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Article: Almost alone on a lake.(Safety)
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- National Fisherman
- Article date:
- October 1, 2003
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Lake Winnipeg gillnetters, who fish for pickerel, sauger and goldeye in small, open boats, often work in twosomes or threesomes. If something goes, wrong, someone's not alone.
That's always important on the water, but it's especially important in the fishing business, in which it is generally a vessel's business to lift cumbersome gear from the water under a variety of surface conditions.
It's doubly important in this fishery because many boats are not equipped with radios or EPIRBs (nor are they required to have them). On the other hand, they are required to carry life jackets for each crew member, a life buoy (with 65 feet of line), six flares and a ...