enough, the bunks were full until it was time for them to go back to school.”

Through the decades Jorgen and Nick have been his faithful longline companions. This past season, Jorgen fished on a salmon seiner; then he and Nick joined their father to fish their halibut and blackcod quota shares for the 2017 season.

“We just timed things to go longlining after the salmon season,” said Eliason.

“We can [catch the allotted quota shares] in about two weeks.”

That Eliason’s retirement can’t be fore-

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Eliason with his daughter, Lindy.

stalled for another few years, or beyond, rides on degenerative injuries to his spine.

In the meantime, he has ramped up efforts to advocate for legislation and creative partnerships that promise to give young fishermen wanting in on longline fisheries a leg up when it comes to financing the purchase of quota shares. In the present regime, it’s all but impossible for the fledgling fishermen to come up with the capital to get in the game.

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With Southeast Alaska quota shares running as high as $73 per pound for halibut and up to $34 for blackcod, potential entrants into the longline fisheries would have to come up with millions in capital to purchase enough shares to make the payments for their boats, gear and other expenses, let alone make a profit.

Given the risks and initial outlay of startup operations, it isn’t in the best interests of conventional lenders to provide funding. And that’s where Eliason and like-minded industry leaders come in.

“Everything became unattainable, even for people like my son, who’s fished his entire life.To get into the fishery, it would be very, very expensive.”

To that end, Eliason is backing the Alaska Sustainable Fisheries Trust’s Local Fish Fund, a Sitka-based financial generator that has partnered with the Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association to provide a conduit to ease access rights to young fishermen who want in as the graybeards cycle out. Beyond that, he’s made arrangements to sell his boat to a young fisherman, who will partner with his sons, who hold interest in the quota shares.

In 2016, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation awarded $150,000 in a grant to the Local Fish Fund. Even more impressive is that the Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association had secured $351,250 in matching funds among other supporters. As of October, $1.2 million fishermen had pledged in capital with another $3 million pending in capital investment via NatureVest.

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“He has been a real proponent of the program, and really looks out for the young people,” said 2009 NF Highliner Linda Behnken, a longline fisherman also out of Sitka. (Behnken is also a monetary supporter of the program.)

Eliason’s legacy doesn’t end there: Behnken adds that his contributions to the Fisheries Conservation Network include bathymetric charting of rockpiles and other underwater structures that hold rockfish and other non-target species have proven instrumental in reducing the industry’s bycatch.

Though Eliason has announced his retirement, his contributions to the fisheries will likely continue for decades to come.

“He’s really active in connecting fishermen with younger fishermen,” said Behnken. He’s always been supportive with getting young people on the water and very supportive of the Fisheries Conservation Network.”

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SCHACTLER continued from page 31

He’s also the director of the National Seafood Marketing Coalition.

As director, he wrote legislation that is currently under consideration in Congress. The bill is called the American Fisheries Advisory Committee Act and would reactivate a fisheries marketing committee that was created by the Saltonstall-Kennedy Act in 1954.

Writing or advising on legislation, both state and federal, has been part of Schactler’s portfolio for much of his career. He wrote the legislation for Sen. Ted Stevens that created the Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board, “where we put over $30 million into product development and marketing and infrastructure in about six years in the early 2000s,” said Schactler.

In the aftermath of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, he worked on legislation that would allow settlement recipients to invest up to $100,000 into a retire-

ment fund all at once, tax free until taken out at retirement. “That was a big deal,” Schactler says. “It helped thousands of fishermen for all four spill areas: Chignik, Kodiak, Cook Inlet and Prince William Sound.”

“He’s like a bulldog.

He’s persistent, he’s straight and to the point.

”

Schactler also fought for changes in seafood labeling in the mid 2000s.

“He was pretty involved in the Country of Origin Labeling requirements,” says Julianne Curry, former executive director of the United Fishermen of Alaska and current ASMI Salmon Committee chair. “This meant that Alaska seafood could be pretty much branded as U.S.produced Alaska seafood, and we could

differentiate ourselves here in America.

That’s a pretty noble effort right there, and it wasn’t very fun to fight.”

Schactler has been an active UFA member (and ongoing chair of UFA’s marketing committee. “They just keep electing me,” he says) since the early ’90s.

He was also UFA Fisherman of the Year in 2013.

And what he used to do on his own time — arrange for international food aid — he has been doing professionally as director of ASMI’s Global Food Aid Program. He also directs ASMI’s USDA Food Aid Program.

“I was doing this kind of thing before I had a job to do it,” he says. “I told a guy 20 years ago that I was just doing it to save my own fishing business, and I’m just going to have to drag you along with me, so come on.”

Kevin Adams, Bristol Bay fisherman and former ASMI chairman, also credits Schactler for helping push through USDA’s Trade Adjustment Assistance

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Program back in 2003 that compensated harvesters all over the country who suffered losses as a result of U.S. trade policy. Compensation included cash and educational benefits.

Economic development for Alaska’s seafood industry is essentially what drives Schactler’s passion. “We’re trying to make money here,” he told the Senate Seafood Caucus recently. “Not too long ago, we were in the resource extraction business, but now we’re in the food business.”

A large part of the American food business that most people know little or nothing about is USDA’s school lunch program, which supplies almost all of the food for subsidized lunch programs nationally. “It’s huge,” says Schactler. “And make no mistake, that is a food aid program.” And thanks in part to his efforts, “pure Alaska pollock” fish sticks are now back on the menu.

He also oversaw the recent creation of a program that will put frozen pollock portions into USDA food banks.

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Running the salmon and herring seiner Natalia is just Schactler’s part-time job.

“They’re 4-ounce, pinbone-out portions cut from blocks into squiggly shapes that make them look like more like fish,” he says. “The USDA just bought $20 million worth.”

Schactler envisions people getting food-bank aid today as Costco’s customers tomorrow.

“It’s been about business. Feeding the hungry people, that’s a bonus. It’s been about getting more people to buy and eat more seafood from Alaska producers.

If that happens to be the federal government, and it goes to feed food-insecure people, that’s all the better.”

“He’s like a bulldog,” says Adams.“He’s persistent, he’s straight and to the point.

He used to be more rough-edged, so he’s mellowed with age and from accumulating an arm’s-length list of accomplishments that have helped fishermen stay in business. And most of these things are not known by rank-and-file fishermen at all.”

“I’m still excited about it,” says Schactler. “I think about it all the time. I still wake up in the middle of the night thinking of new ideas. In fact, I woke up in the middle of the night about four days ago and thought, ‘Oh, man, that’s it!’”

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After Carlos Rafael is sentenced to 46 months in prison, everyone wants a piece of his permits

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By Samuel Hill

n the now-notorious 2013 profile of Carlos Rafael by Vice — the one in which he describes New Bedford, Mass., fishing operations smaller than his own as “mosquitoes on the balls of an elephant” — his business is equated to the American Dream.

The article paints a picture of Rafael as a by-the-bootstraps immigrant who was built for life in this country, a man with the business know-how to climb the commercial fishing industry ladder and create his own empire with ease.

Rafael is said to be “perpetually at war with someone,” whether that be federal regulators, other fishermen or environmentalists, and he talks as if everyone is out to get him. He tells of a four-month stint in jail for federal tax evasion in the ’80s, a failed attempt to hook him on price-fixing in the mid-90s and other battles with regulators over the years.

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have them doing somersaults up there,” he said. “They’re fucking with the wrong guy because when I’m right, I’m right. I don’t fuck around.”

Little did he know, just under three years later he’d be arrested by undercover federal agents who had discovered an elaborate scheme to skirt fishing quotas and evade taxes.

The Codfather gets caught In January 2015, Rafael announced he was looking to cash out of his business and retire.

Just five months later, undercover IRS agents met with Rafael posing as Russian mobsters interested in buying his fleet. When agents questioned the high price tag on the business, Rafael let loose the details of his illegal system in which he falsified his landings reports, entering high-value, low-quota species as more abundant species, like haddock,

before selling them in private markets.

On Feb. 26, 2016, federal agents arrested Rafael in a raid on Carlos Seafood on South Front Street in New Bedford.

In May 2016 he was indicted on 27 counts, including conspiracy, falsifying federal records and bulk cash smuggling.

After a whirlwind of trial delays, Rafael pled guilty in March 2017.

“I am not proud of the things I did that brought me here, but admitting them is the right thing to do, and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions,” he said before he appeared in the U.S. District Court in Boston.

In September, Rafael was sentenced to 46 months in prison, including a threeyear probation period and a $200,000 fine.

Before his sentencing, Rafael’s lawyer read a statement from him describing his crimes as “the stupidest thing I ever did.”

“I just hope whatever I get doesn’t hurt the people on the waterfront,” Rafael wrote. “They don’t deserve that.”

Though Judge William Young reduced the punitive damages in the case, he made it clear that his decision was a result of federal sentencing guidelines, not a lack of responsibility for the actions.

“This was not stupid. This was corrupt. This was a corrupt course of action from start to finish,” Young said to Rafael. It was “designed to benefit you.

To line your pockets. That’s what it was, and that’s why the court has sentenced you as it has.”

Unsurprisingly, Rafael’s statement was not met with universal forgiveness.

“The fact that he didn’t read his statement himself is telling. The judge didn’t buy it. No one is buying it,” said Patrick Shepard, a fourth-generation Maine commercial fisherman and manager of the Northeast Coastal Communities Sector. “He’s a self-described pirate, and he’s said multiple times that it’s NMFS’ job to catch him. Well, we caught him.

And only now is he apologizing?”

Rafael’s long history in the New Bedford industry has secured him some sympathy in town. Not all fishermen see him as a generous leader, though few testified against him.

“There was a fear of boats being sunk, boats being lit on fire, family members being harassed,” said Brett Tolley, a com-

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munity organizer with the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance, who had a list of volunteers set to issue victim statements before the trial.“One by one, fishermen backed out in fear of retaliation.

It wasn’t much of a surprise though.The pressure was understandably too much.”

The aftermath Since Rafael pleaded guilty earlier this year, the debate over what should become of the boats and permits used in his illegal operations has been in full swing.

The prosecution in Rafael’s criminal case sought the forfeiture of 13 vessels and 13 groundfish permits used in the crimes. In early October,Young ordered Rafael to surrender “all right, title and interest” to four boats and their attached 34 permits, of which only four were groundfish permits: the 75-foot Bulldog and its eight permits, the 71-foot Olivia & Rafaela and its 11 permits, the 75foot Lady Patricia and its four permits and the Southern Crusader II and its 11 permits. Only four of these permits are for groundfish. The reported value of these assets is reportedly $2.6 million.

What will become of these forfeited assets is now up to NMFS. In September, NOAA Regional Administrator John K.

“This was not stupid.

This was corrupt. This was a corrupt course of action from start to finish.

”

— U.S. District Court Judge William Young

Bullard said NOAA would not make a decision on what to do with forfeited assets until Young’s final ruling. At press time, NMFS had not issued a statement.

Industry stakeholders are divided roughly into two camps on this issue: Some want all of Rafael’s assets to remain in New Bedford and continue to support the top-value port in the country, while others see this as an opportunity to redistribute the permits and put and end to permit hoarding. There is no cap on ownership of groundfish quota To subscribe, call 1-800-959-5073

under the New England system, despite requests at the council level to address the oversight.

“Removing Mr. Rafael’s permits from New Bedford would do needless, immense damage not only to hundreds of responsible, law-abiding New Bedford fishermen, but also to the economy of New Bedford at large,” wrote Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) in a letter to NMFS director Chris Oliver. “Mr. Rafael’s business accounts directly for three-quarters of the value of New Bedford’s groundfish, which are necessary to diversify the port’s fishing industry — as well as tens of millions of dollars in investments in the city of New Bedford and the livelihoods of hundreds of New Bedford fishermen.”

“It’s a fairly complicated intersection of federal forfeiture law and fisheries regulations, both of which are very arcane,” said New Bedford Mayor John Mitchell. “But the premise behind all of this is, if the permits leave New Bedford, then innocent third parties may be harmed.”

Mitchell has laid out a scenario in which the city is granted ownership of the permits, which they would then distribute to local fishermen through a created permit bank.

Rafael’s fleet reportedly employs about 300 workers.

But other regional stakeholders don’t agree that New Bedford should be retain access to the permits just because Rafael based his business there.

“I have sympathy for the fishermen captaining Carlos’ boats, but what they don’t realize is that Carlos’ way of doing business and the policies he helped set in place have displaced so many fishermen elsewhere,” said Tolley.

NAMA and other organizations have been outspoken in the months leading up to Rafael’s sentencing about the role they believe the catch-share system and the privatization of fishing rights played in his rise to power.

“I feel like the way catch shares and related polices work is it creates a pie, and there are now winners and losers in the fishery,” said Tolley. “A small minority can control the majority of quota, and the majority of fishermen are fighting for scraps.”

January 2015 —

Rafael announces he is looking to sell his fishing fleet and retire.

June 3, 2015 —

Rafael meets with undercover federal agents posing as potential buyers.

Feb. 26, 2016 —

Federal agents arrest Rafael in a raid on his warehouse.

May 9, 2016 —

Rafael is indicted on 27 criminal counts in U.S. District Court, including conspiracy, falsifying federal records and bulk cash smuggling along with Antonio M. Freitas, a Bristol County sheriff’s deputy who is accused of helping Rafael smuggle money out of the country.

May 13, 2016 —

Rafael pleads not guilty to all 27 counts against him in federal court in Worcester.

March 30, 2017 —

Rafael pleads guilty to 28 counts in federal court, including an added tax evasion charge.

July 19 —

A U.S. federal jury finds Freitas guilty of smuggling profits from Rafael’s quota fraud and tax evasion scheme to Portugal.

Sept. 20 —

According to court documents, Rafael and a potential purchaser, later disclosed as Richard and Ray Canastra, have entered into a memorandum of agreement regarding a sale of his entire fleet and attached permits.

Sept. 26 —

Rafael is sentenced to 46 months in prison.

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Matt CleMons

Looking good inshore, but ready for offshore lobstering, Matt Clemons’ Mussel Ridge 46 completes sea trials.

Working from the

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own East Maine lobsterman Richard Howland has a set of blocks he believes are his good luck charms.

While one is on the boat, the other gets rebuilt and waits to be swapped out when the other first wears down.

The pair has seen a serious amount of time at sea, working on the past four boats Howland has owned, including a 40-foot Willis Beal. This time around, instead of swapping out a block, Howland swapped out his boat and took a chance on a design that is fast becoming a Maine classic.

“I’ve always wanted something a

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little bigger,” says Howland of his new 46 Mussel Ridge named Victoria that works out of Little Cranberry Island.

“But I remember seeing the boat pop out of the mold and saying, ‘Wow, it’s a monster.’”

Thankfully, Howland’s boat is a gentle giant.The Victoria has good sea manners, despite the hard-chined hull in place of the built-down or skeg-built designs favored regionally. As one of only two builders in the state offering hard-chine lobster boats, the Mussel Ridges have only Wesmac as their direct competitor.

Company founder, Albert Hutchinson, who builds the boats out of his

Cushing facility named Hutchinson Composites, explained the hard-chined hull didn’t happen by accident. It was a business decision that also worked out on the water.

“I was building Wayne Beal boats, and when I wanted a new boat, I didn’t want to compete with myself,” explains Hutchinson who laid up a variety of Beal boats and other designs for nearly 12 years. “A hard-chine boat is a lot more stable on the water and can get on plane faster. Plus, hard-chine boats add length really well.”

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Starting with a standard 42-foot hull, Hutchinson adds a custom 4-foot mold to lock in the extension.

important — factors for the Mussel Ridge’s current success. Even with the capacity to deliver 18 hulls per year, the model has a waiting list, for both the original 42-foot design and the extended 46-foot model that started as a oneoff boat for New Jersey gillnetter and 2012 NF Highliner, Kevin Wark (see “Varsity Jersey,” NF Jan. 2015, pg. 28).

“Kevin’s the man that started this all.

He wanted us to build a 46, and we did, and bam, the orders took off,” said Hutchinson, who to date is laying up hull number 28 in the mold, with another dozen waiting behind that one.

Although the orders for the 42-foot-

ers are nothing to sneeze at — around 24 have been built since its introduction in 2005 — they are cranking out the 46 hull, and its design just turned 3 years old. In part this has to do with good fishing, but more than that, it’s a marriage of shop efficiency coupled with word-of-mouth performance of the boats.

“I have like eight hours on my boats.

I work six days a week, so I don’t have a lot of time for boat rides,” said a nononsense Hutchinson. “So I want my customers to speak for my product.”

Matt Clemons, a lobsterman out of Harpswell, Maine, recently took deliv-

ery of a 46-footer.

“I absolutely loved the hull and was impressed with it,” he said. “I had no trouble steaming into a 6-foot head-sea with winds blowing 20 knots.”

Howland echoes the accolades, saying, “With a skeg boat you pound, and with a built-down boat you get a roll, so this is really the best of both worlds.”

So why did it take so long to adapt to this style? There is a learning curve hauling lobster pots with a hard-chine boat.You have about 6 feet of hull aft of the wheel when making a turn around a pot and turning is different, but in a

“I work six days a

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good way, said Clemons.

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Kevin WarK

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New Jersey-based Kevin Wark’s gillnetter Dana Christine II was a one-off build that turned into the model so many Maine lobstermen have been demanding.

Haylie Elizabeth, which is a bit of a trick setup, using 14-inch Hydroslave wheels and discs, and a 17-inch hauler motor to provide more torque.

Wark, who operates a gillnet on his sternpicker, describes the handling like

having a thruster in the back of the boat.

From a design perspective, the skeg and rudderpost are in exactly the same position as the 42 Mussel Ridge, it’s just that the hull above has been extended another 4 feet.

“Since I have the first 46, I didn’t have a lot to look at. But I got to ride on a 42 out of Cundys Harbor, so I got a real good idea for how a stretched boat would feel,” said Wark who adds that keeping the wheel forward of the extended transom area is nice because it removes some worry as the net gets close to the boat.

As Wark’s Dana Christine II was built as a one-off, Hutchinson didn’t build a new mold for the boat, but rather came up with an ingenious solution. After building a standard 42 hull,Tom Bernardi (who designed the 42 Mussel Ridge) worked with Hutchinson’s crew to cut out the transom and make a female extension mold on the outside of the boat.

Once Wark’s boat was complete, it was waxed, and a new, traditional mold was taken off that hull, but just for the extension area.

“The mold overlays the boat about 2 1/2 feet, which really locks everything into the chine really nice,” said

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Hutchinson. “You don’t want the extension to sag, you don’t want it to act like a trim tab.”

Howland was so confident the process

“I got to ride on a 42,

so I got a real good idea how a stretched boat would feel.

”

— Kevin Wark,

Matt CleMons

would work, he put down a $1,000 nonrefundable deposit without ever having been on a Mussel Ridge. “It’s very tricky when you build an extension because it’s very easy to get it wrong. But not with the mold they have.”

After making three or four drives down the coast to the shop because Howland felt like “he should be there,” he realized there was really nothing to see and patiently waited for the hull to be finished before shipping it over to Stuart Workman at S.W. Boatworks in Lamoine for finishing.

“Albert was OK with an outside shop finishing the boat because there were a number of hulls on the list after me,” said

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Howland. The Victoria made another trip after S.W. Boatworks, and traveled to the Henry Able Co. in Somes Sound for final finishing, launching and sea trails.

Hutchinson has a three-man crew building hulls and tops, but a lot of guys want to get their boats fast. He says it’s fine if they want use an outside shop near them, although he has the capability to finish in-house and currently has another crew of three finishing out two boats plus one larger 48-foot model that comes from a totally different mold.

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For one, the engine option is rarely the same. Wark went with a tried-andtrue 550-hp Volvo D12 and Howland with a 750-hp John Deere and 2:1 TwinDisc. Meanwhile Clemons opted for another Maine newcomer, a Baudoin with a 1.96:1 reduction.

Another area is roof height, since the tops have an enormous 7 feet 6 inches of headroom. These can be lowered, as well as the cabin trunk and sides of the wheelhouse. It’s an adjustment that has found a following Down East, where a lower profile is preferred.

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his year’s Pacific Marine Expo (Nov. 16-18 at Seattle’s Century Link) will have all the vendors and new products you expect, but it will also be the flashpoint of conversation — heated and otherwise — around Pebble Mine, fish farms, marine monuments, climate change and Magnuson. If these topics are important to you, be ready to have your own say during downtime browsing the aisles or at the fishermen’s happy hour in the beer garden at the end of every day at the show.

If you had a good salmon season — and there aren’t many Alaska fishermen who didn’t — there will be plenty of

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boatbuilders at the show to woo you into a new or refitted boat. Among them is Bay Weld Boats (booth 4134), making the trip down from Homer, Alaska. On the smaller side of the salmon fleet, their 22 x 11.5 jet powered seine skiff is a standout. With a 500-hp Cummins QSC and an 18-inch Namjet, the boat pulls hard and can handle a serious load.

Another interesting boat design is out of Port Angles, Wash., shipyard Platypus Marine (booth 632). The 58foot long-range trawler/seiner Adamant was designed by Hockema & Whalen Associates with fuel savings front and center.Traveling and burning at the same rate empty or laden, Platypus claims the boat reduces fuel consumption by 15 percent, or saving up to $30,000 from an average $200,000 annual fuel bill.

The steel-hulled Adamant draws nearly 12 feet to accommodate three big fish holds, while the QSK19 Cummins rated at 660 hp pushes the boat at a modest 8 knots at 1,400 rpm, keeping the burn low at 10 gph.

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Giddings Boatworks (booth 905) unveiled their new “load-line limit” trawler, destined for Kodiak, Alaska.

What was just a few concept drawings and profile images has matured into a mass of steel using a very clever type of modular construction. Wayne Garcia, general manager at Giddings, said the 79' x 35' 4" Evie Grace is scheduled for launch in June of 2018.

If you are thinking of something even bigger, but maybe haven’t decided where you’ll turn, stop by the Main Stage in the Alaska Hall at 1 p.m.

Saturday for “Myth vs. Reality: Modern Fishing Vessel Design.”

Veteran naval architects Guido Perla of Guido Perla & Associates and Jim Towers of Elliot Bay Design Group will lead a spirited discussion on how to improve vessel designs for modern fleets. They’ll touch on common problems with propulsion and hull form, and the most difficult hurdle of them all, affordability.

If you are in the marketplace for a maritime industry job, the seminar, “A Pipeline for the Maritime Workforce,” led by boatbuilder Seth Muir in the Fisherman’s Lounge might be for you. Just about everyone who has tried to place an order for a boat has found long waiting lists. While that’s the result of strong sales, another factor is that the yards just can’t get the help they need. In this discussion, Muir will talk about the challenges of finding qualified help for the yards.

Of course, if you are looking to outfit your boat, electronics vendors will be there in spades, including those in our recent VHF and radar buyers guides. In particular, Furuno (booth 1515) will be showing their solid-state Doppler radar and NXT series. If you haven’t tried touch-screen navigation with Doppler storm info overlaid, you should check it out. It’s a kick, and no

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matter which brand you are loyal to, you will see that it’s a whole new way to interact with navigation.

Last year, Grundéns (booth 721) made a splash with the introduction of their Deck Boss boot. But with only few prototype pairs on display, fishermen left eager to get on the order list once they were available. This year, the fishermen’s outfitter will have the new Super Watch jacket and bib. These are an upgraded version of the popular Weather Watch series. The garments get their name from Superfabric, a tough ceramic epoxy-impregnated material resistant to cuts and wear. That tough

stuff is used in areas that need it most, and the remaining jacket is breathable and waterproof, as you would expect.

One caveat though: just like the boots, these won’t be available for purchase at the show, but will become available in the spring of 2018.

One of the educational seminars at Expo is titled, “Fisheries Get Ready for a Close-up.” With strong catches on both coasts and boatbuilding observers.

During the past year, the move booms just about everywhere, the fishing industry is strong in America toward of electronic monitoring has and gaining national attention, in part been dramatic, and the government because of public policy decisions that isn’t alone in being curious about what ultimately will decide whether the fishermen are catching. The good news, you want to turn that type streak continues.

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no doubt talking about a new drivetrain system the company has developed.

This proprietary propulsion system is called a marine advanced variable drive

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Zunibal (booth 105), a Spanish-based company that makes monitoring and oceanography products. Of particular interest is their Tuna8 Explorer Buoy, which is a solar-powered echosounder capable of 1,440 pings per day. As you might expect, there’s a whole suite of software that interprets the data, based on which decisions to catch — or conserve — tuna can be determined.

Another new company is ioCurrents (booth 1149), a Seattle-based startup offering fleet management and engine data solutions. Several big boats based on the West Coast are running the system that uses algorithms to predict engine trouble or failures. The crew of one of those boats credits the software with the preventing the destruction of a main engine.

Should you be in the market for an engine, Caterpillar Marine distributors will be on the show floor

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You can bet if one company introduces something new that works, others will follow. The AVD system could lead to a driveline revolution.

Last but not least is the keynote presentation (Thursday, Nov. 16 at 3 p.m. on the Main Stage in the Alaska Hall) with Chris Oliver, the newly appointed assistant administrator for NMFS. Of all the Trump administration appointments this year, his is arguably the least controversial. Don’t miss your chance to ask questions at the end of his presentation, which will focus on the agency’s national priorities and their importance to the Alaska and Pacific Northwest fisheries. With livelihoods and resources on the line, the stakes are high.

Jean Paul Vellotti is the Boats & Gear editor for National Fisherman.

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“We’ve seen it played out in a variety of ways,” he added. “Community vs. community, gear type vs. gear type, different fisheries fighting over disaster relief — and it’s a result of failed policy.”

In the Northeast Coastal Communities Sector’s victim statement, the organization called for the forfeiture of Rafael’s entire fleet, related fishing businesses and a ban from fishing forever.

Shepard says one of the biggest costs to fishermen in his sector is quota leasing.

“The fact that we have to rent paper fish from someone not fishing is asinine,” he said. “The fact that someone owns a portion of a public resource and gets paid to lease that out to fishermen … how is that legal or fair?”

These organizations believe the permits should be somehow distributed to fishermen who have missed out on the fishery since catch shares became law and are looking for a way to get their foot back in the door, avoiding the permits being piled up again with an established operation.

Soon after his sentencing, however, it was made public that Rafael has entered a memorandum of agreement with Richard and Ray Canastra, owners of the Whaling City Seafood Display Auction in New Bedford, who intend to purchase his entire fleet of 28 boats and 42 permits for $93 million.

“We know boats. We know the busi-

ness. We’re doing this to keep this in policy work to be done in order to avoid New Bedford,” said Richard Canastra a similar kingpin figure taking control of in an interview with WBSM, a New the groundfish industry.

Bedford radio station. “My plan is to get “A lot of people think if you get rid out, hopefully, in 10 years when things of Carlos it’s going to be all roses and lighten up and it can be sold properly butterflies,” said Shepard. “But there instead of this fire sale where people will always be a spot for another Carlos want everything for nothing.” within the catch-share system. The stage Canastra attributed the motivation to is already set for the Codfather II unless pursue Rafael’s permits to altruism, to serious changes are made.” keep the assets in New Bedford.

“From my understanding, whatever Samuel Hill is the associate editor for line Carlos wanted them to walk, they National Fisherman. walked,” said Tolley, adding that Rafael’s boats caught the majority of fish coming across their auction.

The sale of the fleet, including the forfeited assets, would have to be approved by NMFS. “They’re in the spotlight right now,” said Shepard.

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taller person. He’s 6 feet 3 inches and can stand up in it.

Buxton likes to work alone when building a boat. He built the Emma G’s backbone and did all the planking himself. Lymburner and her husband helped steam the ribs, and she did some fiberglassing, cut all the bungs and drove them into the planking.

Buxton had the ribs cut and the steam box ready on the day they were to be installed. After “the Lymburners showed up in the morning, we steamed

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Lymburner switched from fiberglass to wood, in part, says Buxton Boats’ Peter Buxton, because she couldn’t find anything in the 30-foot range she liked and would work for her.

That’s when she came to Buxton Boats in August 2016. Buxton drew up a scaled drawing. Lymburner and her husband, Gunnar — who lobsters out of a 38-foot South Shore — liked the drawing and a deal was made.

“She’s not real tall,” said Buxton.

“Probably 5 feet — and wanted it designed around her size. So I kept the bow a little lower than I would have, kept the bulkhead low and got the floor a little higher.” Though Buxton normally puts quite a bit of tumblehome in the transom, Lymburner wanted that kept to a minimum, so

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them all and had them in place in one day,” he says.

The Emma G has a Nida-Core deck and solid fiberglass panels on the sides of the pilothouse and trunk cabin.

Lymburner, whom Buxton describes as being “pretty adept at fiberglassing,” laid up all the panels. He then screwed the panels to varnished oak frames.

“This way,” said Buxton, “if a window leaks it won’t hurt anything and there’s nothing to paint. Everything is gel coated from the guards up.”

A 355-hp John Deere is bolted to the Emma G’s engine beds. It’s matched up with a Twin Disc 507 with a 2:1 ratio. On sea trials the Emma G hit 27 mph.

The National Pride was launched at Richard Stanley Custom Boats in Bass Harbor, Maine, on Aug. 13. It represents an idea that’s been brewing inside Stanley’s brain for a number of years, back to when he worked with his father, Ralph Stanley, at Ralph W. Stanley Wooden Boats. Fishermen who had given up their wooden lobster boats for fiberglass would come into the shop wishing they could have the old boat back. In many cases, they had given up the wooden boat because of rot and the accompanying maintenance issues, especially rot getting into the timbers from fresh water leaking through the deck.

The 38' x 15' National Pride’s hull is framed out with Maine oak and 1-1/4-inch Maine white cedar planking. But instead of being finished off with wood side decks, wheelhouse and trunk cabin, a custom molded fiberglass top sits on the hull’s shelf, sheer clamp and sheer plank. That pretty much solves the fresh water deck leaking issue.

Since the fiberglass top, built by Edgerly Woodworking and Boat Storage in Surry, Maine, only weighs 1,500 pounds — or half that of a wood Buxton Boats built the 31-foot 6-inch Emma G for Brooksville, Maine, lobsterman Kathy Lymburner.

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top — the hull’s weight is kept down low, which, says Stanley, “is where you want it. It makes the boat ride better.” He notes that a wood hull, as op-

fiberglass hybrid design that Stanley points out include maintenance and cost. A wooden boat “with a fiberglass top is easier to take care of than a fiber-

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posed to fiberglass, absorbs vibrations, making working on deck easier on a fisherman’s back and legs.

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out to 21 knots on sea trials. “I took her on a wide open hard turn with everyone standing,” says Stanley. “No one was reaching to hold on. It was as comfortable as could be.”

The National Pride, which was built for Doug Mayo, will be used for tuna fishing and six-passenger lobster daytrips.

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avid Peterson specializes in repairing and rebuilding older wooden commercial fishing boats in boatyards around Eureka, Calif. He’s one of the reasons a lot of older wooden boats are still working the waters off the northern California coast.

Take the last two boats he recently finished. The 35-foot Terron came out of the Anderson & Cristofani boatyard at Hunter’s Point in San Francisco. The Albatross is a 40-foot double-ender built in Seattle. Both were launched in 1927.

Peterson, 61, says he’s been working on the Terron “throughout my life, doing a little on it every year.” Prior to the work that was just completed, the Terron had been hauled, and Peterson and his crew “sistered a bunch of ribs, put in new cockpit floor boards

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and refurbished the stern area.” That included replacing stanchions and covering boards for most of the boat.

For the work just completed, six ribs were replaced on the port side, about even with the pilothouse. “It was just age,” says Peterson. “Ninety-year-old oak, it held up real well considering.” The area was then refastened and caulked.

The Albatross got a new deck. He pulled out bad planking, replaced it with new cedar planks. And then he planed the planking down “nice and flat,” says Peterson. He then refastened it with galvanized nails and covered it with a 3/8-inch layer of Hydrotek marine plywood, which was fastened down with self-tapping stainless-steel taper-head screws. Both layers of the Hydrotek were covered with Henry’s 56 NATIONAL FISHERMAN • DECEMBER 2017

208 roof patch. A layer of fiberglass saturated in epoxy went over the Hydrotek to make the deck watertight.

He made the surface non-skid by adding 20-grit sandblasting sand to the epoxy and then a coat of 235 marine primer.

“That’s my standard-issue deck fix,” says Peterson.

What Peterson won’t do on a commercial fishing boat is pull up all the old deck planking and replace it with new planks. “I tell them, ‘No, I’m not going to do that for you.’ I don’t let people make mistakes with their own boats anymore.”

The issue is that the Douglas fir available today for planking is not of the same quality as the Douglas fir that went into the older wooden boats.

“The truth is, laid planking on boats

David Peterson sistered ribs on the 90-year-old Terron and refurbished the stern while the 35-footer was hauled at Zerlang & Zerlang Marine Services.

leak, even in the best boats,” he says.

John Schumacher at Distinctive Finishes in Haines, Alaska, recently upgraded a troller that had been in the shop all summer. When she left there was a new flush deck set up for a sliding drum — in case the owner wants to switch to gillnetting — and nine new fish holds.

After the boat’s stern area had been gutted and the rotten wood and foam removed, “it came up about 8 inches in the water,” says Schumacher.

With the fish holds completed and the boat back together, it still had 5 inches more freeboard than when it arrived

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at the shop. Better yet, Schumacher estimates the boat will pack 12,000 to 14,000 pounds, whereas before it was about 3,000 pounds.

When fishermen have a good year, it’s almost guaranteed there won’t be a lack of work for boatbuilders in the area.

That’s certainly true this year when fishermen chasing dog salmon and pinks in Southeast Alaska “had about the best year in 15 or 20 years,” says Schumacher. Now Distinctive Finishes has boats lining up that need to be repaired or upgraded.

One of those is the Scana, a native word for killer whale. The boat’s owner bought the 43' x 14' 6" Modutech in Homer and then took it across the Gulf of Alaska to Haines, where Schumacher was to convert it to a tender for a local cannery. The cabin already had problems with rot, and the trip across the gulf didn’t make things any better.

“He about lost the whole cabin,” said Schumacher. “There were 30-foot seas for a couple of days.”

Schumacher will remove the cabin,

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build a one-off mold on the boat and then construct a new cabin. The fish hold, which Schumacher describes as “one big hold and a lot of foam for insulation, which takes up unnecessary space” might be rebuilt with RSW, either this year or next year.

Next to the Scana on the floor at Distinctive Finishes will be a 36-foot gillnetter due to have a new fish hold and deck, and possibly get new fuel tanks.

The 43-foot Scana, just hauled out at Haines, Alaska, after a tough trip across the gulf, will be converted to a tender.

Also in the lineup is a 36-foot gillnetter whose owner wants it lengthened to 39 feet 11 inches and have all new fish holds. “That’s just the beginning,” said Schumacher. I’m going to hire a few guys and try to do a bunch of them.”

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Maryland builder comes back to workboats; museum restoration keeps rolling along

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operation of building and repairing fiberglass boats to his son David and grandson David Jr. So he has started buying old fiberglass and wooden workboats, repairing them and offering them for resale. Evans has also started buying and selling used diesel engines, offering affordable rebuilds and low-hour engines he takes in on trade if they are still in good condition. His go-to customers are those who can’t afford a new or rebuilt engine.

42-foot deadrise to the show. Evans wants to demonstrate to watermen that refurbishing older boats is a solid option to having a new boat built.

Although Evans Boat Repair has seen a shift over the years in its customer base from building and repairing traditional bay workboats to recreational boats, it has not made Evans happy. “I guess you can say that I’m going back to my youth, to when I started fixing and building commercial fishing boats,” he said. “I love the

glass barcats built on the bay. Tangier Island watermen also work this type of low-sided deadrise vessel in the shallow grassy waters of Tangier Sound.

They fish for softshell and peeler crabs, and Tangiermen have for generations called the boats barcats.

Even though the years suggest retiring, it is to soon for Evans, who has turned over most of the day-to-day

Incidentally, Evans recently tried to buy his replica barcat but was unable to make it happen. Instead, he did the next best thing and bought back the second barcat he built. It is a classic low-sided 26-footer named the Hester Lee. Evans built it in 1983 for Allen Smith of Tylerton, Md. “Allen died, and then his son worked the boat.

His son died, and then it sat idle for a while,” says Evans. “So, I bought it and plan to put it back into good shape.”

Evans hopes to have the finished off Hester Lee on display at the 43rd annual East Coast Commercial Fishermen’s & Aquaculture Trade Exposition at the Roland E. Powell Convention Center in Ocean City, Md., Jan. 12-14, 2018.

He also plans to carry a fiberglassed, refurbished wooden Deltaville (Va.)

Eugene Evans is refurbishing older wooden and fiberglass boats, like the barcat Hester Lee, for resale.

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ugene Evans, founder of Evans Boat Construction & Repair in Crisfield, Md., started building fiberglass boats in 1983 when his father, John Evans, wanted a boat built out of fiberglass, just like his old wooden Smith Island deadrise crab scrape boat.

Evans used his father’s wooden barcat as a plug to build the new boat. The original boat was named Twilight and had been powered by sail, while Evans’ replica became one of the first fiber-

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old workboats, and I want watermen to see that we can make their old boats new again.

“My son and grandson have our boatbuilding business under control, but I need something to do with my time,” he says. “I can’t think of any better thing to do than to bring some of the old workboats back to life and to get them back out on the bay.”

Moving up further on the Eastern Shore to St. Michaels, Md., the restoration of the 54' 8" x 17' 2" log bugeye Edna E. Lockwood by the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is moving ahead.

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Back in the early 1800s, Maryland’s oyster dredge fleet was composed mostly of sloops, pungies and schooners. Being frame built, these vessels were more expensive to build than log boats and were not exactly ideal for the dredge fishery. The pungy had a deep draft, and sloops and schooners had high bulwarks making it difficult to haul dredges over the side of the boats.

The solution was the bugeye — a vessel with an inexpensive log bottom, a shallow draft and lower sides. The Edna E. Lockwood is one of the last of her kind and explains why she gets such attention.

The Lockwood was built in 1889 at Tilghman Island, Md., by John B. Harrison. After a long and hard career in Maryland’s oyster dredge fishery, she was donated to the museum in 1973 by John R. Kimberly with the understanding that the boat would be preserved and used to promote maritime education. Ever since, the Edna E. Lockwood has been the showcase vessel of the museum and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1994.

Which brings us to this past September when the sides, decks and house portion of the vessel (restored in 1975) were mounted by crane onto a brand new loblolly pine nine-log bottom.

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The 1889-built oyster dredge Edna E. Lockwood is lowered by crane onto a new nine-log loblolly pine bottom.

The event of the marriage of the two parts took place at the museum’s boatyard, and if you never heard of loblolly, it’s a native species to the southern part of the country.

Restoration work began about two years ago and is expected to be com-

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AT A GLANCE A new flagship line of antennas from the communications company SHAKESPEARE looks smart on the outside and is built-tough on the inside. The Shakespeare PHASE III, designed for offshore and commercial fishing vessels, captures VHF, HF/SSB, AIS and AM/ FM signals, depending on the model. The elements are silver plated and tinned copper conductors for increased signal strength. Sizes range from 4 and 8 feet, up to an 18-foot VHF model. For a full list of sizes and specs, visit www. shakespeare-ce.com/marine.

At first glance, the restyled ST. MAARTEN READING LIGHT from New Bedford-based IMTRA CORP. might seem too stylish for a commercial boat — but then again, the new boats being built for the factory fleet are pretty nice on accommodations.

While the hand-blown glass domes of the new light are lovely, it’s the chromed-brass mounting base that will ensure the durability of these fixtures. And for a modern touch, USB ports are next to the power switch. The swiveling lights accept LED or G4 halogen bulbs. For color options and a list of retailers, visit www.imtra.com/lighting.htm.

Two new standalone chartplotters from SIMRAD have hit the market, the GO12 XSE and the GO7 XSR. To make things simple, the company ditches the model names and calls these their Go series, and these upgraded panels have been restyled with new functions added. The 12-inch model is a first for the line, and the 7-inch version has a new housing and is now radar-capable. The touchscreen allows pinch-to-zoom and pressto-plot navigation functions, and a variety of leading charts are compatible.

More features, including an unlockable radar and Doppler add-on feature, is explained on the company website, www.simrad-yachting.com.

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The satellite views and bathymetric mapping give a detailed bird’s-eye view of any navigation situation.

“We are constantly striving to offer the unique functionality of our cartography catalog to a larger audience of users through building strong relationships with an ever-expanding collection of OEM partners,” said Matt Johnson, CMap product manager.

To that end, C-Map has also acquired i-Sea AS, a Norwegian marine technology and consulting company based in Oslo. With the strategic investment, CMap is looking to integrate I-Sea technology into the C-Map platform, specifically the mobile app platform. Embark, an i-Sea app launched in 2015, has reached 160,000 users so far.

Sean Fernback, CEO of C-Map, said the company looked at a number of boating apps and delivery platforms before picking i-Sea. C-Map is getting social with the release of Genesis Edge, a premium upgrade to the company’s communitysourced, digitally modified and socially enhanced charts. Should you not want your own data revealed, subscribers can choose to keep certain data private.

Quite possibly the last place you might think social media would influence, it’s not all that far off from the days of alerting the Coast Guard and reading notices to mariners. C-Map calls this collective pool of knowledge their Fishbrain, and with charts offering 1-foot contours, that data is incredibly accurate.

Subscriptions to Genesis Edge are available for $99 annually or $24.95 per month for Lowrance, Simrad and B&G displays, with availability to other manufacturers planned.

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Inspired by that idea, Lowrance has brought the lowly bobber into the hightech space with a castable transducer that sends real-time depth and fish finding data to the transducer on your boat.

That info is then sent via Wi-Fi to your smartphone and, voila, you have an idea of what’s happening in the waters off your portside.

Thinking outside the box, the Lowrance Fish Hunter 3-D and Fish Hunter Pro are the latest small electronic devices that have seemingly inundated the market in the last year. But unlike those that require a data plan, these little do-dads are all-inclusive, so to speak, as long as you have a smartphone. With a design like a small buoy, the 4-ounce unit floats on the surface, which helps broadcast the Wi-Fi signal, and a free Fish Hunter app connects the bobber to an Android or IOS device.

What’s really exciting about the Fish Hunter for the commercial market is the potential for future products. While the company says the best Wi-Fi is within a 200-foot range, the potential for offshore monitoring of schools fish or units on outriggers is not outside the realm of possibility.

The Fish Hunter 3-D is good for viewing up depths of up to 26 fathoms and incorporates five tri-frequency transducers. What that means is it can relay five different views, including an ice

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In addition to the fun quotient of these sensors, the “killer feature” as software developers like to say, is the Fish Hunter’s ability to create 3-D bathymetric maps of an area. Granted we’re not

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At $149 for the Pro and $199 for the 3-D model, the Fish Hunters aren’t quite as cheap as the 49-cent bobbers of yesteryear. But they aren’t going to break the bank either.

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Another company that has developed a monitoring product is ARMIT MARINE, which debuted a suite of battery-powered wireless sensors at this year’s Newport International Boat Show. Joking during the presentation that we are in the Internet of things and the company could monitor anything, the practical purposes immediately become high-water alarms and their BILGEMAX is priced competitively at $199, but also requires a yearly service plan for $70.

Still and all, it’s cheap insurance for peace of mind and sends alerts to your smartphone. Other products and details are explained at www.armitmarine.co.

Admittedly, a product designed to prevent ground loops isn’t terribly exciting to anyone other than maybe electrical engineers. But FUGAWI says these ground loops can remain hidden between a computer and a NMEA 0183 instrument for years and suddenly damage electronics. Their solution is the $119 plug-and play ACTISENSE USG-2 GATEWAY that transfers data between devices and a computer. In short, the USG-2 prevents ground loop damages to the PC and all devices plugged in-between. For electronic diagrams and explanations above most pay-grades, visit www.fugawi.com.

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220 John Deere, 12' SS Hauler, Feruno Navnet Radar, Mast, Pulpit, Rod holders, Chiller, Raft, ect Clean, fast, Turn key boat. Asking $95,000. Contact: Chuck (207) 363-8279

46’ FIBERGLASS Injustice: Draws 9’ of water and is 16’ wide. New fuel tanks. No motor No Transmission $30,000. Call 781724-4960

28' 2002 TERRY JASON

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Yanmar diesel, ZF gear, Double wreck anchor & Hauler. $50,000 Contact: Robert 917-533-6315

Cruiser/Sport Fisher, fiberglass, repowered 2009 Cummins 6 BTA, 292 hours, hydraulic steering, auto pilot, depth meter, fish finder, Honda generator, rooftop AC, enclosed head, 4 bunks. l 910-520-5298.

55’ BRUNO GILLNETTER Heckler: Can be converted to lobster boat. 3406 Cat Engine with 514 gear. 12.5 KW Generator $140,000. 781-724-4960

32' 1991 2510 DEEP-V PARKER COMMERCIAL TUNA 2015 Yamaha 300, triple stations, 32' greenstick, downrigger, two elec. reels, six HD rod holders, washdown, 2000 lb. box, hyd. steering, Garmin 10" plotter w/ AIS interface, autopilot, fish finder, radar, VHF, Sat. phone, stereo, LED deck lights and light bar, spotlight, trim tabs, tower, outriggers, anchor and line, new cushions, USCG sticker, life raft, EPIRB, survival suits, flares, HD trailer. PRICE REDUCED to $65,000 OBO Contact Mark 252-256-1893 or 804-240-7226, seaandsoundtackle@outlook.com 66 NATIONAL FISHERMAN • DECEMBER 2017

35' 1996 HENRIQUES Full keel commercial & sport fisher, 3 stations, Cat 3208, 375HP, 350 hrs on complete rebuild, new bow thruster, all electronics including auto pilot, ac , 4 kw generator. $135,000 Contact: carlowens@me.com or 540-661-7340.

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This H & H is in fine condition. It was a U.S.C. Guard Certified vessel for 20 passengers + 2 crew, with a 100 mile ticket. it can be re-certified. The owners have had a change to their plans, presenting this terrific opportunity to a smart 58’ Northern Jaeger buyer. Single Cummins QSM11 -ZF Gear-4,000 hours. 7KW Gen-set. 5 Freeman hatches.$ 288,000 : vessel lying just north of Jacksonville, Florida U.S.A. Contact: Mike Grysko, Located in Kodiak. Steel hull, aluminum house. One owner. Has 2 gen sets , RSW . Single fish hold. GMC 954-789-1307 or RioMarine@comcast.net main engine . Turn key. $600,000 OBO. For more information, or if interested: Call 541-999-1936

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26553 Asbury ave Crisfield, Md Coldwell Banker, Salisbury Kristy Thomas (443) 736-0230 PRICE REDUCED TO SELL: Assets of RI Commercial Fish Trapping Co. Assets of Little Compton, RI Commercial Fish Trapping Company. Assets include 19 commercial fish trap permits, 48’ steel trap boat, 3 aluminum longboats with winches, 2 aluminum skiffs, leaders & netting, anchors, float barrels, etc., the above for $250K. Also for sale is accompanying commercial pier & land with buildings. Call (401) 595-3627 or (401) 316-2442.

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Alaska Air Cargo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38+39 Alphatron Marine USA, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Asano Metal Industry Co Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Baier Universal Motion Components "UMC" . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Bay Ship and Yacht Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Bloom Incorporated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Bostrom, H .O . Co Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Coast Guard Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,65 Commercial Marine Expo Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Cordova Port & Harbor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Cunningham Ships Carpentry LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Delta Western, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Duramax Marine LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Eartec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Fraser Bronze Foundry Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Furuno USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CV4 Fusion Marine Technology, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Gaski Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 General Marine Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Great Bay Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Grundens/Stormy Seas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Smith Berger Marine/Marco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 H & H Marine Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Hatton Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Imtra Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Integrated Marine Systems Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 International Marine Industries In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Jensen Maritime Consultants Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 John Deere Power Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 KEMEL USA Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Kinematics Marine Equipment Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,22,64 Kodiak Area Chamber of Commerce/Comfish . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Kodiak Shipyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 La Conner Maritime Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 MAN Engines & Components Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Marine Hydraulic Engineering Co Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Marport Stout Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CV3 Maryland Watermen's Assoc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Nautican Research & Development Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 NET Systems Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 North American Fishing Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Ovatek Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Pacific Fishermen Shipyard & Electric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Pacific Marine Expo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,33 Pacific Skiffs Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Port of Seattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 PYI Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Rozema Boat Works Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 R W Fernstrum & Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Samson Tug & Barge Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Scania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Seward Chamber of Commerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Simrad Fisheries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CV2 Southeast Alaska Fishermen's Alliance (SEAFA) . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Steiner Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 SW Boatworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Volvo Penta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Walker Engineering Enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Washington Chain & Supply Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Wescold Systems, A Div of IMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Westec Equipment Int Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Wrangell Ports & Harbors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 XTRATUF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Yanmar America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

NATIONAL FISHERMAN is published monthly by Diversified Communications, 121 Free Street, PO Box 7438, Portland, ME 04112. PUBLISHER: Jerry Fraser, Diversified Communications, PO Box 7438, Portland, ME 04112 EDITOR: Jessica Hathaway, PO Box 7438, Portland, ME 04112; OWNER: Diversified Holding Co., 121 Free Street, Portland, ME 04101. Annual Subscriptions for National Fisherman: USA: $26.95 Canada: $36.95 All other countries: surface $51.95 INDIVIDUAL SHAREHOLDER OWNING OR HOLDING 1% OR MORE OF TOTAL AMOUNT OF DIVERSIFIED HOLDING CO. STOCK, AS OF OCTOBER 1, 2017: Anne L. Detmer

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Alison D. Hildreth

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Extent and Nature of Circulation:

Avg # Copies of Each Issue During Preceding 12 Months

Actual # Copies of Single Issue Published Nearest to Filing Date

27,219

25,810

761

735

Thomas W. Hildreth

Total # copies printed: Paid/Requested Circulation thru dealers, etc. (not mailed):

121 Free Street Portland, Maine 04101

Josephine H. Detmer

Daniel W. Hildreth

Horace A. Hildreth

121 Free Street Portland, Maine 04101

Paid/Requested Mail

17,586

16,117

Zareen Taj Mirza

Malcolm B. Hildreth

Anita Sundaram

Total paid/requested circulation:

18,347

16,852

7,843

7,885

121 Free Street Portland, Maine 04101 121 Free Street Portland, Maine 04101

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Free distribution by mail: Free distribution outside mail (show): Total free distribution: Total distribution: Copies not distributed (office/overs/spoilage): TOTAL: % paid/requested circulation:

328

491

8,171

8,376

26,518

25,228

701

582

27,219

25,810

69.2%

66.8%

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MATES/CHIEF ENGINEERS WANTED Tradition Mariner LLC is looking for qualified Mates and Chief Engineers to serve aboard their fleet of 1000 ton to 1400 ton capacity High Seas Tuna Vessels for extended voyages at sea. For more information, please visit our website:

www.traditionmariner.com **Looking for a USCG licensed Chief Engineer** for an uninspected fishing vessel, a Tuna Purse Seine operation with 4000HP and 1500 MT Cargo Capacity. Must hold a current USCG Engineer’s License, have a minimum 3 years experience with this type of operation. This Full Time position operating out of American Samoa and several other Western Pacific Ports and Requires experience and working knowledge of EMD and CAT engines, R717 Refrigeration / Freezing system, Hydraulic Systems, etc.Please submit Resume and license info to PPFisheries@gmail.com

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Ogunquit, Maine Chubby Fish driver Seth Richards adds tags to a 300-pound, 88-inch bluefin tuna caught aboard the Elizabeth Ames out of Perkins Cove in July, one of eight fish headed to Japan via Boston’s Logan Airport. Each tag is linked a boat, a fisherman and a region.

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