The 2018–2019 Aleutian Islands golden king crab fisheries is under way, with a quota of 3,470,400 pounds of individual fishing quota (IFQ) and 385,600 pounds of community development quota (CDQ), for a total of 3.9 million pounds east of Adak. West of Adak, there is a 2.5 million-pound quota, with 2,250,000 pounds for the IFQ […]
JUNEAU, Alaska – Coast Guard crews conducted a long-range medevac of a man from a Military Sealift Command Vessel approximately 1,150 miles from Dutch Harbor, May 6. A helicopter crew from Air Station Kodiak, deployed aboard the Cutter John Midgett, safely landed on the MSC vessel and embarked the man for follow-on transport to Adak, […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevaced a mariner off the 652-foot vessel Snowy, a bulk carrier, approximately 122 miles southwest of Adak, Alaska, Saturday. The Jayhawk crew hoisted the 27-year-old man and transferred him to a LifeMed aircrew in Adak. Watchstanders at Coast Guard 17th District received […]
The United States Coast Guard were alerted of a emergency beacon emitting a signal 690 miles west of Dutch Harbor at 11:34 am on Tuesday from the F/V Alaska Juris after it began sinking authorities report. The 238-foot vessel reported that they were dead in the water approximately 150 miles to the northwest of Adak and […]