Please mark your calendars. Monday, January 11 PVOA is holding an Alternate Safety Compliance meeting. Scott Wilwert will be traveling to Petersburg to help us out. We need all the members we can get with 50’ or larger vessels to attend, this includes full and associate members. From the Fish Site: US – Volunteers are needed to help craft new safety rules that are being written for older boats – which includes the bulk of Alaska’s fishing vessels. Called the Alternate Compliance Safety Program (ACSP), it is part of the 2010 US Coast Guard Authorization Act and is aimed at vessels that will be 25 years old by 2020, are greater than 50 feet in length, and operate beyond three nautical miles. The program will include most of Alaska’s fishing fleet — a 2014 maritime study by Read more…
