Buchanan Salmon Fishing

Commercial Fishing for Wild Alaskan Salmon

Tom’s Blog

Finishing up the Roof

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Tom’s on the roof again – well – he was yesterday. Today he was slightly under it, putting up the finishing boards on the eaves.

He also emptied the fuel tank, first pumping the heating oil into drums and then repositioning the tank away from the house so that we can dig the last trench and put in the rigid foam insulation against the basement wall (underground).

Once that last below grade insulating is done we will start on framing the entire exterior of the house and adding 4″ of rigid foam insulation to it.

This has been a long, intensive retrofit and we both look forward to the home stretch!

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Cook Inlet Aquaculture selling salmon

Cook Inlet Aquaculture sells salmon for cash at their weir, in competition with all the local businesses and fisherman, and they consistently undercut local prices. Just another way that they are trying to put commercial fishermen out of their jobs. Just say “no” to farmed fish!

https://www.buchananfishing.com/2010/04/27/309/

Sea Otter

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Sea Otter

Tom *loves* taking pictures of wildlife. Here’s an older pic of a sea otter, probably taken while he was sport fishing in Resurrection Bay. The otter are quite common there and are easily visible from shore and sometimes from the docks right in the boat harbor as well.

At the Dock

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Waiting to Deliver

The boat usually shows up in the tiny hours of the morning and ties up to the delivery dock until 5 or 6 am. At about 7 the crane operator will lower a steel bucket down to deck level and the crew hand-pitches the semi-frozen fish into the bucket for weighing and deliver to the processing lines.

Fueling Up


Take a look at how high she sits in the water when she’s empty.

Crew 2005

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Noam and friend Mickel Erle Galdos

Noam and Mickel Erle Galdos crewed the F/V Dolly B in the summer of 2005.