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A Chicken Farmer Goes to Sea: Crossing the Gulf of Alaska |
| Section: LIFE / ADVENTURE |
| Author: Oakley Cochran |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1998 |
| Size: 3,871 Words, 22,986 Characters |
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I am, according to one skipper, a "chicken farmer"--that is, not a fisherman. But when I was invited to spend a few weeks aboard a commercial fishing boat, I jumped at the chance. I naively assumed, based on a pittance of deep-sea experience, that I could not get seasick.
The Destination is a crab boat that, in the summer, moonlights as a salmon-tender boat. It would cross the Gulf of Alaska from Seattle to southwestern Alaska, where sockeye salmon fishing--and tendering--would begin in June. Although I would be on board primarily as a passenger and not as a deckhand, I expected to pay my way by helping to cook for the six of us and clean the 118-foot boat.
"We'll leave," said Shawn, my boyfriend and one of the deckhands on the Destination, "on Thursday or Saturday."
This puzzled ...
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...in a chicken farmer. I have a lot to learn about fishing and about fishermen, who seem tough on the outside but often are gentle inside. Or maybe I just met the right people. In any case, the next time I cross the gulf, I will be a little less ignorant ... and will count on being seasick. As Kerry, who gets violently seasick and still keeps on fishing, says, "It's a good weight-loss program!"
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