There’s a lot of research on sleep deprivation and shift workers like truckers, but there’s nearly nothing on fishermen.
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Alaska fishermen join sleep deprivation study
Safety boards have cited fatigue as a factor in many fishing boat crashes, like the grounding of the Savannah Ray off Kodiak in 2015 and a deadly collision near La Push, Wash. in 2012.