{"id":94950,"date":"2022-05-24T10:27:31","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T04:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/?post_type=newss&p=94950"},"modified":"2022-05-24T10:27:31","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T04:57:31","slug":"emergency-radio-beacons-coming-for-small-fishing-vessels-in-southern-labrador","status":"publish","type":"newss","link":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/newss\/emergency-radio-beacons-coming-for-small-fishing-vessels-in-southern-labrador\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency radio beacons coming for small fishing vessels in southern Labrador"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Labrador Fishermen’s Union Shrimp Company is outfitting 70 boats after accident concerns<\/span><\/p>\n

Seventy fishing vessels are set to be outfitted with emergency position indicating radio beacons this season.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Labrador Fishermen’s Union Shrimp Company is outfitting\u00a0dozens of vessels between Cartwright and\u00a0L’Anse\u00a0au Clair that are under 40 feet and harvesting for them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The move comes less than a year after\u00a0two fishermen died near Mary’s Harbour\u00a0and shortly following a\u00a0Transportation Safety Board report\u00a0into the loss of the FV Sarah Anne in\u00a0Placentia Bay.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The TSB report found the Sarah Anne was not equipped with a vessel monitoring system.\u00a0The director of marine investigation said the absence of life-saving equipment and distress alerting devices has contributed to 42 deaths from 2010 to 2020.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“We’ve come to a time when we feel that somebody has to take the initiative,” Gilbert Linstead, general manager of the Labrador Fishermen’s Union Shrimp Company, told CBC News.<\/span><\/p>\n

The devices transmit signals to a satellite, which alerts search and rescue services in case of an emergency at sea and allows them to pinpoint the beacon’s location. Linstead said the company’s board brought the idea forward after the fishermen were concerned about recent accidents.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":5,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177],"tags":[406],"region":[1912],"source":[2003],"country":[1914],"state":[],"city":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/94950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/newss"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/94950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94951,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/94950\/revisions\/94951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94950"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=94950"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=94950"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=94950"},{"taxonomy":"state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state?post=94950"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=94950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}