Pollock Fishing in the Bering Sea, Alaska 

Did u step all over the fish too😑

Lol no I was a cook!

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@@2fineee ew what?

@@81flyboi cooks are awesome

Your description underscores why this is an unsustainable fishing method. It's too efficient.

@@hannabaal150 Pollock are sustainable lots and lots of them and they grow fast.

@@JacobPlante-uj3qo Any place or species can be fished out. It's happened over and over again because the methods of catching the fish are unsustainable. It's not the fish that are unsustainable, it's how the fish get caught. There are many ways to catch fish that are illegal for just that reason.

@@hannabaal150 "Pollock, especially Alaskan Pollock, is often more affordable than other types of fish due to a combination of factors: Abundance and Sustainability: Pollock is one of the world's most abundant fish species. Particularly in Alaska, it's managed tightly to ensure its population remains sustainable.Sep 1, 2023" do some research before you start talking.

@@JacobPlante-uj3qo Would being a commercial salmon fisherman in Alaska count? I think we mean about the same thing. I define sustainable as the method of fishing as well as the fish. If a sustainable method isn't used, the fish won't be sustainable. There was at one time a large salmon run on the Columbia River, but because the methods for fishing were unsustainable, the run mostly disappeared.

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Are you crazy this is awful. This is not fishing not all these fish aren't even eaten they just go to waste. Terrible.

They want to live, just like us.

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That's why I call surimi (artificial crab) the hot dog of the sea. It reminds me of that "pink slime" you see in meat processing videos, just not pink. Gotta commend them for using as much as they can. I believe a lot of the fishing regulations incentivize using as much as they can, which allows the boats to catch more. Hence markets being created for byproducts like fish oil and fish meal (used for fertilizer).

Yeah, I was on the F/V Spirit and a few others out of Dutch, then others out of other parts. Definitely memories worth making.

SanFranciscoBay Everything takes place on the vessel. Fillets, surimi (paste that ultimately gets turned into artificial crab and other products), and bycatch species (cod/flatfish) is all graded, packed and frozen aboard on this particular vessel and offloaded on land or directly to a transport vessel (for shipment to foreign markets). This is what you call a factory trawler. There are other smaller vessels that are catcher vessels only and they keep their catch in refrigerated salt water tanks on board for 2-3 days while catching before coming to shore to offload to a factory for processing.

Dave Wagenheim. The smaller catcher vessels you mention in your comment, when they store these caught fish for 2-3 days in refrigerated salt water tanks, are these fish stored alive, dead and gutted or do they die during this time and does the storage of live fish in cramped containers stress the fish causing them to release stress chemicals into their bodies which can change the taste of the fish making it taste worse?

SanFranciscoBay They generally are not in any kind of shape to live once they are dragged and compacted in the net when caught. Imagine the pressure as they are brought up in tons. No processing is done until they reach the dock and have gone through their stages of rigor mortis. I can't speak to the quality of the meat with respect to stress chemicals. Certainly various styles of catching and processing impart different levels of quality to the flesh just by way of how they are handled. In general, line caught (longliner) fish maintain a much better end product quality. There is bycatch with line caught, but a lot of it has a much better chance of survival if released properly. However, depending on the fishery, some line caught bycatch is destined for death simply due to the effect of pressure as its brought up from depths so quickly. Small air bladders expand and affect the internal constitution of fish. Some even come up with eyes that are pushed out. Probably a tough way to go. Some fish, like pacific cod, whether trawl (net) caught or line caught is treated a particular way right after it is caught to keep the flesh quality high. It is sliced below the gills to be bled out. I'm not sure if it affects taste. It might just be to keep the flesh color as light as possible for consumer appeal.

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Frozen fresh at sea! #formervetbosun

Pollock and hoki (a deep-sea fish species) are what those fish sandwiches from McDonalds are made out of.

It’s where majority of king salmon and halibut by catch go.

This is unfriendly. The draggers ruined the crab industry. You kill crab as bycatch and destroy every that your net comes across. There is a ton of evidence. Unfortunately, the draggers are corporate and the other fisheries are more privately owned. The big money corporate has the funding and power to make sure that their fisheries stay open even if that means killing the other ones.

U are very wrong terribly wrong crab sticks are made of minced pollock, and I didn't see not one crab or salmon in the process.. can't beat em Billy? Join em

Lots of Halibut and Salmon bycatch is not economically sensible so boats typically move away from areas where there is a lot. But they do still catch some. I think the biggest crime related to this is that they must throw it back in the water and not eat or process it. The rationale is that boats might target areas with more valuable bycatch, which messes with the fleets that are actually permitted to catch those species. It's kind of like multiple economic cartels working together and orchestrated by their own lobby groups and enforced by the federal government. That said, typical mid-water pollock trawling has relatively low bycatch rates compared to other types of fisheries, namely bottom trawling, which can be completely indiscriminate and tears up the floor of the ocean. Longline fishing can have bycatch but those fish are released as they come up, hopefully in a sensitive way, and can survive the experience. Deepwater longline bycatch is not so lucky, however, because the ascending fish's swim bladder expands and basically destroys the fish.

Just loud factory and deck noise. I could narrate over it, or subtitles.

to respond for him yes it is normal and actually that is quite a big ship for the bering sea I made my money on the Rebecca Irene a 140 ft boat that could hold 22,000 cases of fish at 22 kilo's each

I worked for them. It wasn’t bad.

Salmon bycatch on a mid water pollock trawler is variable but no salmon bycatch survive the experience, unfortunately. Fisherman will move out of an area if they are catching a lot of salmon because it can shorten their season if they catch too many.

That is the trawl deck, where the deck hands work. Below that is the factory where fish is processed. At the aft of the boat you see where the fish drops into a lower part of the boat. These are holding tanks that have circulated water. The fish go through a resting process before they are run through the factory and processed and frozen.

Trevor Ford Thank you. It was fun to put together as a nice document of my time working on various boats in Alaska.

+Dave Wagenheim at 6.50, nice king salmon

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in norway ground fish used to be used mostly for fish balls and fish cakes and several other local variants where you say mixed fish paste macaroni and white sauce and made (fish gratin) back when most people bought whole fish from local fishermen and made their own fish paste by using meat grinder ore modern food prossesors.. my guess reason for grinding say a fish filet you could say boil-fry-grill is that most kids dont like boild fish hehe but if say made in to fish cakes-balls and mixd with flour-milk and spice and onion and so on it cind of dont taste like fish. nowadays you still can get to buy some fresh fish filet in the shops if you live near enough a fishing harbour but most people buy frozen fish filets ore those blocks of frozen fish paste becouse its usually a bit cheaper than top quality fish filets and make their own dishes althoug today most people buy finisd fabric made meals they just can heat up in the oven ore microvawe. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_ball

Surimi, or artificial crab. The stuff you see in California Rolls (sushi). Also fish cakes in Pho (soup). Hot Dog of the Sea.

Hard to say. Every catch is different. It obviously depends on successful fishing, optimal processing, and good weather. A boat like this could fill up in 2-3 weeks.

comfortouch Poland is land locked!

@@deryckdavies2365 Baltic Sea is by poland so no its not landlocked

Back in 2006 when I made this video, a vessel like this might have had access to email type messaging, but it was very limited by today's standards. I imagine most vessels have some kind of modern satellite based internet access, but I am not sure. Usually, when we return to port, we'd use internet and phone on land to get in touch with friends and family.

Juuso Välimaa like your comment everyone else on here are bleeding heart liberals. I got message back saying that not only me but my family should be put in prison for me doing this kind of work. I hope they think when they have a fish sandwich from McDonald's

Juuso Välimaa well said Shawn fished out of bruxham for many years if I want to get it home truth to the liberals I used to tell the kids my job was cutting the fingers of the fish for captain bird's-eye

@@shawndarling5855 The biggest and best fishing fleets are from die hard liberal Nordic countries. So I don't think liberals have an issue with fishing.

Inshore fishery is the real fishery. These things rape the seafloor and kill everything.

Nah, that isn't real fishing. That's factory work. Get on a seiner or longliner. That's fishing.

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Yes ... lucky for them supplies of pollock are infinite . No matter how many they catch there will always be more .... ...f fwd 5 years ; I wonder where all the pollock have gone ? There used to be loads..! It's a real mystery .?

all they do is adjust the blades for smaller fish. may this boat sink.

It's a lot of work for everyone involved. The captain and engineers have tons of responsibility. The factory workers work long hours doing repetitive tasks, the deck hands do very hard work and are exposed to the elements and put themselves in dangerous situations. The best job might be cooking, aside from the monitoring work I did.

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how many hauls like that before the fish is extinct?

@@mrkeopele I think the environmental movement is sometimes overly dramatic and sensational but the one thing I believe is critical is the overfishing of the oceans... It's fact based science that we can observe in real time and we need more protected areas for massive schools of fish to return... Once we get the population low enough they will never come back....

15 k n 3 months if your in Seattle

Do some research by contacting fishing companies that run large catcher-processor boats out of Seattle.

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lol. Probably a cultural thing.

Being away from home for months in Alaska is a good time to experiment with facial hair. :)

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I may narrate over it someday

@Johnny Freeman thats what am about

Look up how hot dogs are made. It's probably very similar. Additives like sugar, salt, and binding agents.

Nina Constable For what purposes?

Almost never in my experience. The codend, which is the last net to come up with all the fish, is practically cinched up by the time it reaches the surface of the water. The pressure of all the fish inside along with the tight netting makes it basically impossible for birds and fish in the net to interact. The birds you see in the video are eating the offal, which is the processing factory fish “waste”, basically whatever is not made into some kind of food product.

@@davewagenheim Ah, ok. Very interesting. Thank you for the quick responses. Ever do crab fishing? Bering Sea? 🤪🤪😬😬🤣🤣 Not sure on your location. Just wondering/curious. Thanks again.

@@proVShow nope. I was a fisheries observer on commercial fishing boats from 2000-2009. I did work on a couple crab boats that were doing pot cod fishing in their off season. The first one was a boat that was featured on Discovery Channel before The Deadliest Catch show started. They were proud of the exposure they got and their feature probably showed that the content was viable for a larger series in the near future.

@@davewagenheim Woooooow!! seriously????? Which boat was it? Deadliest Catch is me and my wives favorite show!!!! You do realize that show is still going and in its 18th season. Sig Hansen And Jake Anderson are two or our favorites! I sound stupid lol. There is a new show coming up called the Last Viking and its starring Sig and Jake and I believe his Daughter Mandy too. Now you have to tell me hahahaha just kidding but who are you? Were you on the show?

@@proVShow Fierce Allegiance

Yes indeed!

And artificial crab. (Surimi)

Check with companies in Seattle. Make sure you look them up to see if there are any complaints! Its dangerous out there, be careful!

No doubt.

The sounds of a commercial fishing boat and its factory are intense and mostly unpleasant. I made the decision to not include noise because it would take away more than it added. If this was a professional video I could have dubbed in some carefully collected sounds.

@@davewagenheim please give pollack fish baby to iran To multiply this fish in Iran.

bonus fish for the employee who finds it!

that's what I was thinking!

I eat a lot of salmon when I'm onboard.

i agree

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@@jameskjv8236 4 years later I re read my comment. I have no clue what I was talking a out either LMAO

@@BenWinder108 Lol

Yeah, this isn't fishing. It's factory work. I did this and I was on a seiner and an eel boat, those and long lining are real fishing. Best job in the field.

There are also long line factory vessels. And the long line setups are created to be as efficient as possible, similarly to how this net system is engineered, the goal is to maximize the results for the effort. In my view there are lots of other benefits to long lined fish though, like the quality of the fish is better because it's not compressed in a net for hours. There's also a better survivability rate (by far) for bycatch of a longliner if they are in relatively shallow water. The deep water bycatch does not survive if they have a swim bladder because it expands as they are brought up quickly.

Yes.

This is a business. It costs a lot for them to go out on the cold and rough Bering Sea to try to make this all make sense and make a living.

It's hard work but we're all very rugged men. 18 hr days 7 days a week 11.5 months/ yr. No holidays here young man.

@@chrissmith2921 thanks for your hard work Chris. I really enjoy the pollock you fish!

@@chrissmith2921 i just went n bought Gordon's pollock fish sticks very nice I paid 7.35 for a bag ate it with Mac n cheese yuuum

@@chrissmith2921 thanks Chris from queens,Whitestone nyc.

it's overfishing

Pygmy Puff : I agree, just about any imitation crab, imitation shrimp, McDonald’s fillet of fish, Carl’s juniors fish sandwiches etc etc, come from this, I worked on a similar boat they called “Factory”processor boats

Tf you mean😂 it’s hard work and good money!

McDonald's Fillet O Fish sandwiches, Artificial Crab (Surimi), Frozen Fish Sticks.

Why don't you show us a better design?

They make 15k in 3 months.

The money is OK. The food and board is obviously included, so whatever you make is more easily saved than a land based job because there's nowhere to spend it. Many companies restrict their crew from leaving the vessel to go to bars in the port because that's how many get into trouble.