The Bodega Bay Coast Guard was busy overnight helping fishermen around the waters.

Fishing boat from Eureka, CA got into the wrong channel and hit a sand bar

Just before midnight on Friday, they helped a crew from the National Response Center refloat a salmon fishing vessel that had run aground Thursday night in Bodega Harbor, said Boatswain Mate Matt Foussadier.

“Earlier in the day ... we tried to see if the boat would float itself, but with all the fish and the ice on it, it didn't float,” Foussadier said.

So the skipper hired another vessel to help unload about 1,800 pounds of fish and ice, and the NRC surrounded the boat with booms to prevent pollution from leaking into the bay.

Then, around midnight, they pulled the anchor and the boat started drifting immediately, Foussadier said. The rescue crews towed the boat into Spud Point Marina.

The men dressed in blue with the blue caps are with the Coast Guard.