Dave Clark started working on a salmon seiner the year after he graduated from Miami of Ohio in 1997. He hasn't missed a summer fishing season in Alaska since. He and his wife just bought their first house in Juneau where Dave is currently purse seining and dreaming of the day when his two young boys can crew for him.
Tele (pronounced Tell-ah) is a tree hugging, tofu eating, feminist commercial fisherman, memoirist, and blogger. Raised in a Wasilla veterinary clinic, she began trolling out of Sitka at age 7. Twenty-eight years later, she runs the F/V Nerka with her partner, photographer Joel Brady-Power, and Bear the Boat Cat.
Jen Karuza Schile is a writer who grew up in a multi-generation fishing family and spent several summers in Southeast Alaska working as a deckhand aboard the family vessel. Now married to a commercial fisherman and caring for her three young children, she writes about the fishing family lifestyle and adventures at www.commercialfishingmom.com. She is the author of Captain of Her Crew: The Commercial Fishing Mom’s Guide to Navigating Life at Home.
Robin Blue is the wife of a commercial fisherman and mother of two little boys. Robin and her husband, Zed Blue, own and operate the F/V Robin Blue fishing for Dungeness crab off the Washington Coast. The Fishing Blues blog is primarily a site for Robin to share the stories and challenges of her commercial fishing family, but also serves as a way to connect with other fishing families. In addition, Robin addresses issues within the fishing industry, promotes wild fisheries, and encourages seafood consumption with advice and recipes.
Corey is a photographer and Alaskan commercial fisherman. From 2003-2010 he worked as a deckhand on the Bering Sea crabber f/v Rollo and more recently, captains a wild salmon gillnetting operation in Bristol Bay, Alaska. The off season is filled with travel, gallery exhibitions, magazine and ad photography assignments mixed with a bit of backyard gardening, cat maintenance, and skateboarding in Portland, Oregon.
Callifornia crabbing: Here's a fun video shot on the decks of the Majestik while catching Dungeness crab off the coast of northern California.
Over 500 lots of seafood processing equipment formerly owned by Adak Seafood will be sold at auction on Tuesday, June 18, starting at 10 a.m. Hawaiian-Aleutian Daylight Time at the Hilton Garden Inn in Anchorage Alaska.
The equipment is located in a recently updated 250,000 square foot state-of-the-art processing facility in Adak, Alaska. Farmington Hills, Mich.-based Hilco Industrial, which conducts 75 machinery and equipment auctions in a wide range of industries annually, will conduct the auction.
Adak Seafood opened originally as Ada Fisheries in Anchorage in 1986. The facility, updated in 2005, is located on the island of Adak, the southernmost city in Alaska near the western end of the Aleutian Islands. The facility processed cod primarily, as well as halibut, blackcod, crab and pollock, Hilco says.
Alaska fisherman and commercial fisheries activist Kevin Adams was elected chairman at the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute board of directors meeting on May 9 in Anchorage.
The governor-appointed board consists of seven members: five seafood processors and two industry representatives actively engaged in commercial fishing. Adams was appointed to fill a harvester seat by Gov. Frank Murkowski in 2004.
With 38 years of fishing experience in Bristol Bay, Adams has long been an active member in the Alaska fishing industry, ASMI says. He has worked for both the Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation and the Bering Sea Fisherman's Association, and represents Alaska fishermen on numerous boards.
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