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Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley returns to homeport The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star passing by the crew of Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley near Unalaska Island, Alaska, Jan. 7, 2021. The two cutter crews were briefly in the same vicinity on their patrols. – Courtesy photo by Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley crewmember KODIAK, Alaska – The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley returned to homeport in Kodiak, Alaska, following a 50-day deployment throughout the Bering Sea, Thursday. The crew patrolled over 6,300 miles throughout the Aleutian Islands and Bristol Bay, and provided search a...

× North Pacific fishing crews on edge about what they’ll find this month, after a tough 2020 of small fish and COVID-19 By Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times Published: January 10, 2021, 6:00am Share: Skipper Kevin Ganley spent most of the summer and fall pulling a massive trawl net through the Bering Sea in a long slow search for pollock, a staple of McDonald’s fish sandwiches. The fish proved very hard to find. “We just scratched and scratched and scratched,” Ganley recalls. “It was survival mode.” Ganley’s boat is part of a fleet of largely Washington-based trawl...

Always has because they have moved north. they are mixed in with different species or they are deeper and harder to find. >> reporter: in fact right now a massive heat bloom is changing thousands of miles of the pacific ocean. the last time this happened five years ago marine life was decimated. alaska's southern coast alone lost more than 100 million pacific cod. captain hezel has to adapt to survive. >> we have 35, 40-year-old boats as an average up there. and that's just not applicable for where we need to go to be efficient. >> reporter: and that means he needs a new species of boat. this ...