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04-28-2007, 06:22 PM
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Deep sea fishing
Hey i'm a young man interested in the deep sea fishing industry.
Can someone give me information on how to get in?? 
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04-28-2007, 08:01 PM
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Get up here. Stop at all the canneries and hit up the fishermen who are currently working on thier boats for the season ahead. You just about need to be on the dock...with gear...ready to go. Unless you know someone and have contact numbers etc. Darn near every town on the Kenai Peninsula is a fishing town. You should be able to find something, or any of the other coastal communities along southeast AK.
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05-02-2007, 06:16 PM
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would anchorage be a good place to get started?
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05-02-2007, 08:32 PM
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I think you'd better start on the peninsula. Unless job service in Anchorage has listings for cannery work out of town, in places like Naknek or Kodiak. You won't be much into the commercial fishing zone.
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05-06-2007, 09:53 PM
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what type of job expereince/skills do captains look for in hiring a deckhand. is it mostly just good work ethic?
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05-06-2007, 11:17 PM
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No...it's long hours...rocking and rolling 24 / 7 until you get tied up in a harbor! Being a deck hand is not a 9 to 5 job. It's all day and half the night...and just when you get comfortable it's time to get up and start picking or pulling again. A non-whining hard working individual makes a good deck hand. Because you can b***h and moan all you want. Your still not getting to shore until the job is done.
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05-07-2007, 10:06 PM
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must be good money
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05-07-2007, 10:17 PM
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Depends on the share, and the quality and quantity of the catch. Depends on the market more than anything. If the processor isn't paying, you lose. If your not on the crab, and you're not pulling 30-50 crab a pot, you're losing money. Salmon runs hot and cold, moneywise. Herring roe are always a winner, but dangerous as all getout when 3 boats go after the same school. It's winner take all.
It can be a real crap shoot.
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05-07-2007, 11:50 PM
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But it sure is fun. I spent many a spring doing the togiak herring seine season. Herds of walrus, beach combing for ivory, getting stuck in a small bay for a week straight while it blew 80 mph, bouncing off other boats while racing for a share of a school of fish, watching as 2 super cubs slam head on and fall from the sky, running out of groceries. Yeah them were the days...
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05-08-2007, 03:16 PM
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I've heard that spotter for the herring fleet is even more dangerous than fishing the herring. Second hand tales of course.
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