ALASKA FISHING JOBS - A TYPICAL WEEK

A manager of a company that runs a longliner at Dutch Harbor gave us an idea of what the typical schedule is like for those working on fishing boats:

"On our boat, we just run a 'fishing day' which means we get up, work eighteen to twenty hours, get four or five hours sleep and then get up and fish again. On bigger operations they might run three boats twenty-four hours a day with sixteen-hour shifts, so it's more organized and the hours aren't quite as tough. We're usually out to sea for twenty or thirty days and work every day unless there's a weather day when we have to ride out a storm."

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