A tenderman's log: working the Fraser River

摘要

Getting the call: We had rumors of a spectacular Fraser River sockeye salmon return this year, with the high expectations based on the huge 2010 run. But by the end of the first week in August, I was starting to wonder if it was going to happen at all.Then around noon on Aug. 10, Mas, the tender coordinator for the Canadian Fishing Co., called me and said he needed me to be the sixth man on the 100-foot Hesquiat, a beautiful old tender vessel I had worked on before. She was built in 1944 as a tender vessel for the Royal Canadian Air Force. She's been packing fish since 1947.