two meter troll
2008-12-31 01:07:49
I tend to try and include links to information i collect and run across that i think is relevant. but it clutters up posts.
I would rather put info links in a section than in the Troller talk. thanks for setting this place up.
If you can gather all of your links together and organize them, post them here and then I'll create a new area for them.
Thanks,
Jon
JYDPDX
2009-02-07 23:16:44
Great Site!
Nice long history on the Tacora. The salvage story was fascinating.
tacorajim
2009-02-09 02:01:51
Thanks.
I feel fortunate meeting my mentor, and his sharing of my boat's past. Too much history of our old wood boats goes down the memory hole when it should be inspiring.
Salty
2009-02-10 19:35:06
I wrote resolutions on Bering Sea trawl salmon by-catch for Bering Sea groups when I was working for AMCC. I remember drafting one in the back seat of a cab. Do you know that there are no limits on trawl size in the Pollock fishery in the Bering Sea? If you could tow one a mile across it would be legal I believe. Actually I have not been involved for some time so it is possible someone actually defined Bering Sea Pollock trawl size in regulation, but I kind of doubt it.
We did help get a regulation, with the unanimous support of the United Fishermen of Alaska Board of Directors, to take the trawls off of the bottom in the Bering Sea Pollock fishery. The fact that it is virtually unenforceable and often violated is kind of troublesome. Nevertheless it helped reduce crab and halibut by-catch.
Put those trawls right up in the mid-water where those salmon hang out. Sure glad we kicked them out of SE. (Comment deleted in the interests of good taste.)