Sitka seiners go boat-banging, and they don't even have a price

摘要

Sitka's herring gamble: Some seiners held their usual springtime, hull-crunching competition for roe-rich herring in Sitka Sound. Which struck veteran skipper Chip Treinen of Anchorage as absurd, considering fishermen had no idea what, or whether, they would be paid for the catch. "When you risk that much for no price, it seems kind of foolish," he said. The catch was huge at 19,636 tons, taken in five brief openers between March 31 and April 9.