National Fisherman articles from April 2004

National Fisherman archives from April 2004

Follow the market.(Editor's Log)
April 1, 2004... I read today that Connors Bros., which is the world's largest producer of canned sardines, is merging with Bumble Bee Seafoods, which is best known for canned tuna and salmon. Bumble Bee is valued at $385 million, and as a result of the...

On Land.(Editor's Log)
April 1, 2004... Normally this is our "At Sea" box, where we print a photograph of a writer and the crew he or she went to sea with. This month, however, it's the "On Land" box, because this industry has some work to do ashore if it is going to assure...

Fishing back when.(NF Classics)
April 1, 2004... 50 YEARS AGO this month General Foods, the parent company of Birdseye, announces the closing of its Boston freezing and filleting operation. Boston's misfortune will be a boon to Gloucester and to Rockland, in particular, which nine...

Northern exposure.
April 1, 2004... FISHING UP NORTH STORIES OF LUCK AND LOSS IN ALASKAN WATERS By Brad Matsen Alaska Northwest Books, 1998 Softcover, 223 pp., $14.95 Fishing stories are almost never boring--it's the nature of the profession. It doesn't matter what or where...

In defense of midwater trawling.(Forum)
April 1, 2004... National Fisherman published a Dock Talk article in its January 2004 issue by Dave Gelfman that inaccurately characterizes the status of the Atlantic herring resource and its commercial fishery ["The perils of midwater-trawling," page 8]....

Fatigue contributes to casualty.(Safety)
April 1, 2004... On a cold, late-May morning a scalloper departed Newport News, Va., for a two week trip off Maryland's Eastern Shore. Over the next few days, her seven dedicated crewmen worked long and arduous hours in the name of a profitable trip. This...

Trawler group weighs in on emergency rule.(To the editor)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2004... We are taking this opportunity to comment on the emergency rule fishermen are currently working under for the start of the 2004 fishing season. It is unfortunate that all of us have been nearsighted in viewing the future of the trawl...

N.C. advocacy group says thanks to northern visitors.(Mail Buoy)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2004... We here at the Winter Bluefin Association would like to thank all our northern friends who joined us this bluefin season. As you saw the fishing was really good, even though some days we had to get as far as 10 to 15 miles offshore. As you...

Cap'n Sane says ...(Mail Buoy)
April 1, 2004... Everybody's back from winter vacations lookin' fit as a mahogany fid ready for whatever comes down the gummint pike. The winter here been's pretty bad. The Cove iced in 'bout 2 feet thick takin' Shorty Gage's 1923 Buick block moorin' clear...

Communication is key.(A Letter From Bill Hogarth)
April 1, 2004... Recently, National Fisherman magazine editor Jerry Fraser announced he was developing a forum for fishermen to meet and discuss their concerns at the September Fish Expo meeting in Providence, R.I. I applaud his efforts to further communication...

Anti-fish-farm group formed for an aquaculture-free B.C.(Mail Buoy)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2004... We represent a strong coalition of Port Alberni citizens comprised of Native, sport and commercial fishers as well as the environmental sector. Our group was formed in March 2003 in response to a decline in herring and chinook stocks in...

Trade officials prepare for shrimp dumping probe: meanwhile, Louisiana group says petitions don't adequately protect harvesters' interests.(Gulf/South Atlantic)
April 1, 2004... Trade officials were preparing in February to launch an investigation into allegations that six named countries dumped cheap shrimp into U.S. markets, after the International Trade Commission determined that enough evidence exists to support...

'Routine' inspection not so routine in Cortez, Fla.: 20 officers hit docks seeking infractions.(Gulf/South Atlantic)
April 1, 2004... It's common for fishermen and Florida resource officers not to see eye to eye. And it's common for officers to inspect seafood houses. But a recent inspection raised eyebrows even in Cortez, a hardy, historic fishing village where...

Florida mullet fishermen report a landings decline: greater success seen along Atlantic coast.(Gulf/South Atlantic)
April 1, 2004... Florida mullet fishermen, especially on the Gulf Coast, are reporting a drop in landings for the 2003-04 season. Hard numbers are difficult to come by. But state researchers say any decline in landings--not yet confirmed--is likely caused...

N.C. harvesters question transfer of bluefin quota: recreational overage spurs NMFS action.(Gulf/South Atlantic)
April 1, 2004... North Carolina fishermen say they should have been allowed to fish on 150 metric tons of bluefin tuna NMFS transferred out of the commercial hook-and-line fishery in mid-November. NMFS Director Bill Hogarth met with North Carolina tuna...

Court bans use of pesticides near salmon streams: ruling creates no-spray buffer zones, requires consumer warning labels on herbicides.(Pacific)
April 1, 2004... "The court has ruled--salmon first, not people," reads the last line of a press release from CropLife America, an association of crop science companies, responding to a January court ruling that bans use of 38 kinds of pesticides near West...

Calif. budget crisis stalls marine reserve process: lack of funds and technical expertise cited.(Pacific)
April 1, 2004... Citing a severe lack of funds and technical expertise, California has indefinitely postponed plans to create a string of no-fishing marine reserves along the state's coast. Santa Barbara lobster fisherman Chris Miller, a 2003 NF Highliner,...

Ore. Sea Grant Web site gives 'heads up' on jobs: helps connect skippers and deckhands.(Pacific)
April 1, 2004... Looking for a boat? Looking for crew? The "Heads Up!" Web site may have an answer. Oregon Sea Grant unveiled the new site in December 2003. It lists skippers and vessels looking for qualified crew; professional crew looking for vessels;...

Home port: where we live.(Around the coasts: news for the nation's fisherman)
April 1, 2004... SAN DIEGO, CALIF. THE TOWN Population: 2.96 million Number of boats: 25 TOP FIVE LANDINGS IN 2002 (2003 data isn't yet available) Swordfish--313,121 pounds worth $1.06 million California lobster--54,084 pounds worth...

Northern shrimp season is short and not so sweet: strong landings in 40-day fishery discourage buyers, price tumbles to 50-cents per pound.(Northeast)
April 1, 2004... The scientific advisers responsible for New England's northern shrimp fishery had encouraged regulators to not even have a season in early 2004 in order to protect the 2001 year class. They thought the 3 year-old shrimp would be more valuable...

Maine senators step up for groundfish catchers: seek parity under new harvest regulations.(Northeast)
April 1, 2004... Maine's groundfishermen may have plenty to complain about when it comes to Amendment 13. But they can't complain that their lawmakers aren't standing up for them. First, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) inserted language into a budget bill,...

Lobstermen's association marks 50th anniversary: Mainers cite resource health, look ahead.(Northeast)
April 1, 2004... The Maine Lobstermen's Association, arguably one of the most influential fishermen's groups in the country, planned a year-long celebration of surviving a half century at the Maine Fishermen's Forum in early March. The forum celebration...

Mickey H.: herring and salmon seiner.(Boat of the Month)
April 1, 2004... Randy Hansen may be the only fisherman who Can't think of anything left to do in order to prepare his 55-foot seiner, the Mickey H., for the season, which begins in March. In February, he'd gone down to the boat shop, but only to deliver a...

Portland group seeks waterfront monument: intent is to celebrate city's fishing heritage.(Northeast)
April 1, 2004... The Portland Fishermen's Monument Commission is stepping up fund-raising efforts to establish a monument to honor Maine's fishing heritage. The commission wants to erect a monument on the city's waterfront and make improvements to the...

New DFO head asked to reopen Nfld. cod fishery: fishermen say scientific evidence, sentinel catches indicate fish population is improving.(Canada)
April 1, 2004... Geoff Regan, newly appointed federal Fisheries and Oceans Minister, is cautiously considering Newfoundland fishermen's request that he reopen the Gulf of St. Lawrence cod fishery. Regan began a tour of coastal Canada by visiting...

DFO poised to phase out 600 jobs over two years: critics deride cuts, citing thin resources.(Canada)
April 1, 2004... Atlantic Canada fishermen and officials aren't happy with a federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans plan to phase out 600 jobs over the next two years. In a memo to staff, DFO Deputy Minisiter Larry Murray says the agency is attempting...

Shrimp-boat spaghetti: Ernie Anderson, Bayou La Batre, Ala.(Galley watch: at-sea cuisine)
April 1, 2004... Bayou La Batre shrimper Ernie Anderson, president of the Organized Seafood Association of Alabama, says a lot of local shrimpers not only like to sell genuine, wild-caught Gulf of Mexico shrimp, they really do like to eat it, too. But...

Study says gear developments can cut turtle takes: NMFS, longliners, environmentalists say methods can reduce encounters by up to 90%.(National)
April 1, 2004... NMFS, fishermen and environmental groups are endorsing new technology they say will help longliners reduce accidental takes of endangered sea turtles. NMFS, in cooperation with fishermen, has worked for three years to develop...

Antonio J.R. Borges: New Bedford, Mass.(Snapshot: who we are)
April 1, 2004... The religious paintings in the wheelhouse and state room of the Sao Paulo, an 87-foot dragger that fishes out of New Bedford, Mass., indicate that Antonio J.R. Borges is a deeply religious man. Pictures of Jesus and an image of St. Paul of the...

Green groups begin spin before ocean study hits: U.S. commission to release report in Feb.(National)
April 1, 2004... The U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy updated its forecast for release of its long-awaited report to Congress and the president on a comprehensive ocean policy. Instead of the vague "Early 2004," as its Web site says, officials said the...

Processor shares survive Senate budget bill battle: crabbers fear loss of bargaining power as plan to consolidate fishery becomes law.(North Pacific)
April 1, 2004... The Senate passed an $820 million omnibus spending bill in January; tucked inside the 1,182-page manifest were provisions that grant individual processor shares to companies buying crab in the Bering Sea. The bill included drastic measures...

Judge increases Exxon punitive damages sum: $4.5 billion award likely to be challenged.(North Pacific)
April 1, 2004... The stage was set for more legal wrangling when trial Judge H. Russel Holland recently set the award for punitive damages in the Exxon Valdez case at $4.5 billion. In 2001, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the original figure of...

Menhaden in the middle: the once lowly pogy today is sought by commercial and sport fishermen, fish farms and health enthusiasts.(In Analysis)
April 1, 2004... Worldwide demand for fisherman feed combined with menhaden's popularity among anglers and others and increasing demand for Omega-3 fatty acids among the health conscious mean there are plenty of people with an interest in this lowly forage fish...

Casting's their lot: Pete Floyd and his son David work the waters off Mississippi with a 22-foot boat and like-sized net.(At Sea)
April 1, 2004... It's just 70 miles across Mississippi's coast and for most of that distance old Highway 90 hugs a touristy beachfront that's decorated with bikinis and littered with red-eyed, freshly fleeced gamblers. But as the busy interstate approaches the...

Irrationalization: the tide will come and go. But will the beat go on?(Yearbook 2004)(Cover Story)
April 1, 2004... Consolidation, of rationalization as it is known on the West Coast, soundsgood. Eliminate enough fishermen and those of you who are left will make money. Nobody will whine about management, no one will agitate for more quota. Besides, it...

Buyback just a beginning: may we quota you.(Pacific)
April 1, 2004... In 2003, Fort Bragg, Calif., fisherman Tommy Ancona, like 91 other trawlers, took advantage of what he saw as a simple business decision: accepting a government check in return for his fishing permits. The groundfish buyback, a $46 million...

Issue surrounds IFQ vote: ballot boxing.(Gulf/S. Atlantic)
April 1, 2004... Fishermen who have waited since 1996 to vote on red snapper individual fishing quotas decided as 2003 drew to a close that it was prudent to wait a little longer. Though momentum in support of IFQs for this Gulf of Mexico fishery appears to be...

Salmon and halibut fortunes give evidence of extremes seen in 2003.(Year in review: North Pacific)
April 1, 2004... Alaska's 2003 commercial fishing season went down as one of extremes in terms of ex-vessel prices and harvest volumes. The Alaska Board of Fisheries granted Chignik salmon fishermen another year of management under the cooperative regime....

Unlucky 13: amending their ways.(Northeast)
April 1, 2004... For close to a decade, the New England Fishery Management Council has been caught between several rocks and numerous hard places as it has strived to NORTHEAST rebuild groundfish stocks. And never was this as true as it's been since December...

Events.(Year in Review)
April 1, 2004... * West Coast groundfish fishermen lose the last two months of fishing thanks to California sport fishermen catching too many species on the overfished list primarily lingcod and canary rockfish. The good news? The issue mar further efforts for...

Salmon and tuna bright spots offset West Coast groundfish squeeze.(Year in review: Pacific)
April 1, 2004... Fishing on the West Coast was a year of contradictions: A narrowly-defined closure area that changed according to season; salmon prices that were low but not low enough to prevent a healthy bottom line; and a tuna season that was off the...

Coral invigorates anti-trawlers: next case!(N. Pacific)
April 1, 2004... Alaska's rock-bottom salmon prices or the inclusion of processors as heirs of quota shares in the comprehensive rationalization of Bering Sea crab fisheries would have made choice candidates for our North Pacific story of the year, if not for a...

Fishermen face challenges aplenty but persevere for long-term benefits.(Year in review: Northeast)
April 1, 2004... In 2003, Northeast fishermen struggled with a wide variety of problems ranging from threatened lawsuits over habitat to impending cuts in the number of days they're allowed to work. Nevertheless, fishermen able to stay in business could...

Sen. Ted Stevens.(Newsmakers)
April 1, 2004... Hailed as the champion of attaching riders to the nation's spending bills and railroading fisheries laws through Congress Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) outdoes himself in passing a bill that allows a dozen seafood processors to claim shares of...

Robo-cat.(Life & fish: chronicles of the weird and wondrous)
April 1, 2004... A robotic catfish is one of a few dozen secret devices on display at an in-house "museum" at CIA headquarters near the nation's capital. The catfish, named Charlie, was built in 2000, and although the agency won't disclose the nature of...

The missing link?(Life & fish: chronicles of the weird and wondrous)
April 1, 2004... Officials at San Francisco's Steinhart Aquarium honor an Australian lungfish as the oldest fish in captivity. Methuselah, as the fish is known, is 3 feet long, weighs about 40 pounds and arrived at the aquarium in 1938 as a full-grown adult....

One lobster, tastefully dressed.(Life & fish: chronicles of the weird and wondrous)
April 1, 2004... A couple of lobster catchers from Mount Desert Island, Maine, break the monotony by dressing a 1 1/2-pound lobster in a Barbie outfit and placing it in the trap of another fisherman. The outfit, fashion mavens will want to know, is a patriotic...

Karyl Brewster-Geisz.(Newsmakers)
April 1, 2004... Based on the work of Karyl Brewster-Geisz and others at NMFS highly migratory management division, the agency proposes new harvest rules at odds with a much-publicized study by researchers at Dalhousie University who say that "all recorded...

Wayne Swingle.(Newsmakers)
April 1, 2004... Wayne Swingle, executive director of the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, issues blunt denial when the Marine Fish Conservation Network's "Horrors of the Deep" identities shrimp and red snapper as examples of "failed" management:...

Ed Genovese.(Newsmakers)
April 1, 2004... Herring fisherman Ed Genovese almost single-handedly saves the 2003-04 San Francisco herring fishery from closure. He and a handful of other outspoken herring harvesters convince the California Fish and Carne Commission to keep the season open,...

Sen. Ted Kennedy.(Newsmakers)
April 1, 2004... Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) is honored for his efforts on behalf of commercial fishermen when the Massachusetts Fishermen's Partnership Awarded him a lifetime achievement Award in April. The first-ever award recognizes Kennedy's efforts to...

Hawaii longline vessel owners Jim Cook and Sean Martin, tired of being pushed around by the federal government decide to push back.(Newsmakers)
April 1, 2004... Hawaii longline vessel owners Jim Cook and Sean Martin, tired of being pushed around by the federal government decide to push back. In conjunction with the Hawaii Longline Association, they sue NMFS in hopes of reopening the swordfish...

Gov. Frank Murkowski.(Newsmakers)
April 1, 2004... Newly elected Gov. Frank Murkowski in late January stacks the Alaska Board of fisheries with commercial fishermen. Salmon fishermen from Prince William Sound and Southeast Alaska are dismayed later in the year when the governor refuses to allow...

Florida Keys lobster fishermen led by president Bruce Irwin of Monroe County Commercial Fishermen and executive director Greg DiDomenico convinced state fisheries management officials to waylay.(Newsmakers)
April 1, 2004... Florida Keys lobster fishermen led by president Bruce Irwin of Monroe County Commercial Fishermen and executive director Greg DiDomenico convinced state fisheries management officials to waylay, at least temporarily, a trap-reduction program...

Portland City Council.(Newsmakers)
April 1, 2004... The Portland City Council defends Maine fishermen from cutbacks proposed under Amendment 13 m the groundfish fishery management plan. A resolutio,n passed in September, denounces harsh restrictions that would weaker the city's fishing industry...

Pew Charitable Trusts.(Newsmakers)
April 1, 2004... Pew Charitable Trusts gets a lot of bang for its buck in 2003. The Pew Oceans Commissions issues its report in 2003, generating tremendous publicity about the slate of commercial fishing in the United States. In addition to the commission Pew...

Fish plants rice planter.(Life & fish: chronicles of the weird and wondrous)
April 1, 2004... A Cambodian teenager dies of suffocation after a fish he caught jumps out of his hands and lodges in his throat, according to the Reuters news agency. Lira Vanthan, 17, was planting rice with his family when they decided to go for a swim. While...

Cut the carp!(Life & fish: chronicles of the weird and wondrous)
April 1, 2004... According to Chuck Shepherd's News of the Weird, a small Jewish Skver sect of Hasidim in New York becomes energized in March when a fish cutter and a Christian co-worker swear that they've heard a 20-pound carp shouting apocalyptic warnings in...

Overdue for maintenance.(Life & fish: chronicles of the weird and wondrous)
April 1, 2004... The Coast Guard detains a coastwise cargo vessel for safety violations after the vessel's skipper reports engine trouble, according to the agency's public affairs office in Alaska. The 203-foot Arctic Transport has been steaming in the Gulf of...

Peripatetic Patagonian.(Life & fish: chronicles of the weird and wondrous)
April 1, 2004... Scientists discover a Patagonian toothfish off the coast of Greenland, the Reuters news agency reports, which is about as far as you can get from its traditional stomping grounds. The fish, known best by the consumer-friendly name of orange...

Petition buoys southern shrimpers; grouper boats have a banner year.(Year in review: Gulf/S. Atlantic)
April 1, 2004... As 2003 ended, many U.S. shrimpers pinned their hopes for a market recovery on a long-anticipated anti-dumping petition that the Southern Shrimp Alliance filed Dec. 31 against six of the top importing countries. The outcome of even a successful...

Rich Ruais.(Newsmakers)
April 1, 2004... Rich Ruais, executive director of the East Coast Tuna Association, leads a charge againts midwater trawlers in the Northeast. Ruais organizes a coalition of interests and argues more observer coverage is necessary to measure bycatch onboard...

Janie Thomas, past president of Organized Fishermen of Florida and now an industry advocate with the Shrimp Producers Association in Fernandina Beach, Fla.(Newsmakers)
April 1, 2004... Janie Thomas, past president of Organized Fishermen of Florida and now an industry advocate with the Shrimp Procedures Association in Fernandina Beach, Fla., makes waves when she and Mayport shrimper Barb Hopton dispute the state's plan for...

David Karwacki.(Newsmakers)
April 1, 2004... David Karwacki, president of the Georgia Professional Crabbers Association, leads a successful revolt against drastic cuts in blue crab harvest days. Georgia crabbers organize quickly, raising formal and informal protests, signing a petition to...

Dr. Robert Ovetz.(Newsmakers)
April 1, 2004... "The longliners have a lot to fear from us," says Dr. Robert Ovetz, a campaigner with the Sea Turtle Restoration Project in California, in a guest column on www.animalpeoplenews.org in December. This group and others have filed of threatened...

President George Bush.(Newsmakers)
April 1, 2004... President George Bush visits the Ice Harbor dam in Washington, taking credit for the 15-fold increase of returning salmon but ignoring the fact that better ocean conditions and Clinton-era hatchery and habitat programs likely were responsible.

Fiberglass fish is a girl's best friend.(Life & fish: chronicles of the weird and wondrous)
April 1, 2004... Some women want diamonds. Others, like Penelope Mapin, will settle for a 600-pound fiberglass fish. According to Port Clinton, Ohio, Mayor Toro Brown, who performs weddings, Mapin asked only that she get married during the town New Year's...

Article index: a year in National Fisherman.
April 1, 2004... ACCIDENTS MONTH Combined efforts rescue crew in Bering Sea blaze Jan. Lost Japanese squid boat drifts ashore in Alaska Feb. Freak diving accident...

The benefits of foresight: the industry clings to old ways, but Bob Alverson of the Fishing Vessel Owners Association understands new ones are important.(In Profile)
April 1, 2004... Whether you agree with his ideas on fisheries management of not, one thing is certain: Bob Alverson has been impressively effective at representing his constituency--the halibut and blackcod longline boat owners who belong to the Seattle-based...

Sea trial, no errors: a new offshore lobster boat shows the right stuff in a blow off Cape Hatteras.(Boats & Gear)
April 1, 2004... The term sea trial is a bit of a misnomer. Sure, you can operate the engine and hydraulics and run between buoys for a speed check, but you don't have much, if any, idea how the boat is going to handle in sloppy weather. That's probably why...

Data made simple: electronic logbooks could soon save fishermen from drowning in a sea of paperwork.(Electronic Tracking)
April 1, 2004... We've come a long way from the seafaring life described by former British poet laureate John Masefield. In "Sea Fever," he speaks of the mariner's "vagrant gypsy life" and the need for "a tall ship and a star to steer her by." Had Masefield...

A class in 'glass: a fiberglass boat will last much longer if you learn how to care for it.(Boat Strength)
April 1, 2004... In the early 1970s when fiberglass boats began to hit their stride, we heard some pretty extravagant claims for the new material. It was maintenance free, lasted indefinitely, didn't rot and didn't corrode. But fiberglass, with its high...

Innovations: our annual tribute to ideas that have changed the face of fishing.(Hall Of Fame)
April 1, 2004... Sometimes new designs don't have an immediate effect beyond a fleet or a region. An example would be the patent tong, which was invented for oystering and clamming, on Chesapeake Bay. Other concepts, like the knockabout schooner, had vast...

R.I. research boat delivered; yard launches first 40-footer.(North)
April 1, 2004... There's nothing like a Maine boat launching in winter. It requires wearing a lot of warm clothes, along with a studied indifference to wind and cold: "Why this is nothin'. Nothin' like when they launched the dragger Icicle 60 years ago in...

Boat gets novel prop switch; winches rebuilt on 100-footer.(West)
April 1, 2004... A string of large draggers has made their way from the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska to the docks at Fairhaven Shipyard in Bellingham, Wash. Some will receive general maintenance and others are in for more serious work. One of those boats,...

Rare trap boat is being built; N.C. boats getting diversified.(South)
April 1, 2004... Visiting Francis Haynie's backyard boatshop near Heathsville, Va., is like stepping back into earlier times when wooden boats were commonplace throughout the Chesapeake Bay region. Years ago, forests throughout the Virginia and Maryland...

Bulletin board.(Calendar)
April 1, 2004... MAY 4-6 European Seafood Exposition/Seafood Processing Europe Brussels Convention Center, Brussels, Belgium www.euroseafood.com The European Seafood Exposition brings together seafood buyers and sellers from all over Europe and the world....

Heading in the right direction: Simrad's AP series autopilots now feature upgraded compasses.(Product Roundup)
April 1, 2004... It's a lot better running with a following or a quarter sea instead of butting into a head sea all day--as long as your autopilot maintains a proper heading without making the boat snake its way down the waves. That wastes fuel and, with a...

George Lariviere.(On The Move)
April 1, 2004... The National Marine Electronics Association has awarded GEORGE LARIVIERE its Lifetime Achievement Award, which honors individuals who have improved the public good through marine electronics. Lariviere has worked in the marine electronics...

Honda Marine.(On The Move)
April 1, 2004... HONDA MARINE has named CHRIS YOUNG assistant manager of marine sales administration. Young will offer support from Honda Marine's Alpharetta, Ga., office to the national sales manager, 12 district sales managers, three original equipment...

NOAA awarded its 2003 Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship to four graduate-level scholars in the fields of marine biology, coastal resource management and maritime archaeology: Kurt Bretsch, of Georgetown, S.C.; Erik E. Cordes, of Pine Grove Mills, Penn., Kelly Ann Gleason, of Greenville, N.C.; and Rachel Lynelle Horlings, of Tallahassee, Fla.(On The Move)
April 1, 2004... NOAA awarded its 2003 Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship to four graduate-level scholars in the fields of marine biology, coastal resource management and maritime archaeology: KURT BRETSCH, of Georgetown, S.C.; ERIK E. CORDES, of Pine Grove Mills,...

Yanmar Marine USA Corp.(On The Move)
April 1, 2004... Yanmar Diesel America Corp.'s marine business unit will become YANMAR MARINE USA CORP., headed by its new president, THOMAS CALHOUN. The company, headquartered in Adairsville, Ga., will manage Yanmar's pleasure craft and light-duty commercial...

U.S. Marine Safety Association.(On The Move)
April 1, 2004... JIM O'CONNOR of Tiverton, R.I. has been elected president of the U.S. MARINE SAFETY ASSOCIATION. O'Connor is founder and president of Life Raft and Survival Equipment, headquartered in Portsmouth, R.I. He was elected to the board of directors...

Heatcraft Refrigeration Products.(On The Move)
April 1, 2004... HEATCRAFT REFRIGERATION PRODUCTS announces the promotion of KEN ROTHGEB to sales director for the original equipment manufacturer and distribution markets in the United States and Canada. JEFF TINDEL has been appointed director of sales support...