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December 25, 2002
Sandbar Traps Fishing Boats Inside Harbor
From L.A. Times Wire Reports
Six fishermen are losing up to $3,000 a week because their boats are trapped inside Santa Cruz harbor by a storm-whipped sandbar.
The boats are unlikely to go to sea again until about the second week in January, when a dredging crew hopes to have the mouth of the harbor cleared.
About 60,000 cubic yards of sand washed into the channel over the last 10 days, leaving an opening so shallow that none of the 1,000 boats that call the harbor home can get in or out.
Sandbar Traps Fishing Boats Inside Harbor
From L.A. Times Wire Reports
Six fishermen are losing up to $3,000 a week because their boats are trapped inside Santa Cruz harbor by a storm-whipped sandbar.
The boats are unlikely to go to sea again until about the second week in January, when a dredging crew hopes to have the mouth of the harbor cleared.
About 60,000 cubic yards of sand washed into the channel over the last 10 days, leaving an opening so shallow that none of the 1,000 boats that call the harbor home can get in or out.
