There are some things Norm Darch has to buy for his Salamatof Beach setnet sites every year such as fuel, supplies for his crew, nets and maintenance on his equipment. Other things, like capital improvements...
...Board of Equalization, Seaton wrote in his sponsor statement. Wiley was a fisherman and operated the same Clam Gulch setnet site since 1977, according to Seaton's sponsor statement. David Thomas, an HEA board member who had worked with Wiley...
...from the user group's perspective, it definitely can do great harm to some setnetters that maybe just have one (setnet site) ... (and) that inequity is troubling to me," she said. Amber Every, a setnetter, said a reduction in gear...
...do not stockpile what they sell, he said. "When it comes to setnet fishing, the only thing we really have is our setnet sites," Shadura said. "(It's worth) is apparent to the person who buys that site - at a high risk- but it makes it...
Travis Every spent June and July standing at his family's setnet sites watching the sockeye salmon jump in their rush toward the Kenai River. But, instead of setting his nets in the water to catch...
...involved in commercial fishing at some level from a very young age from drifting the Inlet with my Dad to running my own setnet site at Humpy Point, beginning in the 1950s through the present. The kings were fished commercially at one time and always...
...setnet fisherman, and my children and grandchildren are third- and fourth-generation setnet fishermen. I've fished setnet sites at Corea Bend, Clam Gulch, Humpy Point, and Salamatof Beach. When I started fishing in the mid-1950s we were still...
...He also cited a change in fisheries laws that allows setnet operators to drive fish to canneries without staying at setnet sites at the same time. He also helped pass a bill that allows fisheries to combine catches on transporters. A commercial...
...Kasilof Historical Association. Johnson has been involved in surveying and drafting Shore Fishery Lease diagrams for setnet sites in many parts of Cook Inlet, as well as in Bristol Bay, Kodiak and other areas. He has developed a method for slush-icing...
...In 1951 he partnered with Ken Lancaster and built Our Point of View Lodge, Kenai Lake. Soon he found himself owning setnet sites on Kalgin Island. The mountains, ocean, and beauty of the sea, urged him into buying the F/V Sarah Maria, a halibut...
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