27-10-2015 02:31 via alaskapublic.org

Former Dutch Harbor fisheries observer missing at sea off Peru

With crab season under way in the Bering Sea, some 70 crab boats are bobbing around Alaska’s Bristol Bay and the Aleutian Islands. About a dozen of those boats have a fisheries observer on board. The observers keep tabs on what the boats haul up from the deep.
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Keith Davis was supposed to be one of those observers, but he went missing in September while working on a boat off the coast of South America.
Fisheries observer Keith Davis on board a transshipment vessel in 2012. Vi
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