Commercial Fishing Skills Camp – Salmon Sisters

The Commercial Fishing Skills Camp completed its first successful camp this past June 2019 in Pilot Point, Alaska. The camp is designed to provide hands-on experience for Bristol Bay watershed youth, (ages 13-16 yr old), who are interested in getting a job in the salmon fishery. Many of the fisheries in Alaska are family oriented with skippers hiring family and friends to work their operations. Over the years, fishing permits that originated in Bristol Bay have migrated away from the local area. It is harder for those not connected through familial or social ties to enter the fishery. This Commercial Fishing Skills Camp teaches the basics of commercial fishing to students who may, in turn, choose to enter commercial fisheries as a career. Usually, the best way to learn the commercial fishing trade is to be hired on as a

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