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Via Port of Seattle ^[2]

Four people have drowned down at the waterfront recently, and since three of them were fishermen it seemed like as good an excuse as any to try and kick the rest of the fishermen out of Fishermen’s Terminal [P-I ^[3]]. The Port ^[4] is going to be starting a revitalization project to bring more tour and dive boats in, and the city would like to have fewer corpses floating about to discourage them.

Except that the people who live on the boats do so for lots of reasons, most of which are financial. They don’t want all of their equipment hanging out at the docks unsupervised, and they can’t afford to keep their deckhands at hotels in between fishing trips. Besides, who wants a cleaned-up and sanitized fishermen’s terminal? I’ll keep my fishermen crusty and weather-beaten, thanks.

But for now, the fishermen can stay [P-I ^[5]]. “The port has the authority to push through the rules, detailed in Thursday’s Seattle P-I, but said it would not do so. Instead, four committee members will rewrite parts of the existing rules, trying to preserve the rights of active fishermen while sending the partiers packing.” They’ll review the rewrite on May 25th, and construction on the new docks will start in the fall.