PHOTOGRAPHS BY HANS WEINBERG
From Tim:
Perhaps you have a friend or relative that migrated to Alaska and never came back. Maybe you have wondered how the six ounce salmon chinook filet in a restaurant or the full length coho filet on the barbecue, or half a coho filet baked in your kitchen’s oven got there. If so, this NESTER post plus two more coming is for you! Hans Weinberg’s photography will enchant and mesmerize you! A career salmon troller, Han’s photographs chronicle the lives of salmon fisherfolk never seen through a window or from the deck of a multistory cruse ship or encountered from a bus window or from a stroll through gift shops in a Southeastern Alaska town.
Scroll through these photos and introduce yourself to the fisherfolk who put salmon on your plate!
Hans fished both the ocean and inside waters of Southeastern Alaska, centering on the waters surrounding Baranof and Chichagof Islands. The following photos have neither been staged nor been edited except to adjust the size for a published blog. What you will see is a way of life visualized through Hans’s camera lens.
Do take this opportunity to experience a way of life on Southeast Alaska’s coast in pictures captured in “real” time.
What is Trolling?
The troll fishery is a small boat fishery and one of the most important fisheries in Southeast Alaska. The top competitive strength is the high quality of Southeast Alaska seafood products, which include most of the Alaska harvest of high value Chinook salmon by the troll fleet. Trolling is a unique, environmentally responsible fishery in large part because it is a low volume fishery in which fishers selectively target individual adult salmon with hook and line fishing gear. Fishing lines with lures are drawn through the water behind a moving boat. Fishers catch, clean and ice or freeze each fish.
Because of the special care and prompt processing, Southeast Alaska troll-caught Chinook are some of the highest quality seafood products in the world, harvested by fishers who are committed to quality, traceability and sustainability. Fishers respect the resource and adhere to science-based fisheries management.
Hope you enjoyed Hans’s photographs of fisherfolk and their boats that bring quality salmon to our restaurants, markets and homes. In the next Alaska post, you will enjoy watching fisherfolk at their work.
Tim
CREDITS:
Photographer: Hans Weinberg
Text: Tim Olson
Graphic Designer: Tim Olson
Editors: Lorelie & Tim Olson
NESTER url: https://notesfromanester.
To view Hans’s previous post, SEA, MOUNTAIN, SKY SCENES – click here
