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...heave to in waters about 130 miles southeast of Nantucket Island, Mass. Commander Alan B. Smith suspected that the Russian ship had been violating the U.S.'s new 200-mile fishing zone. Three Coast Guardsmen and two agents of the National Marine Fisheries Service scampered up the trawler's rope ladder and split into two teams. One hurried below to check the ship's cleaning and packing facilities and its refrigerated hold; the other team headed for the skipper's cabin to inspect the ship's log. The record of the trawler's fishing...
...Gonna take my little girl out to dinner and dancing Saturday night." sang Captain Barry Boucher last week after tying up his 75-ft. trawler Shanty Girl in New Bedford, Mass. In eleven days on Georges Bank, off the New England coast, Boucher and his crew of five had netted 45,000 Ibs. of fish, including 30,000 lbs. of yellowtail flounder, which they sold for $28,000 in the red brick auction house at the foot of the pier...
Until the mid-1960s a trawler like Shanty Girl could stay at sea for only five days and return with even more fish than it landed last week. Since then, huge fleets of modern trawlers from foreign countries, most notably the Soviet Union, Japan, Poland and East Germany, have swept the prime U.S. fishing grounds off New England, the Pacific Northwest and Alaska almost clean of Atlantic cod, yellowtail flounder and haddock; stocks of hake, herring, mackerel and pollack were severely depleted...
...foreign currency earnings, so each considers the search for new sources a matter of survival. When several foreign companies rejected Turkey's invitation to explore the disputed waters, the Turks decided to set out on their own. At a cost of $3.7 million, they equipped a trawler with seismic devices for underwater exploration...
Norwegian navy officer, they sound "like the flushing of an antique toilet." The sub involved in the Sjevik incident was not even given a chance to make a rackety descent. After it had dragged the Norwegian ship backward and then finally surfaced, crewmen scrambled to cut away the trawler's cable from the disabled sub's bow, where it had become entangled. Then the Soviet skipper churned off on the surface toward Murmansk without so much as a wave to the astonished Norwegians...