National Fisherman articles from April 2006

National Fisherman archives from April 2006

April 2006 this month's highlights.(The hail)(Editorial)
April 1, 2006... Our cover story this month (page 34) is by Wesley Loy, a talented reporter for the Anchorage Daily News who covers fisheries with insight and energy. You need a guy like Loy when you're trying to sort things out in a controversial milieu...

This is easy.(Editor's log)(fishery management regulations)
April 1, 2006... Strip the social and economic contexts out of fishery management and the job gets pretty easy. You can shut everyone down forever (and surprise some people when the oceans don't simply fill with fish) or you can say, "go get 'em, boys" and...

There's a catch to these unusual fishing methods.(Fo'c'sle library)
April 1, 2006... They say there's more than one way to skin a cat. Apparently there are also 100 unorthodox ways to catch fish, too. And author John Waldman, a professor of biology at Queens College who has written for the New York Times and other outdoor...

A Chesapeake Bay waterman shares life on the Eastern Shore.(Fo'c'sle library)(Editorial)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... A.M. Foley understands the value and the power of providing a glimpse into a way of life through the eyes of an Eastern Shore waterman. She relays the stories of Wylie Abbott, an Elliott Island, Maryland, waterman, which she collected in a...

It's not just fishing!(From Another Perspective)
April 1, 2006... While digging into the spiny dogfish situation in the Northeast (see The Dogfish Follies at www.fishnet-usa.com/dogfishfollies.html), I was intrigued by the fact that it took 2.4 million metric tons of prey--including hake, cod, pollock,...

50 years ago.(Fishing Back When)(fishery mangement training)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Waiting for word that the herring have arrived, Norwegian seiners and gillnetters gather at Floro, on Norway's west coast. Over the course of the two-month fishery, 5,000 boats and 85,000 men will participate in the million-ton harvest. Most of...

30 years ago.(Fishing Back When)
April 1, 2006... A collision with a Moroccan cargo ship in the English Channel leaves the Gorizont, a brand new, 363-foot Russian freezer trawler, bulbous bow--up in 40 fathoms of water off the Isle of Wight. The sinking of the Gorizont is a blow to the Soviet...

10 years ago.(Fishing Back When)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Stories highlighting National Fisherman's 1996 yearbook issue include wrinkles in the inaugural year of the individual fishing quotas in the halibut and blackcod fisheries in the North Pacific, a strong showing by Dungeness crab, a whirlwind...

Getting with the new corporate reality.(Dock talk)(Column)
April 1, 2006... The flying brick of revelation hit me on the back the head recently. I had been yelling at our local state representative about fisheries "rationalization." "It's Fascism!" I foamed. "How can you say that you are still thinking about...

Let the buyer beware: from U.S. coast guard reports.(Consequences)
April 1, 2006... On May 29, 2003, a 38-foot, 14-gross ton wooden fishing vessel was underway south of Half Moon Bay, Calif., with the owner-operator the sole crewman. This was only the second fishing trip the owner had taken since purchasing the vessel. As...

Midwestern reader advocates plan for U.S. industry.(Mail buoy)(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2006... How is your retirement holding up? Will you have medical benefits next year? Will you or your kids find a good-paying job today or next year? Will Social Security and Medicare be there when you need them? For many folks, the answers to these...

Cap'n sane says ...
April 1, 2006... The Sea Grant Haddockmobile pulled inta the Cove last Friday on its spring migration run. Most of us were busy lobster gearin' up, so's we didn't pay much attention t'the 'mobile siren alert. But word came down from Beulah Banning, who was up...

R.I. fisherman suspicious of conservation motives.(Mail bouy)(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2006... I just recently read in your Mail Buoy an article from Forrest A. Young, Dynasty Marine Associates, Marathon, Fla. ("Fla. fisherman opposes 'managing' cownose rays" NF March '06, p.8). I am a commercial fisherman in Rhode Island. I was...

Fisheries management should broaden perspective.(Mail bouy)(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2006... Fisheries management is a multi-million-dollar business that employs some who are knowledgeable of commercial- and sportfishing, and some with absolutely no clue how to bait a hook. Commercial fishermen are told when and where they can...

Considering the future.(A letter from Bill Hogarth)(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2006... In recent weeks, I have spoken at two national meetings regarding seafood. First was the Seafood and Health Conference 2005, held here in Washington, D.C. The second was Sustainability and the Future of Seafood at the Seafood Summit in Seattle....

Wanted: a horse, rigged for sunset.(In search of the simple life)
April 1, 2006... Nothing like a morning cup of coffee at Dock Street Brokers. I've been doing it off and on now for 30 years, ever since Roger Lohrer opened for business in 1976. Cruise down Ballard Avenue two blocks from the Seattle Ship Canal, and you can...

New size limits implemented to protect female crabs: North Carolina 2005 spawner index drops to 113, the state's lowest total since 1987.(GULF/SOUTH ATLANTIC)
April 1, 2006... North Carolina took a new direction in protecting blue crab stocks when the state's first maximum size limit for female crabs took effect in January. The rule prohibits harvesting mature female crabs over 6 3/4 inches and female peeler...

Oyster reef project aims to slow coastal erosion: but Vermilion Bay site worries harvesters.(GULF/SOUTH ATLANTIC)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... A Louisiana group dedicated to coastal protection has received the first installment of a $69,000 grant from the Gulf of Mexico Foundation for construction of an oyster reef in Vermilion Bay, which organizers say will be an important step...

Fishermen suggest ideas to aid hurricane recovery: say disaster-management process too slow.(GULF/SOUTH ATLANTIC)
April 1, 2006... It was just talk, and it remains to be seen whether any action to help hurricane-ravaged fishing communities will come of it. But NOAA officials, led by Ed Shaw, NOAA business liaison, were listening and asking the right questions, at...

Crabbers back fishing as strike doesn't nudge price: Canadian opilios provide stiff competition as Dungeness dock offering stays at $1.50.(PACIFIC)
April 1, 2006... Dungeness crab fishermen in much of northern California, Oregon and Washington tied up their boats for a day or two in mid-January in the hopes of getting $1.65 a pound for their catch. But buyers had other plans. Many already had...

Home port where we live: Seattle.(fisheries revenue)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... THE TOWN Population: 571,000 Number of boats: 420 TOP FIVE LANDINGS IN 2004 By value Geoduck clams--1,325,971 pounds worth $4,603,763 Chum salmon--1,935,518 pounds worth $835,980 Cobo salmon--499,931 pounds worth $534,937...

Quick shrimp dip: Richard Puterbaugh, Brunswick, Ga.(GALLEY WATCH: AT-SEA CUISINE)(Recipe)
April 1, 2006... Richard Puterbaugh is a survivor in one of Georgia's oldest shrimp ports. "We're still hanging on," he says. "I can't imagine doing anything else." After a hard summer, Puterbaugh had some luck in mid-October with a good run of shrimp and...

Stakeholders speak out against sanctuary idea: Oregon fishermen fear loss of fishing rights.(Around the coats)
April 1, 2006... Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski's plan to request that most of the waters off Oregon be designated a national marine sanctuary met a lot of resistance in January. The legislature-established Ocean Policy Advisory Council, created to provide the...

Caprice: Salmon gillnetter.(BOAT OF THE MONTH)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Bob Mielke came to own the Caprice in 1989, when he traded a setnet operation in Cook Inlet for the boat and a drift permit in Bristol Bay. "It was a good move for me," says Mielke, who's never considered going back to northern Cook Inlet....

Groundfish plan hits wall in legislative committee: bill to control state fisheries lacks support.
April 1, 2006... Alaska's Department of Fish and Game plans to fashion a management system for state waters groundfish fisheries in the Gulf of Alaska have been stopped once more. The department's plans, which would control, if not preempt, impacts from...

Sea Warrior crew fined for fishing Big Valley: carded gear for crab boat that sank in '05.(Around the coasts)
April 1, 2006... The captain of a fishing vessel that illegally carried pots for the Big Valley, which sank in the Bering Sea last year, has been fined and sentenced to spend 10 days in jail. But he averted complete financial disaster when the judge didn't...

U.S ends bid to extradite seamen in Starbound case: decision dismays sinking victims' relatives as Russian authorities take over jurisdiction.(ATLANTIC)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Years of international legal arguments and diplomacy ended in late January when U.S. authorities dropped their effort to extradite a Russian merchant captain and two seamen to face charges in the Aug. 5, 2001, sinking of the Maine-based fishing...

Snapshot: who we are.(Eric Svelling)(Interview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Eric Svelling Barnegat Light, N.J. Eric Svelling's fleet has a 56-foot flagship and little skiffs with outboards. He saw a future in diversification and cast his net wide. "We're forced to. It seemed like every time there was another...

Va. watermen post best oyster harvest in 15 years: dock price rises as high as $40 a bushel.(ATLANTIC)(Virginia)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Although the 100,000 bushels of oysters harvested last year in the Virginia waters of Chesapeake Bay doesn't sound like much when reviewing historical data, 2005's landings are the best in 15 years. In 1958-59, before the disease MSX began...

N.J. fishermen practicing to create culture of safety: drills emphasize swift action in emergency.(ATLANTIC)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Like performers in an old-time Florida water park, swimmers form a rumba line in the pool, then link arms in a circle and kick merrily. Swathed in red neoprene stretched over broad shoulders, they can't be mistaken for make-believe mermaids....

Bill drafted to preserve nation's working waterfronts: would provide $50m in grant money to help towns weather coastal development pressure.(NATION/WORLD)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... A bill that would provide $50 million federal dollars to help preserve working waterfronts is still making its way through the congressional pipeline, and gaining support. The bill is designed to keep fishermen and related businesses from...

Pacific.(Pacific Fishery Management Council)(vessel monitoring system)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... The Pacific Fishery Management Council is planning to greatly expand vessel monitoring system requirements on the West Coast. The council recommended VMS units for all commercial vessels that take and retain, possess, or land federally managed...

New England.(New England Fishery Management Council limited)(herring fishery)(catch fishery)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... The New England Fishery Management Council limited the number of vessels eligible to fish for herring in all management areas, establishing a fleet of approximately 39 vessels that will qualify for the directed herring fishery and 61 additional...

South Atlantic.(COUNCIL UPDATES: news from the regional management councils)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Council appointments are intensely political most everywhere, even if the New York Times doesn't care much about them. Fortunately--or perhaps not, depending on your perspective--the Jacksonville, N.C., Daily News does. Fisheries and...

Western Pacific.(Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council)(restricted fishing areas)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... The state of Hawaii is working in conjunction with the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council and local bottom-fishermen to devise a way to increase numbers of bottomfish and their habitats. A survey has been circulating around...

Caribbean.(COUNCIL UPDATES: news from the regional management councils)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... The Caribbean Fishery Management Council has taken steps to bring management plans for spiny lobster, queen conch, reef fish and coral fisheries into compliance with federal law. According to the final rule published last fall, fishing...

Gulf of Mexico.(COUNCIL UPDATES: news from the regional management councils)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Alternatives under consideration for improving stock rebuilding in the red snapper fishery include: cutting recreational and commercial red snapper quotas by 23 percent to 78 percent; reducing bag limits for recreational fishers to one fish a...

North Pacific.(COUNCIL UPDATES: news from the regional management councils)(North Pacific Fishery Management Council)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... The North Pacific Fishery Management Council was to consider closing trawl grounds near Kodiak Island in August and September to facilitate a study of the effect of commercial fishing on Steller sea lions, an endangered species. The study...

The year in review: what goes around, comes around.(Yearbook 2006)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Some people just can't take a hint. Your shrimp are worth less than they are when you fished with your father, the difference being that fuel that was 20 cents a gallon then, as opposed to $2 a gallon now. Your boat--the one that is secured by...

Southerners, drawing on rebellious spirit, buck storms, prices.(GULF/SOUTH ATLANTIC)
April 1, 2006... Was 2005 the beginning of the end for commercial fishing in the Southeast? Is there a future for fishing communities here? Spoken or not, acknowledged or not, such questions troubled the sleep of many fishermen as the disastrous year ended. ...

Haddock and herring fishermen count their blessings; codfish fleet readies for a 10-count.(MARKET REPORT)
April 1, 2006... For all the fishing power, science, professional management and global markets of the 21st century, the direction of New England's industry in 2005 seemed to hinge again on cod fish and herring -keystone species today as they were centuries ago...

Record storm season leaves its mark on the region's top three fisheries.(GULF/SOUTH ATLANTIC YEAR IN REVIEW)
April 1, 2006... Katrina and her destructive siblings didn't wreck all the Southeast's commercial fisheries, but the record 2005 storms left the top three fisheries in crises or historic proportions. Only a fraction of the Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama...

Salmon and herring fleet reap bounty of higher landings and better prices.(NORTH PACIFIC: YEAR IN REVIEW)
April 1, 2006... All the talk in 2005 was about salmon as the Alaska industry posted its third best season on record. Even before most of the data had been compiled, fishermen in many areas had begun feeling the effects of a banner year. The reopening of...

For salmon fishermen who stuck it out, just rewards, just in time.(NORTH PACIFIC)
April 1, 2006... It's been another memorable year in the way of challenges for the folks who cast off the lines and point their bows to sea. And like any other year, fishermen again defined themselves as a resilient lot, who adapt to face challenges and...

Strong demand, steady supply keep scallop prices soaring ever higher.
April 1, 2006... Scallop prices roared past the lobster market during summer 2005, and they show no sign of coming down. Strong domestic and export demand and a steady supply--the payoff from good year classes and strict management--pushed large-scallop prices...

Restrictions took bite out of season, but prices came through.(PACIFIC)
April 1, 2006... Salmon season at first seemed doomed to failure: Thanks to restrictions on the Klamath River, many fishermen in southern Oregon and northern California saw weeks slashed out of the middle of their summer fishing seasons. Columbia River...

West Coast fisheries good and bad feeling the sting of rising fuel prices.(PACIFIC: YEAR IN REVIEW)
April 1, 2006... Despite West Coast fisheries ranging from extremely good seasons to extremely bad seasons, one constant influenced them all fuel prices. Albacore tuna fishermen, swordfish and tuna fishermen in Hawaii, and shrimpers had the most difficulty...

Bob Spaeth.(on buyouts of fisheries)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Bob Spaeth, co-owner of Madeira Beach Seafood and executive director of the Southern Offshore Fishing Association, organized and led an industry committee that hammered out a business plan to use $35 million Congress authorized in 2004 for a...

Ronald Fred Crum.(fights for Florida)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Ronald Fred Crum has fought Florida's net ban for years in relentless bulldog fashion, inspiring allies while exasperating foes. He has spent tens of thousands of dollars of his own money in the fight. In July, Crum succeeded in demonstrating,...

Karen Bell.(of A.P. Bell Fish Co.)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Sometimes the quantity and shrillness of one's foes commend the character, principles and effectiveness of an individual. Such is the case with Karen Bell, Gulf council member and manager of A.P. Bell Fish Co. in Cortez, Fla. As the foes of...

Carl Shuster.(of Virginia Institute of Marine Science )(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... When environmental groups pressed for a total moratorium on Delaware Bay horseshoe crab harvests, fishermen had an ally in Carl Shuster, the Virginia Institute of Marine Science professor who is one of the world's top experts on the species....

Joshua Cohen.(NORTHEAST)
April 1, 2006... Government agencies need to be careful about issuing public health advisories about mercury in some fish species because warnings may lead too many people to avoid seafood altogether and thus increase their chances of other health problems,...

Pedro Furtado.(fisherman of portugal)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... When Pedro Furtado got into the fishing business as a teenager in his native Portugal, he had one early advantage--a basic lifesaving course he took at age 17. Five years later, Furtado watched as five fellow crewmen from New Bedford went...

Larry Craig.(senator inserts language in federal spending)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... U.S. Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) inserted language in a federal spending bill that eliminated the Fish Passage Center on the Columbia Privet. For 20 years, the center has monitored and reported the status of salmon and steelhead making their way...

Ted Kulongoski.(governor of Oregon)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski announced in December that he planned to ask the federal government to designate all the waters off the Oregon coast, past state waters and to the toe of the continental shelf, a marine sanctuary. He made the request...

Dirk Kempthorne.(governor of Idaho criticizes federal ruling)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne, criticizing a federal ruling that would increase water spills over dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers, said harvest of wild fish should be cut back to aid recovery--a comment later echoed by James Connaughton,...

Vidar Wespestad.(PACIFIC)
April 1, 2006... Vidar Wespestad, chief scientist for the Pacific Whiting Conservation Cooperative, took environmental scientists to task on their own turf, organizing several presenters at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting...

Arthur "Chuck" Robinson.(fights for fisherman)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Soldotna lawyer Arthur "Chuck" Robinson wouldn't let up in his representation of 13 fishermen contesting the cooperative salmon fishery at Chignik. Robinson has represented the dissenting fishermen in their fight against the Alaska Board of...

Lisa Murkowski.(stops fish farming in federal water)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... NMFS may be whole-heartedly embracing the development of offshore aquaculture in U.S. waters, but it's safe to say that fishermen the nation's coastal fishing communities are less enthused about that prospect. Certainly, that's the case in...

Sig Hansen.(honored)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Ordinarily, plugging his vessel's hold with Bering Sea king crab would be reward enough--especially in a season that saw dockside prices in the neighborhood of $5 per pound, the best ex-vessel value seen in several years. But for Sig Hansen,...

Ben Stevens.(NORTH PACIFIC)
April 1, 2006... Alaska state Sen. Ben Stevens (R-Anchorage), son of U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), won unwanted notoriety in September when media outlets uncovered his financial interests in an Adak-based seafood company that stood to gain millions in...

Chronicles of the weird and wondrous.(Life & Fish)
April 1, 2006... According to the Associated Press, a study at the University, of Massachusetts at Dartmouth has revealed that quahog blood neutralizes injections of botulism. Just how they do this remains a mystery. The scientists are injecting clams with...

Desperately seeking sea room: inshore and offshore, signs the waters will become crowded.(In analysis)
April 1, 2006... Atlantic City's skyline is a strange sight for fishermen and sailors making their first landfall into Absecon Inlet. Donald Trump's Taj Mahal casino, the curved and golden Borgata tower, plasticized hotel and shopping-mall facades all stand...

Yankees get hit: New Englanders resolve to live with stiffer rules, rebuild cod stocks.(Codfish Aristocracry?)
April 1, 2006... New England's storied--of late beleaguered--ground-fish industry was dealt another setback in late January when the New England council imposed more effort cuts to take effect this spring. And while elements of the conservation movement...

Crab in question: crew members and others in new quota fishery want to know: what's rational about this?(Cover story)
April 1, 2006... The Painter brothers, Gary and Ted, of Newport, Ore., have competed in Alaska's fierce king and snow (opilio) crab fisheries since the late 1960s. It's been a fine business for them. But last year, they scaled back their operation radically....

Smoked fish boat: a pollock trawler gets overhauled following a fire at sea.(Boats & Gear: Repair work)
April 1, 2006... In mid-January, the 135-foot trawler Westward 1 pulled away from the docks at Duwamish Shipyard in Seattle and started steaming to the Aleutian chain and Dutch Harbor. From there, she and her crew would push out into the Bering Sea for another...

The best stuff: National Fisherman's annual salute to the innovations that have transformed commercial fishing.(Boats & Gear: Hall of Frame)
April 1, 2006... In this year's roundup, we take you down several avenues of the evolution of fishing gear. For example, oyster hand tongs, which started out as a tool reserved for slave labor in the antebellum South--thanks to the technique's low yield and...

Who shrunk the electronics?(boating industry gets electronics touch)
April 1, 2006... Stand in the middle of a wheelhouse and look around--radar, fishfinders, loran, GPS, autopilot, single-sideband and VHF radios, and chart plotter. Forty years ago, all these marine electronic products were a lot bigger, heavier and drew more...

Tuna boat aces weather test; fast 25-footer is portable, too.(NORTHEAST)
April 1, 2006... New Jersey tuna fisherman Joe Juliano has had time to try out his new Wesmac 43-footer, and he likes what he's got. "I go out in style on that boat," he says. He's referring to what he considers a first-rate job of laying up the Rebel...

Boat being built in two stages; B.C. yard getting a makeover.(WEST)
April 1, 2006... The 34' x 12' aluminum gillnetter and halibut boat being completed at Webber Marine and Manufacturing is the largest gillnetter the Cordova, Alaska, shop has built. The boat is for local fisherman Rick Ballas and is being built in two...

Va. builder finds winter work; fourth NOAA boat to be built.(SOUTH)
April 1, 2006... Edwards Marine Railway on Gwynn's Island, Va., opened in the 1930s and began much the same way many railways did on the Chesapeake. Stewart Edwards, 92, and his father Emmett were commercial fishermen and wanted a railway to maintain their...

Clarification.(Boats & Gear: Around the Yards)(Correction notice)
April 1, 2006... NF's March Around the Yards South column said a 38-footer "charred" in a fire at Evans Boats would be used as a plug to take a mold off. It should have read, "Part of three boats would be used for a plug to take a 38-foot mold off."

Bulletin board.(Calendar)
April 1, 2006... APRIL 5-6 Fish Expo WorkBoat Atlantic Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, R.I. www.fishexpoadantic.com * www.workboatattantic.com Providence is once again host to this biennial event serving the entire Eastern Seaboard....

SIMRAD.(Simrad Marine A/S appoints Lou Rota)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... LOU ROTA has joined Lynnwood, Wash.-based marine electronics manufacturer SIMRAD in the newly created position of vice president, sales. Rota assumes responsibility for North American sales for Simrad electronics and Simrad/B&G Performance...

Centek Industries.(appoints Jane Guy)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... CENTEK INDUSTRIES has named JANE GUY corporate marketing manager. Previously Centek's marketing director for environmental products, Guy will develop marketing strategies for all product lines. Her duties also include directing public...

Pelican[TM] products.(appoints Mark Rolfes)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... PELICAN[TM] PRODUCTS has named MARK ROLFES vice president of sales. His responsibilities will include driving continued sales growth in the U.S. market, leading Pelican's sales team and developing new business initiatives outside its...

Docking made easy: Beier radio control system helps big-boat helmsmen.(Product roundup)
April 1, 2006... Beier Radio's new IVCS2000 marine control system isn't something you'll be seeing in the wheelhouses of a lot of fishing boats. But boats that match up with the integrated vessel control system should be a lot easier to maneuver, at sea or at...

Simple, but smart: blue sea systems gives the battery switch an upgrade.(Product roundup)
April 1, 2006... You wouldn't think there could be much in the way of new technology for a battery switch--certainly not enough to push a switch into an award category. After all, the basic switch consists of a knob that can be turned from "off" to battery...

Honda marine offers electronic diagnostic device for troubleshooting Honda's BF135, BF150, BF200 and BF225 EFI outboards.(At a glance)
April 1, 2006... HONDA MARINE offers an electronic diagnostic device for troubleshooting Honda's BF135, BF150, BF200 and BF225 EFI outboards. The HONDA DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM deciphers troubleshooting codes from the outboard's control module. The device also...

Reverso pumps' newest product removes air from diesel fuel lines that restrict fuel flow and make the engine difficult to start.(At a glance)
April 1, 2006... REVERSO PUMPS' newest product removes air from diesel fuel lines that restrict fuel flow and make the engine difficult to start. Air can enter a fuel system when a fuel filter is replaced or an engine runs out of fuel. The FP-301 FUEL PRIMER...

Ocean equipment, a manufacturer of mounts for radars and atennas, has a new line of scanstrut mounts for KVH's TracVision M3 satellite television antenna.(At a glance)
April 1, 2006... OCEAN EQUIPMENT, a manufacturer of mounts for radars and antennas, has a new fine of SCANSTRUT mounts for KVH'S TracVision M3 satellite television antenna. With the tops of wheelhouses and masts now sporting a multitude of antennas, space is at...

Float-tech, a designer and producer of personal flotation devices, has a new coast guard-approved type V inflatable jacket that provides type III performance.(At a glance)
April 1, 2006... FLOAT-TECH, a designer and producer of personal flotation devices, has a new Coast Guard-approved Type V inflatable jacket that provides Type III performance. The FLOAT-TECH JACKET has a zip-in liner that can be worn as a vest. The liner...

C-MAP and NAVSIM Technology introduced a PC navigation product to support C-Maps's Max and C-MapNT+ chart platforms.(At a glance)
April 1, 2006... C-MAP and NAVSIM TECHNOLOGY introduced a PC navigation product to support C-Map's Max and C-MapNT+ chart platforms. BOATCRUISER 2.0 uses Max data and is compatible with data from an automatic identification system, depth sounder, autopilot and...

Sonavision recently delivered the company's first RoxAnn GD system, the successor to the RoxAnn acoustic ground discrimination system.(At a glance)
April 1, 2006... SONAVISION recently delivered the company's first ROXANN GD system, the successor to the RoxAnn acoustic ground discrimination system. RoxAnn allows you to make 2-D or 3-D color-coded seabed maps by interfacing RoxAnn with an echo sounder. New...