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Article: Freighter oil spill forces crab fishery cancellation: ship splits near Dutch Harbor, releasing 40,000 gallons into Makushin and Skan bays.(North Pacific)(Brief Article)
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- National Fisherman
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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Bunker grade oil and fuel leaking from the grounded soybean freighter Selendang Ayu threatened crab and cod fisheries, scheduled to open in January.
In what has already been dubbed as Alaska's second largest maritime tragedy, after the spill of the Exxon Valdez, the 738-foot Malaysian-flagged ship lost power on Dec. 8 and drifted for two days before splitting itself in half on the rocks near Dutch Harbor.
Six crew members were lost, and the Coast Guard lost a helicopter in a gallant effort to retrieve surviving crewmen. Meanwhile, some 40,000 gallons of oil in the water forced managers with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to cancel a burgeoning ...
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