A specialist in a short-term trade

摘要

At the time of DAVID B's construction, gill net fishing for salmon in Bristol Bay, Alaska-still one of the richest salmon fisheries on Earth-was only allowed under sail. Canneries kept fleets of double-ended, sprit-rigged sailing gillnetters, 25' to 32' long, to work the bay. More than a dozen canneries on Bristol Bay used these boats. Many of them were built in Astoria, Oregon, and other Columbia River ports, as a larger adaptation of the Columbia River sailing gillnetters, which in turn were an adaptation of earlier boats developed for salmon fishing in California rivers. Numerous Puget Sound boatbuilders also built sailing gillnetters for the Alaska canneries.