As the sun set and Seattle’s skyline flicked on from the shore behind them, Richard Penn and his daughter Leslie Starr rifled through layers of green mesh netting to free a silvery, fat king salmon. They tossed it into a box of ice aboard their boat.

They would repeat this shuffle dozens of times, beginning here in Elliott Bay just after 9 p.m. Wednesday.

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