by Tele | Jan 20, 2012 | Commercial Fishing, From the Galley, Salmon Trolling
A framed photo sits above my writing space. Three fishermen in their late-20’s crouch on deck, wearing hoodies, rainpants, and matching end-of-a-long-day grins. Team ’77: friends born within several months of each other, together on a troller...
by Tele | Sep 5, 2011 | Alaska, Culture, Environment, From the Galley, Hooked Favorites, Sitka
Year-round, Sitka’s bulletin boards are thick with flyers of talks, classes, performances. My Hokey-Pokey presence – one foot in the community, one foot out – has often meant that if it sounds like something I’d like to experience, it’ll happen while...
by Tele | Apr 7, 2011 | Alaska, From the Galley, Longlining, Sitka
(This is Part 2 of a series on black cod, also known as sablefish. For more about the fish itself and how it’s harvested, please visit Part 1, Seeking the Sustainable: Alaskan Black Cod.) Our friend Jerry Dzugan is the director of the...
by Tele | Mar 30, 2011 | Alaska, Commercial Fishing, F/V Nerka, From the Galley, Hooked Favorites, Women in Fishing
There’s a treacherous voice in my head. It maintains a mosquito-like buzz in the back of my brain, an oppressive equation: “You are X, so you need to do/dress/behave Y.” You know the one. Maybe you’ve struggled with your own version. Maybe someone...
