Any other commercial guys on here

I did in NC for about ten years. Mostly crab pots. Some flounder netting and clams.

You get to see the sunrise everyday and you don’t get calls from your boss.

You will not make much money. Every special interest group is against commercial fishing and the stock is diminishing.

Ole don wolf was one but he passed a while back RIP.
Their a fell who does a lot of gill netting goes by JiBmoo or something aboong those lines. Knowledge fella. Few others .
If your on facebook theirs two amazing groups I'd be happy to reccomended you to.

Yep. Groundfish mostly

Matt Jones fishes Commercially hes mostly on Facebook though

Newt does it

If your in Facebook these are two great ones , lots of guys from LA

Yeah but I’m trying to quit.Check out the orange gar-found out later it may have been worth $10,000.

Rockfish, codfish, halibut, spot prawns . Worked on deck for 15 years before I took the plunge

Yes

Crab pot and gill net in chincoteague bay, also have Atlantic striped bass quota that I net in the ocean every spring.

Dad ran a dragger out of ocean city for many years.

How about yourself Yellowbelly?

John

Very cool pics 3fingers

30+ years on the Bering Sea. Longline cod catcher/processor. Contract out, 1600 ton masters ocean endorsed. Been taking a lot more time off last few years. Fleets half what it used to be, bigger companies buying up permits and quota. Crabbers are really suffering if not out of business.

I used to be a fisherman until the trawlers decimated our salmon run here on the Yukon River. Now we are out of business. I had a Norton Sound herring permit as well but they took that years ago, I didn't have enough points. I also have a freshwater permit and fish Lamprey and Bering Sea Cisco.


I also ran a tender boat for salmon here for eight years and worked on a setnet in Bristol Bay.

I have two gill nets under the ice now just for fresh fish.

Getting my gear ready to set.
Hope to be fishing next week.Its all up to the weather. Need com seas to set my Fyke nets. Can tend them in a little weather. Tending in heavey weather just tears up the nets

good post thanks guys

Purse seined in Alaska back in the day. That's a young man's game though!

Yup, For a little while longer anyways, but as long as the sonic testing keeps killing these whales and blaming fishing its not looking to good .

Are u bandit fishing the cod of Kodiak?

bunch a yummy seafood right there-just tried the spot prawns this year-great eating-not like regular shrimp at all

Probably gonna stick closer to home but the option is open for now. Season is open right now but still pretty early. Winter fishing is not much fun. Between the R Whales, wind farms, protection zones you guys are getting pushed hard.