Hi everyone happy 4th, I was looking to get some insight on when I should try to look for a job/how to look for a job if I’m not local to walk docks. I’m from Texas so it would be nice to try and find something online so I have time to book flights and get gear. Thank you!
Hello! I will be starting a full-time fisheries observer position in the Northeast in roughly a month. The trips will be between 10-12 days long, with a maximum of 5 days off in between trips. I was a PSO on a seismic vessel before this, and I was able to walk endlessly around the helipad and work out in the gym.
The fishing vessels were significantly smaller; since I'll be spending easily 2/3 of every month on the boat, I wanted to see if anyone had any advice for keeping up with exercise or various health practices. I want to get a sense of how creative I'll have to be.
There’s been a lot of talk lately about the BSAI pollock fleet “decimating” the food web by catching so much pollock.
Quotas in the BSAI pollock fishery are not just made up out of thin air. Every summer, full scientific trawl surveys are conducted across the Eastern Bering Sea. Those surveys are used to estimate total biomass, and quotas are set based on those estimates. The total allowable catch (TAC) is kept below 15% of the estimated biomass. That means for every 15 fish we take, 85 swim free. That’s been the system since surveys began in 1982. It’s science-based, conservative, and it’s exactly why this fishery has stayed stable and productive for over 40 years.
The pollock fishery also targets large pollock, not the age-zero pollock that are important forage fish for many species in the Bering Sea (adult pollock are one of the largest predators of juvenile pollock). Generally, we start catching pollock around age 2 or 3, and then fish a large year class through its maturity. We’ve been fishing the 2018 year class since 2020, for example, and that year class is aging out of the fishery and that is why you see a decline in total biomass.
It’s also important to remember that pollock fishing in the Bering Sea has been happening since the late 1950s. Up until 1977, it was almost entirely foreign fleets. In those early years, it’s hard to know exact harvest numbers because there was very little regulation or oversight. What we do know is that in the early 1970s, total removals were around 1.7 to 1.9 million metric tons every single year. For perspective, the BSAI pollock quota for both 2025 and 2026 is 1.375 million metric tons.
So taking large amounts of pollock out of the Eastern Bering Sea is not new, it’s been happening for decades, and at even higher levels in the past.
Fished my rig today and all but 2 had already been fished by someone else. I've fished nets and trawled my whole life but it's my first time getting into crabbing. It's just super disheartening finding every pot moved and the doors open and bait empty all day.
I’m 22(M) and I work for my grandpa on a commercial fishing boat and we’re trying to get rid of some Dungeness crab right now as our usual buyer is stocked up at the moment. We’ve got 600-700 lbs and I’m trying to find more of a market for my grandad to get them off. We’re now feeling like we need to get ahold of a buyer before even going out and that’s a defeating feeling as a fisherman. Any tips for using facebooks groups out in OR? Lmk 🙏
Urgently seeking crewman to work during salmon fishing season. July and August mainly. Pay rate is 10% of the total income for the season. Located near Kodiak, AK. Prefer no greenhorns but willing to train if you’re a newbie to this fishery/location. First come first serve.
Just wondering if anyone's heard an ID or boat name?
I’m a woman , I have no fishing experience but i do work on farms so used to hard work uncomfortable positions , getting dirty and working with predominately men. I work with animals too so used to getting hit in the face or dealing with gross shit. I grew up always in the ocean so I’ve been stung by jellyfish lots of times. I do know quite a lot about commercial fishing though from living on remote west coast port towns. I am intelligent have common sense work hard attention to detail and really quick reflexes
I was told summer season the teenagers and kids started out with summer salmon bc as commercial fishing goes its on the easier side than you know how it can be
July / August. Wonder how it would be . Any tips or advice. How much yall making. What’s the likelihood I make nothing
Where I live on PNW coast we have our salmon recreational season open and it’s been pretty good. I got offered this job and went to the beach a friend just caught some and was cooking it over a bonfire I felt that was a good sign. When I left he gave me some in a ziploc. I parked and munched on it as I drove felt right and I thought maybe I should go
I do wear contacts to see or I have glasses. That’s a concern cuz if they pop off my eyesight is pretty bad but I have two pairs of glasses . Goggles ??
I got offered the job by a friend. At first I said no. But My situation changed this summer and now they need another few member so I have about a day or so to see if I can have someone watch my pets and decide.
I haven’t spent much time on boats although I am a sea person but mostly in the water and around it . Sea sickness advice ?
Thanks
Just curious...
I've heard that most prawns/shrimps are frozen on the boat as soon as they are caught, is that true?
If so, I guess that kills them?
My question is why is it that lobsters are kept alive and then boiled alive (which I think is really unethical and horrible)? Can't they be frozen immediately too?
Its that time again! The is the best radio show to keep track of the Bristol Bay Fishery