This week, my dad sent around a couple of links to You Tube videos that featured salmon seining in Southeast Alaska. I enjoyed them so much that I am providing the links so that you can watch them also. Here they are:
F/V Quandary
F/V Pillar Bay
Admittedly, my family and I felt a range of emotions as [...]
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“Fishing families are known for having strong family ties that help them manage the daily strains of fishing.”
(Fishing Families Project/Oregon State University 1997)
One of those daily strains: Worry.
Now, I seldom worry about George’s safety and well-being when he is at sea. The boat is well-built, seaworthy, and solid. Its engines and equipment are current [...]
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“Fishing families experience many benefits from the lifestyle that commercial fishing brings, but they also experience challenges in adapting to husbands’ trips to and from the sea.”
(The Ebb and Flow of Fishing Family Life—Oregon Sea Grant)
I got a call from George while he was in Seward last week getting ready to deliver his latest load [...]
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The following are some statistics that were included in a USA Today article about the job risks that face commercial fishermen:
About 152 of every 100,000 fishermen are killed on the job, according to the latest statistics of the U.S. Labor Department. That’s the highest fatality rate of any occupation, including the rate of loggers, miners, [...]
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I attended a reading at a local bookstore this weekend, something I always enjoy and recommend to everyone. Readings are usually free, last about an hour, have an aura of intellect and celebration about them, and are just simply a pleasant way to spend part of an evening.
I went with my five-month old, Vincent, to hear Croatian-American author Toni [...]
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I wrote a post a while back (”Business as Usual” 
that described the start of almost every Washington Coast Dungeness Crab season. The past couple of days made
obvious that this year’s season was gearing up to begin in the usual way—weather delays, a couple of pumps that went out on the boat, and talk of [...]
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Am I behind the times?
It wouldn’t surprise me one bit to discover that I am.
I just received the latest issue of National Fisherman magazine and was reading through it when I came upon an ad I had not seen before—one for raingear designed specifically for the commercial fishing girl!
They did not have these–(”Women Bib Trousers”)– when [...]
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I’ve decided that the summers I spent working on the crew of our family fishing boat in SE Alaska were some of the best training I could have gotten for my future gig as Wife and Mother.
Due to ongoing home-improvement projects, this week has been a tough one at the Schile house. Today is Sunday, [...]
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