The 88-foot offshore Maine dragger Aaron & Melissa II steamed over Middlebank the morning after New Year's Day to offload in Gloucester.
"It was snowing, the wind was blowing 35 mph (out of the north-northwest), and the waves must have been 10-feet high," said the Aaron & Melissa's captain, Glenn McIntyre of Harpswell, Maine.
"We were washing the deck on this (taking on water through the scuppers), and they were outbound," he said. "I just shook my head."
The Berring Sea might have its "Deadliest Catch" crab fleet, but Gloucester certainly has its winter and spring "Riskiest Catch" cod fleet of about 15 to 20 gillnetters, ranging from 31 to 45 feet long.
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