Warren Good arrived in Kodiak in 1972 and, like a lot of other young men in those years, went crab fishing.
Kodiak was booming, deckhand jobs were easy to get and fishing was grueling but fun, if you liked hard work. And the money was good â it was not unheard of for 21-year-old deckhands with a scant year of nautical experience to make $100,000 in a single four-month king crab season.
The dark side of the high times was the casualties.Â
In the years before the Commercial Fishing Industry Vessel Safety Act of 1988, commercial fishing was far and away the most dangerous job in America, and the deaths of Alaskan commercial fishermen drove that statistic.Â
The first salmon counting weir in Alaska was constructed on the Karluk River in 1921, and every summer since then the weir has provided a remarkable stream of information which
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