Coast guard takes brunt of fisheries department cuts as Amundsen still in dry-dock for repairs

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USA CGC Polar Sea (WAGB-11) alongside her sister ship USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10) near McMurdo Station, Antarctica.

The Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent makes its way through the ice in Baffin Bay in this 2008 file photo @ the link above ...

as The Amundsen will spend the 2012 season in dry-dock for repairs. (Jacques Boissinot/The Canadian Press)

The Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Amundsen clears a path through ice on the Saguenay river in 2005 ...

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