JUNE 2016
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
Southern convert Florida yard transforms second trawler to pump Alaska pollock
BOATBUILDING
Lobster boats get beamed out www.nationalfisherman.com
THE FRAUD FATHER?
New Bedford fish king faces up to 25 years
CONTENTS
Cover: The Defender launching in Pensacola, Fla., ready for sea trials and the Bering Sea pollock fishery after a major conversion. Photo by Tony Tarnok
NATIONAL FISHERMAN • JUNE 2016 • VOL. 97, NO. 2
Features/ Boats&Gear
On Deck
22
In Search of the Simple Life
7
Cod fraud
Everything you need to know about cooking cod tongues for your friends.
How New Bedford fishing mogul Carlos Rafael got caught and what it means for the rest of the region’s fleet and enforcement.
10
Dock talk
28
How Cape Cod fishermen are selling their abundance of delicious dogfish.
Cover
The journey West
Fla. yard makes their second New England mackerel boat to Bering Sea pollock trawler conversion.
28 2 Editor’s Log 4 Fishing Back When 6 Mail Buoy/Eileen Sobeck 8 Northern Lights 8 Washington Lookout 11 Consequences 12 Around the Coasts 20 Market Reports
7
34
The beam team
Why Maine boatbuilders abandoned the 3:1 ratio and developed monster lobster boats.
40
Around the Yards
A clean engine swap in Maine; Wash. yard fixes up a family; Using logs for a historical rebuild
22
10
Last Set A salmon seiner in Tenakee Inlet p. 56
44
READER SERVICES Classified
Product Roundup
Fire suppression agent saves the boat and the ozone; Sonar set up for shrimp and pollock fishing
Advertiser’s Index
34
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Table of Contents: page 28: Tony Tarnok photo page 22: Steve Kennedy photo page 34: Brian Robbins photo
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