Tag Archives: Commercial Fishing

Survival Suit Demonstration Video at US Coast Guard Station Gloucester

During Fishing Family and Friends Health and Safety Day at US Coast Guard Station Gloucester Marine Technician Second Class Jim demonstrates the parts of a survival suit.

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Fishing Boat Safety Demo Video at The Gloucester United States Coast Guard Station

Showing the effects of ice and the proper way to secure an even load of fish during rough seas. Click the picture to watch the video

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A Bag Of Scallops Submitted to the GMG Flickr Group Pool By ciabat

  e3, originally uploaded by ciabat.  

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Things To Do- Fish ‘n’ Fiction Event Feb 23

Fish ‘n’ Fiction A new series hosted by the Phyllis A. Marine Association Sawyer Free Library, Friend Room Tuesday, February 23, 2010 6:00-8:00pm Suggested Donation of $5.00 per person   Captain Richard Arnold will lead an informal conversation on his … Continue reading

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Gloucester Dragger Angela Rose Gets Offloaded at The Gloucester Seafood Display Auction

The noise you hear is the hydraulic pump which runs the winch. Click the pic to view the video-

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Gloucester Seafood Display Auction With Paul Vitale Part II

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Getting Ready To Offload 4:45AM Gloucester Seafood Display Auction

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Plan B Herring Seiner Gets Ready To Rock Video

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Plan B Herring Seiner

I got some video when dropping off some empty fish totes at Cape Seafoods yesterday.  Looks like the Plan B will be making its maiden voyage as a herring seiner soon.  Yesterday they were loading the net aboard. Video at … Continue reading

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2009 Festival T-shirt Design Contest

I caught this on FOB (friend of the blog) Craig’s Commercial-Fishing.org forum I know lots of people that check out the site are designers and have love for working ports so I thought I’d pass this along- http://www.workingwaterfrontfestival.org/ In New … Continue reading

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Kelly’s Fish House Video Interview Part II

Keith From Kelly’s Fish House Takes Us To The Crab Cooking Room At Kelly’s Fish House-

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Industrial Crab Cooker- Kelly’s Fish House Naples Fl

They can cook up to 500 pounds of crab claws in this industrial cooker.  At first I thought they cooked the entire crab but they rip the claws off and cook only the claws and toss the crab back to … Continue reading

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Donna Marie- Naples Longliner Stern View

  Donna Marie Naples Longliner, originally uploaded by captjoe06.  

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Kelly’s Fish House Video Interview Part I

Keith at Kelly’s Fish House In Naples Florida Explains  Commercial Crabbing Out Of Naples-

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Kely’s Fish House, Naples, Fla

Whenever I go on vacation I try to get down to the commercial docks to talk to fishermen or fish dealers.  Kelly’s Fish House is just down the street from my parents crib so I swing by there when I’m … Continue reading

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Longline Hooks Ready To Be Clipped On The Main Line

  Longline Hooks Ready To Be Clipped On The Main Line, originally uploaded by captjoe06.  

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Crab Traps, Naples Fl

Crab traps are very similar to lobster traps but are square shaped instead of  rectangular.  They also have the openings on the top of the trap and do not have knitted heads like a lobster trap. Crab Traps, Naples Fl, … Continue reading

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Naples Longliner Donna Marie Longline Set Up

The heavy monofilament line is wrapped around the spool.  It goes up and through the blocks and out the stern of the boat with clips of mono and individual hooks on them.  Hopefully each hook has a fish on it! … Continue reading

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The Donna Marie- Naples Longliner

Other than the obvious hauling and setting from the stern of the boat can any of our commercial fishermen readers comment on any other differences between how they longline out of Naples versus Gloucester? The Donna Marie- Naples Longliner, originally … Continue reading

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Donna Marie Longliner Video

Longlining explained aboard the Donna Marie.  For any commercial longliners that watch the video feel free to jump in and correct any of my mistakes from the video.  I’m not a fisherman but would like this to be as acuurate … Continue reading

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Matty Splicing Wire Cable

Look for the video at 1:00PM.  Matty is splicing this wire cable to combine two lengths of wire and load it aboard a Gloucester dragger. Matty Splicing Wire Cable, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

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Chickity Check It- Commercial-Fishing.org

Craig and Jane are the couple who run Commercial-Fishing.org.   They stopped down the dock the other day while in town which is always nice.  I love it when people that dig GMG stop by to say hi.  They were … Continue reading

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