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.

It's amazing how often the 'effects' are so often not tracked backward to their causes....

I guess hindsight is 20/20 as long as you don't have tunnel vision and rosy glasses.

This is a huge understatement and affects everything we are presented with everyday. My question would be why after realization in Hindsight we never actually attempt to fix it so that the issue does not come up again?

All about the money... they will bitch but getting good hands to come back costs too much to their ways of thinking.

No hands, no fish, no money at some point.... thats NOT common core math...

You going on a bear hunt?

Im pretty sure he left town today. Poor bears don't stand a chance.

Its my understanding the fishing lobby pressured mirkowsky and bagitch for syrians, so they could get a new source of labor.

STATE AND CITY REFUGEE
RESETTLEMENT 2015

AK Anchorage
125
AL Mobile
125
AR Springdale 10
AZ Glendale 895
AZ Phoenix 1,459
AZ Tucson 935
CA Anaheim 175
CA
Fullerton 10
CA Garden Grove 150
CA Glendale 1,420
CA Los
Angeles 490
CA Los Gatos 144
CA Modesto 250
CA Oakland
615
CA Sacramento 1,276
CA San Bernardino 65
CA San Diego
3,103
CA San Francisco 5
CA San Jose 142
CA Turlock 120
CA
Walnut Creek 90
CO Colorado Springs 138
CO
Denver 1,690
CO Greeley 150
CT Bridgeport 100
CT Hartford 285
CT New Haven 205
DC Washington
15
DE
Wilmington 5
FL Clearwater 200
FL
Delray Beach 95
FL Doral 160
FL Jacksonville 895
FL Miami
1,056
FL Miami Springs 133
FL Naples 115
FL North Port
30
FL Orlando 360
FL Palm Springs 150
FL Pensacola 20
FL
Plantation 75
FL Riviera Beach 50
FL Tallahassee 50
FL Tampa
660
GA Atlanta
2,100
GA Savannah
100
GA Stone Mountain
685
HI Honolulu 15

IA Cedar Rapids 55
IA
Des Moines 585
ID Boise 720
ID Twin
Falls 300
IL Aurora 190
IL Chicago 1,595
IL Moline 200
IL Rockford 300
IL Wheaton 2,660
IN Fort Wayne 200
IN
Indianapolis 1,285
KS Garden City 80
KS Kansas City 200
KS
Wichita 510
KY Bowling Green 310
KY Lexington 410
KY Louisville 990
KY Owensboro 135
LA Baton Rouge 125
LA
Lafayette 30
LA Metairie 185
MA Boston 300
MA Framingham 8
MA Jamaica Plain 100
MA Lowell 275
MA South Boston 260
MA Springfield 230
MA Waltham 10
MA West Springfield
340
MA Worcester 443
MD Baltimore 775
MD GlenBurnie 150
MD Rockville 39
MD Silver Spring 845
ME Portland 350

MI Ann Arbor 80
MI
Battle Creek 140
MI Clinton Township 650
MI Dearborn 640
MI
Grand Rapids 740
MI Lansing 617
MI Troy 1,215
MN Minneapolis 730
MN
Richfield 340
MN Rochester 130
MN Saint Paul 695
MN St.
Cloud 215
MO Columbia 140
MO Kansas City 540
MO Saint Louis 725
MO Springfield 75
MS Biloxi 5
MS Jackson
20
NC Charlotte 655
NC Durham 380
NC Greensboro 385
NC High Point 405
NC New Bern 165
NC Raleigh 475
NC Wilmington 80
ND Bismarck 45
ND Fargo
270
ND Grand Forks 90
NE Lincoln 335
NE
Omaha 990
NH Concord 245
NH
Manchester 445
NJ Camden 100
NJ East
Orange 6
NJ Elizabeth 300
NJ Jersey City 506
NM Albuquerque 220
NV Las
Vegas 640
NY Albany
360
NY Amityville
20
NY Binghamton
40
NY Brooklyn
55
NY Buffalo
1,442
NY New York
240
NY Rochester
643
NY Syracuse
1,030
NY Utica 410

OH Akron 575
OH Cincinnati 140
OH Cleveland 510
OH Cleveland Heights
190
OH Columbus 1,300
OH Dayton 210
OH Toledo 40
OK Oklahoma City
170
OK Tulsa 395
OR Portland 995
PA Allentown 95
PA
Erie 625
PA Harrisburg 200
PA Lancaster 480
PA Philadelphia
750
PA Pittsburgh 470
PA Roslyn 20
PA Scranton
150
PR San Juan
5
RI
Providence 210
SC Columbia 160
SC
Spartanburg 220
SD Huron 90
SD Sioux Falls 490
TN Chattanooga
85
TN Knoxville
190
TN Memphis
200
TN Nashville
1,225
TX Abilene 200
TX Amarillo 442
TX Austin 930
TX Corpus Christi 5
TX Dallas 1,765
TX El Paso 35
TX Fort Worth 1,503
TX Houston 2,605
TX San Antonio 750
UT Salt Lake City
1,126
VA Arlington 500
VA
Charlottesville 250
VA Falls Church 450
VA Fredericksburg
120
VA Harrisonburg 140
VA Newport News 300
VA Richmond
243
VA Roanoke 177
VT Colchester
325
WA
Kent 985
WA Richland 230
WA Seattle 714
WA Spokane 510
WA
Tacoma 276
WA Vancouver 127
WI Green Bay 20
WI Madison 90
WI Milwaukee 890
WI Oshkosh 135
WI Sheboygan 35
WV Charleston
50
TOTALS 76,972
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I believe there is a method to the madness of the Sheeples Mighty Garu, Obummer!
YES, I am a conspiracy theorist

Well, at least UAF took down Mississippi's "offensive" flag; perhaps banned students from Mississippi too, I don't know.

I see a day coming where the processors will have their own fleets and squeeze the average independent fisherman out of business.

You get what you pay for....

Perhaps they should expect their customers to supplement the hands' pay by tipping them.