The remains of a Togiak fisherman that fell overboard during a salmon opener seven miles southwest of Togiak on Monday have been retrieved on Tuesday troopers report. According to the trooper dispatch, the remains of 39-year-old Anthony Active were discovered washed up on the beach very close to where he went overboard while checking his […]
The U.S. Coast Guard conducted an aerial rescue operation on Montague Island, pulling a stranded fisherman from the shores in a basket on Wednesday, the USCG reports. Watchstanders with the Coast Guard Sector Anchorage received an assistance request from a fisherman who’s vessel became disabled at Montague Island, an uninhabited island favored by hunters, and is also […]
A Tununak fisherman, while fishing off of the coast of Tununak and Toksook Bay called in to report chest pains on Saturday on his vessel’s VHF. A nearby boat responded to 57-year-old Martin Albert’s call and traveled to his vessel to find him unresponsive. Albert was taken to the regional health clinic in Toksook Bay […]
Although “nothing suspicious was observed” during the death investigation of a crew member aboard the Alaska Dream, a fishing vessel out of Kodiak, that was headed for fishing grounds at the south end of the island, the crew members remains were sent to the State Medical Examiner’s office in Anchorage for autopsy on Saturday. It […]