After 3 weeks of easy shifts at the plant in Dutch Harbor. Saltwater Inc. flew me into Kodiak for a quick trip on the Hickory wind. They told me it would be for a day, but that sounded suspicious. I was aboard for 2 days, still the shortest trip I have been on.
Picture: Sablefish (or Black Cod) are a high dollar fish. At the time it was selling for about 5 bucks a pound. And each one weighs about 4 to 5 pounds. The orange fish are Short Spined Thornyheads (or Idiot fish). Despite the name the spines are long enough to poke through gloves. This one was probalby forced in the the mouth of the sable fish when they were mashed together in the net.
