BRYAN EATON/Staff photo. The only boats easily seen on the Merrimack River are the fishing boats Lisa Ann III and Katie May in the embayment in Newburyport's Waterfront, and the U.S. Coast Guard vessels, as pleasure boating in certainly over. A couple docks remain and they are being hauled out for the season as well.

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