Showing posts with label crash. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crash. Show all posts

Friday, July 10, 2026

What's behind the decline of Yukon Chinook?

Increased natural mortality associated with Bering Sea marine heatwaves is "an important driver" of the Yukon River Chinook salmon crash, a new study finds.

The study also "found no evidence that harvest of adult salmon or bycatch removals prior to spawning have been significant factors in population level declines of Yukon River Chinook," says this write-up from NOAA Fisheries.

Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Crash victims included pollock player Phillips

Among the four others who died with former Sen. Ted Stevens in the Dillingham plane crash was Bill Phillips, a Bethesda, Md., lawyer and lobbyist and the senator's former chief of staff.

Phillips was well-known in Alaska commercial fishing circles as the long-time owner of the Bering Sea pollock processing ship Excellence.

In January the Excellence merged with the partners in another processing ship, the Ocean Phoenix.

The ships market their products through a Seattle-based company, Premier Pacific Seafoods.

The vessels are known in the industry as motherships, taking fish from catcher boats for processing at sea.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Semper paratus

A portrait of U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Sean D. Krueger, along with an aviator helmet, flight suit and boots, are displayed at a memorial service today inside the hangar at Air Station Sitka. Krueger was among three members of a Sitka-based rescue helicopter crew who died in a crash July 7 off the coast of Washington state. Petty Officer 1st Class Adam C. Hoke and Petty Officer 2nd Class Brett M. Banks also perished. The memorial service drew top Coast Guard brass along with Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell and U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski. To donate to the families of the fallen aircrew, go to coastguardfoundation.org. USCG photo

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

3 dead, 1 survivor in Coast Guard helicopter crash

Here's the latest news from the U.S. Coast Guard on today's tragedy involving a Sitka-based helicopter crew:

July 7, 2010, 5:30 p.m.

Coast Guard responds to Washington helicopter crash

JUNEAU — The multiple agency response to recover the crewmembers from an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crash that occurred today in the waters near James Island, Wash., has concluded.

Four Coast Guard Air Station Sitka members crashed while flying from Astoria, Ore., to Sitka.

One survivor and three deceased have been recovered.

The survivor is at a Seattle hospital being treated for non-life threatening injuries.

"I grieve with a heavy heart at the news of the death of three members of our Coast Guard family," said Rear Adm. Christopher Colvin, commander of the 17th Coast Guard District. "May friends and our Coast Guardsmen around the country bring strength and comfort to the families and crew of Air Station Sitka during this difficult time. My first priority is to ensure the family and members of Air Station Sitka are provided the support needed to endure this tragedy."

The Coast Guard is not releasing the condition of the survivor or the names of the crewmembers until next of kin notification is complete.

The next step of this response is the salvage and investigation phase. The investigation can include survivor interviews, witness interviews and review of information from the flight data recorder.

The search began at approximately 9:45 a.m. when the Coast Guard Air Station Sitka crew did not perform a routine radio check-in.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Alaskan hurt in Coast Guard copter crash in Utah

The pilot of a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter that crashed in Utah yesterday reportedly is from Juneau.

The copter was flying to its home base in North Carolina after taking part in security operations for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, authorities said.

Here is an AP story and an account from the Deseret News of Salt Lake City.