Petty Officer 3rd Class Haran Ellis, of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., and Airman James Coleman, of Las Cruces, N.M., students at the Coast Guard’s North Pacific Regional Fisheries Training Center, check expiration dates on a fishing vessel’s flares during a mock fisheries boarding, to ensure the vessel is carrying the correct type and quantity of usable visual distress signals, Sept. 11, 2014. Prior to conducting a patrol to enforce fisheries laws in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska, Coast Guard boarding teams spend a week training at NPRFTC, where the course includes fishery and gear regulations, fish species identification, types of Alaska fishing vessels, forms and documentation, and practical training on every stage of a fisheries law enforcement boarding. In 2014, NPRFTC trained 332 students from 28 Coast Guard units.
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