ON DECK
Fishing Back When November By Jessica Hathaway
1991— Salmon prices tank as Alaska production soars along with the success with farming in Norway and Scotland. In Bristol Bay, base prices plummet to 45 cents a pound for sockeyes from $1.05 in 1990. And Prince William Sound seiners are on limits for pinks to the canneries.
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The 82-foot fishing schooner Lister of Sherburne, Nova Scotia, looks right at home on Carters Creek in Weems, Va., where it’s relocated for an overhaul at Humphrey’s Railway.
On the cover: Bristol Bay gillnetters ride a wild wave of salmon in Alaska’s rodeo fishery.
On the cover: A replica of the Viking ship Valhalla and the Bojer Wikan Fishermen’s Memorial in Petersburg, Alaska, stand in tribute to the town’s commercial fishing and Norwegian heritage.
Maine’s Bailey Island hosts the first landing of a swordfish at Mackerel Cove in some 30 years with a 397-pounder harpooned by Levi Gilliam with Dane Allen at the wheel.
Hurricane Bob sank the Nomad, a 47-foot trawler, off the coast of Massachusetts on Aug. 19, taking with it the life of her captain, Brett Baker, 35. Robert Cutting, 24, was lifted from the water the next day and survived. Both were from Kittery, Maine.
Salmon tenders and gillnetters at the mouth of the Naknek River awaiting the return of salmon to Bristol Bay. Also catch a preview of the fifth annual Fish Expo to be hosted in the historic port of Boston!
Southern shrimpers work to develop usable finfish excluder devices and other gear (in addition to turtle excluders), as well as to collect data on the extent of bycatch in their fisheries, before the 1994 regulation comes into play.
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NF honors Allen D. “Mike” Brown, a.k.a. Cap’n Perc Sane, author of nearly 50 years of stories from Saturday Cove, Maine, after his passing at age 81 and a celebration of life in Belfast, Maine. The Bering Sea pollock fleet gets some relief with a rollback of American Fisheries Act and North Pacific council limitedentry regulations for rebuilding and replacing vessels in the sector.
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