Sitka longliner adapts California boat for pursuit of Gulf of Alaska halibut, black cod

摘要

When Steve Fish was 19 years old, he faced a turning point in life - he'd just quit college in Northern California and was looking for a new challenge. He found it in Petersburg, Alaska, where he worked on a salmon and halibut tender for a month and then as a deckhand on salmon seiners.At the time, it was just an adventure, but the experience of fishing in Alaska put the hook in him."I didn't plan on staying, but I didn't plan on going back, either,' he said. "I ended up really loving it and finding a home there."