Northstate trucker trades highways for high seas

January 2, 2025 North Pacific, Pacific

Howard Salmon, a long haul trucker in his mid-60s, recently traded the highways for the high seas, working as a deckhand on a salmon fishing boat in Alaska. Despite the grueling 12-plus hour days and challenging weather conditions, Salmon said he held his own alongside a crew of 20-somethings. “These guys are tough,” Salmon said. “They take all kinds of waves and weather. Sometimes it can be a nightmare, the waves just throw you around… But it was fun.” Salmon was invited by his longtime friend, Paul Holmberd, the owner and operator of the Sea King fishing boat. Holmberd said he can’t imagine doing anything else. Photos, more, >> CLICK TO READ<< 20:16

a long haul trucker, Captain Paul Holmberd, F/V Sea King, on a salmon fishing boat, trucker Howard Salmon, turns deckhand in Alaska

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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