ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The Coast Guard will offer courtesy dockside examinations of commercial fishing vessels in Bristol Bay in anticipation of the 2018 Bristol Bay salmon fishery season. The Coast Guard anticipates sending examiners to the following locations for public outreach and to encourage dockside exam participation: King Salmon: June 8-18 Dillingham: June 16-24 Egegik: […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Naushon rescued four mariners after the Soulmate, their 48-foot commercial fishing vessel, became disabled and adrift approximately 57 miles west of Kodiak Island, south of Shelikof Strait, Alaska, Sunday. The Naushon crew towed the mariners to Lazy Bay cannery, Alitak Bay, Alaska. Coast Guard Sector […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevaced a woman from the cruise ship Celebrity Solstice near Noyes Island, west of Craig, Wednesday. The Jayhawk helicopter crew hoisted the 61-year-old woman and transported her to Ketchikan, Alaska, where a Guardian Flight crew was waiting for transport to higher medical care. Coast Guard Sector […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter John McCormick and an officer from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Law Enforcement conducted joint safety and living marine resource boardings in the Gulf of Alaska last week. The boarding team, consisting of a Coast Guard boarding team and a NOAA enforcement […]