Not off a big boat, but when my brother was in the Marines he spent a summer on Afognak Island (I think, but it may have been a different island) as a combat engineer.... they were building roads or something but he got to do a TON of fishing/crabbing/shrimping on their off time.....I was jealous lol.
Uhhmmm....Kodiak maybe, but I don't think they've done much out on Afognak. The Coast Guard station on Kodiak is the largest IIRC.
Sailors caught Tarpon off the fantail of the LST Graham County in Guantanamo Bay and other fish including Barracuda in other areas of the Caribbean in the fall and winter of 1964/65. Marines didn't get access to the fishing equipment.
Why would they be excluded?
Inter(intra?)service rivalry?!
