PORT ANGELES — Coast Guard Group/Air Station Port Angeles flew an injured fisherman from a commercial trawler about 30 miles west of Port Angeles on Saturday night.
The 40-foot fishing boat Puget Sound called the Coast Guard at about 8 p.m. on Saturday when one of the crewmen was injured.
The Puget Sound is a tribal fishing vessel registered to the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe, Petty Officer Jeff Pollinger, Coast Guard spokesman, said.
The man was taken by helicopter to Olympic Medical Center where he was treated and released.
Neither the hospital nor Coast Guard revealed his name.
Pollinger said he did not know the name of the man or the types of injuries he had suffered.
He did say the fisherman was a member of the Lower Elwha tribe.
Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles launched an HH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew to aid the man at about 8:25 p.m.
A 25-foot response boat from the Coast Guard Group Port Angeles helped in the rescue.
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