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Today is
January 14, 2007. Today is a blow day. That means the sea urchin fleet
is unable to fish due to poor weather conditions. This evening storm force
winds of 55 knots are expected, that is like 100 plus kmh and will probably
be accompanied by an extreme amount of rain. The 2006/2007 sea urchin
season has been hampered by the extreme weather conditions. I must say
the season has been proceeding pretty good on the Kuroshio. The last half
of the season is just beginning, hopefully it goes well.
The last week there was some pretty cold weather. The was little snow
on the otter coast but the arctic winds caused some
heavy freezing spray. For a while there Kuroshio was covered in an inch
of frozen saltwater.
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The Kuroshio is covered isn freezing spray from the night before. We traveled from Campbell river to Shearwater that day departing at 8 am and arriving at 6 pm, with one stop for fuel in Port Hardy. It was quite cold out, but sunny and warn in the cabin as ussual. For most of the trip we had to pound through heavy chop maybe 3-5 or more. |
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