Fish like there is a tomorrow - fish safe.
A web site for the Commercial Fishing Vessel Industry
Click here to view the recorded meeting.
Here are links to the documents we referenced during the presentation:
We have established an e-mail account for you to provide feedback to us about any issues you have related to fish tender vessel loadlines. Send your comments to us at tenderloadlinesurvey@gmail.com
Fish Tender Vessel is defined in 46 USC 2101(11c) and means a vessel
that commercially supplies, stores, refrigerates,
or transports fish, fish products, or materials
directly related to fishing or the preparation
of fish to or from a fishing, fish processing,
or fish tender vessel or a fish processing
facility
.
Boundary Lines are defined in 46 CFR 7. In general, they follow the trend of the seaward high water shorelines and
cross entrances to small bays, inlets and rivers. Where the boundary line differs from the above definition have been plotted on the below Google Maps.
Loadline Length definition
Loadline Score Card - This score card is used by fishing vessel examiners to evaluate fishing vessels that are also operating as a fish tender. How big of a lift would it be for the vessel to come into compliance with Loadline?
On November 20th 2019 the Coast Guard met with fish tender vessel industry representatives at the Jackson Federal Building in Seattle to discuss fish tender vessels and loadline requirements. Below are links to the two PowerPoint documents used during this meeting.
Overall discussion on the issue by Mr. Scott Wilwert, Commercial Fishing Vessel Safety Coordinator, Seventeenth Coast Guard district.
Loadline presentation by Mr. Tom Jordan, Naval Archtecture Division, USCG Headquarters