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Bad weather is keeping salvagers away from the fishing vessel Arctic Hunter, nearly a week after it ran aground.

The boat survived yet another storm Tuesday night and is still in one piece on the rocks outside Morris Cove.

Salvagers returned to the scene today to try to pump out more fuel from submerged tanks. But choppy seas made diving impossible.

Credit: Jennifer Shockley

The fishing vessel Arctic Hunter is still on the rocks outside Morris Cove, five days after it first ran aground.

Salvage crews haven’t been able to pump any fuel off the crab boat since Sunday because of bad weather, which is picking up again.

Credit: Jennifer Shockley

Updated, 5:30 p.m. Monday: The fishing vessel Arctic Hunter weathered a string of storms over the weekend. The 93-foot crab boat is resting on the rocks outside Morris Cove, where it's been partially submerged since Friday.

Resolve-Magone Marine Services had a tough time reaching the vessel due to stormy weather, but crews made it to the scene on Saturday and have since pumped out 9,000 gallons of fuel and hydraulic oil.

F/V Arctic Hunter is partially submerged. / Courtesy of Dan Magone

Update, 4 p.m. Saturday: The F/V Arctic Hunter made it through a rough night in one piece.

A fall storm with winds gusting to 55 miles swept through the Aleutians late Friday. Coast Guard chief warrant officer Mark Morrissey says the vessel is still afloat as of Saturday afternoon, but damaged.

"The hull has been breached to some extent," Morrissey says. "It is taking on some water."

A fishing vessel ran aground outside Unalaska early this morning. The Arctic Hunter, a 93-foot crab boat, was leaving town to start a fishing trip when it wrecked around 3:45 a.m.

Dan Magone, of Magone-Resolve Marine Services, says his company’s been contacted to provide salvage assistance. Magone says there are 12,000 gallons of fuel and hydraulic oil aboard the vessel. It's not clear if any of that has spilled.

Credit: USCG Lt. Daniel Peters

Almost four months after it sank near Dillingham, the fishing tender Lone Star has been lifted off the bottom and is on its way to Unalaska.

Since June, Magone Marine's made several attempts to get the vessel out of the Igushik River. Heavy mud, extreme tides, and regulatory limits all tripped up the salvage company.

Crews Attach Chains to Lone Star. / Image Credit: Lt. Daniel Peters, USCG

The salmon tender Lone Star is still submerged in at the mouth of the Igushik river near Dillingham, but salvage crews have successfully moved it. The Coast Guard says that Resolve-Magone crews on Monday pulled the vessel 200 feet to the east shore of the river. That required heavy chains and two cranes.

The Lone Star is still extremely heavy, so to be able to lift it, salvagers must pump out the water and mud in her tanks. The plan is to ultimately make the vessel seaworthy and tow it to Unalaska. The 78-foot boat sank June 30th with 14,000 gallons of fuel on board. A consistent fuel sheen shut down the sockeye fishery at the peak of the season.

Pollock B season is winding down quickly, with just a handful of vessels still out fishing. Almost all of the quotas has been taken -- but so have more than 116,000 chum salmon, as bycatch. That’s almost seven times as much as last year.

Karl Haflinger is president of Sea State, the organization that analyzes bycatch data. He says a lot of the chum bycatch came early on, as the fishery got underway in June.

The Russian diesel tanker that was stuck in the ice in the Northern Sea Route is now being escorted out by nuclear icebreakers.

The tanker Nordvik was carrying nearly 5 thousand tons of diesel when it hit an ice floe last week.  A ballast tank was ruptured but crews were able to plug the leak.  The vessel was stuck for several days before other ships could arrive.   In the last couple days, the  Nordvik pumped 1800 tons of the fuel to another tanker, the  Boris Vilkitsky. The ship is now on its way to its home port of Khatanga.