From 2000-2009, workers in the Northeast multi-species groundfish fishery (including fish such as cod and haddock) were 37 times more likely to die on the job as a police officer. And despite the popular notion from reality TV’s " Deadliest Catch" featuring Alaskan crab fishermen, the most dangerous fishery is in the northeast U.S. The Bureau of Labor Statistics ranks commercial fishing as the deadliest job in the United States. “That was a brutal week in this port,” Mattera says. “I knew right away he was dead,” Gallagher says.Īnd Fred Mattera was fishing 125 miles off the coast of Cape Cod when a 21-year-old - the son of a close friend - succumbed to poisonous fumes in a nearby boat. Mike Gallagher, of Narragansett, R.I., discovered a friend of his entangled in still-running hydraulics. ![]() ![]() “But you know, on the water at night, your head is like a little coconut.” They never found him. “We heard him screaming ‘Help me!’ ” Neves says grimacing. New Bedford, Mass., boat captain Joe Neves remembers when a crew member got knocked overboard. On the fishing-boat piers of New England, nearly everyone knows a fisherman lost at sea. Fred Mattera, a safety trainer, coaches a fisherman in an ‘abandoned ship’ exercise at Point Judith, Rhode Island in August, 2012. Twitter facebook Email This article is more than 9 years old.
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