In 1963, I was on a 44-foot seiner that had just arrived from Prince William Sound and was now in Puget Sound. We only made one set since we as an Alaskan seiner had a net length that was not legal down south. And since our net was shorter that those on boats that were over 65 feet long, we could get into very shallow water off Whidbey Island north of Seattle. After the set we figured we should probably give up such fishing, but it took us two hours to bring in over 4000 fish. There were more fish but they were spilling over the net before we could get them all aboard and into the hold. I am now looking at the picture I took of the salmon filled to about a foot from the top. Fun life. I was 18 years old.Glad I had 7 seasons of it. Thanks for your video. Brings back memories.
Great hall on the pink salmon that will feed a lot of people. Southeast Alaska at its best .over 13 million fish and the fishing Industry only taks less than 1% of the fish .to feed the world .hard working men without dresses and pink hair. hats off to the true man and the abundance of fish God gave us . Bone apatite.
Really loved this video!!!Fantastic quality of the film. Fascinating look into the exciting, but very dangerous profession of salmon fishing.Thank,you, Stanley!!!😄😄😄😄Please post some more videos!!!😄😄😄
Yes, AFK hatcheries derby. Had a hard time rolling the net because it was on bottom. We were in about 10 to 14 feet. Biggest set that day was 430000 pounds, took the tender 6 hours to pump it. Unfortunately it wasn't our set.
@@berdac8676 lol. My captains been seigning for 60 years, ive been fishing 10 years..... what happened was the net got under the boat in 10 feet of water it's a problem.
Not really, not plate worthy, definitely can worthy. This was a early run of 70 percent males. They usually don't let us in this area in particular unless it's to high male ratio for brood stock.
There're hatchery fish. In this case the male to female ration was way to high, so we harvest them. Later the male to female eation is 1 to 1 and the hatchery harvest the brood stock, fetalize the eggs.
@Stanley Duncan I enjoy watching different types of fishing (mostly angling). Looked like a good haul. I wonder if in Canada that seineing for Atlantic salmon is a possibility? I live in western New York and fish lake Ontario. I wish our Atlantic stocks would recover enough for that.
I think most salmon is gill netted, it makes for better table fair. Seining crushes the fish. Most of our pinks are destined for cans, not that we don't get bicatch of sock eye, silvers and kings. The Kings on the copper are gill netted. We caught a few sharks, halibut ect.
