...buoys, nylon nets, synthetic line, and larger (reliable) outboard motors. I own a large 5-6 permit east side set net site. On an average I hire a dozen young (aged 18-30) crew men and women. On an average I spend about $10,000 to...
...work ethic. The joy of hard work and its fruit are some of the sweetest lessons my children have learned working our set net site. But I dare say there is no way I could teach that to someone else's slothful teenager who has been inculcated that...
...was an excellent clam cleaner and cooker. Terry always looked forward to summer, as she would manage her families set net site "Humpy Point" every year. She played hostess to numerous gatherings of friends, family and even strangers. But...
...assisted in the search effort, and commercial fishermen in a skiff transported the survivors from the life raft to a set net site on Kalgin Island. A helicopter later transported them to Anchorage.No one reported any injuries other than hypothermia...
...American Falls Idaho. The young couple homesteaded in Ninilchik Alaska in 1959 where they raised a Family, fished a set net site, hunted, fished, ran a dog team, trapped and recreated. A lifelong love of sailing and the ocean compelled the...
I don't catch many king salmon at my set net site on the west side of Kodiak where my family and I spend summers. That's just the way it is. We haul in abundant pinks, sockeyes...
...little exercise over the winter. Horse riders tend to avoid long rides on the beach during the summer because of the set net sites, but you'll see them back on the beaches during the end of August and September to avoid the hunting season, bears...
...Nazarene). He worked for the Alaska Railroad and Seward General Hospital. In 1956 he started commercial fishing on a set net-site in Cook Inlet. Four years later the family homesteaded near Salamatof Lake in North Kenai. The family built a log...
...beach, Peek said. Some of them like the new security measures, he said, because they could cut down on vandalism at set net sites. Navarre said state land and transportation officials might have been unaware of the existence of the beach easements...
...Soldotna. Fred worked for Conoco Phillips, did various construction jobs, and in 1972 the family purchased a commercial set net site in Nikiski that the family still fishes today. In 1977 Fred also bought a drift boat named the Shadee Lady that he...
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