2014 Crew Shots - National Fisherman

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2014
Crew Shots
All IDs left to right.
▲ King Cove, Alaska
▲ Sawmill Bay, Prince William
Sound, Alaska
▲ Marshfield, Mass.
Cody Pratt, 6, helped reel in a
975-pound bluefin, making him a
fourth-generation tuna fisherman
on his father Michael’s boat the
Perfect C’s.
▲ Kasilof, Alaska
Setnetters of the Grannum Fish Camp. Back: Cory
Topher, Todd McGough, Matt Frazier, Travis Conrad,
Adam Thordarson, Kyle Allen and Pat Nicoll.
Front: Lea Ann Hansen, Jeff, Celeste, Cecelia, Jack,
Natalie and Rob Grannum
▲ Lynn Canal, Alaska
Yasha Saldi, 16, spends his
summers gillnetting salmon with
his father, Mark, on the Elena
Marie out of Skagway, Alaska.
Yasha always wears his NIOSHapproved floating rain pants.
The crew of the Homer-based seiner
Centurion: Maggie Bursch, Jan Spurkland,
Katie Miller and Kaya Morelli (with the
baby monitor and pistol for taking the
baby to the beach!)
The Equinox seine crew in July, on the eve
of their record-breaking salmon season:
Katrina Schonberg-Hamar, skipper Peter
Schonberg, Diane Hutt, Nathan Dunton,
Cary Jones and Jai Jeffries-Hamar.
▲ Off Prince Edward Island
Robert Dryswalle, Chris Gregan, Dean
Lloyd and Lynn Gregan fought for
75 minutes to land this 694-pound
bluefin tuna with a rod and reel on the
Sea Princess No.1 out of Escuminac,
New Brunswick.
▲ Port Moller, Alaska
▲ Off Hull, Mass.
▲ Prince William Sound, Alaska
Skipper Kristen Smith, Ethan Smith and Laura Schneider perched on the
Valdez-based seiner Mass Deception with a backdrop of Glacier Island.
▲ Flemish Cap
James Zimmerman, Jon Bunce, Tyler Ward and
Robert “Shorty” Poidomani, the Boston-based
crew of the Iron Lady scored a sword.
▲ Big Pine Key, Florida
Wade Beeman and co-skippers Vicki and Mitch Gale
unload lobster from the GaleForce II for the live Chinese
market. They also use their traps for stone crab claws.
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▲ Portsmouth, N.H.
Brothers Kirby and Tyler Nichols with an
over-the-measure double-pincher-claw
male lobster caught aboard the King Eider.
Eric “Fishboy” Lorentzen gives a helping
hand to skipper Peter Mahoney, forking
lobster bait out of the
barrel into totes for
the Windemere.
David Holt and Brett Little on the
salmon drifter Skal from False Pass and
Port Moller, Alaska.
Montauk, N.Y.
Don Ball, owner
and operator
of the Jen Lissa,
fishes for porgies.
▲ Southeast Alaska
Sally Sears and Mariah Warren fish
a king salmon opener (which allows
lingcod bycatch) aboard the all-women
freezer troller Princess.
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▲ Kodiak Island, Alaska
William Roth and Charles Drown on the
seiner Sea Grace with a deckload of 68,000
pounds of salmon.
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▲ Stevensville, Md.
Albert Kirby, Ben Byers and Nick Crook haul crab pots
on the Gina Marie out of Kent Island, Md.
Jay Fleming photo
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▼ Petersburg, Alaska
Jacob Craig, Tracy “Lumpy” Jackson,
Kaddy Egan, Trent Kittams and
Derek “Chief” Knudsen with another
boatload on the seiner SaraDawn.
Egegik, Alaska
Malcolm Vance on the
Bristol Nymph.
▼ Cape May, N.J.
▲ Platinum, Alaska
▲ Provincetown, Mass.
Collin Silva, 9, learns lobstering
on the Tiger Jim.
The crew of the tender Eider, out
of Naknek, during the Kuskokwim
area salmon season: Miisaaq (Paul
Mute), John Wise and Kara Bove.
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Bill Goshen, Jesse
Kelloway, skipper Pete
Lance, Charles Wiscott
and Andrew Galia on the
Miss Taylor. The crew
also fished the Instigator
and Starbrite for the
2013 scallop season.
Egegik, Alaska
The Bristol Bay setnetters
who run operation Sockeye
Adventure like to find
young greenhorns, like
David Jurmu and Willie
Jurmu, teach them how to
fish, tie knots, run skiffs and
get out of bed.
▲ Off Rockport, Mass.
Ellen Diane skipper David
Goethel looks on as crewman
Mike Emerson displays a
Halibut Point flattie (30 pounds,
dressed) caught in the western
Gulf of Maine.
▲ Warrenton, Ore.
Deckhands Cole Steffens, Dan Chudek and Garrett
Dokter unload crab from the Ballad during the 2013
coastal Dungeness crab season.
▲ Washington coast
▲ Barnegat Light, N.J.
Torin, Haley, (skipper dad) Alec and Thomas
Pfundt longlining halibut and blackcod on
the Haley Marie out of Petersburg. The big
kids are great crew, and the littlest one just
hopes he won’t be “eaten by a fishy.”
▲ Port Moller, Alaska
Darren Muller Jr. and Bill and Jim Wolkoff
tendering salmon on the Zone Five out of
False Pass and Port Moller, Alaska.
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Kevin Turlish, Tom Grande, Kenny Kline, Travis Terrell, Joe Salentino,
Eric Setzer, Dane Knitson and Don Brewer land a record 40,670
pounds of scallops on the F. Nelson Blount.
▲ Darien, Ga.
Darwin Gale (center) with his sons Darrell
and Wynn and their shrimp boats, the
Wait-N-Sea and the Big Cobb. Darrell and
Wynn are fourth-generation commercial
fishermen who started fishing on their dad’s
back deck when they were 10 years old.
▲ Freeport, N.Y.
First mate Joseph Greco, 8, preps the shafts on
one of the family’s boats at Mako Marine.
Chatham, Mass.
▲ Prince William Sound,
Alaska
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▲ Southeast Alaska
Dan Keller, Rick Corazza and Sam Belfiori potting
Dungeness on the Robin Blue.
▲ Port Moller, Alaska
▲ Fishing Creek, Md.
Cordova seiner Beverly Ann’s Jake
Rankin, Wesley Thompson and Will
Srb on a deckload of humpies.
Charlie Cetak, Brad Shaw, Eddie
the Dog and Kyle Reed on the
salmon drifter Kalisti Jo out of
False Pass and Port Moller, Alaska.
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Crewman Jim Bremser on the Joanne A III,
the last groundfish trawler in the port.
Pound net skipper Burl C. Lewis, his son
Zachary Lewis, Damian Forkum and Joshua
Hubbard unload croakers from the Trying
Times at Russell Hall Seafood Co.
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▲ Bristol Bay, Alaska
Reddog salmon setnet camp in the Ugashik district. Back
row: Parker Sorensen, Sarah Ward, Avery Schafer-Mozen
and Howard Mozen. Middle row: Charlie Ess, Ike Walker,
Travis Haskin, Garrett Rosenkrans, Jake Easton and Danny
Rosenkrans. Front: Catie Bursch
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Stonington, Maine
Zachary and Marissa Carter on
skipper Mike Grindle’s lobster boat
Sea Flea out of Brooksville. The
couple was married aboard the
Khristy Michelle, for which Marissa
is sternman. Zachary is sternman on
the Sea Flea.
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▲ Seaford, Va.
▲ Cortez, Fla.
The crew of the limited-access boat Miz
Juanita B. on the first day of scallop season:
Ted Bieckert, Akbar Sharaz, Adam Gipson,
Chris Pitts, skipper Eddie Benavidez, Greggory
Sanchez and Brandon Lindblom.
Alex Brown, a Provincetown,
Mass., fisherman, demonstrates
net mending at the Cortez
Commercial Fishing Festival.
▲ Egegik, Bristol Bay, Alaska
Cameron Meyer, aka “Pooh Bear,” mending
aboard the Licka-D-Split. He got his nickname
from this moment, sitting on deck like Pooh
Bear tending to his jar of honey.
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Delaware
Bay, N.J.
Rick Hymer,
heading out for
blue crabs on
his cousin Ed
Hymer’s boat out
of Fisherman’s
Wharf,
Greenwich, N.J.
▲ Off Gloucester, Mass.
The crew of the dragger Grace-Marie on a pile of redfish and
holding a bumper sticker from Nick’s Famous Roast Beef in
North Beverly, Mass. Front row: Joe Grillo, skipper Busty Noto,
Joe Sanfilippo and Steve Jackson. Back row: Marco LoGrasso
and Peter Cusenza.
▼ Prince William
Sound, Alaska
The crew of the seiner
Orion out of Cordova.
Back row: Joel Swick,
Kyle Wallin, Skipper Nate
Widmann, Mike Hosmer
and Dave Merkel.
▲ Kodiak, Alaska
▲ Copper River, Alaska
▲ Off Cape Lutke, Alaska
Regan Jade Hoblet (left) with a big king salmon
on deck of the Aleut Son. Calum Hoblet (right), 8,
takes a break between sets.
New Orleans, La.
Danny Russell hauls back
on the shrimper Miss Elle.
Sarah Wilson, of New Bedford,
Mass., ties up the salmon
seiner Beverlee J at the Ocean
Beauty Cannery.
Jen Pickett with two blue
ribbons subsistence fishing on
the Cheryl & I out of Cordova
during the Copper River
commercial gillnet closure.
▲ Agattu Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
The crew of the Dutch Harbor-based Pacific Sounder fishes
blackcod: Joseph Rednall, Dahire Shire, Tristen Burris, Zack Todd,
Oystein Lone and Eric Rook.
▲ Bristol Bay, Alaska
▲ Prince William Sound, Alaska
Skipper Thomas Lopez, Michael Brown,
Chandler Chambers and Joe Barnett seine for
salmon on the Conspiracy, near Valdez, Alaska.
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▲ Buzzards Bay, Mass.
First Mate Sean Brady and deckhand Doug
Bishop show off some scup, the bread and
butter of the spring, on the Mary Elizabeth
out of Plymouth.
Fritz Munro, Thorey Munro,
Jordan Dyer, Jonathan Focia,
Garrett McCarthy, Oceana
Wills, Cadence Maddox, Marin
Lee and Lisa Krebs crew the
drifters Carol Susan, Loki, K-2
and setnet site Fenja out of
Egegik. At the Nakeen Cannery
up the Kvichak River, the boxes
read: Canned Salmon — Our
Greatest Food From the Sea.
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▲ Port Moller, Alaska
Branko and Paolo Jurkovich on the Branko
Boy, a salmon drifter from Anacortes, Wash.
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▲ Millers Island, Md.
▲ Port Republic, N.J.
Newt Sterling returns from turtle trapping.
Shawn Durkin fishes for blue
crabs on the Liberated Lady in
Chesapeake Bay.
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▲ Off Cape
Fear, N.C.
Kachina Watt holds an
80-pound halibut on
Star Fisher, a year-round
lobster boat. Skipper
Steve Rosen and his crew
love to fish for halibut.
▲ Kiptopeake, Va.
Pound netters Ernie Lewis, Eddie Brady, Ian Brady, Mac
(dog) and Buddy Brady. Jay Fleming photo
Prince William Sound,
Alaska
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▲ Vinalhaven,
Maine
Dan Nichols on
the bandit boat
Gulfstream 1
caught a nice
American red
snapper while
grouper fishing
on one of his
favorite spots.
Skipper and dad Daniel Cloud
teaches his son Joshua about
navigating on the Determined.
▲ Huntington, N.Y.
Skipper James Schneider and first
mate Derrick Northcote hook and
line scup on the James Joseph III.
▲ Prince William Sound, Alaska
Seth Balint, McKyer Trumblee and Jeff Rice
with a deckload on the Lady Samantha,
owned and operated by Steve Estes.
▲ Block Island, R.I.
Pike Powers, with a gaping monkfish,
and Terry Mulvey on the Tiger Jo out
of Point Judith, R.I.
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▲ Nantucket, Mass.
Father and son Jamie and Jeffrey Eldredge have a
conchin’ good time haulin’ ‘em up on the Yellowbird.
▲ Gulf of Alaska
▲ Portland, Maine
Oksana Skolnaja and Skipper Andy Mezirow on the
longliner Crackerjack Voyager out of Seward.
Marshall Spear on the
Premonition with a
75-pound halibut.
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