MORE SEA ICE THAN IN 20-YEARS.

Another bogus Global Warming report.


Sea ice that is encroaching on the central Bering Sea is threatening to shut down the snow crab fishery at the peak of the season, according to the Bering Sea Fishermen's Association.
The fishery was expected to net 80 million pounds this year, but now crabbing boats are retrieving their pots or sitting in Dutch Harbor in a development that could have a devastating effect on crabbers trying to make a living off the fishery, the Anchorage Daily News (http://bit.ly/A6P0U2 ) reported Thursday.
The problem is that earlier-than-expected ice is moving south over prime crabbing boats. Karen Gillis, the association's executive director, said there has not been a natural event like this in 20 years.
"We're talking about household incomes that are being severely impacted, households that don't have a lot of other income sources," she said.

Karen Gillis, the association's executive director, says there has not been a natural event like this in 20 years.

Crabbing boats are out retrieving their pots or sitting in Dutch Harbor rather than delivering their catch to the now iced-in Trident Seafoods processing plant on St. Paul, said Edward Poulson, an adviser for the Bering Sea Crabbers Association and longtime crabber.
"Every day the boat sits in town waiting to see if the weather is going to turn you're burning money," Poulson said.
Some 8,000 pots are in the water right now — putting a total of more than $8 million worth of gear potentially in the ice's path, said Heather Fitch, an area management biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in Dutch Harbor.
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Information from: Anchorage Daily News, http://www.adn.com

Note the the average global temperature is at the freezing point on the above 800-thousand year graph above. This winter has been 20 degrees colder  than average here in Alaska.


I am amused by this report because I fished king crab 25-years. I had to deal with cook Inlet ice sheets that can move in over the top your gear and cut the buoys off. I lost lots of $500 pots due to sea ice, 


I have pictures of my buoys in the ice off Augustine Island. It's a very slow process getting your gear back when you have to wait for them to pop up between ice burgs. Then you grapple them fast before they disappear again. Its very cold work standing out on deck in the wind in minus temperatures.

Global average temperatures are falling not rising and we could be going into another Ice Age. If so you won;t have to worry about the government proposed population reduction because there won't be enough food.

Bogus Global Warming prevents fuel delivery.

Global Warming prevents fuel delivery…

Photo credit: AP | The Coast Guard Cutter Healy escorts the Russian-flagged tanker Renda 250 miles south of Nome Friday Jan. 6, 2012. The vessels are transiting through ice up to five-feet thick in this area. The 370-foot tanker Renda will have to go through more than 300 miles of sea ice to get to Nome, a city of about 3,500 people on the western Alaska coastline that did not get its last pre-winter fuel delivery because of a massive storm. If the delivery of diesel fuel and unleaded gasoline is not made, the city likely will run short of fuel supplies before another barge delivery can be made in spring. (AP Photo/US Coast Guard - Petty officer 1st Class Sara Francis)

I have written about the government's Climate Change/Global Warming disinformation program for a very long time. There is more ice in the Arctic than there has been in years. If you were to read my book, COSMOLOGICAL ICE AGES you would realize we are still in an ICE AGE. Earth didn't have ice caps until about three-million years ago. The reason why we are not sitting under a mile of ice right now is because somebody tilted Earth 23.5 degrees 12,500 years ago. They did it to thaw the ice caps back so they could mine gold. There is only one object up there in the sky large enough to tilt Earth 23.5 degrees. Impact computer data confirm this. Zecharia Sitchen translation of ancient Sumerian Scrolls confirm this. Immanuel Velikovsky's book IN THE BEGINNING confirms this.    

Russian Tanker Completes Repairs, Resumes Nome Fuel Delivery

January 05, 2012|By Rhonda McBride and Chris Klint | Channel 2 News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska —

A Russian tanker is once again headed for the iced-in port of Nome after taking on all available unleaded gasoline at Dutch Harbor as cargo, then returning there for minor engine repairs.

Vitus Marine LLC, the company that contracted the Renda on behalf of Bonanza Fuel, says the ship was repaired at anchor Wednesday evening, just outside of Dutch Harbor at Broad Bay.

"It was better to have it anchor and have an assist tug along," said Mark Smith, Vitus Marine’s CEO.

According to supply and logistics manager Michail Shestakov, the ship was having problems with an engine exhaust valve that required shutting down the engines. It was determined that it was safer to return to Dutch Harbor to replace the part.

Smith said the part was replaced ahead of schedule, and the Renda departed Dutch Harbor before midnight.

Shestakov told Channel 2 that the Coast Guard icebreaker Healy is traveling about four nautical miles ahead of the Renda, which is forging ahead into strong northerly winds.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A Coast Guard icebreaker is cutting a path through icy seas for a Russian tanker carrying much-needed fuel for the iced-in Alaska city of Nome.

The 370-foot ship, hauling more than 1.3 million gallons of fuel, is scheduled to arrive later Monday or Tuesday. It was less than 190 miles away on Saturday.

Video and still photo images released by the Coast Guard show the two vessels moving steadily through ice jammed seas.

"They're navigating through ice right now, taking a direct route for now," said Jason Evans, the CEO of Sitnasuak Native Corp, one of the companies undertaking the delivery. "They considered going through patches where there might be thinner ice, but determined that that would have taken them on a longer route."

The city of about 3,500 people on the western Alaska coastline normally gets fuel by barge. But it didn't get its last pre-winter fuel delivery because of a massive storm and it could run out of crucial supplies before spring.

The Russian tanker came upon ice about a foot thick very early Friday near Nunivak Island, a large island in the eastern Bering Sea, the Coast Guard said.

The tanker is being shepherded by the Healy, the Coast Guard's only functioning icebreaker — a ship of special design with a reinforced hull made to move through ice.

"It's going basically as planned," Evans said.

If the mission is successful, it will be the first time petroleum products have been delivered by sea to a Western Alaska community in winter.

Sitnasuak officials have said they settled on the Russian tanker delivery plan after determining it would be much less expensive and more practical than flying fuel into Nome. The vessel, which is certified to travel through ice 4 feet thick for long distances, normally delivers fuel to communities in the Russian Far East.