FOLTA, District Judge.
Libelant, a seaman, seeks maintenance for the period of disability resulting from the aggravation of an old back injury while employed on respondent's fishing vessel. Although the injury is apparently permanent, maintenance may be allowed only for such period of time after the voyage ended as an improvement in his condition may reasonably be expected from nursing, care and medical treatment, Calmar S.S. Corp. v. Taylor,
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