Coast Guard spotlights crab fishing safety
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SEATTLE – Thirteenth Coast Guard District personnel will conduct vessel safety spot checks and voluntary dockside exams in various Northwest ports on Nov. 15-19, 2010, and Nov. 22-24, 2010, just prior to the opening of the Oregon and Washington State Dungeness Crab fishery.
Coast Guard examiners will spot-check primary lifesaving equipment and pot loading practices on vessels...
Coast Guard searching for man overboard near La Push, Wash.
SEATTLE — The Coast Guard is searching for a 24-year-old fisherman who fell from a crab fishing vessel approximately 20 miles west of La Push, Wash., Sunday.
