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Old 03-10-2011, 11:36 PM
 
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How can I get a job on a fishing boat? I don't want to go out to the bearing sea and battle huge waves. Just work on a commercial fishing boat for a season. How do i do this? What is the pay and process?
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Old 03-11-2011, 10:39 AM
 
Location: Naptowne, Alaska
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Show up in Kenai or Homer or Seward or any of the coastal southeast fishing towns come spring. You may be able to get on a seiner or drifter for the summer. I have no idea what the pay is these days.
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Old 03-11-2011, 10:42 AM
 
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Show up in Kenai or Homer or Seward or any of the coastal southeast fishing towns come spring. You may be able to get on a seiner or drifter for the summer. I have no idea what the pay is these days.
No one gets hired off the docks anymore in SE.
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Old 03-11-2011, 10:46 AM
 
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OP, look here:

//www.city-data.com/forum/alask...hing-jobs.html

/\/\/\ It should be a sticky
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Old 03-11-2011, 11:26 AM
 
Location: Bethel, Alaska
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Get a one way ticket to Dutch Harbor, just like on TV, they hire you on the spot.
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Old 03-12-2011, 01:48 AM
 
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How can I get a job on a fishing boat? I don't want to go out to the bearing sea and battle huge waves. Just work on a commercial fishing boat for a season. How do i do this? What is the pay and process?
As some have said, your best bet is Homer to start. You have to get there very early Spring. If you have enough money you can stay in the 2 Hostels they have in town or set up a tent on the spit. This is the most important thing, get to the docks very early and make sure you are dressed to go to work right away. Extra tuffs, hellys, fish gloves, rain jacket, the whole works. Just walk the docks all day and every day. You will get hired on eventually. That is what the capts. are looking for. Sometimes they will hire someone and they will quit after the first day or not show up, you will take his place. Good Luck, oh 1 more thing, make sure you have your commercial fishing license, it use to be $50 when I commercial fished. You can get them at most sporting goods store. I forgot, the pay is usually a percentage anywhere from 3% up to 10%, until you get full crew share.
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Old 02-29-2012, 07:06 PM
 
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If there are any fisherman willing to hire and train for crab fishing this season in Alaska email me [email]mattmcgrath812@yahoo.com[/email]. I'm from Ohio and mean business.
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Old 03-01-2012, 06:48 AM
 
Location: Dangling from a mooses antlers
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email capinron@titanic.net

I think he has openings on the Sea Star and the Lucky Lady.
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Old 03-01-2012, 10:43 AM
 
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You could get a one way ticket to Unalaska, lasso one of them there wild horses and head to the different docks looking for a fishing job.
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Old 03-01-2012, 11:32 AM
 
Location: Bethel, Alaska
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Asking questions on a forum won't get you on a crab boat. You must know someone who knows someone that knows someone who knows another someone that knows someone that knows a captain, that's how you get on a boat.
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