AMSEA Blog

AMSEA is assisting the Northeast Center for Occupational Health and Safety (NEC) with a study on sleep deprivation among commercial fishermen. The study will look at the impacts of sleep deprivation fishermen's health and risk of injury and death. As part of that study, NEC needs volunteer fishermen to wear a monitoring device, similar to a FitBit, while aboard that will record physical activity and sleep patterns. Alaska fishermen interested in participating must be interest

The federal government has approved a plan by the State of Alaska to provide $50 million in economic aid to the struggling seafood industry. Commercial fishermen, seafood processors, and others in the industry have been contending with economic losses resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. As reported by CoastAlaska, the State's plan was released on February 25. "Commercial applicants will need to show that the COVID-19 pandemic caused them at least a 35% loss in revenue last

AMSEA is currently recruiting commercial fishermen to become U.S. Coast Guard-approved Marine Safety Instructors in the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Gulf of Mexico states, and remote communities in Alaska. We are focused on increasing training training opportunities for commercial fishermen in underserved parts of the United States. These areas are underserved, due to a shortage of local marine safety instructors and the cost of sending in out-of-states instructors. Thanks to