Coast Guard Budget Cuts Could Affect 'World Tuna Belt' in Pacific
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Civil Beat] by Kirstin Downey - April 20, 2017
Week after week, Coast Guard teams pluck distressed mariners from danger just as Aikau, the famous Hawaiian lifeguard and surfer, rescued scores of swimmers on the North Shore.
In one month alone, from mid-February to mid-March, the Coast Guard’s 14th district, based in Honolulu, rescued six people when their sailboat ran aground; hoisted a 52-year-old from his homemade fiberglass boat as it ran onto the rocks near Oahu, and interdicted nine suspected smuggling vessels, seizing some 13,700 pounds of cocaine.
About the same time, rumors began swirling in Washington ...
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