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Thank you for visiting our site. We are the Buchanan Family of Commercial Fisherman and we fish out of Seward, Alaska, USA. We have been commercial fishing for sustainable wild Alaskan salmon since 1963. If you want to contact us, drop us an email to BuchananFishing @ gmail.com

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Please take a look around our site, there's more information about us, our fishing, recipes and other projects we are working on. Tom's blog has updates when he can post and we try to add content regularly.

Nathan Buchanan

by Marguerita

Crew change! Jeffrey had to go back to school so his oldest brother, Nathan, came on board. Nathan had been fishing the F/V Melissa B this summer, but the boat blew a seal and is out of commission for the rest of the season.

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Loading the Skiff on Deck

by Marguerita

Lots of seiners travel this way, with the skiff loaded over the hatch covers instead of being towed.

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2010 Season Updates

by Marguerita

After a late start, the boat left for Pt. Dick and it was less than a week later that I got the dreaded call. There are just a few calls that are dreaded – breakdown, injury, or crew quitting. This one was the latter. A kid we’ve fed and housed for six weeks, waiting for [...]

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