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“Why I came to Alaska”, Israeli filmmaker documents fishing experience
The local seining industry is the star of a short video produced by Yonatan Belik, an Israeli filmmaker and traveler who spent the summer working as a skiffman in Kodiak. Belik, 29, said he happened upon Kodiak by chance. While hitchhiking in Israel, a stranger recommended he go fishing in Alaska.,,, Belik worked between June and August on the Abby Jo, a 37-foot seiner captained by Jake Organ. Organ grew up in Chugiak but has spent his summers fishing in Kodiak since his youth. At the age of 28, this is Organ’s first summer as captain. >click to read< 12:58
