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Sitting in a coffee shop on the Kodiak waterfront listening to fishermen complain about the lack of decent hands...

Same guys that gang up to fish their halibut IFQs rather than hiring hands like they did back in the day... took a huge chunk out of the income of the kind of hands they want to hire. It was very good money back in the day.

Now they are bitching about the lack of crew loyalty and explaining that is why they stopped paying crew bonuses??? Purse seiners with the adaptability to toss herring gear or halibut gear aboard overnight...

They squeeze the hands out and wonder where they are... and there is a major shortage this year. Salmon selling for .28 a pound is part of the reason.