Four in a row

July 7th:

Well today was meager, at best. We woke up at about 7 in town and got some quick shopping done, then swiftly ran back out to fish. We didn’t get our net wet until late again, this time about 3 pm or so, and it wasn’t even a very good set. It was merely average. For the first time in the co-op so far we were not heroes of the day, with a big clutch set. The group didn’t end up needing a huge one from us though, because the boiler on our cannery ship was acting up and they lowered our limit to 675000 pounds for the day. I wish we could get all of these issues worked out with the cannery ships, because once they are all up and running our buyer will be able to purchase substantially larger amounts of fish, making $800-$1000 days not too improbable.

In the end, it was still an extremely easy day, with us making only one set and still pulling in over $6500 for the boat.

Total poundage for us/co-op: 23000/675000

Total pounds bought from us: 230628

July 8th:

It was another slow-paced, boring, and yet profitable day. 2 big sets probably made us high boat for the day, which would be the second time now already. I can’t complain about making the money I am by just laying around, napping, watching movies and TV shows and making 2 sets a day. It is the definition of easy money. If we can hit our limit for another 4 or 5 openers then we will gross $100000 for the boat before even leaving Valdez, which is pretty much unheard of. Andrew believes that there aren’t as many fish as the huge season 2 years ago, but the price per pound is 19 cents now instead of 10 cents back then. That’s a pretty huge difference.

So tomorrow we will hang out in Valdez and get some boat chores done and maybe gish again on Tuesday, but that is still up in the air right now.

Total poundage for us/co-op: 112000/750000

Total pounds bought from us: 270101

-Jack