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BOSTON, March 5 -- A boat crew from Station Chatham medevaced a 43-year-old fisherman with an injured hand from the fishing vessel Linda one mile east of Chatham, Mass., today. The master of the 92-foot Boston-based fishing vessel radioed the Coast Guard at 6:45 p.m. March 4, reporting Daniel Molloy Jr., a crewmember, had crushed his hand in a winch. The fishing crew then headed toward Chatham, where a Coast Guard crew in a 44-foot rescue boat met them one mile off Chatham harbor. The Coast Guard crew took Molloy to the fishing pier in Chatham, where they were met by a local ambulance. Molloy was transported to Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Mass.

CLEVELAND, March 5 -- Two men were rescued from the ice near Anchor Bay, Mich., after their snowmobiles broke through areas of thin ice. Brothers David and John Fick of East Point and St. Clair Shores respectively placed a call to the Chesterfield Township dispatch after pulling themselves safely from the waist deep water. Station St. Clair Shores was notified by the dispatch at 11:41 a.m. and launched an ice rescue team. Air Station Detroit also launched a rescue helicopter and was able to spot the men walking on the ice toward safety. Once on scene, the helicopter crew lowered a rescue swimmer to the ice and hoisted the two men to the aircraft, who were then transported to the air station and picked up by family.

MIAMI, Feb. 25 -- The Coast Guard, working alongside the Navy and Customs and Border Protection's Office of Air and Marine Operations, seized 7,800 pounds of cocaine and took eight suspected smugglers into custody from three separate go-fast boats in the Colombian Basin. Leading the way in this effort was the Boston-based CGC Seneca and its embarked crew from the Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron Jacksonville They were instrumental in stopping two of the go-fast boats, seizing more than 6,000 pounds of cocaine and detaining all eight suspects.

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas, March 10 -- Eight Mexican fishermen were detained by crewmembers from Station South Padre Island for illegally fishing in U.S. waters north of the U.S.-Mexico border today. During

a routine patrol the crew of a Coast Guard helicopter from Air Station Corpus Christi, spotted approximately 12 lancha boats fishing illegally in the U.S. exclusive economic zone. Coast Guard Station South Padre Island dispatched two boat crews to intercept the lanchas. While most of the lanchas fled into Mexican waters, three lanchas, with their crews aboard were detained by the Coast Guard just inside the U.S. EEZ.

HONOLULU, March 10 -- The CGC Jarvis, homeported here, returned home after a six-week fisheries law enforcement patrol in the Bering Sea in Alaska. The Jarvis, which docks at Sand Island, conducted 62 fisheries inspections and boardings. The cutter also responded to the search and rescue case involving the motor vessel Explorer, the campus-at-sea ship that was disabled with hundreds of students aboard.

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