Alaska Fishing Boats

Alaska Fishing Boats

FIFTEEN OR TWENTY YEARS ago, thousands upon thousands of college-age kids migrated to Bristol Bay and Cook Inlet in the late spring, pitched tents in parking lots, and beat the docks until they secured a site on a drift boat or seiner. In those days the salmon runs were incredibly strong, the ex-vessel price was over $3.00/lb., and work abounded. Photo by pinprick. If you couldn’t find a site, then the tender vessel or the cannery certainly had a position for you – a less lucrative one to be sure, but good work nonetheless. Crab fishing in the wintertime offered similar opportunity. A young man could get on a plane in Anchorage and have a job before he landed in Dutch Harbor.

Alaska Fishing Boats

Alaska Fishing Boats

Alaska Fishing Boats

Alaska Fishing Boats

Alaska Fishing Boats

Alaska Fishing Boats

Alaska Fishing Boats

Alaska Fishing Boats

Alaska Fishing Boats

Alaska Fishing Boats

Alaska Fishing Boats

Alaska Fishing Boats

Alaska Fishing Boats

Alaska Fishing Boats

Alaska Fishing Boats

Alaska Fishing Boats

Alaska Fishing Boats