Commercial Fishing in Alaska: 2015

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  • Опубліковано 11 вер 2015
  • Each summer, hundreds of millions of salmon return to the Prince William Sound of Alaska. This enables one of the most sustainable fisheries on the planet, of which, I am a very proud fisherman. I work on the F/V Rafferty alongside my brother and two other friends. This video compilation was shot during our 2015 season to give you an idea of what our days look like and how we catch our fish--1.8M pounds in 2015!
    Enjoy and follow along with the rest of my adventures at WillfullyLiving.com!

КОМЕНТАРІ • 57

  • @GCHatSCHOOL
    @GCHatSCHOOL Рік тому

    I miss PWS something fierce. Softball in Cordova, the Jacks bay line up, glacier ice in 'beverages', shrimp pots inside the narrows... and enough cannot be said for the fishing communities. Save for a particular fishing family from Homer, truly a 'gentleman's fishery'. One of these days we'll see you at Gravina!

  • @markhill5491
    @markhill5491 2 роки тому

    Kodiak island,,,,, it's amazing...... I never should have left Alaska. salmon fishing 🎣 it's a way of life. Bless you all and be safe out there this year.

  • @steved867
    @steved867 8 років тому +4

    awesome video now i am hungry for salmon .

  • @erickjaime632
    @erickjaime632 6 років тому +3

    Excellent. I'll be there for my first go around this summer. I'm from Mexico.

    • @RTLivingFree
      @RTLivingFree 4 роки тому

      Erick Jaime how was you season! This is my second year, you started when I did!

  • @TheBuzz222
    @TheBuzz222 3 роки тому

    Prince William Sound I love it so, I fished the mighty waters many moons ago. Hippa was a hot spot of King salmon to we pulled a few out of that tact.

  • @ejhandsomeragged
    @ejhandsomeragged 3 роки тому

    Wow so good nice job fisherman I like it

  • @alirott2271
    @alirott2271 Рік тому

    BEAUTIFUL DAY.

  • @user-he3on5oj2j
    @user-he3on5oj2j 4 роки тому +4

    Это работа мечты👋🤗

  • @2blood5money3
    @2blood5money3 8 років тому +2

    had that job "led line" for 2 seasons best job in the world... f/v bipoler corcova

  • @craigbeuker4971
    @craigbeuker4971 6 років тому +2

    Wow, must be nice not to have to pick. I did set-net commercial salmon fishing in Uyak Bay and I have to say it was a bit more work.

    • @dustysageroutdoors
      @dustysageroutdoors 4 роки тому +1

      Craig Beuker yah sometimes it’s less work. They are feast or famine though. They can’t scratch away like gilnetters. I’ve done both and they both have their advantages.

  • @mikergoff
    @mikergoff 7 років тому +2

    What kind of pay is typical for a deckhand? I work in a naval yard right now and make 50k to 60k a year but I have been wanting to try fishing up in Alaska. Also, is walking the docks the best way to get work out there? I'm from Seattle.

    • @raybon7939
      @raybon7939 7 років тому +1

      It looks like it's the only way. But if your over 40 I don't know....Lloll....I'm 46 so I wonder. One last push for retirement...Lloll...

    • @RTLivingFree
      @RTLivingFree 4 роки тому

      Michael Goff I make 11k last summer and it was an off season. My dude, you should check out the videos I’m making now about these topics! Dm me of you ace more questions too

  • @RTLivingFree
    @RTLivingFree 4 роки тому

    I’m on the Rafferty now! Coincidentally I’m making fishing videos too lol

    • @dustysageroutdoors
      @dustysageroutdoors 4 роки тому

      RT Living Free gottA love the fishing videos in the off season. Haha nothing else to do

  • @Livelyscale
    @Livelyscale 8 років тому +1

    how much did you make in this season?

    • @RTLivingFree
      @RTLivingFree 4 роки тому

      Batbayar Agvaansharav I’m a fisherman an this boat fishes in the Prince William Sound, last year I make 11k for 3 months of work and it was a pretty slow season

  • @Travel360s
    @Travel360s 8 років тому +1

    R u hiring or anyone else you know? I'm 30 from Montana and always wanted to do this up in Alaska! Was going to work for a gillnetter in Bristol Bay but he flaked out on me. Already have tickets to Anchorage mid-June :)

    • @WillfullyLiving
      @WillfullyLiving  8 років тому +2

      By principle, I do not share my contacts. Go to Bristol or the Sound with that ticket and walk the docks every day and try to earn a job. Good luck!

    • @Travel360s
      @Travel360s 8 років тому +2

      thx....i guess

    • @nightcrawler6661
      @nightcrawler6661 7 років тому

      Willfully Living how much you can make in season?i'm from croatia...

    • @raybon7939
      @raybon7939 7 років тому

      ..yeah I was just about to say the same thing. This seems like a good seasonal job, so long as it's in a boat like that just working nets. I like his idea of walking on the dock and just asking. Previously b get hired to go out.

    • @ramblinstevegiovanny1397
      @ramblinstevegiovanny1397 5 років тому

      lol

  • @markhill5491
    @markhill5491 2 роки тому

    The pay of a deckhand goes by a percentage. some boats are different than others., so if you get on a good one, you stay. you can look up some figures for purse siening boat's. some pay more than others. a good crew equals decent money for two or three months of fishing. but I can't say you would make 50 or 60 k. in three months. but it is decent pay. become a skiff operator. it's what I did. Kodiak island is a one of a kind place on earth.

  • @dayakharvi3305
    @dayakharvi3305 5 років тому

    Super

  • @sandeepmaheshwarioshogyans5560
    @sandeepmaheshwarioshogyans5560 5 років тому

    Hello sir I am from India and I also wish to get job in fishig vessel in alaska

  • @meltof
    @meltof 5 років тому

    Leave some for the whales please........

    • @RTLivingFree
      @RTLivingFree 4 роки тому

      Milk Hotdog the whales are certainly not starving out there I can promise you that. They get the fish in the deep water in the middle of their life, we catch salmon by the beaches toward the end of the salmon’s lie cycle when they are getting ready to spawn. The whales get first pick every time

  • @kiemcao7231
    @kiemcao7231 4 роки тому

    Salmon ơ Việt Nam! Ca con cũng chẳng con

  • @ForrestOutdoors
    @ForrestOutdoors 5 років тому

    Very informative, very cool, sub your way, have a great season from Forrest Outdoors. Check us out when you have time.

  • @dayakharvi3305
    @dayakharvi3305 5 років тому +1

    Job. Me

    • @RTLivingFree
      @RTLivingFree 4 роки тому

      Daya kharvi do you want to know more about how to get a job fishing?

  • @xxxxxxxxxxxx_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    @xxxxxxxxxxxx_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 3 роки тому

    God, I hate humpies!

  • @0011clem
    @0011clem 6 років тому +2

    I hope the govt puts limits on your catch and you abide by the rules. not trying to catch everything that swims.

    • @huntingfishingalaska2572
      @huntingfishingalaska2572 6 років тому

      0011clem it don’t work that way there are plenty of fishing I salmcan n fish we get openers we fish those openers you catch as many fish as we can during those openers

    • @deadfish86
      @deadfish86 5 років тому +1

      The "Govt" has already put tons of limits on this fishery 011clem raptor. The fishery is "58' limit seiner" (limits the size of the boat). ADF&G fish counters are up the creeks every day, counting fish and making sure that runs up the creeks are sustainable. We do not fish if the creeks don't get their fill. There's your limits 0011clem raptor.

  • @MegaSandman1977
    @MegaSandman1977 6 років тому +3

    It's sad how man is not only destroying ate land but are water ways soon there will be nothing left

    • @jasondrick2648
      @jasondrick2648 5 років тому +3

      I don't think you realize how many fish there are😂😂

    • @willfishing5605
      @willfishing5605 5 років тому

      @@jasondrick2648 I don't think you realize how few fish there are

    • @mikelopez4450
      @mikelopez4450 4 роки тому +1

      Fish in Alaska

    • @RTLivingFree
      @RTLivingFree 4 роки тому +1

      I don’t think you realize that hatcheries add more wild salmon to the population every year and I don’t think you realize how researched regulated and monitored the salmon industry is. The salmon population is healthy and will stay that way because of how the industry has developed itself. Fishermen don’t want to decimate the population, that puts them out of a job. This really is not a problem especially when compared to other environmental concerns

    • @kenprice1961
      @kenprice1961 4 роки тому

      And who is destroying the cities in the United States? What kind of people?

  • @johnguz76
    @johnguz76 5 років тому +2

    That kind of fishing should be illegal

    • @jasondrick2648
      @jasondrick2648 5 років тому +4

      You don't even know anything about it bro

    • @RTLivingFree
      @RTLivingFree 4 роки тому +2

      The fishing is so heavily regulated and the wild stock of salmon is supplemented by hatchery fish that the salmon population is really safely sustained, and there is no by-catch except or the occasional flounder. This is how you catch fish ethically

    • @RealHankShill
      @RealHankShill 4 роки тому +1

      Almost all of this salmon, while it is wild, was actually started by man. These are all regulated hatcheries. These salmon runs are man made. And they continue, but many of these are not natural runs. This is actually the least cruel and most free way of farming any animal. These salmon are released as fry, little babies a little bigger than large tadpoles. They all wander off into the ocean, and live their lives. They come back in 2-3 years, natural spawning instinct, its what they are programmed to do.
      If humans didnt catch them, many would wind up going back where they were born which is not a natural spawning ground so they would just spawn and die and thats it.
      These runs are regulated. You also have to remember that 100% of the salmon, either in the net or not, are about to die. Literally they are all weeks away from the end of their life, 100% of them. They have lived in the wild, and are the lucky 10% or so that manage to live long enough to make it home to spawn. Ones that they let through are caught and squeezed out and spawned in big spawning beds (by man, literally squeeze the females and get the eggs out).
      While this looks like they are just going out and catching wild fish, this is all a man created system of ranching fish in the wild.
      Fish are happy and in their natural way of life 99% of their life. We feed the oceans with this, most of the fish never come home, they get ate by birds, seals, whales, fish, sharks, all kinds of stuff. Like over 90% get ripped apart by seals and other predators.